Jiabao Li
Artist, Designer & Technologist
Addressing climate change, interspecies world sharing and humane technology.
Jiabao Li is an Artist, Designer and Technologist based in Austin, Texas. Using wearable technology, robotics, AR/VR, projection mapping, performance art, software and installation work, Jiabao addresses global issues such as climate change, interspecies world sharing, humane technology, and a just, sustainable future. Her artwork and speculative designs offer new ways of seeing and perceiving how we live.
She is an Assistant Professor at UT Austin. Her lab explores the intersection of art, design, technology, and biology. The interests are broadly spanning from interspecies co-creation to menstrual blood science.
Current Member of NEW INC Creative Science at the New Museum
Twinkles Lighting System at iF Design Award 2018
Creativity Finalist for Glacier’s Lament at Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award 2021
Ted Talk Art that reveals how technology frames reality
Discoverable Design Talk on Youtube
Work exhibited internationally at: Ars Electronica, Today Art Museum, SIGGRAPH, Milan and Dubai Design Week, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Museum, ISEA, Anchorage Museum, OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, CHI, Donghu Shan Art Museum, MOOD Museum of Design, Alaska State Museum.
“Interspecies co-creation helps us to probe into different intelligences, shift perspectives, and interrogate ourselves.
Jiabao Li