JIABAO LI
Portfolio website: www.jiabaoli.org
Bio
Jiabao Li is a designer, artist, creative technologist, assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin, visiting professor at Stanford, founding director of Ecocentric Future Lab, co-founder and Chief Design Officer of Endless Health. She creates works addressing planetary and human health, humane technology, and perceptions. In Jiabao’s TED Talk, she uncovered how technology mediates the way we perceive reality. At Apple, she invented and explored new technologies for future products like the Apple Vision Pro. Jiabao has received numerous awards including Forbes China 30 Under 30, Outstanding Instructor Award at MoMA, STARTS Prize, FastCompany. Her work has been exhibited internationally, at MoMA, Venice Architecture Biennale, Ars Electronica, Exploratorium, Future of Today Biennial, DesignArt Tokyo, Milan and Dubai Design Week. Her academic papers have been published in top conferences including SIGGRAPH, CHI, IEEE VIS, ISEA, and Nature sub-journals. She graduated from Harvard GSD with Distinction and thesis award.
Education
2016-2018 | Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Master of Design in Technology Distinction & Thesis Prize, GPA 5.0/5.0 Advisors: Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Allen Sayegh Thesis: TransVision – Exploring the State of the Visual Field in the Age of Extreme Augmentation MIT, Cambridge, MA MIT Media Lab, GPA 5.0/5.0 Research, Cross-registration Advisor: Sputniko! |
2011-2015 | National University of Singapore Bachelor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Distinction Honors |
2018 | Royal College of Art, London, UK Contemporary Art Practice |
2014 | RWTH Aachen University, Germany Human-Computer Interaction |
Professional Experiences
2021-present | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) The University of Texas at Austin, School of Design and Creative Technologies + Founding director of Ecocentric Future Lab + Courtesy Faculty at School of Information Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Fine Arts Fellow; Dean’s Fellow; PlanetTexas 2050 Fellow; Walter and Gina Ducloux Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship; Outstanding Instructor Award winner; Chair of the public speaker series, invited speakers like Paola Antonelli, Debbie Millman to our department |
2025 | Stanford University, Visiting Assistant Professor Research in cell biology of climate change, in collaboration with Manu Prakash’s Lab Teach and mentor the “Designing for Extended Realities” class at Stanford Design School |
2022-present | Co-founder and Chief Design Officer, Endless Health Test, train, track for cardiovascular and metabolic health assisted by AI Raised $5 million from venture capital Multiple pending patents |
2018-2021 | Apple, Cupertino Apple Park Designer, Prototyper Explore future 5-10 years of new technology and new product development; Invent numerous future products and awarded multiple patents; Shipped products include Apple Vision Pro, Mental Health, iPad Pencil Scribble, LiDAR Scanner, ECG on Watch, iPhone Handwriting; Give a talk on “Discoverable Design” at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) |
2022-2023 | Tencent, Shenzhen, China Creative Director, Expert Consultant Design consultant on wearables, future of Metaverse, 25th anniversary rebranding; Work with Tencent Sustainable Social Value initiative to use technological innovations to improve the lives of billions of people; Directed art exhibitions on ocean ecology, climate change, AI archeology; Speaker of Tencent Design Week |
2020-2022 | Co-founder and Chief Design Officer, Snapi Health Baby microbiome testing assisted by AI |
2017-2018 | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Teaching Fellow With Krzysztof Wodiczko for the course Public Projections: Projection as a Tool for Expression and Communication in Public Space; Teach workshops on projection mapping techniques, electronics, animations, programming, fabrications, video editing, and making interactive prototypes; Moderate design critiques and art studios |
2015-2016 | SEA, Singapore Creative Director, Designer Led the early design of Shopee and ShopeePay, the leading e-commerce online shopping platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan |
Awards
2025 | AUREA Award, Germany Nocturnal Fugue |
Best Demo Award, Augmented Human, Abu Dhabi EchoVision | |
2024 | STARTS Prize Nomination, Ars Electronica Sentient Clit: the Pussification of BioTech (often considered the "Oscars" of new media art) |
2023 | By Biodesign Challenge held at MoMA |
Core77 Design Award, Speculative Design, Runner Up | |
Webby Award Four Nominations and Honoree in Viral, NetArt, Art & Experimental, Immersive, Weird | |
2022 | |
Cannes World Film Festival, Best VR Short Winner Once a Glacier | |
3 Nominations: Best Immersive Experience Best Immersive Experience for Social Impact Discovery Award: Best Debut Once a Glacier | |
