PORTFOLIO ARCHIVE · 2024–2026

Wenjie Lin(Michelle)

Interaction Designer & Creative Technologist
MDP · Media Design Practices, ArtCenter College of Design

Design ResearchCritical TechSpeculationInteractive Systems
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Projects

CONCEPTPROTOTYPECODE / HARDWARE

Selected work across design research, critical tech, speculation and interactive systems. Open a card to see the project; playable ones go straight to their demo.

Acoustic Tribe WarPLAYABLE
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

Acoustic Tribe War

Your voice grows a species. Two species fight for the screen, grown from Gray–Scott reaction–diffusion.

Four Ways of SinkingANIMATION
MOVEMENT + MOTION GRAPHICS

Four Ways of Sinking

The Titanic sinking scene, translated into four movements, a page of notes and a 29-second animation.

INFINISNAKEPLAYABLE
GAME DESIGN · 2024

INFINISNAKE

A retro courier snake whose body is the cargo hold. Swallow a crate, grow a segment, unload at the matching warehouse.

Street SprayMULTI-DEVICE
MULTI-DEVICE INSTALLATION

Street Spray

Your phone becomes a spray can for a wall-sized screen. Shake, aim, hold to spray.

Melting Pulse3 DEMOS
DATA + MATERIAL INSTALLATION · 2026

Melting Pulse

Translating the silent disappearance of glaciers into tangible data and bio-material installations.

Mood BiscuitRESEARCH
SERVICE EXPERIENCE DESIGN · 2024

Mood Biscuit

A machine reads your aura and bakes it into a biscuit.

Archeology of the FuturesARCHIVE
SPECULATIVE DESIGN

Archeology of the Futures

The Quiet Inheritance: heirlooms in 2147, when memory no longer dies with the body.

Stone MemoryPARTICLES
XR NARRATIVE

Stone Memory

A diamond's geological journey, told in chapters of particles and in AR.

SUNSETPARTICLES
SPATIAL INTERACTION

SUNSET

A three-layer cube space you explore with a flashlight. A catalog of parts in light and particles.

Digital Materiality16 ARTIFACTS
GENERATIVE + PROJECTION

Digital Materiality

Sixteen generative artifacts, then projected back onto a physical wall.

ART ARCHIVEINTERACTIVE
PERSONAL DATA SYSTEM

ART ARCHIVE

A private emotion diary that turns feelings into geometric cards, written in a self-made cipher.

UntitledVIDEO
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION · 2024

Untitled

Tears grown into crystals and sealed inside resin keycaps.

Moodfade MachineUX
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

Moodfade Machine

A machine that notices stress and offers a hug to people who feel alone.

Mask Guessing GameVIDEO
SPECULATIVE GAME

Mask Guessing Game

Does surveillance free us or protect us? Put on a mask and find out.

DR MachinePROCESSING
AUDIO-VISUAL INSTRUMENT

DR Machine

A drum machine with a joystick, where every hit becomes a shape.

Bend Sensor LightHARDWARE
PHYSICAL COMPUTING

Bend Sensor Light

Bend a sensor, and a ring of LEDs follows.

Poem MuseumWEB
ONLINE EXHIBITION

Poem Museum

A personal poetry collection, hung like an ink-and-paper museum.

Sketches

PROCESSINGWEB3D

Small visual experiments. Processing sketches run live in the browser.

Fluid TextureWEB
SKETCH

Fluid Texture

Random-palette fluid textures, one click each.

Dream Space3D
SKETCH

Dream Space

A floating alien laboratory island, built in Blender over four weeks.

Driver's ArchiveWEB
SKETCH

Driver's Archive

A daily receipt of small energy for delivery and rideshare drivers.

Mahjong HUDWEB
SKETCH

Mahjong HUD

Notification anxiety, played out as the four stages of a mahjong game.

Ant ColonyPROCESSING
SKETCH

Ant Colony

Agents find food and lay pheromone trails. Click to drop food.

Circle Colour IPROCESSING
SKETCH

Circle Colour I

Circular color composition.

Circle Colour IIPROCESSING
SKETCH

Circle Colour II

Click to release a swarm, keys change palette.

Circle Colour IIIPROCESSING
SKETCH

Circle Colour III

Swarm study, best palette.

Nazar IPROCESSING
SKETCH

Nazar I

The evil eye, glowing and scaling.

Nazar · FlowerPROCESSING
SKETCH

Nazar · Flower

Petal form, rotating.

Nazar · Small ChangePROCESSING
SKETCH

Nazar · Small Change

Halo variation.

Nazar · BrainPROCESSING
SKETCH

Nazar · Brain

Layered brain-like form.

Nazar 2.0PROCESSING
SKETCH

Nazar 2.0

Sound drives the particles (simulated here).

DR Machine VisualPROCESSING
SKETCH

DR Machine Visual

Drum hits as shapes, FFT drives motion (simulated).

Self-made Tools

UTILITIESMADE FOR MY OWN WORK

Little tools I built to make other projects.

Gear WorkshopTOOL
SELF-MADE TOOL

Gear Workshop

Involute gear designer with a live transmission demo and STL export.

Kinetic Flower Workshop3D PRINT
SELF-MADE TOOL

Kinetic Flower Workshop

Design 3D-printable, gear-driven kinetic flowers: push the rod and the hydrangea spins and blooms. Tune gears and petals, set print tolerance, export STL.

Node Motion StudioMG TOOL
SELF-MADE TOOL

Node Motion Studio

A simple motion-graphics tool: draw shapes, edit their nodes, keyframe or record motion, add sound and export video.

Visual CipherTOOL
SELF-MADE TOOL

Visual Cipher

Turns any text into a layered glyph alphabet. I used it to write the ART ARCHIVE cards.

Image ↔ SoundMIC
SELF-MADE TOOL

Image ↔ Sound

Upload an image; your voice shatters, pixelates, glitches and melts it.

About

ACCDMDP

Hi, I'm Wenjie Lin, you can call me Michelle. I build colorful, working things that ask questions. My practice moves between design research, critical technology, speculation and interactive systems: concept logic first, then functional prototypes, then the code and hardware that make them real.