Yishan Liu

About

Yishan Liu, a cross-media interactive artist from China, is currently exploring the intricate relationship between human emotions and technology. My artistic creations are profoundly influenced by personal emotional experiences, using speculative design and storytelling to investigate how technology can impact and intervene in the emotional connections between the living and the deceased.

I am continually seeking an eternal connection with lost loved ones, pondering what can heal the emotional trauma. “Eternity 03” is a healing experience space designed for those who have lost loved ones. It envisions a future where advanced BCI technology-equipped wearable devices detect emotional trauma, and an AI system provides virtual forest healing scenes. Through multi-sensory experiences, visitors can experience and reflect on the healing effects brought by technology.

In my exploration of the bridge to my late grandmother’s soul, I created “EternaNearness.” This piece combines physical devices, AI, and virtual personas, allowing the audience to engage in a simulated dialogue with the deceased, contemplating whether future digital life can offer genuine psychological support and if this form of life extension can establish an emotional belonging between life and death.

“Unveiling Digital Kin” is a film that conceptualizes how people in the future might interact with their digital relatives through three physical tools produced by a futuristic tech company, examining how the personality and identity of digital kin evolve with ongoing technological updates. Through augmented reality experiences and film storytelling, I guide the audience to reflect on the impact of our interactions with digital relatives in the future.

“Eternity 03:

Music: Inner Healing
Artist: Kirk Osamayo
Source: Free Music Archive
License: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)  Ambient sounds have been added to the original music.