A’ Design Award, Bronze Glacier’s Lament | |
World Film Carnival, Singapore, Winner in VR Once a Glacier | |
2021 | All American Chinese Youth 30 Under 30 全美华人30岁以下青年精英榜 |
A’ Design Award, Silver Unfinished Farewell | |
Falling Walls Winner in Art & Science, Berlin | |
STARTS Prize, Nomination Glacier’s Lament | |
Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award, Finalist and Honorary Mention Glacier's Lament | |
IDEA Award in Medical & Health Snapi Health | |
A’ Design Award, Runner-up Snapi Health | |
2020 | STARTS Prize, Honorary Mention TransVision |
2019 | Core77 Design Award, Winner in Built Environment Diffusive Geometries |
Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award Twinkles | |
IDSA Award, Featured Finalist in Furniture & Lighting Twinkles | |
2018 | IF Design Award, Winner in Lighting system Twinkles |
International Symposium on Wearable Computers Design Award TransVision | |
Harvard Best Thesis Prize Awarded by the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design | |
2017 | First Place, CHI Play Game Design |
First Place, Cities for a Flying World International competition launched by Shukhov Lab | |
2016 | First Runner-up, MIT Hacking Art |
2016-2018 | Harvard International Student Scholarship |
2015 | NUS Innovation & Research Award |
2011-2015 | Science & Technology Undergraduate Scholarship |
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2025 | Chill Out: The Arctic Couldn’t. 11 Jan 2025 – 6 Feb 2025 Gallery Ether, Tokyo, Japan Fusebox Art + Tech, Dec 2025 (upcoming) Canopy, Austin, TX, US |
2024 | Progenitorial Hysteresis 祖细迟滞. 12 Dec 2023 – 13 Apr 2024 Duande Art Museum 巽美术馆, China |
2023 | Ecological Soup: Interspecies Encounters. 5 May 2023 – 20 Aug 2023 Currents New Media, Santa Fe, NM, US |
Perception Omnifold. 21 Aug 2023 - 22 Sep 2023 Yang Family Art Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, US |
Two-Person Exhibitions
2024 | Perform: Video Art by Jiabao Li and Rachel Merrill. 23 Sep 2024 – 15 Oct 2024 Conkling Art Gallery, MSU, Minnesota Toss Pan Dance, Chthulucene, Glacier’s Lament |
Group Exhibitions
2025 | “Panic”, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. Sep 2025 (upcoming) Exhibition “That sinking feeling: cell biology of climate change” with 3 projects from my time at Stanford University as a visiting assistant professor: The Long Fall: A descent into the Ocean's Living Memory, Drifting Snow, Rising Mountain, Gravity Machine Exhibition “The Climate Tasting Menu” with 2 projects from my Ecocentric Future Lab: Consume Our Consumption, CryoScapes: Landscape Painting with Water, Ice, and AI |
Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2025 (upcoming) “A Speakable Position for Women”, Squid Map | |
Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum, “充电指南” TransVision | |
SXSW, XR Experience, Austin | |
Plásmata, Athens, Greece. (the largest open-air new media art festival in Europe) EchoVision, invited by Onassis Foundation | |
FACT, Liverpool, UK | |
Seoul Arts Center, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, Korea Carbon Farm | |
Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Good Morning: Mr. Orwell Ver. 2 AntiAntarctica: Polar Bear Relocation Initiative | |
Edge on the Square, San Francisco, CA All Eyes on Us: Invention & Ingenuity During Artistic Diasporas Squid Map | |
Millenium Docs Against Gravity Festival, Warsaw, Poland EchoVision | |
Dadalab, Fusebox Festival, Austin | |
TAV Gallery “Thank you”, Could an Arctic Fox Give a TED Talk? | |
Kingsland Wildflowers Festival, NooSphere Curated Screenings: Chthulucene, Glacier’s Lament | |
Currents New Media Art Festival, Santa Fe, NM | |
We Matter, xlab Showcase, Tokyo, Japan CryoScapes | |
2024 | “Hope”, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. Sep 2024 Exhibition in “Feature” section, Keynote Speaker, Performance in Deep Space 8K My exhibition “Of Sublime and the More-Than-Humans” included five of my works: Squeeker: The Mouse Coach, Nocturnal Fugue, Futile Efforts, Anti-Antarctica, Squid Map (the world’s largest new media art festival with over 112,000 visitors in 2024) |
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) theater, New York Screening of Squeeker: The Mouse Coach | |
Vancouver International Film Festival Nocturnal Fugue | |
“Critical Shifts”, Barin Han Center, Istanbul, Turkey Squid Map | |
Sheffield DocFest, Alternate Reality, UK Nocturnal Fugue | |
International ScreenDance Festival Chthulucene | |
DESIGNART TOKYO, Japan ANIMO: WildLife Priority Mode, TransVision (one of Japan's largest design and art festivals) | |
“Metamorphosis”, Ectopia Lab, Lisbon, Portugal Sentient Clit | |
TANK art festival, Shanghai, China EchoVision | |
Wuzhen World Internet Science and Technology Museum, Wuzhen New Matter of Nexus: A Digital Art Exhibition, EchoVision | |
West Bund Art Festival, Shanghai EchoVision | |
Ubicomp-ISWC, Design Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia “A Handheld Mixed Reality Mask for Experiencing Bat Echolocation” | |
