Dr. Chang Gao

@gaochang.bsky.social

Multimedia Artist 📍Berlin Postdoc on Bias of AI & Sex Lecturer & Member of KI Sounding Board @udkberlin.bsky.social Associate Researcher @Freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Dr @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social Board Member #art&dialogue

Honored to present my project The Body as a Subjective Interface: Rethinking Anxiety Through Embodied Experience at Beyond the Method at Universität der Künste Berlin— a rich cross-disciplinary exchange to explore new ways of thinking beyond methods.

Delighted to present The Body as a Subjective Interface: Rethinking Anxiety Through Embodied Experience at Beyond the Methods—a rich cross-disciplinary exchange of artistic research, bringing together artists, researchers, and practitioners to explore new ways of thinking beyond methods.

My first theatre production was both terrifying and unforgettable. Affective Encounter of Body, Wonder and Machine explores bioelectric sensing and AI-generated feedback, where desire resists prediction and control. Thank you to everyone who made this performance possible.

It was a pleasure teaching Embodied AI, Performance, and Affective Systems with talented students at UdK Berlin. Together we explored embodied AI, biofeedback, affect, and real-time responsive systems, imagining new artistic relationships between bodies, machines, and environments.

Next Friday May 22nd 2026. I will be performing Affective Encounters of Body, Wonder and Machines at Hybrid Platform. It explores bioelectric sensing and AI generative audiovisual feedback between the body and machines, questioning anthropocentric bias. More details see: www.festivalhybrid.com

This Saturday @ Scope BLN, Berlin Talk: Desire, Gender & Technology — embodied affect countering AI/surveillance bias through art. 5pm talk: Chang Gao + Q&A (with Anan Fries), 6pm artist talk: Desire of Technology 7:30pm performance. Lübecker Str. 43 DM to attend (limited spots)

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TECHNOLOGY OF DESIRE — Queer Relations in the Posthuman Age Artists: Alejandro Montero Bravo, Chang Gao, Jane Garbert, Gabriel Gutierrez Morales, Viktor Petrov, Paweł Reczek, Anton Stoianov, Jakob Urban, Lee Mun Wai. Curated by Boris Kostadinov. Opening Mar 13, 6pm Lübecker Str. 43, Berlin.

TECHNOLOGY OF DESIRE
Queer Relations in the Posthuman Age

Alejandro Montero Bravo | Chang Gao I Jane Garbert I
Gabriel Gutierrez Morales I Viktor Petrov | Paweł Reczek I
Anton Stoianov I Jakob Urban I Lee Mun Wai

Curated by Boris Kostadinov
Opening: Friday, March 13 at 6:00 PM
LĂĽbecker StraĂźe 43 10559 Berlin

The group exhibition TECHNOLOGY OF DESIRE explores how queer subjectivity is shaped within the intertwining of the biological, the digital, and the synthetic. As gender and identity become increasingly fluid, the exhibition asks not who we are, but how we are transformed within the framework of technology.

Inspired by Donna Haraway's cyborg, the posthuman here is not speculative — it is everyday life. Al, biometric tracking, and hormone therapies expand possibilities while quietly structuring them. The body is organic and coded at once. Virtual presence provides new opportunities, but it also exposes us to surveillance.

The research part of TECHNOLOGY OF 
DESIRE is supported by Recherchestipendien Bildende Kunst 2025 by Senatsverwaltung fĂĽr Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen
Zusammenhalt - Berlin

Feel My Sensuality — interactive sculptural installation by Dr. Chang Gao. Touch ceramic forms wired with skin-conductance sensors to activate light and shared sound, turning individual contact into a collective techno-erotic field. TECHNOLOGY OF DESIRE Opening: Mar 13, 6pm Scope BLN, Berlin

Honoured to present my work at the iconic The Groucho Club, London — a legendary Soho venue associated with artists like Francis Bacon. 14 March with The Erotic Review featuring music, readings, my immersive art & performance, as part of Salon Obscura. ✨ Invite-only event — limited guest list

On 14 March, join The Erotic Review for a night of unforgettable, electric Erotic Moments, presented as part of the Salon Obscura series.

The evening features music, readings, immersive art by @gao.chang_rca, and performance within one of London’s most storied creative clubs.

Guests will also have the rare opportunity to anonymously record their own Erotic Moment, contributing to the atmosphere of intimacy and curiosity that defines the night.

What happens when AI responds to your body rather than words? Desire, AI & Supernormal Stimuli (2026) connects heart rate and skin conductivity to a real-time generative AI, exposing bias and censorship at moment of heightened affect. Performed at Alpha Nova & Galerie Futura part of Vorspiel 2026.

Can You Feel My Diasporic Love? Affective encounters of body, wonder, and machine. Presented by alpha_nova_galerie_futura part of @vorspiel.berlin / transmediale & ctmfestival 2026. 🗓 22 January 2026, 19:00 📍 Am Flutgraben 3, 12345 Berlin Details and registration below:

Can You Feel My Diasporic Love? Affective Encounters of Wonder, Body and Machine 🗓️Thursday 22 Jan 2026 19h 📍alpha nova & galerie futura Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin Part of Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM Festival 2026 All welcome!

Can You Feel My Diasporic Love?Affective Encounters of Wonder, Body and Machine Multimedia performance - sound, sculpture, AI & biofeedback, exploring desire, affect shaped by surveillance and fascism. 22 Jan 19h alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin Part of Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM Festival 2026

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