Steve Dehong Sun creative portfolio

  1. Sound of NYUSH (documentation) and Sound of NYUSH reprise (documentation): The Sound of NYUSH is a web-based audio collaboration project that allows users to create custom tracks using sounds collected from in and around the campus. It was created using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and basic music-making techniques, and was featured in the IMA Show Spring 2019. Sound of NYUSH Reprise is a new version of the project featuring additional sounds recorded with better equipment and arranged using improved sound-editing techniques. It takes the audience on an audio walk in the school building.
  2. Collab Drawer (documentation) : Collab Drawer is an interactive collaboration drawing game made with Arduino and processing. It requires four players to control a virtual drawing machine that consists of a series of three anchor points connected by rotating arms, where each of the three players controls the rotation of one arm and the fourth player decides to draw or erase. The project encourages users to collaborate and interact with each other, emphasizing the importance of human interaction. It was featured in the IMA Show Fall 2019.
  3. Our NYU Shanghai Memory Kit (documentation) : Our NYU Shanghai Memory Kit is a project created during the pandemic semester when students were not able to come back to school. The project contains tiny versions of places and objects that were familiar to students in the school building. It was designed to honor memories and to sympathize with those who never had the opportunity to return to school. This project was featured in the virtual IMA Show Spring 2020.
  4. Readymade — pool (documentation) : Readymade — pool is a project that explores the concept of readymades. The documentation showcases the thinking process behind it.
  5. Unnamed (documentation) : Unnamed was a failed project that aimed to convey a feeling of creature-like warmth and serenity using wood pieces that resembled the shape of a whale. The project failed due to underestimating the complexity of certain aspects, but it was included in the portfolio as a learning experience. It taught the importance of planning and how a project doesn’t need to be completed to be presented to peers and professors. 
  6. #Hashtags (documentation) : #Hashtags is a kinetic sculpture that reflects on social media. The sculpture projects the shadow of a rotating sculpture that reads “Feminism” from one angle and meaningless hashtags from other angles, emphasizing the repetition of ideas on social media and how it can dissolve the deeper meaning of such ideas. This project was featured in the IMA Show Fall 2020 and NYU Shanghai Gazette issue Dec. 18, 2020, “Show and Tell: Arts Students Present Their Semester’s Labors”.
  7. Custom-built multicolored Cajon drum (documentation) : This project is a purely woodworking project that tests and showcases woodworking skills. It combines numerous skills such as joinery, planing, sanding, and finishing, and utilizes tools such as a table saw, drill press, and router. It was featured in the IMA Show Spring 2021.
  8. The Render (documentation) : The Render is a digital fabrication project that utilizes multiple techniques such as laser cutting, CNC, and 3D printing. It is a “reverse-render” of three arbitrary shapes found in 3D modeling software, demonstrating the process of rendering an arbitrary shape in 3D software into real life. This project was featured in the IMA Show Fall 2021.

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