The Contemporary Austin, Laguna Gloria Wings under the veil of light | |
Exploratorium, San Francisco Sexploration: The pussification of biotech (5,000 visitors/day) | |
f.l.i.p. X Lapin et Halot, “interactivité”, Tokyo, Japan Squeeker: The Mouse Coach, Nocturnal Fugue | |
Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, UK Sentient Clit | |
CODAME, Milan, Italy Squid Map | |
“Host: Fusebox Program with Jiabao Li”, The Contemporary Austin Nocturnal Fugue, Squid Map, Chthulucene | |
Wuhan Biennale, China. Oct 2024-May 2025. Qintai Art Museum. “Urban Fluidity” Carbon Farm | |
“Art in the Age of AI: Evolution or End”, Unchained Gallery, Austin SaySee, Culinary Adventures in the Pacific Garbage Patch | |
SIGGRAPH Asia, Art gallery, XR, Tokyo, Japan Once a Glacier, EchoVision, Carbon Farm | |
Fusebox Gala, Austin SaySee | |
2023 | “Time Space Existence”, “Transpecies Design” Venice Architecture Biennale, European Culture Center (285,000 visitors in 2023) Squid Map, Chthulucene |
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) theater, New York Screening: Squid Map | |
“To Your Eternity 致不灭的你”, Curator: Xin Wang Today Future Biennale, Today Art Museum, Beijing (one of the largest Biennial in China) Squid Map, Once a Glacier | |
“Observing Animals and Nature” Exploratorium, San Francisco (5,000 visitors/day) Once a Glacier, Glacier’s Lament | |
“Sea Life” Exploratorium, San Francisco Squid Map | |
“World Wide Web. Of Life” Exploratorium, San Francisco Chthulucene | |
“Let's Entertain: Game in Metaverse 失控乐园” Times Art Museum, Chengdu Once a Glacier | |
IDFA DocLab: “Phenomenal Friction”, Flemish Cultural Center de Brakkle Grond, Amsterdam (world's largest documentary film festival) Squeeker: The Mouse Coach | |
SXSW, XR Experience, Austin | |
“Time Capsules: Discovering The Undiscovered” SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Los Angeles Chthulucene | |
“Symbiosis”, International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA Forum des images, Paris Squid Map | |
ART*VR Contemporary art DOX, Prague | |
“Entangled Intelligence” Fusebox Festival, Tyrell Gallery, Austin | |
Taboo Transgression Transcendence, Malta Society of Arts | |
Ocean House Co-creation, Shenzhen 海洋屋共创展 | |
2022 | Hammer Museum, Spark Change Summit, Los Angeles Once a Glacier |
“Embodied Ecology” New Museum, New York Squid Map, Chthulucene | |
“Under, Over, Through” New Lab x New Museum, New York Once a Glacier | |
“Nervous Systems”, Amsterdam ONX + IDFA DocLab MoCap Stage Once a Glacier | |
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) theater, New York Screening: Chthulucene | |
Raindance Film Festival, London Once a Glacier | |
Festival de Cortos de Bogotá, Columbia Once a Glacier | |
“Cryosphere”, EPOCH Gallery Once a Glacier, Glacier’s Lament | |
“Possibles”, International Symposium on Electronic Art Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona Glacier’s Lament, Squid Map | |
Olfactory Art Keller, “Bodies Odors Trauma Disease” Menstrual Garden | |
SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Vancouver Glacier’s Lament | |
NYC Climate Week Once a Glacier | |
SXSW, Austin A Taste of the Anthropocene | |
IEEE VIS Art, Oklahoma City Shifting Winds | |
2021 | “A New Digital Deal”, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
MOOD Museum of Design, Como, Italy Unfinished Farewell | |
McaM Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai Unfinished Farewell | |
Anchorage Museum Once a Glacier | |
Alaska State Museum Once a Glacier, Glacier’s Lament | |
“Dynamic natural connections” Artists in Nature International Network | |
Global Just Recovery Gathering Glacier’s Lament | |
IEEE VIS Art, Salt Lake City Glacier’s Lament | |
2020 | “In Kepler's Gardens” Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
“Let This Moment Be Transformative 那些...日子” OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen Unfinished Farewell, Toss Pan Dance | |
“Post-pandemic Contemporary Art Exhibition 不确定：珠三角当代后疫情展” Ox Warehouse Gallery, Macao Unfinished Farewell | |
Donghu Shan Art Museum, Wuhan Glacier’s Lament | |
“Affinity”, Broto Art-Climate-Science Glacier’s Lament | |
2019 | Milan Design Week, Ventura Future Sonic Cutter, Diffusive Geometry |
SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Los Angeles TransVision | |
“Lux Aeterna”, International Symposium on Electronic Art Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea TransVision, Twinkles, Diffusive Geometries | |
“Space”, Art+Tech Festival, Codame, San Francisco TransVision | |
CHI, Glasgow TransVision | |
“Futures For All”, Primer, New York TransVision | |
2018 | Dubai Design Week, Global Grad Show Twinkles |
Johnson Gallery, London | |
Kirkland Gallery, Boston | |
Harvard Art Show |
Invited Talks
2025 | “The Secret Superpower of Menstrual Blood”, Mar 2025, Austin, TX |
EDCON | |
Ars Electronica | |
Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence “Co-Creating with More-Than-Humans” “Consume our consumption” | |
