michelle huang
✰ Running a media lab in Tokyo, MESH Studio
✰ Producing neurotech x art projects, art installations, iOS apps, and motion graphic design work
✰ Browse my portfolio
✰ Founder and CEO of Akiya Collective, an NPO and community-driven project to renovate empty homes in rural Japan into art installations.
✰ This project is centered around revitalization through collective creation, and represents an experiment in: co-governance of public goods, restorative arts, cultural integration, and more broadly, human flourishing
✰ Read our manifesto
✰ Co-founded a neuroethics initiative with the goal of defining a set of design principles around neurotech advancements
✰ Building a biosensor x art platform to democratize expression and scale psychosomatic research
✰ Working through a self-designed neuroscience curriculum
✰ Building a network for decentralized autonomous farms, allowing decentralized food computers to experiment and learn from each other
✰ Creating a digi-physical sustainable fashion product as a conceptual / experimental series
✰ Writing a manifesto / call to citizen scientists
✰ Crafting an empathy curriculum to pitch to micro-schools
✰ Writing poetry and a science fiction novel (to be published on this blog)
✰ Producing music on Soundcloud
✰ Making meditation tracks
✰ Working with a sound therapist in Japan to create an intersensory art installation around improving mental health in Asia
✰ Working on an experimental food art pop up experience
✰ Programming drones for LED light shows
✰ Exploring the inner world: lucid dreaming, hypnotherapy, various meditation practices (metta / vipassana / Shinzen Young), psychology research (Jungian / transpersonal / descriptive)
✰ Becoming a child again — always
I'm looking for collaborators!
If you want to work with me on my current projects above, collaborate with me on work in my portfolio, or have any other ideas, feel free to reach out to me.
My past work includes neurotechnology x art projects, art installations, graphic design, and more