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05.Information
The Ocean Keeps Time Differently
Echo
The Story of the Stone
Existence
Further Works
© 2026 Haoyuan Yang

Haoyuan Yang

Interactive art, immersive media, and practice-led research.

I create interactive installations using sound, moving image, VR, and physical interaction. My work explores how bodies encounter environments and other perspectives, translating movement into sensory feedback and attending to rhythms beyond the human.

My current research direction grows from a question within this practice: how do participants recognise their influence in a shared immersive environment? I am interested in how actions are transformed, combined with those of others, and retained as traces for later encounters.

I am completing an MA in Immersive Arts at the University of Bristol. In 2025, I graduated from the Digital Media Arts dual-degree programme between Xiamen University and the University for the Creative Arts, receiving First-Class Honours for the UCA degree.

boyoftheyear@yeah.net
01.The Ocean Keeps Time Differently

2026, Team project
 Immersive installation

Creative Lead / Interactive Sound Designer / Technical Co-developer

An immersive installation exploring oceanic time and more-than-human temporalities through three projection zones and a Sea VR experience. The work considers possibilities for asymmetrical participation: how visitors might enter an environment whose rhythms are not organised around them.


Presented at the Immersive Projects Showcase, Wickham Theatre, University of Bristol, 28 August 2026.

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1/2    The Ocean Keeps Time Differently — installation view
2/2    The Ocean Keeps Time Differently — projection on translucent fabric
02.Echo

2024–2025,
Undergraduate graduation project
 Three-screen interactive installation

Artist / Interaction Designer / Developer
A three-screen installation in which imitation becomes a chain of interpretation. Audience movement is captured by a camera and read by algorithms, producing mirrored feedback, contradictory text fragments, and an accumulating collective echo pool.


Presented at the ICI Design Season 2025 Degree Show.

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1/2    Echo — participants encountering the installation
2/2    Echo — participant imitating an on-screen gesture
03.The Story of the Stone

January–May 2026, Team project
 Embodied VR experience

Project Lead / Creative Lead / Sound Designer

An embodied VR experience that reverses the stone-to-human transformation in Dream of the Red Chamber. Across suspension, sedimentation, and petrification, the work explores mineral time, bodily agency, and sensory mismatch through sound and physical resistance.

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1/2    The Story of the Stone — fragmented virtual hand in the VR scene
2/2    The Story of the Stone — manual-resistance prototype demonstration
04.Existence


2023, Individual projectMulti-channel moving image / VR / interaction

Concept / Moving Image / Interaction / Installation
An installation bringing experimental video, 360° VR, and an interactive chat interface onto a shared timeline. Inspired by online chat rooms, Existence stages imagined exchanges among places, animals, and objects, asking how an encounter changes when the human viewpoint is no longer its only centre.


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1/2    Existence — installation overview
2/2    Existence — VR audience experience
05.
Further Works

Imaginary Sea / Digital Woodcarving

Two further projects exploring memory and cultural narratives through audiovisual installation and embodied interaction.

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Imaginary Sea — installation view with table projection
06.Project F

White Columns
English1995 Publication

ISBN: 0-9648468-0-2
250 x 205mm
59 pp. Softcover
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