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Colleen Chung (LTXD '25)
Colleen Chung (LTXD '25)
During the 2022 COVID lockdown, I started making instrumental music using a guitar, a piano keyboard, and a laptop at home. I began this journey with no prior knowledge or experience in music production — everything I learned was from YouTube and trial and error. I recorded my guitar and piano playing, edited the tracks on my laptop using Garageband, and created my first song. Feeling accomplished, I went on to make more songs and released my first album, "Summer", on Spotify and Apple Music. I continued composing after the lockdown and ended up with five albums (with more to come!). Music production is a truly relaxing process for me to pour my emotions into songs and share them with my friends.
Chiara Abaquin (LTXD '25)
Chiara Abaquin (LTXD '25)
Poetry is how I process the world, and more and more often I find myself processing my relationship with AI. On one hand, I'm inspired by how it's opened up new ways to be creative. On the other, I worry about how it can harm creativity and I don't just mean it causing artists to be more hesitant to share their work in fear of getting stolen. I fear what it will do to the creative process.
If ChatGPT had been available when I was starting as a poet, I wonder if I would've used it as a crutch to make sure that I wrote "well" instead of my voice on my own, as laborious as it can be. Through training AI, I wonder if we'll ever be free of it as a training wheel. I'm excited to see how educators will approach the balancing act of using tech to help students grow as creators while also protecting them from it.
Photo credit: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913) by Umberto Boccioni (one of my favorite Futurist pieces)
Cut and exit wounds are references to Sylvia Plath and Ocean Vuong, my rockstars
Janice Lee (LTXD '25)
Janice Lee (LTXD '25)
WikiGraph is my first attempt at a non-linear, graph-based interface for knowledge and concept exploration using Wikipedia articles! I've always been bummed that so many interfaces for exploring content on the web are very linear (e.g., a top-down scroller of text), since it seems more cognitively ergonomic for me to process information when I can visualize how it connects to other concepts. So, I wanted to try creating an interface that would afford for more non-linear exploration!
You can read more details about the production process on the website, but I basically used one month of Wikipedia clickstream data to generate the links between articles, and used Neo4j to store the data, which is a very, very cool graph database software (as opposed to a relational database software) -- I am a big fan! I hope to continue to explore this type of work in the LTXD program!
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