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vending shuang
(Ultimate Vending Machine II)
2024

This is a vending machine experience where you can acquire shuang’s creative labor and expertise through a series of identity gift cards. The machine offers five different types of identities, each representing an aspect of shuang’s professional skills. All services offered are verified with previous clients and come with guaranteed satisfaction.

vending shuang was showed at Clive Davis Gallery.

Ultimate Vending Machine
2023
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The Ultimate Vending is a vending experience that sells the process of vending. This was my Master Thesis project that was displayed at NYC Resistor for a show curated by Julia Margaret Lu .

The Ultimate Vending Machine sells 5 products in total and each item represents a portion of the vending process that speaks about technology and invisable labor through technology.

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SCAM Stuffs
2024

Two Scam-themed physical object that describes a piece of scam story that actually happened.

The two creations were submitted and auctioned through https://www.1-800-i-was-scammed.com/ -- a CultureHub scam- themed auction.

Read about the show at CultureHub.read (written by me too).

Elf Synth
2024

Elf Synth are a series of physical analog and digital synthesizers that are reclaimed from discarded rechargable elf bar vape. The analog synthesizer uses a 555 ic synthesizer circut and the digital synthe uses a microcontroller with wireless modules.

This is a collaboration project with David Rios and Kari Love.

The piece was presented at Open Hardware Summit 2024.

Bed Light
2023

Bed light is a mood setting light with two bulbs for a nice 30-min read before bed. The top bulb dims in a duration of 30 min while the bottom bulb maintains a readable light level for your eyes.

This is a collaboration project with Leia Chang.

Phone Light
2023

Phone light is a pair of connected devices that ensures your eyes are protected when using phone in the dark.

This is a collaboration project with Ijon Hsieh.

Hen
2022

Hen is a remote controlled egg boiler.

The control for Hen is an egg that you would hatch/warm in order to operate the boiler. The current cook time for the egg is estimated to 4 hours.

This is a collaboration project with Tan Xiao.

Annoying Phone Add-on
2022

The annoying phone add-on will greatly enhance your experience of using your phone. It will turn off your phone whenever your screen lights up by clicking the lock button with its tiny paw coming behind the phone.

This is a collaboration project with Rockey Ke.

Dine Together!
2022

Dine together is a 4-person dining experience inspired by Allan Wexler’s shirt and table cloth. Users will wear the tablecloth as they dine with the group.

This is a collaboration project with Adnan Aga.

Tic Tac Toe Thing
2022

An enhanced tic tac toe game that uses light bulbs and toggles.

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Nutritions list Generator
2023

A python based nutritions list generator of fictional food hosted on a static site.

danceON Research
2023

Textbook material in quarto website for a domain specific programming language for building animations that react to movement.

The textbook is written for a 5-session workshop facing educators in hope to co-design future curriculum for students.

Quarantine, the Game
2022

An browser survival game based on COVID quarantine experience.

The game is built with Tic-80 and a collaboration with Leffin.

Hand Gesture CNN Model
2021

An obsession on hands and a CNN model recognizing hand gestures with user fine-tuning input pipeline.

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Scents of Us
2024

In "Scents of Us" we delve into the often-neglected yet profound world of scent and its impact on our perception of the environment. These visual representations of various aromas aim to make the intangible tangible, revealing how scents subtly, yet powerfully, influence our surroundings and interactions.

The team aims to transform the ephemeral whispers of scent into a vivid symphony of visual wonder, redefining the boundaries between the seen and the unseen in our sensory world.Highlighting this invisible force in other sensorial methods allows this world to be experienced.

This is a collaboration project with Adnan Aga, Vince Picone, Una Zhang, and M Dougherty .

This project won the Innovation Award for the NYC Media Lab’s Synthetic Media challenge, in collaboration with CHANEL.

Philosophical Suicide
2021

Cyanotype coffee filters scanned on high resolution scanner.

copyright is overrated, please don’t let me regret saying this tho. -- shuang 2023