2015
foxconn.tv is a seamless video loop that gives you a tour to Foxconn CEO, Terry Guo’s dream. The dream is made up by both utopian and dystopian fantasies, mixing science fiction imaginations of the West with the contemporary reality of Chinese electronic manufacturing industries.
Press - The Creators Project
2015
Collaboration with Lilyan Kris and Sofia Staab-Gulbenkian.
Sandswitch is a four-player food game that examines class descriminations embedded in foods. The goal is to fulfill an assigned stereotype by building (or stealing) a sandwich.
Showcased at the UCLA Game Arts Festival, Hammer Museum.
This project was developed at Eat Play Love, a food game jam hosted by UCLA Game Lab.
Press - CBC News
2015
Kin Ku Ki Kwan is a text game where visitors sniff various scents and come up with adjectives to generate a poem.
Lydia's poem:
flowing with shell
burning with so much more than the tiniest bit of waxiness
misunderstanding pinkness
nearing wax - aware that the stinky thin heralds the end
2015
Mountain Mover is a performance where I cross the border illegally by moving a mountain from downtown Marfa to Mexico City. I hide inside the mountain to camouflage myself from the U.S. boarder patrol while surviving on a watermelon.
Completed at TAAK Summer School Marfa.
November 19, 2015
Biased Data: a Panel Discussion on Intersectionality and Internet Ethics focuses on inequality and bias in internet culture and other network technologies. While many academic disciplines acknowledge social inequality in the real world, little work has been done on how these cultural paradigms bleed into online life. The panel examines how real-world biases and inequality are replicated and systematically integrated into ”neutral” algorithms and databases.
Moderators: Johanna Hedva, Casey Reas
Panelists: Safiya Noble, An Xiao Mina, Marika Cifor
Co-organized with peter lu, Lilyan Kris, Sofia Staab-Gulbenkian, and Echo Theohar at the voidLab.
Graphic Designer: Caroline Park
Photographers: Hillary Rose Cleary, Reginald Lin
With the generous support from the Processing Foundation, UCLA Graduate Students Association, and UCLA Design Media Arts.
Special thanks to Brenda Williams and Sara Lee.
2015
Claire Joseph and I co-organized the Inquiry Project, a collaboration between UCLA Lab School and the voidLab to explore the sciences behind sound and light.
Echo demonstrated the cymatics effect. Photo by Janelle Castillo.
Amethyst Zhang demonstrated the Finding Truffle game. Photo by Janelle Castillo.
Amethyst Zhang and I co-prototyped the Finding Truffle game, using the humidity sensor to trigger sounds embedded in the mushroom.
Lab School students demonstrated echo location through interactive dolphin sculpture.
voidLab Participants:
Lilyan Kris, hsinyu lin, Regina Napolitano, Echo Theohar, and Amethyst Zhang.
Echo demonstrated the cymatics effect. Photo by Janelle Castillo.
Amethyst Zhang demonstrated the Finding Truffle game. Photo by Janelle Castillo.
Amethyst Zhang and I co-prototyped the Finding Truffle game, using the humidity sensor to trigger sounds embedded in the mushroom.
Lab School students demonstrated echo location through interactive dolphin sculpture.
voidLab Participants:
