In online spaces like YouTube and Reddit, algorithms are increasingly playing a significant role in shaping users’ newsfeed by personalizing content. This personalization often leads to filtering out content opposing to users’ interests, causing filter bubbles. Such filters can limit …

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As my master’s thesis project, I created a mobile music instrument for audience participation. In this performance, audience members use their mobile phones as musical instruments. While the audience’s phones are dialed up by live performers in Dialtones Telesymphony, I try to …

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with Akito Van Troyer, Jason Freeman, Andrew Colella, Shannon Yao, Sidharth Subramanian, Scott McCoid,  and Jung-Bin Yim In LOLC, the musicians play laptop as an instrument to create rhythmic motives based on a collection of recorded sounds.  The environment encourages musicians to share their code with each …

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