Joe Chung is a creative technologist who
designs interactions in interactive experiences.

Selected work


About Flame Game

Flame Game is the practice of Joe Chung, a creative technologist and educator based in Singapore, working at the intersection of generative AI, interactive systems, and brand communication. We build the things organisations reach for when the creative vision exists but the path to execution doesn't yet — prototyping emerging capabilities before a playbook exists, and shaping creative and production decisions before the team has a frame of reference.

With over seven years across agency, research, and academic contexts, Joe has delivered awarded commercial work for Google, Meta, Moncler, Nike, MetLife, Prudential, Toyota / Lexus. He is a graduate of the MFA Design & Technology program at Parsons School of Design (Valedictorian, GPA 4.0) and the MA Instructional Technology & Media program at Columbia University, and has taught at the National University of Singapore.


Modus Operandi

Joe works best at the early, undefined stage — where the technology is nascent, the creative brief is incomplete, and the right answer requires building to find out. He moves fluidly between technical depth and creative legibility: as comfortable fine-tuning a diffusion model or architecting an agentic system as he is presenting possibilities to a creative director or walking a client through what's actually achievable.

He brings a researcher's rigour to commercial work and a practitioner's instinct to research — and has spent years helping creative teams not just adopt new technology, but understand it well enough to make it their own.


Services

  • Generative AI & Model Development
  • Agentic Systems & RAG Architecture
  • Creative Technology Strategy
  • Interactive & Real-Time Experiences
  • Computer Vision & Automation
  • 3D Pipeline & Spatial Computing
  • Emerging Technology R&D
  • Workshop Design & Team Enablement
  • Prototype-to-Production
  • New Business & Pitch Support

Education

  • Parsons School of Design
    MFA, Design & Technology · Valedictorian, GPA 4.0 · 2021
  • Teachers College, Columbia University
    MA, Instructional Technology & Media · 2018
  • National Institute of Education, Singapore
    PGDE, Secondary Mathematics & Computer Applications · 2010
  • National University of Singapore
    BEng, Computer Engineering · 2008

Employment

  • Senior Creative Technologist
    R/GA · 2021–present
  • Research Assistant, COVID-19 Makerspaces
    Parsons School of Design · 2020
  • Research Assistant, XR for Education
    Parsons School of Design · 2020
  • Grant Awardee, XR Startup Bootcamp
    RLab, NYC Media Lab · 2018
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Games Research Lab
    Columbia University · 2018
  • Intern
    Quest To Learn · 2018
  • Teacher, Secondary Mathematics & Computer Applications
    Ministry of Education, Singapore · 2010–2016

Speaking & Teaching

  • Part-time Lecturer, Cultural Analytics & Informatics
    NUS, MA Arts & Cultural Entrepreneurship · 2025
  • Speaker, Creative Coding as a Reflective Practice
    Pechakucha Singapore · 2024
  • Panel Guest, Industry & Career Sharing
    Eusoff Hall, National University of Singapore · 2024
  • Guest Lecturer, Activations through Interactive Experiences
    Lasalle College of the Arts · 2023
  • Panel Guest, Industry & Career Sharing
    Lasalle College of the Arts · 2023
  • Guest Speaker, Industry & Career Sharing
    Teachers College, Columbia University · 2022
  • Teaching Assistant, Immersive Storytelling
    Parsons School of Design · 2020

Awards & Recognition

  • Nominee, Fashion, Style & Beauty Websites and Mobile Sites
    Webby Awards · 2025
  • Winner, Best use of experiential tech
    Campaign Tech Awards · 2025
  • Winner, No. 1 Customer Experience of 2024
    Campaign UK · 2024
  • Evolver of the Year, Annual Cube Award
    R/GA · 2024
  • Valedictorian, MFA DT
    Parsons School of Design · 2021
  • President's Scholarship
    The New School · 2019
  • Singapore Digital Scholarship
    Infocomm Media Development Authority · 2019

Contact

If the creative vision exists but the path doesn't yet — that's where this starts.