joanna lyu
about

projects
geotagger (ongoing)
game (web)

Fan Ju/饭局 (2025)game (larp)

Sn, Cu, Fe... (2025)
video

Non-existent Intelligence(s) (2025)
installation

Warp and Weft (2023-2025)
game (street)

blinders (2024)
video

club with no entry (2024)
game (larp)

Dancefloor Assassination (2024)
game (larp)

Garden of Forks (2024)
installation

a fraction of time.zip (2023)
installation

Elderly’s Heave-ho! (2023) game (alt-ctrl)

Path of Spells/字字惊心 (2018) game (digital)

Life on a String (2017)
game (digital)

small games made between (2017 - 2018)
game (digital)
visuals/performances
"𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒" (ongoing)
"潮汐明体" A/V performance (2025)
“Odd Species” A/V performance (2024)
img2img home (2023)
“A/B” A/V interactive performance (2023)
a bunch of visuals (2019 - 2023)
client works
“NIKE LEBRON’17 INTERACTIVE BASKETBALL TRIAL” (2019)
 
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©2025 joanna lyu

about




Hi there ヽ(ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾒ

Third person bio…
Joanna is a Chinese-Australian game designer and media artist, who reinterprets established systems, power, and everydays through site-specific games, interactive installations, audiovisual performances, and transmedia storytelling. Utilizing elements from LARPs, post-internet aesthetics, female identity and video game mechanics, her practice integrates virtual and physical mediums, sometimes in forms of superfiction, constructing alternate realities within the familiar, inviting critical engagement and reimagination.

🎓 B.F.A. University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, Interactive Media and Game Design, Los Angeles, United States.
🎓 M.A. Media Arts and Sciences, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences [IAMAS], Gifu, Japan.

💬 I speak English/Chinese, and some Japanese.

🎶 DJ/VJ as “jo and<“ at some underground techno clubs, using Touch Designer, comfyui and Arena to make visuals.

💼 Previously worked at NetEase Games, Studio NOWHERE, Tencent, TikTok, and Warner Bros.

⚾️ running [[rect*]]repair, an art-game collective focusing on experimental games, events and playful media.

CV available upon request.