2024 | Ars Electronica, Studiotopia “Creating with More-than-humans”, Sep 2024, Linz, Austria |
UT Dallas, invited opening keynote + panel discussion with the dean and renowned new media artist Golan Levin Eisemann Edge Symposium | |
Rise University, invited closing keynote and performance De Lange XIII “Brave New Worlds: Who Decides? Research, Risk and Responsibility” | |
Chinese National Geographic, TV show and live stream “The Poetic Nature” (10,000+ live viewers) | |
Tencent Research, Tech For Good | |
AIGC, AI Film Festival | |
BioDesign Symposium, Closing Keynote, MoMA Theater | |
Sheffield Alternative Reality Symposium, UK, Opening Keynote | |
Panel Chair, ISEA, Brisbane “Synthetic Sentience: The Pussification of Biotech” | |
Bioclub Tokyo, Invited talk | |
Exploratorium | |
Interspecies Internet “Seeing Through New Eyes: Co-Creating with the More-Than-Human World” | |
Planet Texas 2050 “Creating With More-Than-Humans” | |
2023 | SXSW “Animal Influencers as a Way Out of Climate Fatigue” “Data Art as Time Capsule of the Anthropocene” |
Tencent Design Week | |
Today Art Museum “To your eternity: Transpecies Co-creation” | |
Exploratorium “Art & Science Collaborations” | |
X Museum, X Virtual “How co-creation with squid, octopus, and glaciers taught me ecocentric worldviews” | |
Osmocosm “Scents of Time: Olfactory Tales from Inner Blossoms to Outer Ice” | |
Good Systems | |
Consensus “Artificial Intelligence and the Creator's Dilemma” | |
IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing “Aesthetics and Empowerment” | |
SIGGRAPH Women in Computer Graphics | |
Biohack the Planet “Menstrual Garden” | |
2022 | TEDxBoston, Planetary Stewardship “Interspecies Co-Creation” |
New Museum | |
“Eco-Centric Design” | |
Google UX Conference “Interspecies Co-creation” | |
Creative Santa Fe “Interspecies World Sharing” | |
Transpecies Design Symposium “Interspecies Co-creation” | |
Women in Data Science | |
Cyber Attack, Digital Art and Activism “XR Technology and New Directions in Physical Performance and Media” | |
Artists on Exile “Exiland” | |
Olfactory Art Keller “Science, art, and the smell of menstruation” | |
2021 | “Discoverable Design” |
MuseumNext, XR Summit “The Future of Online Art Exhibitions” | |
Anchorage Museum, Alaska State Museum “Gone with the Ice” | |
American Geophysical Union “Building Quantitative Literacy Through Science, Education, and Art” | |
2020 | LASER Talk “Online Art for the Age of Plague” |
B4bel4b Gallery Artist Panel for “女 Nǚ: Other Half of The Sky” | |
Idle Away Speculative Caricature, Hosts: Sputniko! and Hazumu | |
Stanford University “Art as a Form of Activism” | |
2019 | “Art That Reveals How Technology Frames Reality” |
“How Technology Mediates the Way We Perceive Reality” | |
International Symposium on Electronic Art TransVision, Twinkle, Diffusive Geometry | |
Binary Salon | |
2018 | AR in Action Keynote speaker, Panel: “Art and Design in the Built Environment”, “Buildings as User Interface” |
2016 | China VR & AR International Summit, Keynote speaker |
Book Chapters
2025 | “Menstrual Alchemy.” Blut: Eine Kulturanthropologie (German Edition), ed. Bernhard Georg Förg. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2025. |
2024 | “Beyond Human-Centrism: Embracing Interspecies Co-creation and Ecological Recalibration in Biodesign Education.” How to Grow a Biodesigner, Cambridge University Press, 2024. |
"Entangled Intelligences: Transpecies Dialogues of Art." Transpecies Design: Design for a Posthumanist World, ed. Adrian Parr Zaretsky and Michael Zaretsky. London, New York: Routledge, 2024. | |
“Of Sublime and the More-Than-Humans” Hope: Who will turn the tide, ed. Gerfried Stocker. Ars Electronica, Hatje Cantz, 2024. | |
“Interfaces & Visualizations. Intangible Worlds – the Reality of the Virtual.” Starting a University | |
“Sentient Clit: The Pussification of BioTech.” Prix Ars Electronica 2024, Hatje Cantz | |
2023 | “How Does Media Architecture Distribute Suspicion and Trust?” Provocations on Media Architecture, ed. Ian Callender and Annie Dell’Aria. Eindhoven: Set Margins’, 2023. |
“Cryosphere, Once a Glacier, Glacier’s Lament.” Dimensions. Digital Art since 1859, ed. Richard Castelli, Walter Smerling and Dan Xu. Köln: Wienand; Bonn: Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur, 2023 | |
“Unfinished Farewell.” Death, Grief and Loss in the Context of COVID-19, ed. Panagiotis Pentaris. London, New York: Routledge, 2023. | |
2019 | TransVision, author: Jiabao Li |
2018 | “TransVision: Exploring the States of the Visual Field in the Age of Extreme Augmentation.” Setting the Table, Platform 11, ed. Esther Mira Bang, Lane Raffaldini Rubin, Enrique Aureng Silva, Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Actar, 2018 |
2017 | “Twinkle, Beach, Her.” Live Feed, Platform 10, ed. Jon Lott & John May. Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Actar, 2017 |
Peer-reviewed Publications as First Author or Co-First Author
