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Fall 2025

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Project 1: Flexible Manifesto

This body of work investigates the concept of “Layer” as both a visual strategy and a methodological framework. Beginning with a translation of Photoshop’s digital layer logic into a physical system using tracing paper, the experiments first explored how rules, variables, and chance operations can generate layered outcomes.

Beyond Surfaces: The Many Faces of Layer

Andrea Cheng

The burning of incense is considered a "concert of time." The process of the incense's decay from order to disorder (dissolving into smoke and ash) becomes a clock cycle, and the resulting ash trail becomes a visual "musical score" of time.

Entropy Clock

Chenwan Zhang （Ciyon）

Display of Index Cards and Instructions.

The Chance Archive

Jiayi Li

I use this template to connect the dots of parts of speech to shape graphics.

The Shape of Sentenses

Ziyue Wang

In this experiment, the rule is to drop the same liquid onto 4
different types of paper materials, and by observing the
diffusion speed, diffusion paths, and areas of high
moisture from 5 t o 30 seconds, the process is used to map
the neuronal signal processing system.

paper experiment

Zhiqing Pan

An image showing the progress

Machine Recognition System

Hyejin Jeon

Slide Presentation

The Unconscious Reality

David Judkins

My first couple weeks hashing out how I was going to finalize my code for variarions

Geometrically minded

Nancy Scanlon

My key theme was a dice, so I wanted to portrait the plate as boardgames. 5 other different dimensions show 5 other different boardgames. It's all different like our lives.

The Dice which is not mine

Jihyun Lee

one of the cloud generated from the p5.js code

a cloud never dies

Bella Tsai

I picked a text from Stray Birds and made a poster inspired by the sky. The text is arranged kind of like bird flight paths. When the canvas changes, the triangles move and resize with it, and the colors switch up randomly.

"Stray Birds"

Flora Fang

The code is designed so that two sizes of circular particles can be adjusted, and the circles scatter dynamically when the cursor approaches, creating an interactive effect.

Everyone’s own universe

Chaelin Kim

By introducing variation in my p5.js canvas so that the images and type shift based on the canvas.

The Layered Memory of Christmas

Kate Chon

Cosmic Trust - Rhythm and Alignment

Cosmic Trust

Sarena Yadav

Screen when width is < height–it spams the screen with the text 'i fear' in this instance. You can control the speed and spread of the spam with GUIs.

i fear/i carry

Sreya Mahsin

An overall view for all of my work

Chiaroscuro

Zoe Liu

Attached several randomized outputs from routes I drew

Jalan, Jalan!

Richard Fu

I began my coding process on P5 by focusing on the concept: I wanted to turn my manifesto quote “life is like an ice cream, enjoy it before it melts” into a playful, visual system. Ice cream is colourful, temporary, and fun—so I wanted my code to reflect that same feeling through sprinkles, a cone, and a scoop that carries the text.I started with a configuration section where I defined the key variables: the quote, background color, font, sprinkle count, and two “flavor” variations (strawberry and mint). This allowed me to control the whole design with a few parameters instead of rewriting code later.I generated a pastel backdrop filled with sprinkles. Using randomness for position, size, angle, and color gave the background an organic, scattered feel—similar to how real sprinkles fall onto ice cream.
I built the cone using many horizontal lines that gradually shift color, giving a shaded, gradient look. To emphasize the waffle texture, I added crosshatch lines. This step was about making the base of the ice cream visually believable while still stylized.
The scoop rim was designed with overlapping translucent ellipses and “bumps,” which made the edge look fluffy and irregular, like melting ice cream. This added depth and softness to balance the hard geometry of the cone.
The most important part was wrapping the manifesto text around the scoop. I split the sentence into individual characters, calculated their circular positions, and rotated each one upright. This made the text feel like it was part of the scoop itself rather than just sitting on top.To bring the design alive, I programmed:
Drips: characters on the bottom arc occasionally drip, simulating melting. I tied this to frameCount so it changes over time.
Gloss and sparkle: each letter was given a highlight ellipse and a rare random sparkle, imitating the shiny, sticky surface of ice cream.
These dynamic effects emphasized the manifesto’s idea of impermanence.

Ice Cream Manifesto

Isabella Toms

It is a screenshot of my experiment and test. I tested a couple of fonts and sentences.

