- Melodie Shi
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I am a London-based multidisciplinary creative working across cultural research, writing and visual practice. Trained in anthropology, my work explores how contemporary life is shaped through media, labour, mobility and everyday meaning-making.
I hold degrees in Material and Visual Culture from UCL and Critical Practice for Fashion Media from UAL. My approach is research-led, drawing on qualitative methods and critical theory to translate complex ideas into thoughtful narratives. This site presents selected visual work from undergraduate study and early projects.
It all began with a letter from the year 2050, written by a daughter who had lived alongside an AI digital twin since birth. Digitally stored personal histories are becoming ever more entangled with the concept of one’s self-understanding; blurring the lines between physically and digitally constructed selfhood. Instigating a series of practical and theoretical research into contemporary selfhood understanding, AI companionship, digital tonality, immaterial digital personal histories, intuitive walking, and maps.
The short film features my walk with an AI digital twin’s voice, traversing various non-spaces through digital and physical interplays. It aims to meditate on a critical distance in the age of digitally manufactured instant gratification.