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CHEN LUO                

Chen Luo is a graphic designer and educator based in Maryland. In 2026, she will join Howard University as an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design. She has previously taught at MICA, the SMFA at Tufts University, Boston University, and UMass. Chen maintains an independent design practice, collaborating primarily with artists, galleries, and cultural institutions. She is also the co-founder of Body&Forma, a collective design practice that bridges linguistic and cultural barriers through publishing and performative workshops. Her work reconfigures reading and writing gestures as bodily acts, transforming static materials into participatory, communal, and kinetic forms of publishing. She currently explores how embodied publishing can engage diverse readerships and foster communal experiences. Her work has been 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.
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