Lulu Li Artist / Designer
Lulu Li is a cross-disciplinary designer, artist, and Zen Buddhist whose practice spans conceptual art, public sculpture, interactive media, generative art, AI fashion, and social innovation. She works with text, symbols, code, light, space, sound, and machine learning — cultivating attentive listening to bring hidden elements into realization.
An MA Fine Art graduate of Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London (UAL), she won the inaugural GAM Gilbert de Botton Art Prize at Tate Britain in 2010, recognised for her outstanding aesthetic ability and "subtle yet assured work." The judging panel — including artist Gary Hume, collector Alex Sainsbury, Haunch of Venison curator Nina Miall, and art critic Louisa Buck — deemed her "most likely to significantly impact the contemporary art world."
In 2024, she debuted her first fashion collaboration with Moncler Genius, transforming her AI-generated digital visions into a ready-to-wear capsule collection. Showcased at Shanghai Fashion Week alongside Rick Owens, Jil Sander, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Nigo, and ASAP Rocky, the collection was featured in Vogue Business, DesignBoom, and L'OFFICIEL Singapore. Björk was later seen wearing a piece from the runway. She is also the creator of SULFUR, an eyewear and fashion collection.
Her large-scale public installation Lightning Struck (2019, eight meters, concrete/steel/light) was acquired for the Shenzhen Pingshan International Sculpture Exhibition. Where R U... (2012) is part of K11 Shanghai's permanent collection. Her light installation series THE EMO PROJECT was first collected by K11 in 2013. Her NFT art project Panspermia (panspermia.life) explores the origin of cosmic life through self-trained machine learning models. Using StyleGAN2 to venture into the latent space — what she describes as "deep diving into cosmos' primordial soup, where abundance of life forms are found with constant startlements" — she generates speculative organisms that ask: if we one day encounter extraterrestrial life, would we even recognize it? The project draws a parallel between machine learning's generative depths and the Buddhist Shurangama Sutra's vision of eighty-four thousand forms of movement-born life proliferating across the lands.
Her Lightning Babe (电光娃娃) series, launched in 2005, drew from the imagery of 1970s Chinese female gymnasts and acrobats — their youthful energy and utopian optimism under the communist regime. The project became a defining work of its era in the Chinese design scene, widely featured on the covers of contemporary Chinese design publications and earning her the onedotzero / MTV Bloom Young Director Award in 2008.
In 2022, as a creative consultant for the Beijing Winter Olympics, she created Snowflake ID, a generative design project enabling 10 million users worldwide to participate in this global event.
As an interaction design and creative director, she led the UX and creative direction for Palace Museum Auspicious Icons (故宫祥瑞) and Night Revels of Han Xizai (韩熙载夜宴图) — two immersive apps for the Palace Museum Beijing — both winning Apple Store App of the Year (2014 & 2015). Her broader design work has also received the Red Dot Award and IF Design Award.
In 2016, she co-curated the inaugural Beijing Media Art Biennale and led its foundational theoretical research on the main theme Ethics of Technology, examining the moral dimensions of emerging technologies in art and society. In 2017 she directed the new media narrative for Lost in Play, an immersive theatre piece at Beijing's CHAO Museum, featuring real-time face-tracking projection mapping.
She co-founded Interactive Beijing (2013), a social innovation platform, and launched Our A!r — the pilot project Eco Air Bubble transformed community gym equipment into human-powered fresh air sanctuaries, winning Germany's Green Product Award and Asia's Most Influential Design Award (2015).
Selected exhibitions: Lisbon Architecture Triennial (2019), Venice Architecture Biennale (2015), B3 Moving Image Biennale (2015), CAFA Museum (2016), UCCA Beijing (2007, 2013).
Websites: lululi.co · didelidi.com · lightningbabe.art · panspermia.life
Lulu Li（李心路）是一位跨领域设计师、艺术家与禅宗修行者，创作横跨概念艺术、公共艺术装置、互动媒体、生成艺术、AI时装与社会创新。她以文本、符号、代码、光、空间、声音、机器学习等为媒介——通过培养敏锐的感知力与专注的聆听，将隐匿的元素带入现实。
她毕业于伦敦艺术大学（UAL）切尔西艺术学院纯艺术硕士，2010年在Tate Britain荣获首届 GAM Gilbert de Botton Art Prize，被评审团——包括艺术家 Gary Hume、收藏家 Alex Sainsbury、Haunch of Venison 策展人 Nina Miall 及艺术评论家 Louisa Buck——评价为"最有可能对当代艺术界产生重大影响的艺术家"，并因其"卓越的审美能力与细腻而自信的作品"而获此殊荣。
2024年，她首次与 Moncler Genius 展开时装合作，将AI生成的数字构想转化为实体成衣胶囊系列，于上海时装周发布，与 Rick Owens、Jil Sander、藤原浩、Nigo 及 ASAP Rocky 同台展出，获 Vogue Business、DesignBoom、L'OFFICIEL Singapore 等媒体报道。Björk 曾穿着该系列秀场单品亮相。她同时也是眼镜及时装品牌 SULFUR 的创作者。
其大型公共装置《Lightning Struck》（2019，八米，混凝土/钢材/灯光）被深圳坪山国际雕塑展收藏。《Where R U...》（2012）为K11上海永久馆藏。灯光装置系列《THE EMO PROJECT》于2013年被K11收藏。NFT艺术项目《Panspermia》（panspermia.life）以自训练的机器学习模型探索宇宙生命的起源，通过StyleGAN2潜入模型的"潜在空间"——她将其描述为"深潜于宇宙的原初之汤，在那里不断惊异地发现大量涌现的生命形态"——生成出种种臆想中的外星生物，叩问：倘若有一天我们真的遭遇地外生命，我们是否能辨认出来？这个项目在机器学习的生成深渊与《大佛顶首楞严经》中"八万四千飞沉乱想"的生命创生观之间，展开了宇宙生命起源说的艺术探索。
2005年她发起《电光娃娃》（Lightning Babe）系列，灵感源于七十年代中国女性体操运动员与杂技演员——那个年代特有的青春活力与对美好明天的无限憧憬。该项目成为中国当代设计领域一个时代的标志性作品，大量刊登于同期中国设计类出版物封面，她也因此于2008年获 onedotzero / MTV Bloom 青年导演奖。
2022年受邀担任北京冬奥会新媒体视觉专家，负责生成式视觉项目"雪花ID"，使全球一千万用户参与这场盛事。
作为交互体验设计总监与创意总监，她主导了故宫博物院出品的《故宫祥瑞》与《韩熙载夜宴图》两款沉浸式APP的用户体验与创意方向设计，双双斩获Apple Store年度最佳应用（2014与2015）。其设计项目另获红点设计奖及德国IF设计奖。
2016年，她联合策展首届"北京媒体艺术双年展"，并负责主议题"技术伦理"（Ethics of Technology）的基础理论研究工作，探讨新兴技术在艺术与社会中的伦理维度。2017年她在北京CHAO酒店为沉浸式戏剧《Lost in Play》执导新媒体叙事内容，包括实时面部追踪投影映射表演。
2013年她联合创立社会创新平台"交互北京"，发起"我们的空气"项目——领航项目"智能生态氧泡"将社区健身器材改造为人力发电的新鲜空气避难所，获2015年德国绿色产品大奖及亚洲最具影响力设计奖。
参展经历：里斯本建筑三年展（2019）、威尼斯建筑双年展（2015）、B3动态影像双年展（2015）、中央美术学院美术馆（2016）、UCCA尤伦斯当代艺术中心（2007, 2013）。
网站：lululi.co · didelidi.com · lightningbabe.art · panspermia.life