I'm Lorie (Yunhao) Chen — artist, coder, occasional snowboarder. I just graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Fine Art, with minors in Media Design and Intelligent Environments.
My work lives in the gap between algorithm and material: 3D Gaussian splats of preserved biology floating in glass jars, slit scans of ten-hour road trips turned into plotter drawings, command-line interfaces for navigating a bedroom's accumulated history. I'm drawn to techniques that fail interestingly — confocal stereo on translucent gemstones, photogrammetry on reflective surfaces, segmentation models pointed at snow.
At CMU I worked at the Studio for Creative Inquiry building agentic interfaces for generative AI tools; spent a summer at Adobe Research developing novel AI video and 3D processing workflows; and collaborated on the CoFRIDA robotic painting system at the Robotics Institute. My capstone project, catalogue raisonné, is a 3DGS archive of my studio and bedroom accessible as a browser-based command-line interface.
I'm interested in modern art, cities that accumulate things, anything that reacts to light differently than expected, and making plotters do embarrassing amounts of work for small aesthetic payoffs.
Currently based in Pittsburgh. Open to what comes next.
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