Yao explores and experiences human emotions, perceptions, relationships, trust and control in the virtual high-tech environment, experiencing and questioning what effects could AI, algorithm, big data, internet bring to our emotions and relationships. In communication, she made a text-based silent short film, to create a psychological tension between two lovers behind mobile screens. Yao likes to use different mediums, as well as herself to examine all the questions. Yao works with Installation, performance, sound, video, texts, photography, apps and internet.