Juntao Yang is a critic, curator, and artist.
Yang's critical writings and artistic practices focus on the traces of the operations of micro power in the specific field of visual and material culture, the visible or invisible conflicts and violence in daily existence, and the organization and fluid of the proxy of power. Yang is committed to resorting to Speech, sometimes hysterically, counteracts the silent power of ideology and the pervasive political apathy. Yang's current research focuses on planetary cinema and geological thinking, as well as toxicity and catastrophe media. Yang is currently based in New York and Nanjing.
Yang's critical writings and artistic practices focus on the traces of the operations of micro power in the specific field of visual and material culture, the visible or invisible conflicts and violence in daily existence, and the organization and fluid of the proxy of power. Yang is committed to resorting to Speech, sometimes hysterically, counteracts the silent power of ideology and the pervasive political apathy. Yang's current research focuses on planetary cinema and geological thinking, as well as toxicity and catastrophe media. Yang is currently based in New York and Nanjing.
Education
MA in Film and Media Studies ( Emergent Media Studies ), School of the Arts, Columbia University, USA, 2024-2026
BA in Drama and Film-and-Television Literature, School of Arts, Wuhan University, China, 2020-2024
MA in Film and Media Studies ( Emergent Media Studies ), School of the Arts, Columbia University, USA, 2024-2026
BA in Drama and Film-and-Television Literature, School of Arts, Wuhan University, China, 2020-2024
Awards
Best Short Film Award & Best Editing Award for Light and Cold Conversations: Atlantic, Algorithms and Visibility, Perfect Tense Short Film Festival in 20th Anniversary Celebration of the School of Communication, Fujian Normal University, 2024
First Prize for Papar, The 1st "Outstanding Academic Paper Award for China Eastern Media Art", 2024
Third Prize for Paper, The 6th 'Wang Guangqi Cup' National College Student Paper Competition in Art Disciplines, 2024
Third Prize for Conference Paper, The 5th China-ASEAN University Postgraduate Forum on Art, 2024
Film & Media Studies Program Scholarship, School of the Arts, Columbia University, 2024
Honor for Outstanding Participants, "Chinese Cinema: Histories, Methods and Ecologies" Summer School, School of Film, Xiamen University, 2024
Accommodation Scholarship, Duemila30 International Film Festival, 2024
Best Experimental Film (Kurt Kren’s Scratched Glasses) for Light and Cold Conversations: Atlantic, Algorithms and Visibility, International Film Festival of Audiovisual Theory Students, 2023
Best Experimental Short Film Nomination for Light and Cold Conversations: Atlantic, Algorithms and Visibility, Ningbo Short Film Festival, 2023
Honourable Mention for Light and Cold Conversations: Atlantic, Algorithms and Visibility, Varsity Film Expo, 2023
Best AI Short for Light and Cold Conversations: Atlantic, Algorithms and Visibility, Shanghai International Short Week, 2023
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Best Short Film Award & Best Editing Award for Light and Cold Conversations: Atlantic, Algorithms and Visibility, Perfect Tense Short Film Festival in 20th Anniversary Celebration of the School of Communication, Fujian Normal University, 2024
First Prize for Papar, The 1st "Outstanding Academic Paper Award for China Eastern Media Art", 2024
Third Prize for Paper, The 6th 'Wang Guangqi Cup' National College Student Paper Competition in Art Disciplines, 2024
Third Prize for Conference Paper, The 5th China-ASEAN University Postgraduate Forum on Art, 2024
Film & Media Studies Program Scholarship, School of the Arts, Columbia University, 2024
Honor for Outstanding Participants, "Chinese Cinema: Histories, Methods and Ecologies" Summer School, School of Film, Xiamen University, 2024
Accommodation Scholarship, Duemila30 International Film Festival, 2024
Best Experimental Film (Kurt Kren’s Scratched Glasses) for Light and Cold Conversations: Atlantic, Algorithms and Visibility, International Film Festival of Audiovisual Theory Students, 2023
Best Experimental Short Film Nomination for Light and Cold Conversations: Atlantic, Algorithms and Visibility, Ningbo Short Film Festival, 2023
Honourable Mention for Light and Cold Conversations: Atlantic, Algorithms and Visibility, Varsity Film Expo, 2023
Best AI Short for Light and Cold Conversations: Atlantic, Algorithms and Visibility, Shanghai International Short Week, 2023
