Everything Before, Everything After

Seph Li

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About the Artwork

Everything Before, Everything After is a digital installation of a meandering river rendered in the Chinese ink painting style, which constantly shifts its path as it flows, marks time and leaves behind traces of the transitions.

Eternity and the feedback between nature and human interruption are the two key themes within the artwork. The version on display is a digital reconstruction of an original interactive piece, in which the digital river turns into an unpredictable recorded history of the artwork, previously set by interactive touches and brushstrokes made by visitors.

Everything Before, Everything After is on display July, August, September 2024 and February, March and May 2025.

Year: 2023


Copyright Seph Li. Photo © Nick Turpin

Material

Digital artwork created with custom software, lidar, touch screens

Dimensions

Dimensions variable

Artist Biography

Seph Li

Born in Beijing in 1988, Seph Li has a mixed background in technology and design, and his keen interest in interactive artworks led him into the field of media arts. Seph studied Computer Science and Entertainment Design in Tsinghua University and continued his M.F.A. study in Design | Media Arts at UCLA in the United States. Seph instances technology to create poetic interactive experience within defined systems. He searches for dynamic equilibriums in nature and re-imagines them into interactive systems through digital technology. In his interactive systems, the artist defines the rule, the content is co-created by algorithmic code and visitors interactions.