Bio

X. A. Li (b. 1991) is an artist and computer scientist living in Chicago. Using video, sound, text, and software, she creates installations and performances that reclaim human meaning from complex systems by applying dominant technologies in atypical and self-critiquing modes. Her research-based practice is primarily concerned with the tension between computationally accelerated social, political, economic, and ideological structures and the experience of individual personhood within this constructed environment. She performs audiovisual work as half of Post Consumer Material and co-runs Leisure, an experimental art space.

She has exhibited, performed, and given talks across the United States and internationally, including the International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the Chicago Humanities Festival; Public Space One, Iowa City; The Wrong Biennale; CURRENTS New Media Festival, Santa Fe; Elastic Arts Foundation, Chicago; the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago; Mana Contemporary, Chicago; and the Stamps Gallery at the University of Michigan. She holds an M.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where her research focused on generative artificial intelligence, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago with honors.