based in Boston, Massachusetts.
I am currently pursuing a BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and studied Computer Science at Tufts University and the Creative Computing Institute at the University of the Arts London.
PLA, Acrylic, ESP32, SPI LCD Display, Hardware,
Rhino3D, C++
Rhino3D, C++
ORIENTATION LOCK
A warp stabilizer for missed loved ones: the images rotates upright, no matter the angle or tilt.
TOUCH ID
A 12 hour day of mine in heart rate extracted from Apple Watch data export beats on rhythm.
HAPPY TO SEE ME
A wagging appendage greets you and waves goodbye.
Plywood, Hardware, Accelerometer,
Laser Etched Cardstock
Adobe Illustrator, C++
PLA, Acrylic, Hardware, CircuitPy, Rhino3D,
12 hour loop
Acrylic, Hardware,
Cardboard, Scar Tape
Rhino3D, OpenCV, C++
Laser Etched Cardstock
Adobe Illustrator, C++
PLA, Acrylic, Hardware, CircuitPy, Rhino3D,
12 hour loop
Acrylic, Hardware,
Cardboard, Scar Tape
Rhino3D, OpenCV, C++
(CASSI)
CASSI runs on a neural network, a fine-tuned version of the ResNet50 CNN, trained with 2000-4000 images of synthetic faces as well as celebrity face datasets.
The model is able to identify faces I would deem attractive to an 80-90% accuracy. With a built in camera, live video uses OpenCV to detect faces and send them to the model for judgement, indicating an answer with CASSI’s light-up face.
3D printed PVA, synthetic hair, cardboard, scar tape, Jetsen Nano with RP Camera
Data from thispersondoesnotexist.com and Kaustubh Dhote’s face dataset
Python & TensorFlow and PyTorch
Data from thispersondoesnotexist.com and Kaustubh Dhote’s face dataset
Python & TensorFlow and PyTorch
I was heavily inspired by Joseph Weizenbaum’s Eliza, considered to be the first ever chatbot, communicating using keywords, patterns and substitutions, long before the existence of Language Learning Models. I decided to take these ideas and create the saddest chatbot in the world. I was interested in seeing the lengths and limits of fabricating a smooth conversationalist without using a complete LLM. I also wanted to incorporate more contemporary ideas and methods into the creation.
Python and Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
Parsed and edited responses scraped from r/depression, r/comfort and r/askphilosophy.
Parsed and edited responses scraped from r/depression, r/comfort and r/askphilosophy.
Mixed Media Animated Film
Adobe Animate, Dragon Frame, Adobe After Effects, FCP
9 minutes 55 seconds
Adobe Animate, Dragon Frame, Adobe After Effects, FCP
9 minutes 55 seconds
and i
The collage is comprised of early diffusion-stage images generated with prompts like “mother”, “father”, or the names of my family members. These returned blurry and unrealized images that often seemed to attempt at imitating 3 main themes: Firstly, the Korean geographic landscape, and second, traditional patterns or fabrics. But thirdly, these images just as often included images that imitated war, or military, without any mention of the words. In line in significance, and shown adjacent with physical geography and traditional fabric was militarization in this cultural consciousness. These images make up the bodies of the figures, and contribute to their depth and compelxity. Yet the two still partake in the exchange of a flower, one thing that my grandmother remembers about her childhood:
“There wasn’t really anything. We would go up the mountain to go around cutting wildflowers (진날래꽃: wildflowers (jin-dal-lae-kkot)) We would talk amongst our friends...There wasn’t anything very special”
Oil Paint and Collage on Paper
Mounted to Cardstock and Wood Frame
12’ x 8’
Mounted to Cardstock and Wood Frame
12’ x 8’
I always joke that I am a person who could only exist in 2023. With my recent works, I feel that I am reaching out to explore what it means to explore or define an identity which is unprecedented. Without the limitations or fear of narcissism, or self-centeredness, I have decided to deeply indulge with what exactly it means to be someone that has maybe never existed, obviously literally but also racially and culturally. This is of course not a scientific statement, more a more intimate and serious examination of the self-satirization of my exoticized, mixed Asian American identity.
DISEUSE (2024)
“there was no displacing death, there was no overcoming without the actual dying. She says to herself if she were able to write she could continue to live.” -Dictée (1982), page 141
The struggle to exist in such a confusing world, the search over and over for whatever one is looking for. Cha wrote words and created images and sequences with this craving evident, with care and a passionate love for creating, communicating and living and feeling intensely.
I mean not to martyr cha or make her death a metaphor because it is not. She did not die willingly. Rather I hope to honour her work and intentions as a Korean American artist 40-50 years later, who sees deep similarities in our condition even in a world that seems worlds away from hers.
