Yifeng Wei is a writer, curator, and PhD researcher whose work explores the aesthetics of opacity as a way to question identity politics, technological governance, and the historical connections between science, technology, and colonialism. His research is informed by thinkers including Édouard Glissant, Michel Serres, and Gayatri Spivak, and considers how transparency has been used as a tool of control, from colonial photography to facial recognition systems. He is particularly interested in how invisibility, rather than signifying weakness, can be reclaimed as a form of resistance.
His practice combines curating and critical writing. He was shortlisted for the Hyundai Blue Prize in both 2025 and 2023 for curatorial projects that explored opacity as a strategy for disrupting dominant narratives within knowledge production and identity politics. These projects engaged with artistic approaches to ambiguity, refusal, and obfuscation as means of resisting fixed categorisation. His forthcoming book chapter, Scaling the Planet: Towards a Planetary Vision, challenges the limits of cultural identity by proposing a more plural, planetary perspective. His essay Do Not Open That Trojan Horse explores how encrypted technologies and black-box models in artificial intelligence can be used imaginatively and critically.
魏逸丰是一位写作者、策展人及博士研究员，其研究聚焦于“不透明美学”，并将其作为切入点，审视身份政治、技术治理，以及科学、技术与殖民主义之间的历史关联。他的研究深受Édouard Glissant、Michel Serres 与 Gayatri Spivak 等学者的启发，探讨透明度如何在从殖民摄影到面部识别系统的历史与当代表达中，作为控制与规训的技术而被广泛运用。他特别关注“不可见性”如何摆脱弱势的语义负载，被重新阐释为一种策略性的抵抗形式。
他的实践横跨策展与批评写作。他曾于2023年与2025年两度入围现代汽车Hyundai Blue Prize，凭借一系列以“不透明”为策展策略的项目，介入主流叙事结构，对知识生产与身份政治进行干预并回应当代语境下对于固化分类体系的质疑与抵抗。他即将出版的书章 Scaling the Planet: Towards a Planetary Vision 从星球尺度出发，挑战文化身份的边界，并提出一种多元而非中心化的“行星”视角。他的论文 Do Not Open That Trojan Horse 探索了加密技术与人工智能中的“黑盒”模型如何在当代语境中被赋予批判性与想象性的潜能。
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
2025
Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025 Finalist, China (4,000 USD)
现代汽车文化中心Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025年度艺术大奖入围，中国 (4,000 美元)
Visual Arts Bursary, the Arts Council, Ireland (15,000 Euro)
视觉艺术资助金，爱尔兰艺术委员会，爱尔兰 (15,000 欧元)
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 人民币)
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 欧元)
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 欧元)
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 (awarded 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 (20,000RMB)
研究生国家奖学金，中华人民共和国教育部，中国 (20,000人民币)
Selected Papers, Book Chapters, and Catalogue Essays｜论文、章节与展览文章
2025
Book chapter “Scaling the Planet: Towards a Planetary Vision”, Visions of Scale, Bloomsbury Publishing (estimated published in 2026)
2024
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 Pedagogies｜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