Hello world! 👋 I'm Karina and I'm a creative technologist, software developer, and designer. I currently work as a new media exhibit technician for the Exploratorium in SF and I also freelance for startups under my own small agency (appropriately called KACHOW! LLC 🗯️ (1/7)

I'm getting better, I swear! But old habits die hard. I'm not giving up on a RequestToons stream- as soon as I have an evening free!

20th Anniversary Bay Area Maker Faire: Dark room.

always wanted a lil tool for understanding color spaces better kylemcdonald.github.io/color…

「ありうる人生たちのゲーム」の新バージョンをポーランド🇵🇱のSilesian Museumで展示しています。New Media Weekという公募のファイナリスト展で、最終選考まで残った他の作家たちと色々と話せて面白いです。美術館自体も炭鉱跡に造られており、地下に広いのが素敵...!

Day 10.5 of 14: Updated my Udder Mayhem cow game write up one last time to incorporate the latest updates from the Bay Area Maker Faire. I swear tomorrow I'm going back to regular portfolio write ups. This was just a colossal one to do! karinachowtime.com/portfolio…

California Simulator: the ending is the most realistic part. 😂

Processing is turning 25 this year! For two decades, the platform has taught generations of artists, designers, and educators how to code and the community behind it is still growing. Join us this Saturday for an afternoon of hands-on workshops and lightning talks exploring where Processing and p5.js are headed next. Workshops: 1 – 3 PM: 🎨 Introduction to libprocessing, led by Charlotte McElwain—learn the new experimental WebGPU renderer for Processing, exploring video, particle systems, and PBR rendering in Python. Intermediate–Advanced. 🔤 Working with [Variable] Type in p5.js, led by Ivan Zhao—learn the basics of variable typography and how to animate it on the web with p5.js, from shifting weights and widths to its roots in concrete poetry and kinetic type. All levels; some familiarity with p5.js, Processing, or JavaScript helpful. 📍 Gray Area / Grand Theater, 2665 Mission st, San Francisco 📅 Saturday, October 3 🕐 Schedule: Workshops: 1 – 3 PM Lightning Talks: 4 – 5:30 PM Co-presented with @tiatplace. RSVP: grayarea.org/event/processin…

This site was perfect when you could discover real nerds posting experiments from a place of love. I miss finding super niche data visualization artists, optical illusion/color theory mathematicians, bots posting random satellite imagery crops, fractal generators.. it's just gone

This is also basically how everyone used the internet 20 years ago You’d end up on some guy’s website about Civil War cannons, click his links page, discover a county historical society, then spend 40 minutes reading a forum for antique tractor owners “What sort of website is this?” was half the experience We called it surfing for a reason, now you open the same 4 apps every day

POV: you switched to a low reasoning effort model

launching a portfolio site 🤗 iyoiyo.studio/ we've spent 15+ years being a few years ahead of everyone else. our specialty is working with media artists and tech companies who want to explore creative applications of the latest technologies.

irresponsible to not even consider the detrimental effects of Miami sunlight on CMU students who never go outside

These are my 4 most popular logo fixes of all time! Which fix do you like best? Disney+, Citi, Gatorade, or Switch 2?

ai for cultural heritage work, reconstructing polynesian voyaging canoes with astra and blender. i built a simple interface for leaving notes on the photos and 3d model in a way that allows astra to fix its mistakes, and also to identify patterns in its mistakes.

Been building a rhythm game played via silicone udder controller and is housed in a cow shaped arcade machine. I keep getting invited to random events across the US so it's been a fun traveling project that brings joys to kids and adults alike!

Germany Builds LEGO Houses in Just 3 Days—No Nails, No Mortar