Jiapei Yao is a media artist and maker currently based in Los Angeles. Her work takes language as its medium and its subject – tracing how the words we use, and the systems that generate them, shape what we can know, feel, and imagine. Moving across discourse related to Artificial Intelligence, feminist politics, and labor, she builds installations, games, and browser-based experiences that make these hidden structures tangible.

As a Chinese artist, she is particularly drawn to questions of whose ways of knowing get rendered invisible by dominant technological narratives and what alternative technological imaginaries, grounded in non-Western cultural traditions, might look like.

Jiapei holds a BS in Interactive Media Art from NYU Shanghai, and is now pursuing an MFA in Design Media Art at UCLA.