Freedom of Thoughts

Xiran Wang

The code I designed randomly distributes both the title text and the star patterns each time the page is refreshed. It also ensures that each word remains fully visible within the canvas. Additionally, the background color changes randomly with each refresh. Since the poem explores opposing themes such as "reproduction" and "death," and "abundance" and "famine," I contrasted the chaotic placement of the title with the structured layout of the poem to reflect this tension.

Sonnet 4

Linting Miao

the final poster of my system.

Always Hot, Always Fresh

lizhang

This is a GIF showing a snippet of all the various patterns that the code can generate

Beauty Lies in Multiplicity

Rishabh Kiran

Screen recording of the run through of the quiz and the five Snoopy's you can get.

Which Snoopy Are You?

Lior Edrich

This is "Psalm 23" were i got my Idea from. I highlighted the line

Psalm 23

David Williams

This project is a video depiction of the journey one takes to get as far as they can. The symbols show movement in place and on the x-axis, however (on click) each time before the shape reaches the end, it starts over. The resistance and struggle is shown using the changes that are highlighted each time there's a click.

Journey Within

Minal Adnani

Gif of final project

Zee Zee's Spin

Kevin Li

This is a CD mockup I designed for my coding game.

It’s Autumn, Time to Plant Starfruit!

Ciru Tsui

Interaction between audience and projecting the project

crescent moon

Yimei Tang

This image symbolizes the richness of the fauna and flora of my country, a tropical land filled with vibrant colors and life. The bold red and yellow tones evoke the warmth of the sun and the fertility of the soil, while the green circles represent the abundant vegetation that thrives across forests and landscapes. The central figure, surrounded by contrasting shapes, can be seen as a reminder of the balance between nature’s elements — animals, plants, and ecosystems — coexisting in harmony. The dynamic contrast of colors mirrors the diversity and vitality of a tropical environment, where every detail is alive and full of energy.

I Live in a Tropical Country

Antonio Barros

Final Sketch

Final project

Sydney Silva

Website Screen

I am just another dot in the world

Seulgi Choei

The exploration of Boundaries was developed through generative coding, branching out from the text “Violent delights have violent ends.”

Symbiosis

Keyi Song

This is the first draft of my work. I used to use multiple colors, but it seems too complicated. So later, I turned to only the simple colors and made some animations for it.

Seeing World

Zhenyi Wang

I start with sketches before moving into coding, as they give me a clear direction and allow me to approach the process with intention rather than uncertainty.

Light as Memory

Chiho Ye

Web project image

Restless Boundaries

Xiongyue Yu

My reflections on this project.

Questions

Yiheng Fang

This is a webpage is made with the help of Gemini to help document and keep all the different types of sketches I have tried coding and playing around with the different outcomes.

Creative Menace

Aditri Bhattacharjee

Website screenshot

“The water passes over the stone, but still moves forward.“

Nijia Zhang

This is a visualization of my story. I wanted it to resemble a board game for the playfulness, but also to emphasize the joy of the journey to buying an envelope as opposed to buying online.

Dancing Animals

Rebecca Davidson

the physical part of my project presented on the wall

Sun, Star, You

Mingfu Yang

Actual photos of Project 1

A torturous night

Yuyidan He

the story poster

life

leyao fei

This series combines geometric shapes, natural imagery, and text, using circular typography to create a sense of visual rhythm. The varied shapes and colorful borders add depth to the overall composition, conveying a poetic visual experience.

Textscapes

Yiling Yang

Story Map

Letting go

Akilah Passmore

The NENE Poem

NENE

Lulah Balde

The uploaded document contains the various assets developed throughout the project process: a story map created in the style of Kevin Lynch, three assets illustrating cause, action, and effect, and an illustrated written story.

