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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 . CV available upon request.

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found 7 projects.

  • A {room} of One's Own

    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

    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

    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

    Quiet, and Sometimes Silent

    A DIY wearable project that explores proximity, intimacy, and subtle communication.

    Hardware Design Wearable 2023
  • Live, Laugh, Code

    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

    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

    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 
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