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Yura Kang is a NYC-based designer, digital archaeologist, and researcher exploring culture, identity, and memory through technology. Rooted in a third-culture experience, they weave East Asian, UK, and US influences into digital and cultural narratives.

Data Crumb Relics from 2025: Emotional Archaeology of Digital Remains


Pratt Open Research House 2025 _Design Research
"Data Crumb Relics," at the Pratt Open Research House last Thursday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This project views artificial intelligence as both a tool and a historical lens representing a crucial slice of human intelligence history. 

I take on the role of a digital archaeologist to preserve our 2025 relationship with AI, imagining a far future looking back at this period of time and how we are humanizing AI. 

This was translated into an installation of a digital archaeologist's desk.





Data Served:
The Web Bug Cart


[Synthetic Mimic of Web Bug]

The project integrates embodied sensory experiences and uses the metaphor of an unregistered food truck. The goal is to allow users to feel the effects of digital tracking through sound and tactile interaction. 

The fly sound and visual cues guide users through the hidden nature of monitoring, encouraging awareness of these invisible processes. The unregistered food truck plays a crucial visual role, drawing intrigue with the offer of free street food. This metaphor connects to the stomachache of consuming something unknown or untracked, hidden in the form of a pixel-sized bug.



Visual Research: [St.Andrew’s Playground, NY 11216]


Metabolizing Time and Space:
[St.Andrew’s Playground, NY 11216]
The project started as a simple site study and grew into a dimensional exploration of space and belonging. It was a process of data visualization and understanding the site’s visual language. As someone new to the neighborhood and community, I observed St. Andrew’s Playground’s shifting textures, rhythms, and transformations throughout the day.

Using time-based materials and tactile elements, I translated these observations into a story about movement and connection. This visual compendium is a form of the documentary photo book, placing a 3D redesign of the playground made with wood dust, feeding the energy to the playground. 

01. Metabolizing Time and Space
02. To Play
03. Reimagining the playground, 3D modelling


NYC Rathole Catalog


NYC Ratohole Catalog


The brown rat, aka “pizza rat” rules new york city. although brown rats are sometimes called norway rats, they actually originated in asia and spread to other parts of the world over time. they can live almost anywhere, survive in almost any condition.

01. Rathole Catalog


C’MON Archive, London, UK


C’MON Archive issue #1
C’MON Archive is an art magazine exploring London’s independent art scenes and underground artists from a variety of backgrounds. focusing on queer Asian diaspora artists and cultivate a tight community by sharing stories with the public.

01. Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR [independent publish]