Yifeng Wei is an artist, curator, and PhD candidate in Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design in Ireland. While reflecting on the legacy of cybernetics and system theory, Wei’s research interests lie in digital colonisation and emancipation, as well as resistance against algorithm bias and surveillance capitalism. His study relates current technological surveillance to the desire for certainty in cybernetics and system theory and manages to find a possible way of resistance by resorting to the aesthetics of opacity. Wei’s investigation of such aesthetics involves writing an alternative art history focusing on anonymous and incognito artists. Also, it touches upon the analysis of artistic practices that protect and liberate the oppressed by adopting nontransparent technologies, including the black box mechanism in artificial intelligence. Revolving around artists who apply such a nebulous approach to resist the power structure looming behind technology society, his recent curatorial practice, “The Cloud of Unknowing”, was shortlisted as a finalist for Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech 2023.
魏逸丰是艺术家、策展人、爱尔兰国立艺术与设计学院的视觉文化博士候选人。 在反思控制论和系统论遗产的同时，他的研究兴趣在于数字殖民与解放和对算法偏见与监控资本主义的抵抗。 他的研究将当前的技术监控与控制论和系统论中对确定性的渴望联系起来，并设法通过诉诸不透明的美学找到一种可能的抵抗方式。 他的研究涉及到书写以匿名、假名艺术家为核心的边缘艺术史。同时，也包括分析那些运用不透明技术以保护和解放被压迫者的艺术实践。 围绕着那些采用不可见性来抵抗技术社会背后权力架构的艺术家，他最近的策展实践 "未知之云 "入围了现代汽车文化中心Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech 2023年度艺术大奖。
Abridged CV
Education｜教育经历
2021-present
Ph.D. candidate in Art and Design (Visual Culture) National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
艺术与设计（视觉文化方向）博士候选人，爱尔兰国立艺术设计学院，都柏林，爱尔兰
2018-2021
Master of Fine Art in New Media Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
艺术硕士（新媒体艺术），四川美术学院，重庆，中国
2012-2016
Bachelor of Fine Art in New Media Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
艺术学士（新媒体艺术），四川美术学院，重庆，中国
Summer School暑期学校
2022
ART AND POLITICS#4 self-determination, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
艺术与政治#4 自决，爱尔兰现代艺术博物馆，都柏林，爱尔兰
Selected Awards, Research Funding & Fellowship｜奖项与研究基金
2023
“AI to Amplify” fellowship programme, Goethe Institut, Germany
“AI to Amplify” 研究项目，歌德学院，德国
2022
Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech 2023 Finalist, China (30,000 RMB)
现代汽车文化中心Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech 2023年度艺术大奖入围，中国 (30,000 RMB)
China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship, China (48,600 Euro)
中国留学基金委（CSC）2022年艺术类人才培养特别项目，中国 (48,600 Euro)
2021
National College of Art and Design Doctoral Scholarship, Ireland (50,000 Euro)
爱尔兰国立艺术设计学院博士奖学金，爱尔兰 (50,000 Euro)
Municipal Outstanding Graduates (awarded to Top 1%), Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, China
重庆市普通高校2021学年度优秀毕业研究生, 重庆市教育委员会, 中国
Outstanding Graduates (aawarded to Top 10%), Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China
四川美术学院2021年优秀毕业研究生，四川美术学院，中国
2020
National Scholarship for Postgraduates (awarded to Top 1%), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (20000RMB)
研究生国家奖学金，中华人民共和国教育部 (20000RMB)
Selected Papers, Book Chapters, and Catalogue Essays｜论文、章节与展览文章
2024
Book chapter “Multi-Universe: Planetary Relationality in the Aftermath of Globalization” (working title), Visions of Scale, Bloomsbury Publishing (estimated published in 2026)
Catalogue essay “Dear Visitors, You Are Welcomed Here...”, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2023
Catalogue essay “Do Not Open That Trojan Horse”, Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany
2022
Book chapter “Trojan Horses in the Chinese Countryside: Ou Ning and the Bishan Commune in Dialogue and Practice”, Art in Action: The Discursive Practices of Chinese Socially Engaged Art in the 21st Century, Cultural Relics Press (in Chinese)
Journal paper “The Change of ‘Viewing’ And The Formation of ‘Participatory Viewing’ in Art Since 1960”, Public Art, Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Press(in Chinese)
Selected Conferences, Speeches, and Lectures｜会议、讲座与教学
2024
Conference presentation “Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrow: On a Parasitical Luddism”, The ECT Lab's(The European Culture and Technology Laboratory) 4th Annual Conference Transdisciplinary perspectives on AI: Alternative Histories, Current Practices and Possible Futures, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Lecture “Towards a Planetary Thinking”, MA/MFA Course Becoming Public: The Public, The Mesh and Hegemony(part of Key Theories 3: Making Publics), Department of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design
Guest speech, Let’s Get The Hell Outta Here, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Guest speech, Auspicious Eight, Tøn Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2023
Conference presentation “Potato in Space—Producing Amateur Knowledge through Art Practice”, SLSA(Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) Annual Conference 2023 Alien, Arizona State University, US
Conference presentation “Sharp Image, Vague Face: Disrupting the Facial Transparency in A.I. through a Diasporic Approach”, Many Worlds of AI: Intercultural Approaches to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, University of Cambridge, UK
Selected Exhibitions｜展览经历
Group Exhibitions｜群展
2024
Let’s Get The Hell Outta Here, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Let’s Get The Hell Outta Here, The Lab画廊, 都柏林，爱尔兰
2023
Re-coding everyday technology, Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany
Re-coding everyday technology, 美因茨应用技术大学, 美因茨， 德国
2021
The Whisperer: Narrative and Chaos, School of Experimental Art at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
呢喃者：述情与障碍，四川美术学院实验艺术学院，重庆，中国
2020
Commiserate Chicago, MADD center at the University of Chicago, Chicago, the United States
Commiserate Chicago，芝加哥大学MADD中心，芝加哥，美国
2019
“Out of the Box” Ars Electronica Festival, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
“Out of the Box” 林茨电子艺术节，林茨电子艺术中心，林茨，奥地利
2018
Chongqing Forest, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
重庆森林，星汇美术馆，重庆，中国
China Aesthetic Education Biennale, The Shandong Museum of Time-based Art, Shandong, China
中国美育双年展，山东时光之城，山东，中国
2015
Chongqing Dialogue, College Art and Design of Pyrenees, Pau Tarbes, France
重庆对话，比利牛斯艺术与设计学院，保罗塔布，法国