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Yu Lee is a creative coder, generative art artist and educator who seeks individual agency with computational approaches. Her work spans procedural arts, software art, and interactive installations, in dialogue with collective playfulness, inner reprieve, and techno-social resilience.

lexielee441@gmail.com
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Education

New York University
M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications Program

The New School
B.S. Media Studies

Exhibition & Grant

Open Hardware Summit
Joy Stick
2025

Blur: ITP Resident Show
Sliding Window
2025

Super Magfest Indie Arcade
Haunt Hunt
2025

STEAMplant Initiative, Pratt Institute
Overarchivin: Code, Fab, Future Relatedness
2024

NYC Maker Faire
Haunt Hunt
2024

Teaching & Service

Creative Coding: Python
Parsons School of Design
2025

CD Studio: Dynamic Content
Parsons School of Design
2025

(TA) Capstone
New York University
2025

Core Lab: Systems
Parsons School of Design
2024

Livestream, ITP Thesis Show
New York University
2025

(TA) Capstone
New York University
2024

(TA) Interactive Multiscreen Experience
New York University
2024

(TA) Mobile Application Development
New York University
2023

Co-host, Machine Learning Tools for Creative Coding
New York University
2025

Leader, Open Source Club
New York University
2024

(TA) Code!
New York University
2023

Workshop

Making Stupid UI
ITP Camp
2025

Turtle Drawing
ITP Camp
2025

Data and APIs in p5.js
ITP Coding Lab
2024

I AM: Coding My Things ft. Tzu-Yun Wei
CC Festival
2024

SVG on the Web
ITP Coding Lab
2023

I AM: Coding My Things ft. Tzu-Yun Wei
Processing Community Day Taiwan
2023

Talk

Joy Stick: A Sensitive Alt-ctrl Game
Open Hareware Association
2025

What is Open Source and License?
ITP/IMA Open Source Club
2025

ml5.js - friendly machine learning for the web
WebAI Summit by Google
2024

p5VideoKit
Open Source Arts Contributor Conference
2024

Taiwanese Queer Sound Map: From Design Inspiration to Social and Technological Praxis
Women Techmakers Tracks x Google Developer Group devfest
2023

Generative Arts and AI’s Creative Potentials
Google Developer Groups DevFest Taipei
2019

Organizing

HTML Day NYC
2025

Machine Learning Tools for Creative Coding, New York University
2025

Processing Community Day Taiwan
2023

Last Updated Sep 2025

WORK

Sliding Window
an interactive screen art exploring the tension between visibility and invisibility online

null: There Is Always Room
a web art that draws upon the creative potentials inherent in the concept of the null value in code

Joy Stick
an alt-ctrl game exploring the joy of gaming, sexuality, and intimacy

Portraits of Thinking
Imitate postures of thought! Complete cropped portraits of people thinking

NYC Poop Map
a software-based map art for archiving poop encountered in NYC

Home, Wherever
the official website for Taiwan Film Festival Berlin 2023

Face Paint
a series of interactive web sketches where faces and body movment serve as a paint brush on the canvas

Aquarium Space
an ambient online space, in search of rest and reconnection in loneliness

Haunt Hunt
1 detective trying to catch and 1 ghost trying to escape

Pixie Panel
an interactive screen art where a grid of virtual cubes transform and generate sound driven by gestures

Mainland Chinese Names: Meaning, Gender, and Modern History
a data storytelling work that reveals the naming trends of Han Chinese names

World of Halal
a 3D, web-based narrative exploring the story of an immigrant-owned halal cart business

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