viola he is a Shanghai / NYC-based multimedia artist, educator, electronic musician, and creative technologist. They make web and irl performances and experiences, exploring new sonic and visual aesthetics across digital and physical mediums. Viola is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai, an organizing member of leaderless collective Livecode.NYC, and creates playful media with translocal game collective [[rect*]] repair .
found 7 projects.
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A {room} of One's Own
A one-person XR Theatre performance about the hysterical journey of making creative work within a confined space. Official selected program for Under the Radar Festival 2025.
Performance XR Theatre 2025 -
Here and Where You Are
an audio-visual performance about finding memories and meaning in a digital cityscape, created for a circular LED screen in Shanghai's Oil Tank art park
Performance Audio-visual 2025 -
How About Talking to Neighbors
A series of research and electronics design project, in search of surveillance resistance through using small wireless protocols.
Research Hardware Design 2022 -
Quiet, and Sometimes Silent
A DIY wearable project that explores proximity, intimacy, and subtle communication.
Hardware Design Wearable 2023 -
Live, Laugh, Code
A lecture on comedy and livecoding turned into an audience-participatory performance. Presented at Wordhack, a monthly event on language and technology.
Performance Web 2024 -
The Most Intimate Instrument
Two humans, one computer - Sylvia hums, breathes, and destroys their computer slowly, while directing Viola’s body, an embodied machine, move within the space.
Performance Audio-visual 2023 -
Everything in Its Right Place
Drawing with melting ice, poetry, live video glitches, and live speech-to-text captioning. A performance about anxiety in diaspora.
Performance 2022
i spent six weeks at Recurse Center working on becoming a better programmer. it's very hard to contain and summarize this experience, but i was building this website for 3 of these weeks, so i thought it might be nice to toss everything in here, alongside many small projects in collaboration with wonderful people I met at RC.
found 5 things.
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Body Building
A baby apartment building gained consciousness, and set out on a journey to become the tallest and most powerful building in the downtown area. Submission for Kenny Game Jam 2025
game with Fernando Cabanes with David Allen Feil -
Google Sheet Drum Machine
nice excel sheet, you can probably put a drum machine in it. (under construction but it kinda works)
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Procrastination Game
You're on your computer. You have a big presentation in 10 days that you haven't started preparing for. Can you beat procrastination and actually work on it???
game with Shenai Chan -
Quiet Rumble Machine
A QR code website that's also a drum machine - every drum pattern is a unique link, make music and share your QR code with others :) This project is featured on 10k drum machines
project with Gage Krause -
Webamp with Hydra
A browser-based music player with a live-codeable visuals interface. Built from marrying Webamp and Hydra Video Synth. With help from Cyrene Zhang!
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