Nicole He’s
Internet Realm 😎
Hello! My name is 
I’m currently directing The Crush House , an upcoming game with Nerial, published by Devolver Digital.
I’m also working on an experimental game produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
In the past, I’ve worked as a creative technologist at Google Creative Lab, and an outreach lead at Kickstarter. I am also an adjunct faculty member at ITP at NYU, which is where I received my Master’s degree.
Beyond doing computer stuff,
I enjoy cooking, powerlifting, and recently, streaming on Twitch.
Contact
I am generally available for speaking events, so feel free to reach out for that, or if you just wanna say what’s up.︎︎︎ email
︎︎︎ twitter
︎︎︎ instagram
︎︎︎ twitch
If you want to follow my work and get (very infrequent) updates on new projects and announcements, feel free to subscribe to my newsletter here or below:
Select Interviews
︎︎︎ Kill Screen (2020)︎︎︎ Believer Magazine (2019)
︎︎︎ ARTE Tracks (2019)
︎︎︎ WIRED (2018)
︎︎︎ Kotaku (2018)
︎︎︎ CBC Radio (2017)
Events
Past
Talk
November, 2020
The Internet
︎︎︎ SPACE10 Sessions
Talk
May, 2020
The Internet
︎︎︎HarvardxDesign
Talk
February, 2020
Cambridge, MA
︎︎︎ORD Camp
January, 2020
Chicago, IL
︎︎︎Playtopia
Talk
December, 2019
Cape Town, South Africa ︎︎︎Machine Agencies at the Milieux Institute at Concordia
Talk, Workshop
October, 2019
Montreal, Canada
︎︎︎Glitch Appy Hour @ XOXO 2019
Demo
September, 2019
Portland, OR
︎︎︎The Conference
Talk
August, 2019
Malmö, Sweden
︎︎︎Google I/O
Demo
May, 2019
Mountain View, CA
︎︎︎A MAZE.
Talk
April, 2019
Berlin, Germany
︎︎︎Game Developers Conference
Talk
March 2019
San Francisco, CA
︎︎︎Awwwards Conference
Talk
November 2018
New York, NY
︎︎︎Creative Coding Festival
Keynote
November 2018
New York, NY
︎︎︎Grace Hopper Celebration
Demo
September 2018
Houston, TX
︎︎︎XOXO
Talk
September 2018
Portland, OR
︎︎︎Artworld Videogames
Exhibition
August 2018
Melbourne, Australia
︎︎︎ACMI Masterclass: Artworld Videogames
Talk
August 2018
Melbourne, Australia
︎︎︎Google I/O
Demo
May 2018
Mountain View, CA
︎︎︎True/False Film Festival
Talk
March 2018
Columbia, MO
︎︎︎Interrupt Conference at Brown University
Talk
April 2017
Providence, RI︎︎︎WordHack
Talk
January 2017
New York, New York
︎︎︎The Conference
Exhibition
August 2016
Malmö, Sweden
︎︎︎FACETS
Panel
May 2016
New York, New York
Etc
︎︎︎ Collaborators, friends, people I admire who make cool stuff ︎︎︎ Hello, Computer: Unconventional Uses of Voice Technology 2020 syllabus ︎︎︎ My student blog from grad school
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@grow_slow
The first 11 days
About
@grow_slow is a meditation on nature and technology. Every morning at 10:17 am, a webcam takes a photo of my fiddle-leaf fig plant and tweets it.
Why
Often, I'd be going about my life, happen to take a glance at my plant and think, "huh, when did it grow so fast?" I found it easy to forget that plants - being alive and all - are not just household decorations, but organisms that move and change and grow.
The internet is fast, but plants are slow. This project is an experiment in combining those two things. @grow_slow follows the philosophy of the Slow Web. Any one picture might be mundane by itself, but as a collection, they become interesting over the course of time.
Very professional webcam setup
How
@grow_slow's photo is taken with a Logitech HD Webcam C310, connected by USB to a Raspberry Pi. A cronjob runs a Python script on the Pi. The code is available on Github.
The plant is watered once a week, usually around Monday evenings.