May Yu

Past Work

as_a_body

2026

Created as a final project for the SFPC Winter 2026 course HTTPoetics

as_a_body is an interactive poetry anthology that explores the concept of translating my physical form into a website. The audience is invited to dissect my body, explore each page as if surgically peeling away my skin to get to my deepest rescesses. What is it that pulses in my veins, constantly, incessantly, thoughts that make up my very existence. Each poem - organ - represents a vital function of existence, loving, longing, suffering, creating, becoming

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.

Freelance Work

A collection of projects I've been contracted to make as a freelance web developer (if you're smart enough you can find all the test versions of the sites hosted on this website...). Reach out if you want a weird website

Dungeon Lurker Site

2026

A custom website created for the upcoming action rogue-like game Dungeon Lurker

Obex Website

2025

A custom website created for the 2025 science fiction film Obex, written and directed by Albet Birney. Distributed by Oscilloscope

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

p5 play

2024

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

Games

2024

Game jam and school projects