“El Jacho”

Andrea Nicolle Luque Martínez

“One can only rely on oneself to be complete.
” (人，得自个儿，
成全自个儿。)
The quote is from Farewell My Concubine,an iconic Chinese queer
film that portrays the lifelong bond between two Peking Opera
actors, where art and identity blur into forbidden love. Set against
the backdrop of war and political turmoil, their devotion is tested by
jealousy, betrayal, and societal repression. It is both a story of queer
desire and a tragic reflection of history’s cruelty. Two men loved,
but the world tore them apart. Life is cruel, yet truth cannot be
denied. In the end, only by oneself can one find completion, and
even in sorrow, love leaves behind its light.

farewell my concubine

Binjia Li

Installation: Exploration of connection, fragility, and transformation. At the center of the is a cardboard heart, a symbol of life and pulse, through which red thread flows. Below the heart the thread forms tangled roots that carry the weight of chaos and confusion. As it passes upward through the heart, the thread begins to unravel and branch out into clarity, reaching toward fragments that represent moments from the poem and from nature. These elements become extensions of the heart’s rhythm, each connected by the same red thread. The work reflects on how everything fragile is held together by unseen forces, and how clarity can emerge out of disorder through interconnection.

Rang Morla

Prachee Shah

Interactive sketch that interacts with mouse and shows how cultivation can resonate beyond our mind.

Cultivation of mind

Mahesh Dawkhar

Full-process experience

Trash-Making Plan

Jiayi Jia/Leona

This poster shows one visual outcome of The System of Cuts. Using images and lyrics from One Direction, I followed a set of fixed rules and variables to respond critically to explore how a process of cutting both physically and emotionally might reconstruct meaning.

Every cut is a cut of separation - from a song, a memory or identity. The pieces have been rearranged to create a new of composition where the fragments may retain traces of their original form but change in context. The result is an abstract visual rhythm - part destruction, part reconstruction - to uncover how design may mean to transform absence in to form.

The System of Cuts

Samridhi Jain

Project 2: Data Sculpture

Water System

Daily Complaint Patterns

Kate Chon

The full sentence/default mode.

Eavesdropping

Rebecca Davidson

This video showcases my coding project

The formation of life

Leyao Fei

Color-coded map showing per capita green space and nighttime light data in Beijing in 2000 and 2020.

The City That Barely Sleeps

Yuyidan He

I collected the process of my desktop gradually increasing entropy and categorized the items to support the topographic map.

Desk Entropy Calendar

Chenwan Zhang

This was the beginning of using the NYC open data set. I wanted to see what it looked like in full across all of New York. The dots indicate each fountain.

Drinking Fountains in NYC

Nancy Scanlon

This will be sleep data that I collected for my final outcome.

23 Nights in Cubes

Xiran Wang

I 3D-printed crop circles visualizing the UFO sighting counts and the most frequently observed type for each of the 10 states. To represent UFOs, I chose a metallic texture for the prints.

Unidentified flying object

Chaelin Kim

Visual layer01

Green Skin

Andrea Cheng

Sculpture of Chinese Version in different perspectives

Blossom of Songs

Ziyue Wang

Orchestrating the Seasons

Jihyun Lee

Data Visualization Showcase

I ❤️ NY ANIMALS

Bella Tsai

Product display

Arctic is Toast

Linting Miao

Lines Mode
Shows only straight and curved lines for clearer flow reading
Straight Line = Member
Curved Line = Casual
Lines are rendered thicker / more solid / slower to fade to emphasize path structure

CitiBike Pulse Lines

Zhiqing Pan

Scroll Drift: Printed Echo

Scroll Drift: Mapping Hyper Attention

Hyejin Jeon

color mapping

Community Color Cone

Li Zhang

screenshot of my code

Relationship

Mingfu Yang

Images captured from the code

Rang Morla Reimagined - A Multi-Factor Visualization of New York City

Prachee Shah

Screenshot of my output for my code.

Vinyl Spiral

Lior Edrich

a side view of the sculpture

Graffiti City

Flora Fang

Newspaper Frontpage

World Press (Transparency) Index

Sreya Mahsin

Model Display

Hurricanes in the U.S. that caused major impact 1992-2024

Yiling Yang

The Physical Representation Of The Dataset

Languages Of India

Sarena Yadav

Some background and development for my sculpture

Castle With No Door

Kevin Li

Final Delivery

Data Visualization of Tree Species and Sizes in 1995

Zoe Liu

Birds' Bones and Living Habits Card Deck (Front)

Birds' Bones and Living Habits

Chiho Ye

Process photo for data visualization sketch. The initial map idea that follows my travelling through different modes of transport.

Ordinary Patterns

Mahesh Dawkhar

Early version of physical data of wax.