2025 | Jiabao Li, Ziyuan Jiang, Kuan-Ju Wu, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2025. “CryoScapes: Landscape Painting with Water, Ice, and AI.” SIGGRAPH Art Gallery. Vancouver, Canada. |
Jiabao Li, Ben Evanson. 2025. “Carbon Farm.” In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '25), Bordeaux, France. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3689050.3707686 | |
Botao Amber Hu*, Jiabao Li*, Jianan Johanna Liu, Danlin Huang, Xiaobo Aaron Hu, and Yilan Elan Tao. 2025. “EchoVision.” IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2025), Saint-Malo, France. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10972681 | |
Botao Amber Hu*, Jiabao Li*, Jianan Johanna Liu, Danlin Huang, Xiaobo Aaron Hu, and Yilan Elan Tao. 2025. “Seeing with Sound: Demonstrating "EchoVision", a Mixed Reality Simulation of Bat Echolocation” In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25), Yokohama, Japan. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3721192 | |
Jiabao Li. 2025. “ANIMO: Wildlife Priority Mode.” International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2025), Seoul, Korea. https://isea2025.isea-international.org/ | |
Jiabao Li, Ben Evanson. 2025. “Carbon Farm” International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2025), Seoul, Korea. | |
2024 | Botao Amber Hu*, Jiabao Li*, Danlin Huang, Jianan Johanna Liu, Xiaobo Aaron Hu, and Yilan Elan Tao. 2024. “Becoming Bats with ‘EchoVision’: Towards Eco-Phenomenological Mixed Reality.” SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Art Papers. Tokyo, Japan. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3680530.3695460. |
Jiabao Li and Ben Evanson. 2024. “Carbon Farm.” SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Art Gallery. Tokyo, Japan. https://doi.org/10.1145/3680529.3688967 | |
Jiabao Li. 2024. “Once a Glacier.” SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 XR Theater. Tokyo, Japan. https://doi.org/10.1145/3681759.3688920 | |
Jiabao Li. 2024. “Creating with More-Than-Humans.” Halfway to the Future Symposium (HttF). Santa Cruz, CA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686169.3686191 Jiabao Li, WhiteFeather Hunter. 2024. “Synthetic Sentience: From Cup to Dish.” Halfway to the Future Symposium (HttF). Santa Cruz, CA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686169.3686201 | |
Jiabao Li, Matt McCorkle, Botao Amber Hu, “Becoming Bat.” Halfway to the Future Symposium (HttF). Santa Cruz, CA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686169.3686212 | |
Botao Amber Hu*, Jiabao Li*, Danlin Huang, Jianan Johanna Liu, Xiaobo Aaron Hu, and Yilan Elan Tao. “EchoVision: A Handheld Mixed Reality Mask for Experiencing Bat Echolocation.” UbiComp '24: Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. Melbourne, Australia. https://doi.org/10.1145/3675094.3681951 | |
Botao Amber Hu*, Jiabao Li*, Danlin Huang, Jianan Johanna Liu, Xiaobo Aaron Hu, and Yilan Elan Tao. “EchoVision” IEEE VIS Art Program 2024. https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/paper_a-visap-1004.html. | |
WhiteFeather Hunter, Jiabao Li, and Lera Niemackl. 2024. “Synthetic Sentience: The Pussification of Biotech.” International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2024, Brisbane, Australia. https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024_Hunter_Synthetic_Sentience.pdf. | |
2023 | Jiabao Li. 2023. “Unfinished Farewell.” ACM Interactions 30 (1): 8–9. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3576859. |
Jiabao Li. 2023. “Chthulucene.” SIGGRAPH Art Gallery. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3588428.3593823 | |
Jiabao Li. 2023. “Squid Map.” Symbiosis, ISEA 2023. https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/presentation/squid-map-presented-by/. | |
Hunter, WhiteFeather, Jiabao Li, and Lera Niemackl. 2023. “Bloody BioFeminism.” Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science 2023, Malta Society of Arts, Valletta. https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/2023/en/presentations/1101/. | |
2022 | Jiabao Li. 2022. “Glacier’s Lament.” SIGGRAPH Art Gallery 2022. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3532837.3534948. |
Jiabao Li, Laobai Wu, Wenying Wu, Lu Wang, and Min Zhu. 2022. “Unfinished Farewell.” CHI 2022. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3519897 | |
Jiabao Li, Houjiang Liu, Jilie Zeng, Di Wu, Ying Ding, and Alec McGail. 2022. “Shifting Winds: Gendered Structures of Academic Mentorship.” IEEE VIS Arts Program 2022. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9975443 | |
Jiabao Li. 2022. “Glacier’s Lament.” ISEA. https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/art-events/glaciers-lament-by-jiabao-li/ | |
Jiabao Li. 2022. “Glacier’s Lament.” DiVA 芸術科学会誌. https://www.art-science.org/diva/pdf/diva54-hq.pdf | |
