Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Xi Li 李曦 is an interdisciplinary artist from Harbin, China. Her practice includes film, digital images, photography, sculpture, installation, performance, 3D animation, VR and game design. Over the past few years, Xi has developed a body of work that explores the possibilities and existential questions posed by digital media and digital cultures […]
The Thursday Trader is an interactive work created with HTML using ASCII design features. The work is focused on the ordinary need to fulfill basic life-giving functions and references a wider in-game world just out of reach.
ESSAY by STELLA BRENNAN, 2003
for ‘Arcadia: The Other Life of Video Games’ curated by Hanna Scott, Govett Brewster Art Gallery New Plymouth.
The Arcades in question aren’t distant tree-filled realms but those garishly-carpeted, dimly-lit caverns crammed with everything from Dance Dance Revolution to Mortal Kombat.