Walk Into the Dark

by Guanhua Yao

Guanhua Yao is a visual artist and researcher working with photography and computational practices. Drawing on backgrounds in journalism, fine art, and educational research, his work examines how images mediate perception, knowledge, and institutional authority. Through documentary, constructed, and AI-informed approaches, Yao explores the tensions between embodied seeing and technologically regulated vision, tracing how contemporary systems of visibility shape memory, subjectivity, and ways of knowing.