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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OUTFRONT Media

Out of Home interactive advertising
Various 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.
INFO

Nov 2022 - Jul 2023
New York, NY

PRESS

Space invaders’ return to new york is heralded in an ar out-of-home campaign

CLIENTS
Google, IBM, NYC MTA, AMC, Tennis Channel
Commercial Web-Dev UIUX

Are you there computer? It’s us, humans

Human-machine solidarity
An 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 game
A 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    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 generator
An 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



STUDENT WORK
Adobe Creative Jam | Adobe + Sonos

TEAM

Nanwei Cai
Commercial UIUX Research

To all the in-game characters

Game Design, Recursive Narrative
A 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 tweets
A 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 design
Website 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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