2022
transformations of the human - research fellow (philosophy, art, technology)
- toward expansive, poetic, rigorous, liberating, joy-bringing technology!
mendocino coast writers' conference - albertina tholakele dube scholarship recipient
ZERO1 / impact art AT 2022 - international exchange participant
- 09/29/22-10/30/22 on display: distant early warnings, a gray area festival exhibition
inverse magazine - "how 'everything, everywhere, all at once,' wields science fiction in a new, empowering way" (cultural/personal essay)
kernel magazine, second edition - creative editor
- RSVP for launch parties: // 🌉 San Francisco 9/15
// 🏙️ New York 9/17 //
💻 online 9/18
subtle asian dating - cupid / ordained minister (headed to someone's wedding nov 2022!)
incubating this thought: social media mangement as care work amid the attention economy
friends with benefits - inaugural fellow (art, research)
the writers grotto - rooted & written fiction fellow
2021
kernel magazine, inaugural edition - core team (pre-order magazine until 10/8 here)
living room light exchange - guest curator, season 8
southern exposure - contributor, antidotes to confusion (zine, art show)
kearny street workshop - fellow, interdisciplinary writers lab - poetry with anthony cody, fiction with devi laskar, comics with trinidad escobar (poetry, fiction, comics)
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09/04/21, 2pm PT
- reading at the asian art museum
pride poets (poetry, performance, community)
hayes valley art works, art garden - live poetry (poetry, performance, community)
data/network sanctuary - university of oregon, artd 410/510: art of surveillance (lecture, research)
reboot - writers' studio (residency: technology, sci-fi, community)
intergalactic gaysians (sci-fi, anthology, community) ~forthcoming~
2020
kundiman - scholarship recipient, documentary hybrid forms with cathy park hong (prose, poetry, workshop)
convent artist collective - resident (during such a tumultuous time, i'm so grateful for these folks)
of yesterday (code poetry)
"cooking and metamorphism, post-yang" (essay)
sinostories - contributing editor (non-fiction, anthology, community) ~forthcoming~ // contribution themes here
it is what it is / 👁👄👁 (eyemoutheye) (technology, performance)
a new social media app (???)
misc sociotechnical, speculative research (notes to come)
2019
(on-going) is this sinofuturism? (curation, research)
twitter - safety infrastructure (internet moderation, software engineering)
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in a past life, i contributed to one of the world's largest
automated moderation systems and
babbled about the internet to jack dorsey.
bumblebee spaces - machine learning (computer vision, depth perception, embedded systems)
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in another past life, i worked on robotic safety and digital
inventory at a smarthome robotics startup.
peep me in this sfgate article.
university of maryland / technica - virtual try-on systems (code, research) (slides)
self recognition through the other x joyas voladoras (is this... Art Direction? mostly..i love this tattoo and want to tell you about it 🥰)
2018
(on-going) subtle asian dating (digital diaspora, community-building)
what's in a home? (personal essay)
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long live the instagram caption essay
2017
society of professional journalists / daily evergreen - national winner, general news reporting (news reporting)
los angeles times - "the story of budokan, japanese americans’ long-awaited home court" in little tokyo (cultural reporting)
society of professional journalists / daily evergreen - national finalist, best all-around newspaper (news editing, graphic layout)
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see an archive of writing, editing, layout work spanning 2016-2018 here