Conferences & Workshops
Big Stuff 2025, Theme: "Skills and Machines: A Living Paternership", Big Stuff Heritage community, Australia, 2025/10
The 16th Annual CUHK Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum, Theme: "Disturbance and Reverberation", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2025/2
The 16th Anhui Graduate Student Forum on Journalism and Communication, Theme: "Transmutation · Integration · Innovation: Media Boundaries and Communication Imagination in the Age of Digital Intelligence", Anhui University, China, 2024/12
International Symposium on the Development of Artistic Disciplines in the Era of Digital Intelligence, Sub-forum Theme: "Art Media, Art Institutions and Art Landscape in the Era of Digital Intelligence", Wuhan University of Technology, China, 2024/12
2024 China Eastern Media Art Forum, Forum Topic: "Film and New Audiovisual Art in the Context of Digitization", Sub-forum Theme: "New Advances in Film and Television Media Theory in the Age of Digital Intelligence", Nanjing University, China, 2024/12
2024 Annual Academic Conference of Zhejiang Communication Association, Forum Topic: "Global Connectivity: Imagining Communities in the Digital Era", NingboTech University, China, 2024/12
The 1st Digital Intelligence Cinema Forum, Forum Topic: "Digital Intelligence Cinema: New Technologies · New Methods · New Aesthetics", Sub-forum Theme: "Theories: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Other Related Issues in Digital Intelligence Cinema", Chongqing University, China, 2024/12
The 6th "Youth and Visual Media" Postgraduate Academic Forum" , Forum Topic: "Cross-boundary and Future of Cinema", Fujian Normal University, China, 2024/11
The 1st Eco-cinema Theory and Creation Research Forum, Southwest Petroleum University, China, 2024/11
The 5th China-ASEAN University Postgraduate Forum on Art, Forum Topic: Paradigm Transformation and Discourse Innovation of Art Research in the Digital Intelligence Era, Guangxi Art University, China, 2024/10
The 12th Ecological Literature Annual Conference Across the Taiwan Strait & Academic Forum on Eco-criticism and Eco-literature in the Context of Posthumanism, Forum Topic: "Anthropocene and Posthumanism Criticism", Jimei University, China, 2024/10
"Chinese Cinema: Histories, Methods and Ecologies" Summer School, School of Film, Xiamen University, China, 2024/7
The 8th "Inspiration Booster" Creative Camp of Contemporary Art Design, XLY MoMA, China, 2024/6 - 2024/7
Big Stuff 2025, Theme: "Skills and Machines: A Living Paternership", Big Stuff Heritage community, Australia, 2025/10
The 16th Annual CUHK Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum, Theme: "Disturbance and Reverberation", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2025/2
The 16th Anhui Graduate Student Forum on Journalism and Communication, Theme: "Transmutation · Integration · Innovation: Media Boundaries and Communication Imagination in the Age of Digital Intelligence", Anhui University, China, 2024/12
International Symposium on the Development of Artistic Disciplines in the Era of Digital Intelligence, Sub-forum Theme: "Art Media, Art Institutions and Art Landscape in the Era of Digital Intelligence", Wuhan University of Technology, China, 2024/12
2024 China Eastern Media Art Forum, Forum Topic: "Film and New Audiovisual Art in the Context of Digitization", Sub-forum Theme: "New Advances in Film and Television Media Theory in the Age of Digital Intelligence", Nanjing University, China, 2024/12
2024 Annual Academic Conference of Zhejiang Communication Association, Forum Topic: "Global Connectivity: Imagining Communities in the Digital Era", NingboTech University, China, 2024/12
The 1st Digital Intelligence Cinema Forum, Forum Topic: "Digital Intelligence Cinema: New Technologies · New Methods · New Aesthetics", Sub-forum Theme: "Theories: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Other Related Issues in Digital Intelligence Cinema", Chongqing University, China, 2024/12
The 6th "Youth and Visual Media" Postgraduate Academic Forum" , Forum Topic: "Cross-boundary and Future of Cinema", Fujian Normal University, China, 2024/11
The 1st Eco-cinema Theory and Creation Research Forum, Southwest Petroleum University, China, 2024/11
The 5th China-ASEAN University Postgraduate Forum on Art, Forum Topic: Paradigm Transformation and Discourse Innovation of Art Research in the Digital Intelligence Era, Guangxi Art University, China, 2024/10
