Li Yao is a VR/XR designer, an artist, and a technologist currently based in
Chicago. He received his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2018, and earned his BFA in Fine Arts
from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in 2016. Li's VR architectural
installation, Bunker was included in
SAIC's exhibition in POSTCITY, Ars Electronica 2018. In the same year, Li's
animation Swimming Lesson was
included in the Mykonos Multimedia Festival curated by Snow Yunxue Fu.
Prior to
2018, Li's works have been featured in venues including but not limited to Art In Clay II : Figurative Speaking, a nationally juried sculpture show
in Brooklyn, Olivia Park Gallery in Manhattan's K-town, as well
as a collaborative exhibition between the School of Visual Arts and Brno
University of Technology in the Czech Republic.
Descriptions for those realities constituted by texts:
Li Yao’s projects include:
Commiserate Chicago 2020 ( current ) : New Media Art Festival to share your feelings amidst of Chicago winter
Keywords: Chicago winter, Exhibition, Workshops, Talks, Hackathon.
Perfect Melon ( 2018- current ) : VR multisensorial Performance
Keywords: Taste Display, Commercial Psychology, Picturesque, Synthetic Nature, Crystal Palace.
Swim ( current ) : VR project on swimming pools
Keywords: Swimming pool design, Architectural Modernity.
Bunker ( 2016- 2018 ) : VR installation on Cold War architectures and modernity’s paradox
Keywords: Architectural Modernity, Paradox, Cold War.
Interplanetary Soul ( Yo Love’s Got Me ) ( 2018 ) : Collaboration with Chicago Funkadelic Musician Andre Gibson
Keywords: Psychedelic, Funk, Chicago Stepper Groove, Hall Music.
Red Oil Wonton ( 2015 ) : Serial glitch prints and installation on food and lingual translation. Currently showing at the Fixity Equals Death exhibtion as a part of The Wrong Biennale.
Keywords: Food, Language, Translation, Cross-cultrual, International.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? ( 2016 ) : Time-based installation on familial obligation
Keywords: Water, Torture, Time, Familial obligation.
Warden/ Prisoner ( 2015 ) : Video installation and architectural study on prison
Keywords: Prison, Panopticon, Subject-object.
SUSPENSION ( 2014 ) : Mixed media installation on surveillance in the domestic environment
Keywords: Surveilance, Domestic relationship.
Debate Before the Noose ( 2014 ) : Oil painting on the denial of death
Keywords: Death, Cognitive Dissonance, Clown.