BILLY HO WRITINGS
Interaction Designer 
Creative Technologist

I make fun stuffs with and about computers.

Current: Building Queer Map Taiwan with SpOnAcT.xyz
Previous: Senior Creative Technologist at OUTFRONT Media
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Gliacloud

AI video content creationGliacloud is an AI startup based in Taipei, as a creative technologist, I spend my time researching and developing GenAI content creation solutions and building features in our web-based video editor. 
INFO
Jan 2024 - Present
Taipei, TW
FUNDING & CLIENTS
Nvidia, NewsWeek, Regional News Publishers...
Commercial Machine Learning Web-Dev Creative Coding UIUX

OUTFRONT Media

Out of Home interactive advertisingVarious works I've done from my time working at OUTFRONT Media's XLab as a creative technologist, collaborating with creatives and engineers on delivering out-of-home interactive experiences.

Are you there computer? It’s us, humans

Human-machine solidarityAn open-ended dialog inviting audiences to chat with custom fine-tuned machine learning models through a retro corporate website. Inviting one to shift our species-centered perspective.
INFO
Oct 2021 - May 2022
New York, NY

PUBLICATION
ECHOES - Publication
STUDENT WORK
Thesis Studio, UTransLab Designed Realities | Parsons, TNS
Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby, Barbara Morris, Clarinda Mac Low, Aaron Hill, Ethan Silverman

Speculative Design Machine Learning Video Production Research Digital Fabrication Web-Dev UIUX

Quantum tetris

A quantum computer powered tetris gameA visual representation of quantum computing through classic tetris game.

Developed with IBM’s Qiskit SDK, we harnessed quantum computer’s power of true randomness to generate different shapes, and embraced its quirkiness by creating one-of-a-kind blocks. 

My Role: Ideation, Game Prototyping,  Physical Fabrication.
INFO
Oct 2021
New York, NY
     Most Creative use of Quantum Computing in Visual Arts     Most Creative use of Quantum Computing in Visual Arts    Part of Quantum Art Exhibition x IBM @Microscope Gallery     Part of Quantum Art Exhibition x IBM @Microscope Gallery


STUDENT WORK
Quantum Design Jam | Parsons, TNS
Lin Zhou, Sven Travis

TEAM
Olivier Brueckner, Emilio Lari, Salil Parekh, Weijing Xiao
Commercial UIUX Digital Fabrication Creative Coding Game

Brutalist poster generator

Browser-based poster generatorAn algorithmic poster generator made to generate brutalist architecture in orthographic collage style. 

Built with p5.js and tweakpane. 
INFO
Feb 2022
New York, NY

STUDENT WORK
Computational Form | Parsons, TNS
Justin Bakse

GO TO PROJECT
GITHUB REPOSITORY

Web-Dev UIUX Creative Coding

Beam

UX design sprint Music streaming platform targeting users from teenagers to adults. Centers around the in-person music sharing experience.

Aims to helps users easily discover and share their love of music with each other by highlighting the time and space anchored with each shared music, with a dedicated feature to store the rich context and story.
 INFO
Feb 2022
New York, NY
  Selected Finalist: Adobe Creative Jam + Sonos  Selected Finalist: Adobe Creative Jam + Sonos



STUDENT WORK
Adobe Creative Jam | Adobe + Sonos

TEAM
Nanwei Cai
Commercial UIUX Research

To all the in-game characters

Game Design, Recursive NarrativeA short, interactive narrative where audiences play as a self-aware in-game character. Parts of the playable area are generated through an iterative collaborative process with a custom-trained GPT-3 with the works of Argentine writer Jorge Francisco Luis Borges.
 INFO
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
New York, NY
STUDENT WORK
Creative Coding: Unity | Parsons, TNS
John Pierre

PLAY IT HERE
VIEW DEVLOG

Machine Learning Game Research Creative Coding

Upstream

Generative art created with public tweetsA generative visual system made in the midst of 2020 COVID quarantine. Collecting public tweets with spatial descriptions as strokes for a cellective digital presence. 
INFO
Jan 2020 - May 2020
New York, NY

STUDENT WORK
Major Studio | Parsons, TNS
Fei Liu
Web-Dev Creative Coding Research

Vroom

You go vroom car go fast
 A browser-based racing game controlled by users' voices. The more users' voices sound like an engine, the faster the car goes. Made with Google's teachable machine and p5.js. 
 INFO
Mar 2022
New York, NY
STUDENT WORK
Computational Form | Parsons, TNS
Justin Bakse

GO TO PROJECT
GITHUB REPOSITORY
Web-Dev Creative Coding Machine Learning Game

ECHOES

MFADT 2022 thesis event website designWebsite design for my year’s thesis showcase at MFADT at Parsons . 

INFO
Apr 2022 - May 2022
New York, NY
CLIENT
MFADT Parsons, The New School

TEAM
Nanwei Cai


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Web-Dev Commercial UIUX
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