~ lsc ~ this site is pre-fermenting* ~
the work about everything else

about Leia

Leia S. Chang (they/them) is an artist, organizer, and creative technologist exploring unusual materiality and embodied identity. With a strong command over creative fabrication, Leia channels their perspective as a second-generation Chinese-American into interactive installations, poetic texts, and tangible multi-media objects made of wood, resin, and found materials. Their work often integrates digital media into physical forms with the aim of spotlighting the connection between memory, identity, and storytelling.

Leia is currently an exhibit developer at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Their work has been shown at the likes of La Mama’s CultureHub, theBlanc Art Space, the Gray Area SF and Resistor NYC. They organize creative communities and facilitate workshops on making-as-art. Leia holds an MPS from NYU ITP, and a BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly SLO.

Currently thinking about ... weaving, creative misuse of banal materials, tiat community organizing, work-life balance, time tracking, the body.

Previously ...

Once, a long time ago, a professor looked at a todo list I'd made for the day, and called it the best poem he'd read all week.

also seen at ...

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-last updated Nov 2025-

you can also find me on instagram and offline elsewhere*.

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pre-fermenting: ingredients have been mixed, roughly stirred by hand, water and flour and the magic in the air, this will become something new and the change is rapid but we just have to wait to see when it'll be ready

* also found frequently in sunlight, on the pier, in the middle of it all, at a cafe table