Xu, Cheng, Michael Philetus Weller, and Jiabao Li. 2022. “Bubbling Up Form from Data: A Nature-Inspired Form Generation Tool.” ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication 2022. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3559400.3565594. | |
2021 | Jiabao Li, Laobai Wu, Wenying Wu, Lu Wang, and Min Zhu. 2021. “Unfinished Farewell.” SIGGRAPH 2021 Talks. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3450623.3464646. |
Jiabao Li. 2021. “Glacier’s Lament.” IEEE VIS Arts Program 2021. https://virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2021/paper_a-visap-1046.html. | |
2020 | Jiabao Li. 2020. “Unfinished Farewell.” IEEE VIS Art. https://visap.net/2020/media/IEEE_VISAP_20_Catalog_Final.pdf |
Jiabao Li. 2020. “Toss Pan Dance.” Issues in science and technology, National Academy of Sciences. https://issues.org/creative-response/toss-pan-dance/ | |
2019 | Jiabao Li, Honghao Deng, and Panagiotis Michalatos. 2019. “TransVision: Exploring the States of the Visual Field in the Age of Extreme Augmentation.” Leonardo 52 (4): 424–425. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26808824 |
Jiabao Li, Honghao Deng, and Panagiotis Michalatos. 2019. “Hypercept: Speculating the Visual World Intervened by Digital Media.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–4. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313282. | |
Jiabao Li, Honghao Deng, and Allen Sayegh. 2019. “Twinkle” In Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2019), 220–221. Gwangju, South Korea: ISEA International. https://www.isea-archives.org/docs/2019/ISEA2019_Proceedings.pdf | |
Jiabao Li, Honghao Deng, and Panagiotis Michalatos. 2019. “TransVision: Exploring the State of the Visual Field in the Age of Extreme Augmentation.” In Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2019), 105–110. Gwangju, South Korea: ISEA International. | |
Honghao Deng, Jiabao Li, Xuesong Zhang, and Panagiotis Michalatos. 2019. “Diffusive Geometries: Vapor as a Tectonic Element to Sculpt Microclimate in Architecture.” In Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2019), 507–512. Gwangju, South Korea: ISEA International. | |
Jiabao Li, Honghao Deng, and Panagiotis Michalatos. 2018. “TransVision: Exploring the States of the Visual Field in the Age of Extreme Augmentation.” DiVA 48: 1–4. https://art-science.org/diva/pdf/diva48-hq.pdf | |
Deng, Honghao, Jiabao Li, Xuesong Zhang, and Panagiotis Michalatos. 2019. “Diffusive Geometries: Vapor as a Tectonic Element to Sculpt Microclimate in Architecture.” Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS), 1177–1189. https://doi.org/10.1145/3325480.3329170. | |
2018 | Jiabao Li, Honghao Deng, and Allen Sayegh. 2018. “Twinkle: A Flying Lighting Companion for Urban Safety.” Domus Innovation, March 2018. https://www.domusweb.it/en/speciali/innovation/2018/domus-innovation-issue-2018.html |
Jiabao Li, Honghao Deng, and Panagiotis Michalatos. 2018. “TransVision: Exploring the State of the Visual Field in the Age of Extreme Augmentation.” Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), 186–193. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267242.3267293. | |
Deng, Honghao, Jiabao Li, Allen Sayegh, Sebastian Birolini, and Stefano Andreani. 2018. “Twinkle: A Flying Lighting Companion for Urban Safety.” Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI), 567–573. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173309. | |
Sicat, Ronell, Jiabao Li, JunYoung Choi, Maxime Cordeil, Won-Ki Jeong, Benjamin Bach, and Hanspeter Pfister. 2018. “DXR: A Toolkit for Building Immersive Data Visualizations.” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 25 (1): 715–725. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2018.2865152. | |
2017 | Jiabao Li, Honghao Deng, and Panagiotis Michalatos. 2017. “CatEscape: An Asymmetrical Multiplatform Game Connecting Virtual, Augmented and Physical World.” In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion (CHI Play), 585–590. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3130860. |
Jiabao Li, Honghao Deng, and Panagiotis Michalatos. 2017. “MagicTorch: A Context-aware Projection System for Asymmetrical VR Games.” In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion (CHI Play), 431–436. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3131341 | |
2014 | Jing Yang, Jiabao Li, Zheren Du, Qihuang Gong, Jinghua Teng, and Minghui Hong. 2014. “Laser Hybrid Micro/Nano-Structuring of Si Surfaces in Air and Its Applications for SERS Detection.” Scientific Reports 4: 6657. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06657. |
Jing Yang, Jiabao Li, Qihuang Gong, Jinghua Teng, and Minghui Hong. 2014. “High Aspect Ratio SiNW Arrays with Ag Nanoparticles Decoration for Strong SERS Detection.” Nanotechnology 25 (44): 445302. https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/25/44/445302. |
Peer-reviewed Publications as Co-Author with graduate and undergraduate students
2025 | Ceren Ozgen and Jiabao Li. 2025. “Embodied Movement for Multispecies Empathy: Rethinking Design Through Non-Human Perspectives.” International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2025), Seoul, Korea. |
