Last summer, as one of 15 Adobe AR Artists in Residence, Tse offered a vision of what those new worlds might do. At the Festival of the Impossible, sponsored by Adobe, Tse and her colleagues blended gallery artwork with AR integrations (see the video of Tse's exhibit above). Behind the scenes, Adobe was learning about the user experience of Project Aero, its AR authoring tool.
If Tse is easy with new forms, her background might explain why. Her B.A. from UCLA is in sociology, but she is also trained and experienced in illustration, visual design, web design and front-end development. None of that background is left out of her work.
"Right now, in this exploration phase, my limitations are the technology and what is available," she says. But that's why collaboration between technologists like Adobe developers and artists is so vital. "Right now, the two are so deeply entwined, they have to have space to play with each other, art and science, in order to produce something new."