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.
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.
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
A series of research and electronics design project, in search of surveillance resistance through using small wireless protocols.
A DIY wearable project that explores proximity, intimacy, and subtle communication.
A lecture on comedy and livecoding turned into an audience-participatory performance. Presented at Wordhack, a monthly event on language and technology.
Two humans, one computer - Sylvia hums, breathes, and destroys their computer slowly, while directing Viola’s body, an embodied machine, move within the space.
Drawing with melting ice, poetry, live video glitches, and live speech-to-text captioning. A performance about anxiety in diaspora.
found 10 things.
Website and event curation for [[rect*]]repair's shanghai <> new york game portal, a pop-up installation and communication portal across the earth. In collaboration with Boshi's Place and Cedar Kitchen.
A browser-based music player with a live-codeable visuals interface. Built from marrying Webamp and Hydra Video Synth. You can find this little music gadget on this site
A QR code website that's also a drum machine, where every drum pattern becomes a unique link. Make music and share your QR codes with others! Made with Gage Krause. This project is featured on 10k drum machines
A baby apartment building gained consciousness, and set out on a journey to become the tallest building in the downtown area. Submission for Kenny Game Jam 2025, with Fernando Cabanes and David Allen Feil
nice excel sheet, you can probably put a drum machine in it. (under construction but it kinda works)
You're on your computer. You have a big presentation in 10 days. Can you beat procrastination and actually work on it??? Made with Shenai Chan at the Recurse Center.
A hybrid DJ and Livecode (TidalCycles) set at Shanghai's community radio byyb
Event production and performance for sold-out Livecoding A/V show in Los Angeles. Featuring visual art and 4 sets of live performances by artists from LA, SF, and NYC. At Spectra Studio, visuals by LADY BAMBS
An interactive livestream performance where the audience collectively vote for my actions, and fight for control over my webcam. Presented at xCoAx Conference 2021.