Website: https://www.emair-zhu.com
Yimei(Emair) ZHU is an experience-oriented creator who focuses on Art, Disability and Posthuman Bodies. Her artworks discuss deficiencies and imperfections seen through an unconventional perspective, and resist stereotypes that accompany disability. Simultaneously, she is exploring more possibilities for the human senses. Yimei uses various forms of media in practice, including images, sound, writing, software design, projection, interactive installation and bio-art, among others. She has always presented her work in a way that is inseparable from the video media and images, which makes her constantly deal with the relationship between the habit choices of the audience and her own preferences. For many years, she has been concerned about the disabled community, including people with cerebral palsy, low-vision issues, depression and social phobia. Yimei has also been studying sensory systems in the plant and animal realm that arebeyond human capabilities. She sees art as a powerful way to confront difficult situations and as an engine that can break down barriers between disciplines. Yimei's goal is not only to help people with disabilities by addressing art’s capacity for healing, but also hope to explore new senses and open new worlds beyond the function of the body itself by combining existing products and new technologies in her creations. In the end, she hopes to build a new community network of disability, art and technology. This new community is positive and embraces new forms of mutual support; within this group a blockchain community is formed that is guided by the knowledge and skills that each has already gained. Yimei believes artists should contemplate a future in which technology is no longer regarded as lifeless tools separated from our minds and our bodies. She aspires to be an interdisciplinary artist who uses art and technology to challenge people who are no longer satisfied with the world we have known. She wants to provide a possibility—humanity with new bodies and senses—to further explore a new world we have never envisioned before.