About

 

Three Eyed Rat is an award-winning immersive installation art and experience design production studio led by Shing Yin Khor. We make games, large and small art installations, and strange little experiences. We are especially interested in the intersection of science fiction and fantasy with new human rituals, and collaborative worldbuilding.

Three Eyed Rat builds odd and obsessively detailed new rituals and spaces.

The greater collective of collaborators consists of a motley bunch of theatre designers and educators, carpenters, mechanics, welders, game designers, programmers, filmmakers, and various other maker types.

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Our Design Work

The Bird Oracle (2024)

Remember August(2022)

A Mending(2021)

Field Guide to Memory(with Jeeyon Shim)(2021)

The Gentle Oraclebird, Indiecade (2019)

The Blue Ox Bar, XOXOfest, Portland, OR (2018)

The Gentle Oraclebird, 934 Gallery, Columbus OH(2017) and Scene Shift exhibit at USC Fisher Museum of Art (2023)

Salvage Station No. 8, Beam Camp, New Hampshire (2017)

Apothecary, Stranger Factory, Albuquerque, NM (2017)

The Last Apothecary, Burning Man 2016

The Last Outpost, Burning Man 2014

The Dusty Junk, Burning Man 2011-2014

“The Last Outpost presented a space for visitors to act in their own individual stories. Upon entering this detail oriented structure, visitors were invited to interpret the strange scribbled notes, warped surveillance camera footage and the rusty cages filled with dolls heads however they chose to. One thing remained clear however, there was some kind of underlying story within this outpost which would spark almost anyone’s curiosity.”
— The Do Art Foundation

About Shing

Trained as a theatrical designer, Shing is obsessed with building universes and new rituals for with anxious creatures and yearning people in a world of heroic futility.

Their experience and game design work is rooted in their work as a builder and artist - large intimate and immersive art installations, and keepsake games centered on the bridge between physical making and traditional tabletop RPGs, kind and awkward emotional connections, and new traditions and rituals. They are the designer and creator of:

  • The embroidery and map-marking keepsake game A Mending, which raised 190k on Kickstarter and is in its fifth reprint.

  • Remember August, which won Best Tabletop at Indiecade 2022.

  • The Gentle Oraclebird (presented at Indiecade 2019 and 2020).

  • Co-designer(with Jeeyon Shim) of the solo journaling keepsake game Field Guide to Memory, which won Indiecade’s Best Live Game award in 2020.

  • The Last Outpost, a honorarium art installation at Burning Man 2014

  • The Last Apothecary, a honorarium art installation at Burning Man 2016

  • Salvage Station No. 8, a two story space station art installation, in conjunction with Beam Camp in New Hampshire.

Hire Us

We are interested in designing and building site specific immersive installation work. Let us know if you have a space you want us to fill, your timeframe, and your budget. We are willing to work with crowdfunding campaigns and early-stage grant proposals. 

Teaching

We regularly host workshops out of our woodshop in El Sereno, CA.

Shing is often available for writing, speaking and teaching engagements. They have taught workshops and spoken at USC, Bryn Mawr University, Dartmouth College, Harvard, and UIUC, and been a National Park Service Artist-In-Residence twice. They enjoy teaching and speaking about the following:

  • Collaborative Worldbuilding

  • Building Object-Narratives (storytelling + prop building)

  • Invitations to Play: Designing Interaction Cues for Immersive Installations

  • Zine and Cartooning Workshops

  • Writing Memoir and Autobio Comics

  • Marionettes(history and craft workshops)

  • Paul Bunyan

Wanna talk?

shingkhor at gmail.com