Multimedia Animated 5 Channel Video Installation
Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects,
Multimedia Animated 4 Channel Video Installation (9 minute loop)
TouchDesigner Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects
Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects,
Multimedia Animated 4 Channel Video Installation (9 minute loop)
TouchDesigner Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects
Freelance web development:
tontonmatcha.com
artbyhanson.com
HTML, Node, TypeScript React
2022-Current: School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University,
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Min. Computer Science
2024-2025: Creative Computing Institute at University of Arts London
Bachelor of Science, Creative Computing
Group Exhibition and Film Festivals
2025 Episodic Sculpture: Julia Yoo- Boston, MA, USA
2024 2x2x2 Group Show at the Cooper Union- New York, NY, USA
2024 TIFF Creators on a Wave: Alumni Showcase- Toronto, Canada
2024 Tufts Summer Scholars Research Symposium- Medford, MA
2024 SOAK CITY: 800 King Gallery Showcase- Toronto, Canada
2024 Award Winners Show: the Well Gallery- Boston, MA, USA
2024 Tufts University South Asian Political Action Committee Symposium- Medford, MA, USA
2024 RESONANCE SOUND & VIDEO SHOWCASE - Medford, MA, USA
2024 Finalfinalfinalforrealfinal.mov: Film Showcase- Medford, MA, USA
2023 School of the Museum of Fine Arts: FALL Film, Video, and Animation Showcase- Boston, MA, USA
2023 Student World Impact Film Festival- New York, NY, USA
2023 EMERGE 15th Anniversary Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art- Boston, MA, USA
2023 Plunge: Curated Self at Brookline Arts Center- Brookline, MA, USA
2023 School of the Museum of Fine Arts: Renew, Refresh, and Rejuvenate- Boston, MA, USA
2023 School of the Museum of Fine Arts: SPRING Film, Video, and Animation Showcase- Boston, MA, USA
2022 ESA Grad Gala Film Showcase at the Revue Cinema- Toronto, Canada
2022 Etobicoke Fashion Show at Innis Townhall Theatre- Toronto, Canada
2022 Art Gallery of Ontario: I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces Exhibition- Toronto, Canada
2022 TIFF Young Creators Showcase- Toronto, Canada
2021 Albright Knox Teens Future Curators- Buffalo, NY, USA
2021 LoosenArt: Decontexts- Rome, Italy
2021 Art Gallery of Ontario: Portraits of Resilience Online Exhibition- Toronto, Canada
2021 Archer Film Festival (Finalist): Quarantine Edition- Los Angeles, California, USA
2021 Super International Teenager Film Festival- Bucharest, Romania
2021 Systems of Collision, Neilson Park Creative Centre- Toronto, Canada
2020 Philadelphia Youth Film Festival- Philadelphia, PA, USA
Awards
2024 Tufts Summer Scholars Research Grant
2024 Edward Cincotti Prize for Video
2022 W.L Gordon James Award- Etobicoke School of the Arts
2022 Shaftesbury Film: Best in Show, Senior
2021 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Incubator Program
2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Silver Key
Group Curation
2019-2022 TIFF Next Wave Committee
2020-2022 TIFF Next Wave Film Festival- Toronto, Canada
2019-2022 Toronto International Film Festival Next Wave Tags- Toronto, Canada
Publications
2024 Fall JUMBO Magazine: From Classroom to Conversation
2022 Moody the Zine, Issue 16
2021 Ultraviolet Magazine
2022 TIFF.NET Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, SLASH/BACK, My Name is Baghdad, Children of the Sea
2021 Flash Forward Incubator- Still Life Catalogue
Interviews, Press, Media, Artist Talks
2024 TIFF Creators on a Wave: Filmmakers Panel, Toronto, Canada
2024 JUMBO Magazine- Featured Interview w/ Jennie Jieun Lee
2022 Young Creators Co-Lab- In Conversation With Emily Cohn: Host
2022 TIFF Share Her Journey Panelist, Toronto, Canada
2022 CBC KIDS Festival Interview, Toronto, Canada
2021 TIFF Insider’s Event Programmer’s Talk, Toronto, Canada
2021 Off the ChARTS Podcast Artist Feature
2021 US Gallery Contemporary Artist Interview
2021 CTV Your Morning Next Wave Festival Interview
2021 TIFF IG LIVE Conversation with Rachel Sennott: Host
2020 TIFF IG LIVE Conversation with Emma Seligman: Host
2020 Artery Next Wave Community Hangout Art Talk Feature
2020 CBC Here and Now Live Radio for TIFF Next Wave Interview
2019 CP24 TIFF Interview, Toronto, Canada