ERROAR!

solo exhibition · 2025-09-05 – 2025-10-26
curated by Talia Golland
The Centre for Culture and Technology, Toronto

catalogue ↗

Since 2018, Ye’s ERROAR! series transforms the hallucinations, biases, and glitches of human-machine coupling into multimedia installations. Here, data shrinks, training slows, and renders fray, spilling errant stories and frequencies that rewire our perception, affect, and imagination. These works materialize the “cognitive distortion” of artificial neural networks as speculative artifacts, forming a future archaeology of now where technological errors are paleocybernetic fossils, calcified as evidence of a recursive hunger. In this self-devouring loop, objectivity is swallowed and regurgitated as resistance. Every algorithmic stumble is a fossil-in-waiting, and every glitch is an escape route. With the latest installment of this ongoing series, ERROAR! expands into absurdist speech opera, remixing machine-generated quasi-English into a chorus of algorithmic dysfluency.

Produced as part of the fourth annual Artist-in-Residence Program at the Centre for Culture and Technology and curated by Talia Golland, this project responds to the Centre’s 2025–2026 programming theme “Artificial Stupidity", which engages the politics, aesthetics, and economics of machine learning to put pressure on the construction of these technologies as artificial intelligence. The exhibition threads seven years of this praxis, positioning "Artificial Stupidity"  as sites of creative resistance to fracture Silicon Valley's myth of seamless AI.

Learn more from the exhibition catalogue.