Beyond Binary 

Location:National Sawdust, 80 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249

Choreographer: Yawen Luo

Dancer: Yawen Luo

Music: Mix+AI generation

Video Designer: AI generation

Artistic Statement Of Beyond Binary

Beyond Binary reframes technology not as an external instrument, but as an extension of human perception, embodiment, and ethical responsibility. Grounded in cybernetic principles—feedback, responsiveness, and interdependence—this perspective understands humans and machines as co-evolving systems that continuously shape one another.

Rather than prioritizing efficiency or control, technological humanism emphasizes relationality: how technology mirrors human values, exposes vulnerabilities, and reconfigures ways of sensing, moving, and knowing. The body becomes an interface, the machine an active participant, and intelligence a distributed process rather than an exclusively human possession.

Within this framework, technology is not positioned in opposition to humanity but is deeply implicated within it. Creativity, empathy, and agency emerge through interaction—between flesh and code, intention and algorithm. Cybernetic & Technological Humanism ultimately calls for a future in which technological advancement deepens humanistic inquiry, fostering more conscious, ethical, and poetic modes of coexistence between human and non-human intelligences.



Cybernetic & Technological Humanism