Yuyan Wang considers the afterlife of material uploaded to video sharing platforms. She recycles found footage into intensely affective, rhythmic assemblages–tracing their production, circulation, mutation, and proliferation within digital ecosystems.

Boring Billion (2026) is a film composed of found footage that observes how humans model themselves after machines that are themselves designed to simulate the human. Industrial processes, engine repair tutorials, glossy demonstrations of robotic systems, animatronic figures, and remnants of obsolete infrastructure drift in and out of a continuous stream. The work traces cycles of optimization that spiral into overload, heat, and decay from which it is seemingly impossible to escape. Informed by the overload of digital information, Wang meditates on the processes of relentless optimisation and machine maintenance within the wider context of their inevitable destiny of deterioration.