The 12th Ecological Literature Annual Conference Across the Taiwan Strait & Academic Forum on Eco-criticism and Eco-literature in the Context of Posthumanism, Forum Topic: "Anthropocene and Posthumanism Criticism", Jimei University, China, 2024/10
"Chinese Cinema: Histories, Methods and Ecologies" Summer School, School of Film, Xiamen University, China, 2024/7
The 8th "Inspiration Booster" Creative Camp of Contemporary Art Design, XLY MoMA, China, 2024/6 - 2024/7
Exhibitions (selection)
Notes, solitude or the canceled, Blanchot airdrops through the wavy lines that advance in parallel, Cooling Gallery, Nanjing, China, 2024
Perceiving: The Body of Group Ritual, and the Resonant Memories, Acute Angle Gallery, Guangzhou, China, 2024
Synthetic Wilderness, John Molly Gallery, New York, USA, 2024
Parallel and Intersection, In Gallery, Taiyuan, China, 2024
Random Inspection, Tang Museum · Project Z, Dongguan, China, 2024
Beyond System, Arbre Art Centre, Shenzhen, China, 2024
Unclaasifiable, New Bridge Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2024
Self, as the Narrated, as the Others, Assorted Objects Experimental Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2024
Flow Landscape, H&Art Gallery, Shenyang, China, 2024
Conflicts Within and Without, SNAP, Shanghai, China, 2024
Mending Nature, Kongshan Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China, 2024
2024 Nanjing D9Lock Art Festival: Fusion, Harmony, Coexistence, Growth, D9Lock, Nanjing, China, 2024
Within Iceless Age, theBlanc, New York, USA, 2024
Immersion, Lockwood Annexe 5, Goldsmiths, London, UK, 2024
Silent Field, Dongshengli NO.13, Suzhou, China, 2024
GOOGOL, Online ( Powerer by New Art City ), 2024
The Logic of Sensation, Ivory Gate Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2024
Language Babel, Art Lift Art Space, Shenyang, China, 2024
Together For Future, Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao, China, 2024
The Realm of Time and Space, Atom Space, SeeDliNG Fair, Shenzhen, China, 2024
Wuer · Fun · Concept Exhibition, InnovArt Space, Pazhou, China, 2024
Code Reconstruction: Artistic Exploration in the Age of AIGC, Art Museum of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China, 2024
The Atmosphere of Growing Art, Line Stones Gallery, Jingdezhen, China, 2023
Wonde Room: Art Exploration in the Web3, Metaverse, and AIGC Era, Advance Art Museum, Changsha, China, 2023
Migratory Bird 300, Zone out Space 2.0, Aranya Theatre Festival, Qinhuangdao, China, 2023
De wereld Wat Met Handvat getembi Ik? – Rituals, Oracles, and Artistic spirit mediums, 798CUBE, Beijing, China, 2023
Luohu Shenzhen-Hongkong Culture Festival, Jinpi Fang, Shenzhen, China, 2023
Cold and Light Conversations: Agency and Technology, Imaginary Z, Hangzhou, China, 2023
Plant-generated Images, Wuhan Photography Art Centre, Wuhan, China, 2023
Under the Current: The Hidden World in the Surface Water, HEZUO SPACE, Shenyang, China, 2023
AI & NI, 4C Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
Doves and Magpies Sharing a Nest, The Forge Art Gallery, London, UK, 2023
Notes, solitude or the canceled, Blanchot airdrops through the wavy lines that advance in parallel, Cooling Gallery, Nanjing, China, 2024
Perceiving: The Body of Group Ritual, and the Resonant Memories, Acute Angle Gallery, Guangzhou, China, 2024
Synthetic Wilderness, John Molly Gallery, New York, USA, 2024
Parallel and Intersection, In Gallery, Taiyuan, China, 2024
Random Inspection, Tang Museum · Project Z, Dongguan, China, 2024
Beyond System, Arbre Art Centre, Shenzhen, China, 2024
Unclaasifiable, New Bridge Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2024
Self, as the Narrated, as the Others, Assorted Objects Experimental Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2024
Flow Landscape, H&Art Gallery, Shenyang, China, 2024
Conflicts Within and Without, SNAP, Shanghai, China, 2024
Mending Nature, Kongshan Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China, 2024
2024 Nanjing D9Lock Art Festival: Fusion, Harmony, Coexistence, Growth, D9Lock, Nanjing, China, 2024
Within Iceless Age, theBlanc, New York, USA, 2024
Immersion, Lockwood Annexe 5, Goldsmiths, London, UK, 2024
Silent Field, Dongshengli NO.13, Suzhou, China, 2024
GOOGOL, Online ( Powerer by New Art City ), 2024
The Logic of Sensation, Ivory Gate Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2024
Language Babel, Art Lift Art Space, Shenyang, China, 2024
Together For Future, Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao, China, 2024
