WENDY GAO

Hi, I'm Wendy! I'm an Art History student at New York University (NYU). I'm currently looking for opportunities working in galleries/museums or in creative computing. Here are some of my previous projects in creative work, including code and design.

Please drop me a email or connect with me on LinkedIn if you would like to contact me.

Creative

* Circuit Breaker Zine, a collection of stories by artists and writers during the Covid-19 pandemic. I co-edited and managed the publication with funding from the National Arts Council Digital Presentation Grant (DPG).

* "The Loud and the Quiet", an essay about Intimate Apparitions (2019), a work by Khairullah Rahim that was shown at the 2019 Singapore Biennale. This essay won first place in the Short Form Lucha Libre 2020, a writing contest jointly organised by Plural Art Mag, the Singapore Biennale and the International Association of Art Critics, Singapore Section (AICA SG).

* "The Freedom to Imagine the Past", an essay about marginalized identities published in 2016-17 edition of Mercer Street, the official text of the NYU Expository Writing Program.

* Heartland (2015), a Discovery Channel documentary in which I spoke about preserving the heritage of Dakota Cresent, Singapore (a historic neighborhood on the brink of demolition).

* "Chinatown - What's in a Name", a photo essay about name-based traditions in Chinatown, Singapore. I also facilitated a series of workshops for the larger project, Picturing Chinatown.

* I interned at The New Paper, covering a range of topics including a personal reflection on the death of first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

* I wrote for Raffles Press in high school, and also co-wrote a feminist column (The Feminine Eye) in the school coporate publication, Rafflesian Times. My best work was a viral article ("The Five Dollar Question") about food poverty that was viewed over 120,000 times when it was first published.

* Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around, a dystopian short story from the point of view of a teddy bear with AI and a girl who needs him. It placed first at national (2011) and international (2012) conferences of the Future Problem Solving (Scenario Writing) program.

Code/Design

* Out of Context RuPaul's Drag Race Gifs, a Twitter bot that tweets GIPHY gifs from the legendary TV reality series RuPaul's Drag Race. Made at Flawless Hacks and documented here. (currently inactive)

* Rubin Hall website, a page for first-year students residing at NYU Rubin Hall. Includes original photography and research on the history of the building.

* Put Yo Phone Down, a productivity robot that slaps you on the wrist when you pick up your phone while you're supposed to be working. Made using Arduino and featured in the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Open Arts gallery.

* Some weird art I've made in my Creative Computing class, documented here.

* Fortune Teller Cat and Scream Into The Void, a series of workshops I developed for high school students to build simple Android apps using MIT App Inventor. I also wrote about my experience teaching young women how to code here.

* A Torpedo through Time, a research piece on Barr's Torpedo and the "modernity" of the MoMA collection using R and R Studio. This project was presented in MoMA as part of their inaugural art datathon and was mentioned in Digital@MoMA's Medium recap of the event.

Fun Stuff

What do you like to do in your free time?
I love looking at art, listening to music, making playlists, running, and watching women's soccer (go Portland Thorns)!

What's your favorite work of art?
Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) by Martha Rosler.

How do I pronounce your Chinese name?
It's Gao Wenxin (pronounced GOW WEN-sin).