Brad Hakes and Jiabao Li. 2025. “Robot Reveals: The Influence of the Unboxing Experience on Initial Reactions to a Mobile Robot.” International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2025), Seoul, Korea. | |
Anya Koehne, Annan Zuo, and Jiabao Li. 2025. “Consuming Our Consumption.” International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2025), Seoul, Korea. | |
Anya Koehne, Annan Zuo, and Jiabao Li. 2025. “Consume Our Consumption.” Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/ | |
Thuy-Nhu Phung, Demi Hu, and Colin Nations, and Jiabao Li. 2025. “Octet” Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/ |
Artist in Residence
2025 | Simons Foundation, Open Interval Seven months of unbound exploration between a team of three — an artist, a scientist and a producing partner. |
Oceanic Flux Program, Bermuda | |
2024 | The Arctic Circle, Svalbard, Norway |
2023 | Ars Electronica, Founding Lab Fellow, Linz, Austria Prototyped and shaped the new Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria IT:U |
2022 | NEA-funded residency, “Artists Accessing Scientific Labs”, Davis, CA Center for Mind and Brain at UC Davis |
NEW INC by New Museum, New York Creative Science Track Mentor: Fiona Raby, Supported by Science Sandbox, Simons Foundation | |
ONX Studio, Onassis Foundation, New York | |
Rasmuson Foundation, Individual Artist Award, Alaska | |
2021 | Anchorage Museum, Seed Lab, Alaska |
STARTS in Motion, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria | |
Artists in Nature International Network, online |
Patents
2023 | “Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for tracking mitigation in three-dimensional environments”, World Intellectual Property Organization, WO2023049146A1, published 30 Mar 2023. |
2020 | “Handwriting Entry on Electronic Device”, Australian Patent Office, AU 2020267498 B2, published 12 Nov 2020. |
2020 | “Keyboard Management User Interfaces”, US Patent Application Publication, US 2020/0379638 A1, published 3 Dec 2020. |
External Grants with sole PI status and control
Role | Years of Grant | Project Title | Amount ($) | Source of Grant |
PI | 2025 | Open Interval | 30,000 | Simons Foundation |
PI | 2025 | EchoVision | 15,000 | Onassis Foundation |
PI | 2024 | Nocturnal Fugue | 9,000 | Contemporary Art Austin, Fusebox |
PI | 2024 | Wings under the veil of light | 4,500 | Contemporary Art Austin |
PI | 2024 | Nocturnal Fugue | 4,000 | Vancouver International Film Festival |
PI | 2024 | AI in art | 4,186 | Tencent Research |
PI | 2023 | Creating with more-than-humans | 10,000 | Technology Centered Arts, Jerome Hill Artist Fellow |
PI | 2023 | Artists Accessing Scientific Labs: Center for Mind and Brain | 5,000 | National Endowment for the Arts |
PI | 2023 | Future of Metaverse, Wearable design | 167,441 | Tencent ISUX |
Fellow | 2023 | Founding Lab | 10,000 | Ars Electronica |
PI | 2023 | Squeeker: The Mouse Coach | 7,000 | Onassis Foundation, ONX Studio, IDFA Doc Lab |
Individual Artist | 2022 | Once a Glacier | 7,000 | Individual Artist Award, Rasmuson Foundation |
PI | 2022 | Once a Glacier Motion Capture performance | 5,000 | Onassis Foundation, ONX Studio, IDFA Doc Lab |
PI | 2021 | Glacier’s Lament | 5,000 | Anchorage Museum Seed Lab, Bloomberg Philanthropies |
PI | 2021 | Once a Glacier | 4,000 | Femme Futures Grant, Artizen |
Individual Artist | 2021 | Squid Map | 1,000 | Artists in Nature International Network |
Total | 279,627 |
Investment received
Role | Years of Grant | Project Title | Amount ($) | Source of Grant |
Co-founder | 2024 | Endless Health | 5,000,000 | Venture Capitals |
Internal Grants with sole PI status and control
Role | Years of Grant | Project Title | Amount ($) | Source of Grant |
PI | 2025 | Climate-related works | 8,000 | PlanetTexas 2050 |
PI | 2024-2025 | CryoScapes | 10,000 | OVPR Research & Creative Grant |
PI | 2021-2024 | 105,000 | Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Fine Arts Fellowship | |
PI | 2024-2025 | Research in new material exploration and generative AI | 50,000 | Dean’s Fellow; Walter and Gina Ducloux Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship |
PI | 2024 | Carbon Farm, Say See | 5,000 | Fine Arts Creative Research Grant, UT Austin |
PI | 2024 | Climate-related works | 8,000 | PlanetTexas 2050 |
PI | 2024 | 1,400 | Travel Research Grant, UT Austin | |
PI | 2023 | Summer research | 11,000 | Summer Research Grant, UT Austin |
PI | 2023 | Climate-related works | 8,000 | PlanetTexas 2050 |
PI | 2023 | 1,400 | Travel Research Grant, UT Austin | |
PI | 2022 | Summer research | 11,000 | Summer Research Grant, UT Austin |
PI | 2022 | 1,400 | Travel Research Grant, UT Austin | |
Total | 220,200 |
Selected Lectures
2025 | The University of Chicago A Practice in Art and Technology, Host: Ken Nakagaki |
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 | Harvard Graduate School of Design Responsive Environments, MDes Mediums Thesis Seminar, Host: Allen Sayegh |
