| Summary: | The article focuses on Taiwanese artist Li Yi-Fan’s innovative digital art practice, which employs modified game engines and digital puppetry to explore the experience of image-making within contemporary technological and corporate infrastructures. His works, such as *important_message.mp4* (2019–20) and *What Is Your Favorite Primitive* (2023), use deliberately imperfect, doll-like avatars to evoke feelings of unease and cognitive dissonance related to internet culture, conspiracy theories, and digital mediation. For the 2024 Venice Biennale, Li presents *Screen Melancholy*, a 60-minute video installation that reflects on the transformation of the internet from a utopian space to one dominated by algorithms and subscription models, embodying a generational sense of loss and critical inquiry into digital realities. His aesthetic embraces “workarounds” and material limitations as metaphors for navigating and interrogating the complexities of digital image production today.
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