Betty Li

A narrative CGI film using motion capture to tell the story of sentient digital lifeforms’ journey of self-redemption.

Set in a digital fantasy where e-lifeforms have developed self-consciousness, Eylisa, Kill Me at the Dinner Party investigates the performative identity-making and power struggles in cyberspace. The sentient digital avatars start to find out that humans are their parasites, controlling and feeding off the attention of their shout, their laughs, and their pain.

Betty Li is an artist who investigates hybrid spaces, performativity, and identities in technology through her multimedia simulation and performance. Interpreting material intra-actions in her world-making practices and narratives, she uncovers the western desire and anxiety over images through alternative realities and fantasy. She explores different approaches of storytelling through 3D visuals, gaming experience, VR/AR, and machine learning to dissect notions of identity through her own experience and observations. By creating tangible immersive experience, she opens up new dialogues for realities and memories to conjoin.