yinglian liu
creative technologist. New York City.
builds interactive installations, live performance systems and escape room experiences — at the intersection of physical computing, light, and sound.
selected projects
07
escape room
brought in to build the interactive puzzle a stalled escape room needed, then built the system to let it drive the room's light and sound — and let one operator run all of it.
2024–2026 · system design · show control · physical computing · hardware · circuit design · interactive design
echo shadows
audience silhouettes on a backlit surface, where the audio moves the light source rather than the image. shown at Illumination NYC 2024.
2024 · light installation · sound reactive
live audiovisual performance system
visuals, lighting and camera for a performer with no crew, run from the stage by the person playing. undergraduate thesis — tested with classmates, never a real gig.
2023 · system design · live performance · sound reactive
glowing cells
a 64×64 RGB LED panel driven like an instrument — TouchDesigner over ArtNet, and a standalone Python runner so it performs without a host computer.
2026 · generative art · audio reactive · physical computing
lab tools
equipment checkout for a university lab, built mostly so that people can see what the department has.
2026 · system design · database design · access control
sound reactive record player
a belt-driven turntable that doesn't play records — a course project in fabrication, motor control and getting a printed part to hold still.
2022 · digital fabrication · physical computing · sound reactive
what can you see of sound
an interactive desk toy: pick an image, and it answers with the music and the moving pattern that belong to it.
2022 · interactive design · sound reactive · visual design