May Yu

Past Work

mementos

2025

Created during the Vector Fest 2025 Game Arts Residency: Random Access Memories

Embracing the “broken hyperlinks and loading screens” mementos is a web-based digital archive of the internet of my childhood. Displayed on the same family PC I grew up using, the landing page is a recreation of my original desktop screen with shortcuts to various sites representing pivotal online locations I visited growing up. From girly games to MMO’s, mementos is a love letter to the pre-optimized, algorithm free absurdist online landscape of my childhood.

xXx_FANTASYLAND_xXx

2024-2025

xXx_FANTASYLAND_xXx is simultaneously an interactive ‘walking simulator’ built on the Unity Game Engine, where participants can explore various spaces designed around complex themes of womanhood and bodily autonomy in a technofetishistic world, and a performance piece where the soundscape for the game is being produced live, adapting with and influencing the interactions participants make within the game environment.

synthesis

2024

synthesis is an interactive networked art installation exploring the oft-ignored but intrinsic biology vital to developing the technological landscape.

Sorry I Missed You

2024

Sorry, I Missed You is an interactive piece featuring a modified telephone that plays my mother's voicemails.

Medium Explorations

Thorughout my time as an artist I've experimented and played with many mediums. Consider these works sketches or snapshots of my experimentations in different mediums

Neocities Portolio Site

2024

Simultaneously my online portfolio and an exploration of the concept of marketability as an artist.

p5 play

2024

Projects I've made on p5.js as I learned computational art practices.

Games

2024

Game jam and school projects