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Lee Tusman 👽 is a New York-based new media 🎨💻 artist, educator and organizer applying the radical ethos of collectives 👩🏿‍🏭 👨🏼‍🎤 🧑🏿‍🎨 👩🏻‍🔬 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 and DIY culture 🧷 to the creation of, aesthetics, and open-source distribution methods 🖨️ of digital culture. He uses code ⌨️, collage ✂️, sound 🎶 and text 📝. His works are installations 🗑 , interactive media 📑, video art 📹, experimental games 🎮, sound art 🔊, websites 🌐, bots 🤖 and micro-power radio stations📡. He's presented projects at museums 🏛️, galleries 🖼️, artist-run spaces 🏚️ and virtual environments 🛸. Lee studied at Brandeis University and received his MFA at UCLA in Design Media Arts. He is Assistant Professor of New Media and Computer Science at the State University of New York, Purchase College. Tusman hosts Artists and Hackers, a podcast on art, code and community.

Lee is a member of the artist-organized community Flux Factory. He was an organizer with Babycastles, a NYC-based collective fostering and amplifying diverse voices in videogame culture. He co-founded Processing Community Day NYC. He is a past organizer at Hidden City Philadelphia, Little Berlin and KCHUNG Radio. Lee has participated in residencies at Pioneerworks (Brooklyn), Signal Culture (NY), Bangkok Art and Culture Center (Thailand), ARoS Museum (Denmark), Plexus Projects (Brooklyn), and Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia). He is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and has been interviewed by The New York Times, Al Jazeera, NPR, LA Times, NBC, Metro, CBS, Hyperallergic, Technically, AQNB, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wire, and The Smithsonian.

email: lee.tusman@gmail.com

mastodon: @artistsandhackers@post.lurk.org

instagram: leetusman or artistsandhackers

github: lee2sman

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