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Lee Tusman ๐ฝ is a New York-based new media ๐จ๐ป artist, educator and organizer applying the radical ethos of collectives ๐ฉ๐ฟโ๐ญ ๐จ๐ผโ๐ค ๐ง๐ฟโ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌ ๐จโ๐จโ๐งโ๐ง and DIY culture ๐งท to the creation of, aesthetics, and open-source distribution methods ๐จ๏ธ of digital culture. He uses code โจ๏ธ, collage โ๏ธ, sound ๐ถ and text ๐. His works are installations ๐ , interactive media ๐, video art ๐น, experimental games ๐ฎ, sound art ๐, websites ๐, bots ๐ค and micro-power radio stations๐ก. He's presented projects at museums ๐๏ธ, galleries ๐ผ๏ธ, artist-run spaces ๐๏ธ and virtual environments ๐ธ. Lee studied at Brandeis University and received his MFA at UCLA in Design Media Arts. He is Associate 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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