Kevin Peter He 何凯文 transforms filmmaking and visual effects technologies into sculptural instruments, live cinema performances, and installations. Based in New York and raised in Shanghai, his practice draws on his background in dance and filmmaking, as well as his experience of growing up amid rapid urban and technological transformation. His work examines how the systems we create to extend our ability to see, move, and represent the world begin to reshape our bodies, perceptions, and relationships.

He constructs instruments from cameras, sensors, and industrial components, bringing the ordinarily hidden machinery of image-making into physical performance. Through choreographed interactions with live footage and virtual environments, bodies and machines continually shape what unfolds on screen, while the apparatus itself influences how performers move. Image-making becomes a physical negotiation between human intention and technological behavior, in which the tools of representation acquire a presence of their own.

He is currently an artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works and an artist member of Onassis ONX. He was previously a Collider Fellow at Lincoln Center, a resident at NEW INC and ASU MIX Center, and served as Creative Director of the virtual production studio ZeroSpace. He holds a master’s degree from NYU ITP, where he also taught as an adjunct professor. His work has been performed, exhibited, and presented internationally at Lincoln Center, Southbank Centre, New Museum, Gray Area, MUTEK Montréal, Festival d’Avignon, USC School of Cinematic Arts, SXSW, Tribeca Festival, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Lunchmeat Festival Prague, Festival Internacional de la Imagen Bogotá, and elsewhere.