Well hello, I'm Vanessa Cuevas.
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I've been designing with love in the Bay Area for 4+ years at Delta Dental Insurance. By incrementally personalizing the member experience, I find the friction before it finds them, working as an ally in every feature shipped.

I forage wild clay from Crow Canyon and shape it into what the earth already knows. Between firings, I do illustration and figure drawing, keeping my hands honest. Lately I've been building strudelpoetics.live, teaching my own voice to write music in real time.

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Curriculum Vitae

A collection of creative technology projects where I explore circuits, sound, and interaction as material.

2025

Strudel Poetics

A live-coding music practice where I compose in real time, computational poetry built from pattern and breath.

2026

Phantom Fish

Three jellyfish species rendered in p5.js drift through a simulated ocean using Nature of Code principles such as wander steering, Perlin flow fields, and phototaxis. Exhibited at tiat (the intersection of art and technology).

2026

EmpathAR

An AR overlay that reads emotional body language in real time, built to help neurodivergent users navigate social cues with more confidence. Exhibited at Milano Design Week and SF Design Week.

2026

Werk Wear

A wireless LED spider monocle-and-hat combo built at Fidget Camp. An induction coil hidden in a hat powers LEDs in the monocle with no physical connection.

2026

Re Coiled

Upcoming exhibition, Speculative Everything at tiat (the intersection of art and technology). Purchase tickets here.