Share of people using spiritual activities to cope with anxiety and depression

Yiheng Fang

Selection of initial datasets and concept exploration for the project

Citation as Galaxy

Jiayi Li

This is the poster presentation of the dataset of the Top 100 Hit Songs by selecting 20 symbolic songs as sound wave bars. The longer bars mean the longer duration and views of this song.

Top 100 Hit Songs 2025

Zhenyi Wang

This is the python code used to extract data from different sites like reddit, nyc data base etc

Ghosts: of what could have been

Samridhi Jain

This is the visualization of my code. Due to certain limitations, the AI-generated map of New York does not fully resemble the actual city map, I embedded my cursor-based interaction and a small portion of the dataset into it. The entire piece can be scrolled vertically.

Dog bite

Keyi Song

Sound Sculpture Code Recording

Industrial Resonance

Isabella Toms

Image from my project!

How mass media effects body image

Sydney Silva

The above image outlines what exactly the visualisation is all about.

Visualizing the Language of Hate

Rishabh Kiran

City Of Dogs

City of Dogs

David Williams

Electronic Cookie – Physical Display: Turning smartphone data into a cookie you can literally hold.

Electronic cookie

Jiayi Jia

A Slice Of Data Book

Geography of a Meal

Sophie McGrane

Legend for data sculpture

attached original paper in case of interest
Paper: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.92860
Raw data: https://osf.io/96z7t/files/z8dae

Memory Sculpture

Richard Fu

Project 3: Community Protocol

This is the opening screen of my live input. Make it more interactive!

Magic Glasses!

Nancy Scanlon

End product

My thoughts, my body

Sydney Silva

IMG Market

Li Zhang

Cognitive Sedimenter
A device invented by a rebel group to record the deposition of ideas over time.
Melting candles simulate the accumulation of layers of thought within the story.
Through audience interaction and the burning of the candles, a chaotic landscape is created.

The Clockless Era

Chenwan Zhang (Ciyon)

Screenshot of my terminal, speaking to Gemini to help me bring my project to the web.

Circular Waveforms

Lior Edrich

web homepage

MeMes’ World

Linting Miao

This was the first try to make a my open gallery signature site.

Open Gallery Visitor book

Jihyun Lee

The first thought I had had two parts: a playground and a piano. The playground element didn't operate well, so I chose to delete it, and the piano feature at the time didn't have a recording capability or all of the keys on a real piano, so only very simple tunes could be created.

Chromesthesia Piano

Isabella Toms

Image of the screen

Voice Garden

Aditri Bhattacharjee

Seize the seeds of your dreams with your hands

DreamTree

Zhiqing Pan

With the help of Claude.AI,] I created an interactive Christmas game that brings a playful, creative twist to the holiday season. Built in p5.js, the piece gives users only 30 seconds to design the most stunning Christmas tree they can—turning decoration into a moment of urgency and joy.

Christmas Game

David Williams

on-site presentation setup

Send it to Santa

Send it to Santa

p5.js processing video

Last Witnesses

Xiran Wang

A screen recording of the digital synth in action, where it generates a beat at random and the user can adjust various audio settings as the beat plays (Cut-off frequency, Filter decay and Resonance)

Digital Synth

Rishabh Kiran

Graphic showing different angles of an outcome

Sound and Time Extender

Kevin Li

the exhibition environment on site

CITATION ASSOCIATION — KNOWLEDGE CENTRAL MANAGEMENT

Jiayi Li

showing how the interactive aspect

Space Playground

Kate Chon

Capture - Color palate Captured, along with name, date and time!

Capture-Gallery

Sarena Yadav

Photo From Class

Drawing With Time

Sophie McGrane

This booklet explores the relationship between scent and human memory in text form, and it is divided into several sections, each explores the profound connection between scent and the human experience in a poetic way

The Aroma of What Remains

Roger Mei

This is the envelope containing a QR code and prompt users can open as an invitation to participate in the mural.

Community Mural

Rebecca Davidson

Poster display

"Insomnia Lights"

Yuyidan He

Shikara Pose

Bharatnatyam Asamyuta Hastas (Single Hand Gestures)

Sreya Mahsin

This is an invitation to come stare.

A Tree of Forgetting

Richard Fu

light matrix

Dancing Lights

Zhenyi Wang

System Visuals

Lumen Genesis

Andrea Cheng