Jinyuan Li

A VR project lets people have an embodied experience in nonhuman worlds with multiple perceptions and body movements.

"One to Thousand Worlds'' presents non-human worlds that are different from the human world but in a symbiotic relationship. The way we experience the world depends on our biological structure, so the world we see is not the only, but one of the thousands of worlds. Like mantis shrimp has an alien vision that can see sixteen colors, dragonfly has a compound and much wider vision. With the purpose of letting people immersively experience such unique and multiple worlds, I use VR technology which changes our normal human's perspective to these ones in different scales and kinds. People will have an embodied experience of these different nonhuman worlds through perceptions and body movements. The project wants to express that although we usually focus on our own world, there are lots of other nonhuman worlds which are in a symbiotic relationship with us. We humans are not the center or the only subject in this world.

Jinyuan Li is an artist and explorer with the background of graphic design and computational art. Her works specialize in the synesthesia of multiple perceptions and body movements, and involve from video, illustration to generative sound art, audio-visual performance, virtual reality and other digital or computational expressions. Her recent practices include immersive experience with other nonhuman perspectives, generative sound with neuromuscular and machine learning, etc.. Her works explore the combination between art and technology, and bring art and aesthetics into more aspects of our real life.