Lee Tusman is a 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. His work is presented as interactive media, games, sound art, installations, websites, and micro-power radio stations and shown at museums, galleries, artist-run spaces and virtual environments. Lee works collaboratively, planning conferences, workshops and public events. He co-founded the Processing Community Day NYC conference on art and code, and co-organized DIY spaces Babycastles and community radio KCHUNG. Lee is host of Artists and Hackers podcast on art, code and community. He has a MFA in Design Media Arts (UCLA) and BA in Sociology. Lee is Associate Professor of New Media and Computer Science at SUNY Purchase College.
As an artist, quilter, and programmer, I’ve long been inspired by the North American tradition of patchwork quilting. While developing media art projects rooted in these traditional patterns, I was unable to find a comprehensive digital dataset of quilt patterns—so I built one myself. Since these block-based designs aren’t standardized or centrally archived, I created translations of the patterns into encoded number formats, each represented as a nested table of numbered blocks in Lua. This dataset became the foundation for a series of creative projects that explore the intersection of traditional textile practices and generative digital art. By reframing quilting as a system of encoded design, this work transforms a tactile, cultural practice into a foundation for generative, code-based exploration.
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Conference Speaker (Sheffield)
Israac, Sheffield