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“So I asked myself, as an artist, what can I create to draw the same kind of attention to the ways digital media – like news organizations, social media platforms, advertisements, and search engines – are shaping our reality? So I created a series of perceptual machines to help us defamiliarize and question the ways we see the world.” — Jiabao Li
In our quarantined state, we are now turning more than ever to digital sources of interfacing with the world and away from human interaction. Artist and designer Jiabao Li uses art and technology to explore and challenge how our perception of reality and our emotions are altered and even manipulated by digital media technologies. In this TED talk, she describes her work and shares examples of how, through art, she leverages technology against itself.
From TED:
In a talk that could change how you see things, designer and artist Jiabao Li introduces her conceptual projects that expose the inherent bias of digital media. From a helmet that makes you “allergic” to the color red to a browser plug-in that filters the internet in an unexpected way, Li’s creations uncover how technology mediates the way we perceive reality.
Jiabao Li creates new ways for humans to perceive the world. Where emerging technology, art and design meet, her research-based projects range from wearables, projections, drones and installations to scientific experiments, and they explore how technology transforms our identities, emotions and sensations.
Li augments human sensation with her wearables and interactive installations, raising questions about technology’s influence on perception, identity and emotion.
