I’m Shuangting Yao, an artist-researcher and creative technologist working at the intersection of computational media, critical making, and cosmotechnics. I am currently an MA student in Computational Media at Duke University. My central question is whether technologies like AI and physical computing can be taught to carry inheritance rather than erase it — to let a culture keep speaking in its own accent — and how making itself can function as a mode of critical inquiry.

Drawing on Yuk Hui’s notion of cosmotechnics, I treat language, craft lineages, and ecological forms as technical processes in their own right, and technical media, in turn, as cultural and ecological processes rather than neutral tools. I work across generative models, physical computing, and interactive installation, primarily in TouchDesigner, Python, p5.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi.

I came to this work from technology education. I spent four years teaching design innovation, robotics, and AI-integrated creative technology at a public high school in Shenzhen, where I built the first AI-generated art course offered in a Chinese public high school. Before that, I trained in instructional technology and communication, and co-authored two papers in a learning technologies research lab.