About
Yili Fan is an award-winning artist at international theater and film festivals, and the designer of the collective intelligence method "Fill the Space."
She was an instructor in the film department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China. She grew up in Canton, China and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing with a bachelor degree of Screenwriting and Film Directing and postgraduate of Arts in Theater Performance.
Ms.Fan won the Best New Director Award of the Beijing International Youth Theatre Festival, 2011. Her theater work, Broken Glass in the Moonlight, were invited to Festival d’Avignon 2012 and Tokyo Tiny Alice Theatre Festival 2012. Her debut educational documentary, The Little Prince with a Mask, has been selected by 15 international film festivals. #StopAndTalk, a collective intelligence performance artwork, is now an official selection in the Sphinx Meta Theater Festival 2023. Find out more
The Little Prince with a Mask is a 14-minute educational documentary. The film was shot entirely on a cell phone. The film is about something that happened in a Chinese-immersion middle school drama classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools were reopened in the United States in September 2020. The filming took place in a real drama classroom during their real drama class time. The short film shows how the students adapted the French children’s literature, The Little Prince, into a short film production step by step, which is a hand-on project designed by Yili Fan to give students a real production experience from literature to theater, film, and media.
Fill the Space
Since 2012, Yili Fan has been refining Fill the Space, a collective intelligence method that implements Edgar Morin's Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future
Fill the Space workshop for South Carolina educators at the 2023 Arts Integration Collaborative Teaching Institute organized by Arts in Basic Curriculum Institute at Winthrop University in South Carolina, the U.S.
#StopAndTalk
based on a collective intelligence performance artwork
#StopAndTalk is based on the the collective intelligence performance artwork designed for the Sphinx Metaverse Theater Festival 2023. From April 15 to May 7, as the first global metaverse theater festival, it was held in a hybrid format both globally online and in performance locations in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and the seaside town of Aranya in China.
Imagine a time when technology will allow humans to live and work on Mars as they do on Earth. If humans do not develop new ways of living, interacting, and resolving problems, they will risk repeating the mistakes they have made on Earth on Mars.
Similar concerns exist regarding the metaverse. Imagine a time when technology allows humans to have an immersive digital experience in the metaverse that is as real as the physical world. If humans do not create new ways of living, interacting, and solving problems in the metaverse, they run the risk of bringing their real-world mistakes into the metaverse. Let's work together as a collective intelligence to solve the problems!
As a collective intelligence performance artwork, #StopAndTalk invites planetary citizens from all over the world to build the civilization of the "metaverse" community.
