{"id":6978,"date":"2025-07-29T16:07:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/?p=6978"},"modified":"2025-08-14T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:10:08","slug":"astro-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/astro-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Astro Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RESIDENT RESEARCHER<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1427\" height=\"1432\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/astro_headshot.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/astro_headshot.jpg 1427w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/astro_headshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/astro_headshot-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/astro_headshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/astro_headshot-768x771.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1427px) 100vw, 1427px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where she continues her research as the 2025\u20132026 Postdoctoral Fellow. Her current work deepens her exploration of programming and circuit-based kinetic devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astro&#8217;s research spans systems, vision, motion, philosophy, sociology, and kinetic sculpture. Through both virtual and physical mediums, she investigates interactivity, composition, and movement\u2014expanding the potential of commercial tools to embody ideas within machine-based forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7055,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions\/7055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}