YICHU 1.0

2025

YICHU 1.0 is a moving image work that blends AI-driven visuals with a techno-feminist narrative, exploring themes of gender identity, digital transformation, and posthuman existence. The piece challenges conventional storytelling methods, using AI to continuously evolve and remix the visual content. In this way, it reflects the fluidity and complexity of digital life while questioning the role of technology in shaping personal and collective identities. The work invites the audience to experience a multi-layered, sensory journey into the intersection of human experience and machine intelligence, offering a thought-provoking reflection on the impact of AI on our understanding of selfhood.

AI Context

YICHU 1.0 integrates artificial intelligence as both a creative tool and conceptual framework. The artwork utilizes AI to generate complex, evolving visuals that explore the intersections of gender, identity, and posthuman consciousness. AI algorithms contribute to the narrative structure, shaping the visual aesthetics and immersive experience in a way that reflects the ever-changing nature of digital culture. By employing AI, the piece interrogates the ways technology influences the perception of the self and challenges traditional notions of authorship and creation.

Yichu Li

United Kingdom

Bio

Yichu Li is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose work intersects image-making, moving image art, and audiovisual live performance. With a focus on AI-driven narratives, her practice explores themes of cyberfeminism, posthuman consciousness, and digital identity. Her works have been exhibited internationally at venues including UCCA AI Artist, AI Film Awards (Cannes), and IEEE AIART Gallery (France).