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YICHU 1.0 – Synopsis / Description
By Yichu Li
In a world where human consciousness transcends the limits of flesh, YICHU 1.0 explores the raw emotional journey of transformation, self-reconstruction, and collective evolution.
YICHU 1.0 is a three-chapter experimental moving image work that explores protopian futures, digital embodiment, and AI-mediated identity. Through a blend of machine-generated visuals, layered soundscapes, and speculative narration, the moving images traverses fragmented realities and techno-mythic landscapes. It examines how consciousness, memory, and selfhood mutate in an age of algorithmic life—inviting viewers into a dreamlike digital rite of passage.Through ritualistic visuals, haunting dreamscapes, and futuristic soundscapes, YICHU 1.0 confronts the most intimate and universal question of our time:
What remains of "self" when memory and innovation collide?
Rave Cinema
Rave Cinema
An Immersive Audiovisual Performance
by Yichu Li
Concept Overview
RAVE CINEMA is a hybrid cinematic ritual—an immersive audiovisual live performance that merges AI-generated visuals, techno soundscapes, and feminist mythology. It interrogates how we process identity, power, and presence in a posthuman era, and invites the audience into a space where the boundaries between the body, image, and machine dissolve.
Inspired by the energy of underground raves, the visual grammar of experimental cinema, and the speculative logic of techno-feminism, RAVE CINEMA operates as a ritual of resistance and re-imagining. The work is performed live and unfolds as a nonlinear narrative of digital embodiment and transformation.
Structure
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Fossil Museum of the Posthuman
A silent procession through imagined techno-organic remains — extinct bones of future beings, echoing a world after human collapse.
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Machine Awakening
Machines begin to desire. Aesthetic fragments of emotion, memory, and longing emerge as sentient code begins to feel.
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Mind, Body, System
A philosophical duel between the artist and her digital double — identity dissolves into algorithmic rituals of self-inquiry.
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The Last Generation
The performance culminates in collective trance. A farewell rave becomes a spiritual vessel — mourning, becoming, transforming.
RAVE CINEMA reclaims the rave not just as a party, but as a sacred techno-ritual — a space where posthuman souls might speak, dance, and dissolve.
Technological Process
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AI image generation ( Sora AI, Runway, and Midjourney)
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Audio-reactive visuals and VJing using Resolume
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Live DJ/VJ integration with AI models responding in real-time to beats and tempo
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Motion collage, glitch overlays, and post-cinema editing strategies
Rather than using AI as a tool of automation, RAVE CINEMA treats it as a collaborator in ritual. The system becomes part of the live body—generating unpredictable images and emotional ruptures.
Cultural & Feminist Context
RAVE CINEMA channels cyberfeminist thinking: reclaiming techno-spaces through embodied audiovisual performance. The artist uses rave as a site of feminist resistance—a place where bodies, especially femme bodies, can reclaim agency through noise, chaos, and vibration.
In doing so, the work responds to questions like:
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What does it mean to rave in the age of surveillance and simulation?
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How can posthuman visuality reframe the female gaze?
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Can techno rituals foster new mythologies of liberation?
Exhibition History
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Lumen Prize - Performance & Music Category - Finalist (New York, US)
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IEEE ICME AIART Gallery – Official Selection (Nantes, France)
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DGTL GRL Exhibition – Galleria Objets (London, UK)
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Canal Film Club – Performance Screening (London, UK)
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Top 30 – Reply AI Music Contest, Kappa FuturFestival (Turin, Italy)
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UAL Digital Trail Showcase (London, UK)
