Mimi Yin

Mimi Yin

Summer 2019 Artist in Residence, Movement Lab

Department

Movement Lab

Mimi Yin is an artist and designer with a background in music, dance, and interaction design. She is currently a teacher at ITP in the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She graduated with a B.A. in Music from Yale University and an M.P.S from ITP/NYU. Her work explores programmatic approaches to composition and improvisation combining traditional forms with chance operations to create new structures. She has applied these techniques to a range of media from poetry, rhythm, movement, and choreography to shaping online discussion. She is also the lead designer of Ponder, a social learning platform focused on developing higher-order literacy.