Postgraduate student profile Haiyu Yuan

Temporality Research Cluster Discussion - ECA Main building (17th Nov 2022).

His research question explores: How Contemporary (Green Screen) Artists process their image prototypes in their practices.

He attempts to use his own practices as a locus to examine a group of contemporary artists who shares commonalities in the representation with his works. He uses 'green screen' as a powerful metaphor for these artists' simulation and sifting based on post-internet image material and their Photoshop-like layered mode of creation.  From a visual phenomenological perspective, it mainly reflects a montage of sutures; a marginalised collection of poor images; a decontextualised way of self-reconfiguration; flatness juxtaposition; technologised mimicry and observation. He believe the bodily fragments in the 'Green Screen' works can be used as a facialised visual authority by the visual creators as a field of self-imagination and sociocultural integration. The post-body discourse invades the production of images through these artists in a form distinct from the cybernetic and technical body.