ZOE MIYAKO LEE
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Zoe Lee is a designer, entreprenuer, researcher, and filmmaker based in the United States. After receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), she co-founded BEAM, a research-led creative studio and public imagination engine for people & planet.
She is also a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative and a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s design, culture, and tech incubator, in the Year 12 Creative Science cohort.
Her work focuses on how climate technologies and interventions operate once they move into real places—shaped by ecological conditions, governance, culture, and lived relationships to land and water. Her practice blends research, design, and storytelling to make complex socio-ecological systems legible and negotiable.
Her work has been published and presented internationally, and has appeared in Vox, MIT Technology Review, ArtNews, The Today Show, O! Magazine, Stereo Saints, and Barley Field Magazine.
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ALCHEMY
ALCHEMY
Music Video
Co-Directors: Louis Hand & Zoe Lee
Editors: Louis Hand & Zoe Lee
Camera 1: Mayuko Kobayashi
Camera 2: Ryan Lettieri
Color: Bella Bough
Graphics: Ryan Lettieri
Production Assistant: Ali Lee
Post Processcing: Ryan Lettieri
Talent: Ojahara (Ben Cunningham and Charlie Christofferson)
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DESCRIPTION
I co-directed, wrote, and produced a music video for Ojahara centered on themes of chase, longing, and the feeling of searching for something just out of reach. Conceived as a kinetic, emotionally driven narrative, the video follows movement through the state as a way of visualizing desire and loss.
The project was filmed entirely in Rhode Island, and executed over a 24-hour production window, emphasizing immediacy, constraint, and momentum as part of the work’s formal language.