Bio

Li Yao, currently based in Chicago, is a VR/XR artist, a designer, and an organizer for new media art events. Li’s work addresses how our perceptions of reality are shaped, both by the architecture we inhabit, as well as the interfaces we connect to. Li’s recent on-going project, Perfect Melon, in collaboration with Jas Brooks and Gabby Luu, is a VR installation and performance that incarnates a fictional corporation. The purchase of a company-produced soft drink initiates membership into a consumer community cultivated and entirely mediated by the corporation. Li has exhibited in various venues including Altered Festival, The Wrong Biennale, Ars Electronica, and Mykono Multimedia Festival. He received his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018, and his BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2016.

Highlights

Bathroom Study (2022)
3d environmental study of a bathroom that gave me much nerve.
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Tea House Study (2022)
3d environmental study of control and servitude facilitated in Japanese tea house layout.
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Water Flows Through My Closet (2021 - 2022)
Ai-generative image and text. This project explore what Ai had learnt about bathroom experience.
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Perfect Melon ( On-going ):
VR multisensorial performance.
Keywords: Digital Art & Animation, Installations

Peeing. Online. Together ( On-going ):
Collective Urination on Clubhouse

Commiserate Chicago ( 2019 - 2020 ) :
New media art festival
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Bunker ( 2016 - 2018 ) :
VR installation. Conceived during the escalating tension of China-US diplomacy, this project seeks to reflect the curse of our time.
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
( 2016 ) :
Time-based installation on familial obligation
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Red Oil Wontons ( 2015 ) :
Serial glitch prints and installation on food and lingual translationNow broadcasted daily on @dailywontons
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Warden/ Prisoner ( 2015 ) :
Video installation and architectural study on toilets
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Digital Collages series ( 2015 ):
Digital collages made on iPhone
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Tea House Study

2022

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