viola.city about

viola he is a Shanghai / NYC-based multimedia artist, educator, electronic musician, and creative technologist. They make web and irl performances and experiences, exploring alternative structures, systems, and interfaces across digital and physical mediums. Viola is an organizing member of Livecode.NYC, an incubator member at NEW INC, and co-runs experimental game collective [[rect*]] repair ✧ ദ്ദി(˶•̀ᴗ-˶)

found 8 projects

  • QZone Museum

    QZone Museum

    A digital archive + design your own page minigame, preserving 5,851 decorative assets from QZone, Tencent's personal homepage platform.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Quiet, and Sometimes Silent

    Quiet, and Sometimes Silent

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.