Personas

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Kit Kuksenok

p5.js Lead, 2024-present

Kit Kuksenok (they/it) is an artist, writer, and coder. Since first learning to code in 2002, they have worked as a systems integrator, web developer, software engineer, data analyst, and lecturer in computer science. Their art/writing is informed by this proximity to technology and its variegated uses; they’ve taught numerous courses exploring the role of technology in society through algorithmic art. They hold a PhD (2016) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington (Seattle). Born in Ukraine, and having lived both in the US and in Germany, Kit speaks English, Ukrainian, Russian, and some German. Photo credit: Cora EF Hamilton.

Qianqian, a non-binary Chinese person with black short hair, wearing a black tank top, standing next to an apple tree, with a lush garden in the background.

Qianqian Ye

p5.js Lead, 2021-present, on leave

Qianqian Ye (they/she) is a Chinese artist, creative technologist and educator based in Los Angeles. Trained as an architect, she creates digital, physical, and social spaces exploring issues around gender immigration, power, care, and technology. Qianqian has has shown work or collaborated with institutions including Mozilla Foundation, LACMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, MUTEK, Gray Area Foundation, Goethe Institut, MMCA Korea, Internet Archive, NYU, UCLA, UC San Diego, Google, Creative Commons and others. They currently teach creative coding as an Adjunct Associate Professor at USC Media Arts + Practice and 3D Arts at Parsons School of Design. For 2022-2023, Qianqian is a NYU ITP/IMA Project Fellow and Civic Media Fellow at USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.

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Rachel Lim

p5.js Editor Lead, 2022-present

Rachel Lim (she/her) is a Korean-American programmer whose works explore articulating vulnerability, discomfort, and grief with gentleness and humor. She is currently a software developer within the edtech space. She holds a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, where she also received a BA in Art History. In her spare time, she loves crafting knick-knacks and running outdoors.

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Kenneth Lim

p5.js Mentor, 2023-present

Kenneth Lim (he/him) is an interaction designer and creative coder working with text and language in all its forms. His work and research focuses on translations, machine understanding of language, and development of language in the modern age. As a freelance creative coder, Kenneth has worked on web design/development, AR app development, and interactive installations. He is a Processing Foundation Fellow of 2018 and also a maintainer of the open source p5.js creative coding library. Kenneth has a BA in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins, an MA in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art and a MRes in Creative Computing from UAL Creative Computing Institute. Kenneth is currently a Lecturer and Acting Course Leader of BSc Creative Computing at UAL CCI. His work is available at limzykenneth.com.

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Cassie Tarakajian

p5.js Editor Creator, 2016-2022; p5.js Editor Mentor, 2022-present

Cassie Tarakajian (they/them) is an Armenian-American educator, technologist, and artist based in Chicago, IL. Their work centers around creating accessible and inclusive tools for making art, and interrogating the relationship between technology and pop culture. They are the creator of the p5.js Editor, an open-source in-browser code editor for creative coding in p5.js, supported by the Processing Foundation. They are also an adjunct professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU ITP), teaching creative coding, web development, and making cursed content. They are a Y8 and Y9 member of NEW INC’s Art + Code Track, and in the past have held residencies at NYU ITP, Pioneer Works, and the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon.

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Lauren Lee McCarthy

p5.js Creator and Lead, 2013-2020; p5.js mentor 2020-2021

Lauren Lee McCarthy (she/they) is an artist having social relationships in the midst of automation, surveillance, and algorithmic living. She has received grants and residencies from Creative Capital, United States Artists, LACMA, Sundance, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, Autodesk, and Ars Electronica. Her work SOMEONE was awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica and the Japan Media Arts Social Impact Award, and her work LAUREN was awarded the IDFA DocLab Award for Immersive Non-Fiction. Lauren's work has been exhibited internationally, at places such as the Barbican Centre, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Seoul Museum of Art, Chronus Art Center, SIGGRAPH, Onassis Cultural Center, IDFA DocLab, Science Gallery Dublin, and the Japan Media Arts Festival.

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cypress masso

p5.js Co-Lead 2021-22, p5.js Mentor 2022-2023, p5.js Fellow 2019

cypress evelyn masso (she/they) is a person (all the time), a tech worker (on weekdays), and a poet (on weekends). She has been contributing to p5.js (on-and-off) since 2016, was a p5.js co-lead for 2021, and then was a mentor for 2022. Originally from Ohio, she currently lives on unceded Kizh land (near Los Angeles) with a collection of moody houseplants. She enjoys dancing, babysitting her two godsons, and hanging out by the Los Angeles River.

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Kate Hollenbach

p5.js Editor Mentor 2021-2022

Kate Hollenbach (she/they) is artist and educator based in Denver, Colorado, where she is an Assistant Professor of Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver. She develops interactive systems with emerging technologies to create video, installation, print, and interactive works that relate body, gesture, and physical space. Their work addresses a new vernacular of interface design that spans across gesture, language, and visual design as sensors, cameras, and personal data play a pivotal role in human computer interaction. She has presented and exhibited work at venues including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SIGGRAPH, Strange Loop, and INST-INT. Kate holds an MFA from UCLA Design Media Arts and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.

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Moira Turner

p5.js Lead 2020

Moira Turner is a queer Black woman who studied Anthropology and African American studies at the University of Southern California. After graduation, she taught computer science to elementary and middle school students for three years. This experience teaching exposed her interest in coding and passion for inclusive programming spaces.

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Stalgia Grigg

p5.js Fellow 2019

stalgia grigg is an artist and programmer based in new york city. they use simulation and synthetic media to make sense of virtuality, agency, and intra-Leftist relationships.

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Evelyn Eastmond

p5.js Co-Initiator 2013

Evelyn Eastmond is an artist in the Boston area and is the Co-Initiator of p5.js with Lauren Lee McCarthy in 2013.