Marlynn Wei, MD, JD is an interdisciplinary artist, board-certified psychiatrist, and author of UNREAL (MIT Press, forthcoming) working at the intersection of psychiatry, law, medical ethics, and philosophy. Dr. Wei examines existential questions and our relationship with memory, mortality, and memorialization through the lens of technology.

Elixir: Digital Immortality (2019-2021) is an immersive and interactive experience based on a fictional AI startup offering digital immortality through AI digital clones and AI agents. It was selected by several interactive arts festivals and artist residences in NYC. Dr. Wei has also shown related elegiac works on memory and memorialization in Florence, Italy (2017). Elixir was also presented at the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence 2021 conference on digital immortality.

Dr. Wei maintains a psychodynamic and experiential psychotherapy practice in New York City.