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CHEN LUO                

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Chen Luo is a Graphic Designer based in Maryland. She serves as a thesis adviser at MICA. She has taught at MICA, Tufts SMFA, Boston University, and UMass from 2022 to 2025. Chen is the co-founder of Body&Forma, a collective design practice focused on bridging language barriers through publishing and performative workshops. Her work has been awarded and recognized by Communication Arts, NewOne Awards, Design 360˚, Boston Art Review, and The Young Ones TDC, and exhibited in Canada, Italy, Japan, China, Korea, and the United States. Her work shares a language of reconfiguring reading/writing gestures into bodily acts, turning static materials into participatory, communal, and kinetic forms of publishing. She currently explores how embodied publishing forms a diverse readership and communal experience.
Exit the King

Interactive Design
2022

Animated interactive live play designed by Chen Luo and Arjun Kumar. In this theatre play, we visualized and executed the animated graphics on the screens and floor of the set for School of Theatre and School of Visual Art and Center for Data and Computational Sciences at BU. These visualizations started off as representing architectural elements in the play. But as the play progresses these dynamic elements morphed and changed to embody the psychology of the characters, especially the King. Behind this theatrical project was also a technical one, driven by visiting artist Paolo Scoppola. Paolo created the Random Act software that generated interactive graphics that changed on the basis of the input/acting of the actors.
Late update in 2025