The Realm of Time and Space, Atom Space, SeeDliNG Fair, Shenzhen, China, 2024
Wuer · Fun · Concept Exhibition, InnovArt Space, Pazhou, China, 2024
Code Reconstruction: Artistic Exploration in the Age of AIGC, Art Museum of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China, 2024
The Atmosphere of Growing Art, Line Stones Gallery, Jingdezhen, China, 2023
Wonde Room: Art Exploration in the Web3, Metaverse, and AIGC Era, Advance Art Museum, Changsha, China, 2023
Migratory Bird 300, Zone out Space 2.0, Aranya Theatre Festival, Qinhuangdao, China, 2023
De wereld Wat Met Handvat getembi Ik? – Rituals, Oracles, and Artistic spirit mediums, 798CUBE, Beijing, China, 2023
Luohu Shenzhen-Hongkong Culture Festival, Jinpi Fang, Shenzhen, China, 2023
Cold and Light Conversations: Agency and Technology, Imaginary Z, Hangzhou, China, 2023
Plant-generated Images, Wuhan Photography Art Centre, Wuhan, China, 2023
Under the Current: The Hidden World in the Surface Water, HEZUO SPACE, Shenyang, China, 2023
AI & NI, 4C Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
Doves and Magpies Sharing a Nest, The Forge Art Gallery, London, UK, 2023
Film Festivals (selection)
Perfect Tense Short Film Festival in 20th Anniversary Celebration of the School of Communication, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China, 2024 - Best Short Film Award & Best Editing Award
MUST Chinese Youth Film Festival and Golden Rooster Film Exhibition (Macao), Macao, China, 2024 - Official Selection
British University International Students Film Festival, New Cairo, Egypt, 2024 - Official Selection
La Sur Real Film Festival, Berlin, German, 2024 - Official Selection
Origin Western Film Festival, Xi'an, China, 2024 - Official Selection
Beijing International Film Festival · Beijing College Student Film Festival, Beijing, China, 2024 - Official Selection
He Dong Auteur Film Festival, Yuncheng,China, 2024 - Official Selection
Duemila30 International Film Festival, Milan, Italy, 2024 - Official Selection
Frome International Climate Film Festival, Frome, UK, 2024 - Official Selection
International Film Festival of Audiovisual Theory Students, Prague, Czech, 2023 - Best Experimental Film (Kurt Kren’s Scratched Glasses)
Varsity Film Expo, Nairobi, Kenya, 2023 - Honourable Mention
International Alternative Media Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023 - Official Selection
AIU Kuwait International Film Festival, Jahra, Kuwait, 2023 - Official Selection
Ningbo Short Film Festival, Ningbo, China, 2023 - Best Experimental Short Film Nomination
Xi Ying Light My Fire Young Film Festival, Xi'an, China, 2023 - Official Selection
HiShorts! Film Festival, Xiamen, China, 2023 - Official Selection
Shishan Film Festival, Chengdu, China, 2023 - Official Selection
Shanghai International Short Week, Shanghai, China, 2023 - Best AI Short
Perfect Tense Short Film Festival in 20th Anniversary Celebration of the School of Communication, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China, 2024 - Best Short Film Award & Best Editing Award
MUST Chinese Youth Film Festival and Golden Rooster Film Exhibition (Macao), Macao, China, 2024 - Official Selection
British University International Students Film Festival, New Cairo, Egypt, 2024 - Official Selection
La Sur Real Film Festival, Berlin, German, 2024 - Official Selection
Origin Western Film Festival, Xi'an, China, 2024 - Official Selection
Beijing International Film Festival · Beijing College Student Film Festival, Beijing, China, 2024 - Official Selection
He Dong Auteur Film Festival, Yuncheng,China, 2024 - Official Selection
Duemila30 International Film Festival, Milan, Italy, 2024 - Official Selection
Frome International Climate Film Festival, Frome, UK, 2024 - Official Selection
International Film Festival of Audiovisual Theory Students, Prague, Czech, 2023 - Best Experimental Film (Kurt Kren’s Scratched Glasses)
Varsity Film Expo, Nairobi, Kenya, 2023 - Honourable Mention
International Alternative Media Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023 - Official Selection
AIU Kuwait International Film Festival, Jahra, Kuwait, 2023 - Official Selection
Ningbo Short Film Festival, Ningbo, China, 2023 - Best Experimental Short Film Nomination
Xi Ying Light My Fire Young Film Festival, Xi'an, China, 2023 - Official Selection
HiShorts! Film Festival, Xiamen, China, 2023 - Official Selection
Shishan Film Festival, Chengdu, China, 2023 - Official Selection
Shanghai International Short Week, Shanghai, China, 2023 - Best AI Short
