Jingchao Yang is an artist utilising moving images, digital media and spatialised sound as his primary creative languages. His practice explores the evolving relationship between technology, industrial landscapes and ecological environments. Through the interweaving of image capture, digital reconstruction and environmental soundscapes, Yang constructs a visual context that bridges the real and the simulated. Within his works, rivers, geological formations, industrial installations, and altered natural environments frequently emerge as pivotal threads. These elements are both tangible manifestations of the physical world and symbols of the ongoing interaction between human civilisation and the Earth’s ecosystems.

Vanishing Rivers employs real-time rendering and multi-channel imagery to depict the dynamic process of rivers transitioning from abundant flow to complete desiccation. The work shifts between macro river landscapes and micro aquatic ecosystems, capturing subtle shifts in receding water levels, exposed riverbeds, and constrained biological activity. Industrial relics intertwine with desolate terrain, symbolising humanity’s persistent disruption of the water cycle.

The work creates a tense, immersive atmosphere through the sound of water, wind, and cracking sounds, making people aware of the imbalance in the environment and thinking about the connection between the water crisis and our future lives.