Li Bye-Bye (李拜拜) interview

jonCates
6 min readApr 9, 2023

we at the Glitch Art Gallery are superrExxcited to share this new interview!
2 of my best parafictionalFriends, Bye-Bye and J!NN, discuss Bye-Bye’s most recent NFT drops on the 金山 (goldMountain) objkt account (links below). in her new series, Bye-Bye creates “Pictures of Ghosts” with her “AI Glitch Art Spirit Photography.” Li Bye-Bye (李拜拜) is the inaugural Glitch Artist in Residence at the Glitch Art Gallery Atelier. J!NN (金精神) is the inaugural Glitch Art Theorist in Residence at the Glitch Art Gallery. these 2 closeFriends take a break together, talking over their favorite bubbleteas at the gallery. In this conversation our pasts, presents, and futures converge.
— jonCates, founder of the Glitch Art Gallery

◷ TRANSLATING…

J!NN: Let’s begin with your most recent series

Li Bye-Bye: [laughing] You are more qualified to talk about me than I am!

J: Why would you say that?! [laughing]

LBB: Because you study Media Art Hystories!

J: I do! And I can say a bit about it from my perspective later, but you are the Artist in Residence here, and “Pictures of Ghosts” is an amazing new series that we need to talk about!

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jonCates

School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Film, Video, New Media and Animation dept; Art History, Theory and Criticism dept.