Xu Cong. Creative coder — software, installations, and small tools. Based in Chiba, Japan.


This site started as a portfolio. Most of what I build — products, systems, experiments — are not just projects, but ways to explore and express ideas.

I'm interested in technologies not only in how they work, but why they exist, what shaped them, and how they are actually used. Through building, I try to understand how people think about the world.

What I make are often experiments — attempts to test an idea and push it toward something useful. I'm less interested in execution alone, and more in deciding what is worth building in the first place.

This site is a trace of that process.

Now
2020—Eukarya · Tokyo — Team Leader, Product Owner, Re:Earth
Leading a cross-functional team building Re:Earth — an open-source 3D GIS platform adopted by Japan's MLIT PLATEAU initiative and in use across a number of municipalities.
Previously
2014–2017Levitate Studio · Shanghai — Co-founder, interactive design
2012–2014Independent · Shanghai — Interactive art & installation
2011–2012Rexgo · Shanghai — Interactive designer
Education
2018–2020Tokyo University of the Arts — MFA, Inter Media Art
2007–2011Wuhan University of Technology — B.Eng., Industrial Design