I’m Xuefei Yang, a cross-media artist whose practice investigates the entanglement of technology and human experience. Through discursive design, interactive installations, and visual media, I explore how technical contrivances entangle, drag along, press upon, and impose on human experience. My work traces the invisible, subtle mechanisms of digital infrastructures, revealing their aesthetic, social, and psychological consequences. By creating participatory experiences, I invite audiences to reflect critically on the systems they inhabit. Whether through sensory interaction or conceptual provocation, I aim to foreground the politics of interface, automation, and control in contemporary life, while imagining more ethical and empathetic futures through art and design.

From July 2020 to August 2021, I worked as an Assistant Manager in Digital Marketing at Chiatai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group, one of China’s major biopharmaceutical companies. My role focused on driving digital transformation within the healthcare sector by integrating emerging IT solutions into the company’s medical business. I explored how digital tools could enhance internal efficiency, streamline healthcare communication, and support data-informed decision-making. This experience deepened my understanding of how technology reshapes traditional industries and inspired my ongoing interest in the intersection of digital infrastructure and human systems.

From January 2023 to June 2024, I served as an Assistant Manager in Platform Operations at JD.com. My responsibilities included ensuring the stability and optimisation of platform performance by applying agile methodologies and digital innovation. I collaborated across departments to support user-centred service improvements and operational adaptability in one of the most competitive e-commerce environments in China. Working in this high-demand context taught me how large-scale digital ecosystems function—both technically and socially—and how user experience is shaped by underlying operational logics. Both roles have equipped me with a hybrid perspective, allowing me to move fluidly between technical processes and human-centred design thinking.

My academic journey bridges media arts, sociology, and experience design, reflecting a commitment to both critical inquiry and creative practice. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Media Arts from the University of Plymouth, where I developed a strong foundation in visual culture, digital storytelling, and installation art. This creative grounding led me to pursue a Master of Arts in Sociology of Media and Culture at the University of Leeds, where I deepened my understanding of the ideological structures underpinning media systems, cultural production, and public discourse. Seeking to integrate theory with practice, I returned to the University of Plymouth for a second Master’s degree in Experience Design. There, I focused on designing participatory systems, interactive environments, and socially engaged projects that respond to contemporary issues such as digital exclusion, labor precarity, and surveillance. Together, these academic experiences have equipped me with a critical and interdisciplinary perspective that informs both my research and artistic practice.