Screenings
Wuhan University Graduate Student Academic Science and Technology Festival “Distorted Imagination: Technological Rethinking under the Annotation of Cinema”, School of Arts, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 2024
Experimental Film Night, The Delta INST + GODOWN, Hangzhou, China, 2024
ONED Film Festival China Touring Screening Program, Lanzhou / Suzhou / Shanghai / Tianjin / Yangshuo / Yichang / Chengdu, China, 2024
The 8th abC Art Book Fair, OōEli, Hangzhou, China, 2023
Jetty Screening, Dali, China, 2023
C-POP Theatre, Beijing, China, 2023
Ferry, Chengdu, China, 2023
Wuhan University Graduate Student Academic Science and Technology Festival “Distorted Imagination: Technological Rethinking under the Annotation of Cinema”, School of Arts, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 2024
Experimental Film Night, The Delta INST + GODOWN, Hangzhou, China, 2024
ONED Film Festival China Touring Screening Program, Lanzhou / Suzhou / Shanghai / Tianjin / Yangshuo / Yichang / Chengdu, China, 2024
The 8th abC Art Book Fair, OōEli, Hangzhou, China, 2023
Jetty Screening, Dali, China, 2023
C-POP Theatre, Beijing, China, 2023
Ferry, Chengdu, China, 2023
Residencies
Nanshan Artist Community, Chongqing, China | 2024/5/25 - 2024/6/14
Migratory Bird 300, Aranya Theatre Festival, Qinhuangdao, China | 2023/6/8 - 2023/6/21
Nanshan Artist Community, Chongqing, China | 2024/5/25 - 2024/6/14
Migratory Bird 300, Aranya Theatre Festival, Qinhuangdao, China | 2023/6/8 - 2023/6/21
Teaching Experience
"Texture of the Earth and Skin We're In: Geological Thinking, Anthropocene Cinema, and the Imaginations Beyond Humanbeing" courses, Radiance Academy, online, 2024 ( at high school & undergraduate levels, click here for the syllabus)
"Texture of the Earth and Skin We're In: Geological Thinking, Anthropocene Cinema, and the Imaginations Beyond Humanbeing" courses, Radiance Academy, online, 2024 ( at high school & undergraduate levels, click here for the syllabus)
Talks & Interviews
Panel Talk, Wuhan University Graduate Student Academic Science and Technology Festival "Distorted Imagination: Technological Rethinking under the Annotation of Cinema", School of Arts, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 2024
Artists Interview, 044 ART STUDIO, Online, 2024
Artists Interview, Jiangsu Business Daily, Nanjing, 2024
Artist Panel Talk, GOOGOL, Online, 2024
Artist Interview, "Breathe With the Plants", Xì | Collective, 2024
Artist talk, Wuhan Photography Art Centre, Wuhan, China, 2023
Invited lecture, "How did it start?" The First Round Table of the Occulf , Umay Art Project, Online, 2023
Invited Lecture, Advance Art Museum, Changsha, China, 2023
Artist Interview, "Independent Artists, in Nanjing", Nanjing Cultural Life Guide, 2023
Artist talk, C-POP Theatre, Beijing, China, 2023
Panel Talk, Wuhan University Graduate Student Academic Science and Technology Festival "Distorted Imagination: Technological Rethinking under the Annotation of Cinema", School of Arts, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 2024
Artists Interview, 044 ART STUDIO, Online, 2024
Artists Interview, Jiangsu Business Daily, Nanjing, 2024
Artist Panel Talk, GOOGOL, Online, 2024
Artist Interview, "Breathe With the Plants", Xì | Collective, 2024
Artist talk, Wuhan Photography Art Centre, Wuhan, China, 2023
Invited lecture, "How did it start?" The First Round Table of the Occulf , Umay Art Project, Online, 2023
Invited Lecture, Advance Art Museum, Changsha, China, 2023
Artist Interview, "Independent Artists, in Nanjing", Nanjing Cultural Life Guide, 2023
Artist talk, C-POP Theatre, Beijing, China, 2023
Professional Affiliations
China Film Critics Association, Motion Pictures and Technologies Committee (CFCA)
China Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineering (CSMPTE)
China Science Film and Video Association (CSFVA)
Hubei Provincial Film Artists Association, Youth Committees
American Psychological Association (APA)
Chinese Society for Environmental Science (CSES)
Geological Society of China (GSC)
China Film Critics Association, Motion Pictures and Technologies Committee (CFCA)
China Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineering (CSMPTE)
China Science Film and Video Association (CSFVA)
Hubei Provincial Film Artists Association, Youth Committees
American Psychological Association (APA)
Chinese Society for Environmental Science (CSES)
Geological Society of China (GSC)
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