Experience
2025 — Now
New York, New York, United States
2024 — 2024
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Made a C++ library for manipulating phonemes (https://github.com/peterchinman/phonetic/), which I used to build a variety of language projects
Strictly, a Rhyme & Meter Checker (https://github.com/peterchinman/strictly): Designed and programmed fully-functional web application where users can define custom poetic forms,and have their poems checked to see if they conform, using C++, WebAssembly, Javascript, HTML/CSS. Used Emscripten to compile C++ to Web Assembly for near-native performance.
Random Word Generator (https://randomwordgenerator.info/): Designed, programmed, and deployed fully-functional web application for exploring vocabulary-space, using PHP, Javascript, HTML/CSS, SQLite. Uses my Phonetic library to expose various language features to SQL queries.
Vowel Deformer (https://github.com/peterchinman/vowel-deformer): Command line tool for manipulating vowel-space. Like a color-filter, but for words, using C++. Next steps: make into a web application, integrating AWS Polly text-to-speech API for interactive audio experience, and Web Audio API for a vowel synthesizer.
Interactive Fiction Engine (https://github.com/peterchinman/interactive-fiction-engine): An as-yet-unreleased engine and platform for interactive fiction, using Python and Flask.
2020 — 2024
New York, New York, United States
In 2020, in the early days of quarantine, I started sculpting. I had a vision of a peaceful burning face candle—I learned all the techniques I needed to make that a reality. Since then I've made a whole line of sculptural candles. I also make ceramic sculptures, and have worked on commission for various sculptural projects.
2017 — 2024
New York, New York, United States
Poetry performance project. I would sit out in public with a sign that says ASK ME FOR A POEM and write spontaneous poems for people. I wrote poems for over 10,000 people, and published yearly collections of the best of these poems.
Education
2008 — 2012
Pomona College
BA
2008 — 2012