RESIDENT RESEARCHER

Astro Seunghwa Lee (born in Dangjin, South Korea) is a Korean-American New Media Artist, Houdini Artist, and Creative Technologist based in Brooklyn, NY. As an experimental storyteller and interdisciplinary filmmaker, she creates boundary-pushing work that intersects computer graphics, video art, and technology. Her practice challenges the conventions of ideas, systems, and tools.

She studied Fine Art at Montserrat College of Art and earned her BFA in Computer Art, 3D Animation, and Visual Effects from the School of Visual Arts. Astro later completed her graduate studies at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where she continues her research as the 2025–2026 Postdoctoral Fellow. Her current work deepens her exploration of programming and circuit-based kinetic devices.

Astro’s research spans systems, vision, motion, philosophy, sociology, and kinetic sculpture. Through both virtual and physical mediums, she investigates interactivity, composition, and movement—expanding the potential of commercial tools to embody ideas within machine-based forms.