Elysia: Kill Me At The Dinner Party
Jake Ziegler
Published
NOWNESS Experiments:
Elysia, Kill Me At The Dinner Party
Immersed in the virtual realm, an anonymous observer anxiously watches their digital persona as she becomes sentient
London-based Chinese multimedia artist Yu Li (FEYU) is interested in image-making processes, especially how we perform and shape our identities online today. In creating imaginative digital fantasy lands and alternative realities, Li draws on collective themes of desire and shame to mould and take apart cyberspace characters.
Set in a digital fantasy where e-lifeforms have developed self-consciousness, Elysia, Kill Me At The Dinner Party is a CG speculative fiction short depicting the consequences of performative identity-making and power struggles in cyberspace. The film addresses themes of agency and consciousness, privacy and surveillance, and raises compelling ideas about how the relationship between human-consumers and their digital personas can be multi-directional and unpredictable.