Levi Villarreal's blog
A screenshot of the image generation interface This project was made with Queenie Wu as the second midterm project for NYU Connections Lab. Visit the project here Read the project write-up here! Technical details We’re using lowdb to structure our data, and have a simple node backend that runs a Discord bot to notify us in a private server when a request is sent, and send our reply picture back to…
This was me and Dae Kim’s final project for NYU Connections Lab - fall 2025. Check out the project here Check out the code here When I went to Poland in 2020, I ordered pierogies for the first time. I was shocked when the sizzling cast-iron skillet arrived at the table, and I realized they were basically just dumplings. That sparked a discussion around the table where we talked about different…
Very rough draft I want to make a riff on an existing bird clock but only use birds that are thought to be extinct. Each of the birds was chosen because there are recordings of their cry before they went extinct. They will be ordered from date of extinction. E.g. 1 is the earliest extinction and 11 is the most recent. 12 will be kept as a question mark that cycles through different bird cries of…
I tried to implement an idea I’ve hard for a while where you get notified of the daylight gained each day so you can appreciate the days getting longer. I used a sunset/sunrise API along with built-in javascript location and notification services. I think it mostly works
Gameplay trailer View the source code In January 2026, I spent two weeks in Berlin for the January term of NYU IMA Low-Res . It sounded like an insignificant amount of time, but we were truly able to cram an extraordinary amount of content into those short two weeks. In addition to a Conversations: Berlin class, I chose the elective Designing Games , which met daily for three hours, with…
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This week in Critical Experiences, we read On Games by Hito Steyerl. The work explores the ways in which the modern world is a blurring of ‘games’ and reality. Drone pilots in the USA who grew up playing Call of Duty find themselves sitting in an air-conditioned room, remotely killing people through drones that are physically thousands of miles away. And despite the screen, can still suffer from…
StuyTown by Levi Villarreal. Exhibited at the 2025 NYU IMA Low-Res Summer Showcase in Brooklyn, NY Please check out the live version of the project here ! Check out the code here . Introduction It was summer 2021, and I was a fresh graduate who had just moved to New York City. I was going out nearly every single night, exploring parks, neighborhoods, restaurants, and saying yes to every single…
Check out the live project and code on p5.js! Click on the sketch and type ‘pspspsps…’ Without messing up to fill up the screen and win the cats trust.