Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Yang Feng is a PhD candidate in the History of Art program at the University of Leeds. Her doctoral research explores contemporary art practices that use digital technologies to engage audiences within a socio-technical context from the 2020s onward. Her research interests focus on contemporary art from the 1990s – present, including relational aesthetics, participatory art, interactive art and digital art. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates art criticism, media studies, sociology and cultural studies, she examines the relationship between contemporary art practices and their social context, particularly in relation to the concepts of post-digital, posthuman, participation and network. She completed a Master’s degree in History of Art with distinction at the University of York and a Bachelor’s degree in the same subject at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.