Lili Shen Transforms Biometric Data into Immersive Dream Installations

London-based artist Lili Shen uses AI, VR, and biometric signals to create immersive environments from heartbeats, sleep rhythms, and dream fragments. Her recent work centers on the Noosphere, a concept of collective human consciousness. In "Noosphere" (2025), brainwave activity, dream texts, and bodily signals become shifting visual structures. "Noosphere II: Collective Veil" expands this into a spatial system using AI-driven diffusion streams and TouchDesigner, translating heartbeats and sleep rhythms into fluid digital forms. Shen's "soft architecture" creates temporary structures from sensation, memory, and data that shift and reform like mist or fabric. Her practice questions the cost of immersive technology: who controls intimate signals, whether vulnerability becomes more exposed when translated into audiovisual environments, and whether dreams remain private when stored and replayed. Earlier works like "Behind the Mask" and "Connecting Door" examine intimacy and exclusion in mediated environments. Shen's installations have been shown in the UK, Milan, Vienna, Seoul, and London, and featured in Artist Talk Magazine and AI-Tiba9 Contemporary.