Artist Biography:

Yunzhi / Melissa Li is a Chengdu-born, London-based computational artist whose practice spans interactive installations, web-based experiments, and immersive 3D environments. Her work explores how images, code, and audience interaction shape identity, memory, and place, and has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Photographers’ Gallery, Copeland Gallery and others. Li translates intangible experiences into visible forms by gathering data, from public archives, 3D scans, and personal stories, and layering them across physical and digital spaces. This blending of online and organic systems invites viewers to consider the intertwining of their personal experiences, histories, and digital traces.

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Description:

"Home is a dwelling path” merges an explorative 3D environment with a physical installation that mirrors its digital textures. The digital, ambient, exploratory space navigates surreal home-like landscapes built from recorded memories and dislocated architectures.

Drawing from lived experiences of displacement and cultural hybridity, it invites reflection on how homes are mentally constructed and emotionally distorted. Visitors navigate the virtual environment built from evolving personal stories on screen, constructed from their memories of home using personal images and found materials on the Internet.

Together, the virtual realm and its tangible counterparts invite reflection on how we build and rebuild our sense of home across both emotional and physical paths. After gameplay, participants are invited to the top bunk for a “Pillow Talk” conversation, where they can share their home stories and help further develop the digital space.

Visit the interactive space via the link: Link 1, Link 2