Kevin Peter He

Kevin Peter He is a Brooklyn-based, Shanghai-raised artist working across film, live performance, and game engines to create living stories—narratives shaped not only by human intention, but by the systems, infrastructures, and technologies that sustain them.

Drawing from a background in cinema and dance, Kevin approaches real-time tools not simply as instruments of storytelling, but as environments where control, improvisation, and adaptation unfold in parallel. His work often collapses the boundary between observer and participant, with the camera acting as an embodied interface—one that frames, mediates, and reshapes the world it surveys.

His practice is grounded in firsthand experience of rapid systemic change across contemporary China and the United States, from urban expansion to shifting ideological landscapes. These perspectives inform his ongoing exploration of agency, containment, and progress across virtual and physical space.

Kevin’s work has been presented at SIGGRAPH, MUTEK Montreal, Tribeca Festival, NOWNESS, and Onassis ONX. Formerly the creative director of ZeroSpace, he has collaborated with Lincoln Center, Cartier, and Nike. He holds a Master’s from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he also teaches as an adjunct professor, and a Bachelor’s in Film from USC.