Yufeng Zhao is a media artist and technologist based in Brooklyn. His work addresses data, imagery / language processing, and experience design, exploring unexpected connections embedded in our techno-cultural landscape and the interactions between humans and machines. Through a blend of web-based experiences, video works, and tangible installations, Yufeng's practice investigates the intersections of data, graphics, and human interactions.
Experiences
Current
2022 - Present, Senior Creative Technologist, Brilliant
Previous
2022, UX Engineer, InterDigital (MHCI Capstone at CMU)
2022, UX Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, Morphing Matter Lab
2022, VR Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, Augmented Perception Lab
2021-2022, Front-End Developer, NYU Shanghai, Humanities Research Lab
2020-2021, Associate Fellow, NYU Shanghai, Interactive Media Arts
2020, Adjunct Research Associate of Telepresence, NYU Shanghai, Interactive Media Arts
Education
2022, Carnegie Mellon University, Master of HCI, School of Computer Science.
2020, New York University Shanghai, BSc, Interactive Media Arts & Computer Science.
Publications
Richard L. Huang and Yufeng Zhao. 2024. A Dataset of Late 1990s and Early 2000s Web Banner Ads on Chinese-and English-language Web Pages. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10: 3, pp. 1–8.
Qiao Tang, Xinmu Hu, Ziwen Zeng, and Yufeng Zhao. 2022. Co-Orb: Fostering Remote Workplace Gratitude with IoT Technology. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 488, 1–6.
Conferences
2024, Let’s find random things on the street, with full-text search!, !!Con 2024, Santa Cruz, CA.
2024, How to stop worrying and collect early web Banner Ads! (And make art along the way!), !!Con 2024, Santa Cruz, CA.
2022, Co-Orb: Fostering Remote Workplace Gratitude with IoT Technology, CHI '22, New Orleans, LA.
Talks
2024, Banner Depot 2000 and workshop on scraping the Wayback Machine, Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network at Bard College, online.
2024, Banner Depot 2000, Spring Interim Computer Festival, Seattle, WA.
2024, Banner Karaoke: A Cyberspace Odyssey, LARPA, Brooklyn, NY.
2023, Wordhack, Wonderville, Brooklyn, NY.
Residencies
2021, NDOI, China Residencies, Film and VR Fellowship, online.
2021, NDOI, Freeport Institute, Signals & Storms Laboratory, online.
Exhibitions
2024, SPAM New Media Festival, Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle, WA.
2023, PLATESPACE, Beijing, China.
2021, Temporal Stack: The Deep Sensor, 上空间 Upper Gallery, Research Centre of Contemporary Visual Art, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China (made as art collective NDOI)
2021, Unlinked. NYU Shanghai, Shanghai.
2020, Console.log, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai.
2020, ITP/IMA Spring Show, online.
2019, Future Lab, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai.
Honors / Awards
2022, Student Design Competition Winner, ACM SIGCHI
2018, Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund Scholarship, NYU Shanghai
