Yameng Li (Maya) is a curator and new media artist based between Shanghai and New York. Her work transforms abstract crises of consciousness into immersive visual systems through installation, curatorial projects, and experimental video.
Working at the intersection of critical AI studies and experimental media, Li investigates algorithmic subjectivity, obsolescence, and post-human selfhood. Central to her research is the concept of “substitution consciousness”—the rupture that occurs when one realizes they can be replaced. Through what she terms “substitution aesthetics,” Li renders replaceability as an experiential structure that reshapes how we understand presence and value in the digital age.
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