Yu Li FEYU
Artist
London, UK
Focus
Digital Landscapes
Cyber Subjectivities
Deeptime
About
Yu Li FEYU is a Chinese multimedia artist and filmmaker based in London, known for crafting alternative realities and digital fantasies through emerging technologies. Her practice is a blend of research and emotional introspection, examining how technology shapes spatial, philosophical, and cultural infrastructures. She focuses on themes like agency, shame/desire, and cultural identities in digital landscapes.
Through her creative worldbuilding, Yu examines the emotionality, aesthetics and architectures within networked realities. She articulates cyber subjectivities through the asymmetrical extraction of lands, bodies and information, while envisioning futures where humans and machines coexist in complex, evolving relationships. Utilizing game engines, AR/VR, and AI, she expands the boundaries of storytelling, creating immersive, interactive experiences that explore new forms of identity, sociability, and embodiment, all while reflecting her feminine and intimate perspective on digital life.
Her body of work spans films, narrative games, immersive installations, and critical writings. A notable project, “Elysia, Kill Me at the Dinner Party”, is a CG short film that investigates performative identity-making and power struggles in cyberspace, earning her the "Best Female Director Super Short Film" award at the World Film Festival in Cannes in 2024.
Works