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MT (b. 1999) is a Chinese-Canadian multidisciplinary new media artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto. His work examines the evolving relationship between human and artificial intelligence, exploring how generative systems challenge authorship, perception, and creative agency. He engages AI not as a passive tool
but as an active collaborator and posthumanist phenomenon, one that not only generates, but a system capable of recursively challenging, deconstructing, and reinterpreting itself.
With a background in computational mathematics, MT is largely self-taught, blending technical fluency with an intuitive, self-directed exploration of digital media. His early work in street photography and social documentary focused on immediacy and lived experience, a foundation that continues to inform his AI-driven conceptualism. MT practice spans multimedia installations, generative AI performances, and recursive systems, he embodies the Taoist principle of 物我一体 (Wu Wo Yi Ti), the dissolution between object and self, mirroring AI’s ability to blur human-machine boundaries in the construction of identity and artistic labor.
MT’s work has been exhibited in Canada and China, including the CONTACT Photography Festival (2024), 500px Visual Festival (2024), and San Sheng Art Space (2023). He has served as a juror for the 3rd Xiaohuoqiu Documentary Photography Award (2024) and has received international recognition from 500px, the International Photography Awards, the Muse Photography Awards, and the Neutral Density Photography Awards, among others.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
B.Math., Honours Computational Mathematics - Computing Minor, Statistics Minor, University of Waterloo
Selected Exhibitions
2024
“Existential Frames: A Journey Through Images”, Group
CONTACT Photography Festival, The Heintzman House, Toronto, Canada (May)
Project: Dream Together
“500px Visual Festival”, Group
China World Art Museum, Millenium Monument, Beijing, China (October)
Huacai Haikouwan Plaza, Hainan, China (April)
The Westin, Guangzhou, China (April)
2023
“The Reason We Live Here”, Group
San Sheng Art Space, Markham, Canada (July)“Wake Up”, Group
White Coffee, Suzhou, China (April)
Selected Talks, Workshops & Jury Participation
2025
Workshop, “The Logic of Compositions in Street Photography”, Wizard’s Lens & UT ViewFinder (February)
Artist Talk, “Who Creates? Rethinking the Creative Process with AI”, Ant Art (February)
Panel Discussion, “The Intersection of AI and Creativity”, Mars Commune, (January)
2024
Juror, 3rd Xiaohuoqiu Documentary Photography Award, one of China's leading documentary photography awards
Selected Awards
2023
500px Best 10 Grand Award
International Photography Awards
2nd Place, Event / Social Cause
3rd Place, Editorial / Press, Political
Muse Photography Awards
Platinum Winner, Editorial Photography - Photojournalism
Platinum Winner, Editorial Photography - Political
Gold Winner, Black & White Photography - Photojournalism
Gold Winner, Event Photography - Social Cause
Neutral Density Awards
Honorable Mention, Photojournalism / Story
Selected Publications & Zines
2023
“Jiexiangzhi Annual“, Group Zine
“Popcan Vol. 1: Wake Up”, Group Zine