kathy wu

kathy wu is a designer, artist and poet interested in histories of science and technology via the mediums of code, language and image. She earned a BFA from RISD in Graphic Design in 2015 with a concentration in Literary Arts, and an MFA from Brown University. They have worked as a designer at the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT Media Lab and as technology researcher at IDEO coLab. She is passionate about collective making and community organizing and has been involved in Asian American Resource Workshop and the Interference Archive as an organizer and educator.

She has presented work at Allied Media Conference, Babycastles, NY MakerFaire, MoMA Biodesign Challenge and Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, among others. They have been published via the New School, Dialogist and the Syllabus Project and anthologized via Fonograf Editions and Nightboat Books. Their debut visual poetry book is forthcoming via Wendy’s Subway Press.