WEIRAN YAO
They/Them
New Media Artist / Transdisciplinary Director
Royal College of Art_Digital Direction
New Media Artist / Transdisciplinary Director
Royal College of Art_Digital Direction
Weiran Yao (Eiro Yao) is a multidisciplinary new media artist based in London, originally from China.
Their works cover a wide range of forms, varying from digital painting, VFX, 3D animation, short films, and mixed reality to video games and music production.
Storytelling and audience immersion play important roles in their creations. They have cultivated interests mainly on the political nature issues related to identity recognition and construction, crisis of de-subjectivity under the development of technological media, symbiosis between human and nature, as well as inter-human intimacy and surveillance.
With curiosity, creativity, empathy and attitude, they have developed systemic capacity to express their ideas and put inspirations into practice via trans-media methods.
CONTACT
0weiranyao0@gmail.com