2023 | Kyoto University Interspecies Co-creation, Host: Tosa Naoko |
Ars Electronica IDSA FOUNDING LAB: University of the Futures | |
Indiana State University Perception Omnifold, Host: Tanmaya Bingham | |
SPARKS ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community | |
Frog Design x BMW Future of mobility | |
2022 | Columbia University Eco-centric Futures, Host: Gal Nissim |
2021 | University of Southern California Aesthetics of Form, Host: Lisa Krohn, Carsten Becker |
Carnegie Mellon University | |
University of Connecticut Host: Sue Huang | |
Syracuse University Host: Rebecca Ruige Xu | |
2020 | UC Davis Part of NEA Art Works Project, Hosts: Katia Vega, Jiayi Young |
Stanford University Online Art for the Age of Plague, LASER Talk. Host: Piero Scaruffi | |
University of Hawaii MFA Seminar, Host: Mary Babcock | |
San Jose State University Speculative Futures: Climate, Pandemic, and Technology Hosts: Alena Sauzade, Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, Yoon Chung Han | |
2019 | |
2018 | National University of Singapore From Engineering to Design and Media Art, Host: Loh Ai Poh |
University Teaching and Advising
Courses Taught
The University of Texas at Austin | |
DES 330T/ITD 330T: Ecocentric Design: Multispecies Futures [developed and taught as a new course for the department, cross-listed among other majors] | |
DES 330T/ITD 330T: Biodesign: Speculative Futures [developed and taught as a new course for the department, cross-listed among other majors. Student won grand prize at Biodesign Challenge, I won Outstanding Instructor Award] | |
DES 334C: Interaction Design [developed and taught new version, required for all sophomore majors] | |
DES 385F: MFA Studio IV (Graduate) [required for all MFA students] | |
DES 385D: MFA Studio II (Graduate) [required for all MFA students] | |
DES 374: Capstone Design Project [required for all senior majors, enrollment typically 60, co-taught with Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton] | |
Stanford Design School | |
DESIGN 284: Design for Extended Realities [lecturer and advisor] | |
Harvard Graduate School of Design | |
Public Projection: Projection as a Tool for Expression and Communication in Public Space [Teaching Fellow] |
Student Supervision
2024 | Siyu Fang, MFA, Design (Thesis Supervisor) |
Ceran Ozgen, MFA, Design (Thesis Supervisor) | |
Maya Kotsovolos, MFA, Design (Thesis Supervisor) | |
Jingwen Zhang, MFA, Design (Thesis Supervisor) | |
Haya Prasla, BS, Biochemistry (Bridging Disciplines Program Supervisor) | |
2023 | Brad Hakes, MFA, Design (Thesis Supervisor) |
Stella Richman, MFA, Design (Thesis Reader) | |
Will Jackson, BS, Plan II (Thesis Co-Supervisor) | |
Rachel Boutin, MS, Information Studies (Independent Study) | |
2022 | Roya Khosravi, MFA, Design (Thesis Reader) |
Amanda Miller, MS, Information Studies (Independent Study) | |
Brad Hakes, MFA, Design (Independent Study) | |
Rachel Boutin, MS, Information Studies (Independent Study) | |
2021 | Sheryl Long, MS, Scientific Computation and Data Science (Thesis Supervisor) |
University, College, and Departmental Service
College | Faculty Council 2025-2026 Search committee for cross-disciplinary tenured Professor/Associate Professor in Expanding Approaches to American Art, 2021-2022 |
Research and Creative Activities subcommittee, COFA Strategic Planning Effort, 2023-2024 | |
SDCT | Chair, Public Speaker Series, 2022-2024 I invited and secured influential speakers, including Paola Antonelli, Lynn Hershman, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Aki Inomata, Debbie Millman, Zach Lieberman, Grimes. |
Departmental | Department of Design Graduate Studies Committee, member, 2021 – present |
Undergraduate Admission Reader, 2023-2024 |
Professional Service
2025 | Jury, Ars Electronica Campus Award |
Committee, IEEE VISAP | |
Reviewer, Ubicomp/ISWC | |
Jury, SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery | |
Jury, International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art (ISEA) | |
Track Chair, Taboo Transgression Transcendence | |
Reviewer, VINCI Art Tracks | |
2024 | Jury, SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery and Art Paper |
Jury, SIGGRAPH Art Gallery | |
Reviewer, IEEE VIS | |
Jury, International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art (ISEA) | |
2023 | Jury, D&AD Award |
IDSA Award | |
Reviewer, CHI | |
IDSA Education Council | |
2022 | Jury, Biodesign Challenge |
IDSA Education Council |
Professional Memberships
2021-present | Onassis ONX Studio |
2020-present | NEW INC by New Museum |
2023-2025 | Ars Electronica Founding Lab |
2020-present | Biodesign Challenge Network |
2016-present | ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction), SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) |
2016-present | IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) |
2011-present | IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) |