LI ALIN

Li Alin, born in Montreal, is a Canadian and French interdisciplinary artist. She worked with, among others: Société of Art and Technologies (Montréal), Recombinant Media Labs, (San Francisco), Parc d’Aventures Scientifiques (Mons), European Media Arts Festival (Osnabrück), Inter Society for Electronic Arts (Paris), Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal), ZKM, Center for Arts and New Medias (Karlsruhe), and the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris). Her first new media art project; Eugenie a notorious Internet sperm bank was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Cultural Center of the Canadian Embassy in Paris (1996). For 20 years, she has reflected on the topic of new technologies of human reproduction by using different mediums (performances, installations, novels, poetry, music and videos) to create new narrations and conceptions on the subject and therefore to reach new audiences. The cycle on human reproduction was closed by the creation of Enter Me Tonight (EMT) a Virtual Reality installation (2016). First published as a book, EMT is also taking form in sculptures, prints, and a series of reading-performances presented in galleries and art centers worldwide. The VR installation EMT has been presented at the Haus der Elektronischen Künste in Basel, at Cynetart in Dresden, at REpublica in Berlin and Digifest in Toronto amongst others. Her next VR installation V.DREAM, received a grant from The Canada Council for the Arts and opened up a new cycle on perception, reality, and dreams (2018). V.DREAM is a laboratory for inducing lucid dreaming using Virtual Reality. It was internationally premiered at the Digital Art Biennial in Montreal and presented among others at the Digital Arts Biennial in Marseille, Temps d’images in Düsseldorf at the Geneva International Film Festival and at the Recombinant Festival in San Francisco. Her latest work H.E.A.R.T.H supported by the Canada Council for the Art and a residency at Oboro, is an interactive sound installation. Heartbeats from two visitors are monitored and amplified by drums, creating a constantly changing polyrhythmic soundtrack until their heartbeats eventually synchronize into a single pulse. This installation complete the trilogy on evolution strategies. It has premiered at the fondation Made in Cloister, December 2022, in Naples, Italy. She’s the singer of the nu-no-wave group LiTeZ whose debut album is Tout vient de là, out in June 2024 for Rizosfera-NUKFM label.