Hi, my name is Yeli.

I’m a artist and technologist from Nigeria.

I graduated from New York University in 2017 with an individualized degree in Computer Science, Art and Design.

I am an alum of Recurse Center, School of Poetic Computation, Tech@NYU, Code2040, and data.4.change.

Selected Projects

2025 Grief Found Me A digital poem exploring grief.
2024 Interrogating Computational Approaches to Art A class taught at the School of Poetic Computation.
2024 Glitched Google Docs Chrome extension for glitching google docs.
2022 Nigerian Women's Names in Afrobeats Cataloging the most used nigerian names in Afrobeats songs.
2021 Called It Quits! Announce your breakup like a celebrity mag!
2019 The Gendered Project A library of gendered words.
2018 Tweeter or Retweeter? Tells you, based on your profile if you are a tweeter or retweeter.
2018 Face the Music Make music with your facial expressions.
2018 Art Connoisseur A bot that interprets art from Artsy.
2018 OpenFrameworks Experiments A series of interactive visuals made with OpenFrameworks.
2018 Y Under Y An award list any and everyone can get on.
2017 Can you leave work? Satirizing silicon valley company perks.
2017 Y-Fi Experience UI Loading elements in the wifi speeds of different countries.
2017 My President Is A bot that tweets who or what my President is.
2016 On my Radar Visualization of your weekly schedule.
2016 Flatline A visualization of your social media presence as an electrocardiogram.
2016 Startup Week Site for Tech@NYU Startup week: a week of hacking, designing, networking, and learning with the best and brightest in NYC tech.
2016 Tech@NYU Calendar Site for Startup week: a week of hacking, designing, networking, and learning with the best and brightest in NYC tech.
2015 Henrietta Portfolio website for Parsons Art student.

Talks
- 2019 Building A Gendered Dictionary Codeland
- 2019 Building A Gendered Dictionary PyCascades
- 2019 Creative Saviour Complex Let's Sketch Tech
- 2018 Creative Saviour Complex XOXO Fest
- 2018 Extending access to technology Likeminds.nyc
- 2018 Finding Unavailable Data Concatenate Conf
- 2018 Generative Twitter Bots dev.to
- 2018 Ethics of Engineering Panel BlackTech Weekend NYC
- 2018 Tactical Laughter 100s Under 100 #show-n-tell
- 2018 Bot it Out! (Workshop) Flawless Hacks
- 2018 Mutating the Browser … Afrotectopia
- 2018 Bot it Out! WaffleJS
- 2018 Answering your own questions … TechIntersections
- 2017 What Art can teach you Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner
- 2017 Data, Beauty and Action Gallatin Senior Symposium
Press
- 2020 Finding the Blank Spots in Big … AIGA Eye on Design
- 2019 'Gendered Project' wants you … The Next Web
- 2019 From Fuckboy to Man-eater, … AIGA Eye on Design
- 2018 Good internet things, brought … The Next Web
- 2018 Episode 275: Omayeli Arenyeka Revision Path
- 2018 Are you a True Twitter … net mag
- 2018 Are you a True Twitter … Creative Bloq
- 2018 You Got This! Zine: React … Glitch
- 2018 Creative Expression with … Glitch on Medium
- 2018 This Week On Glitch! Glitch on Medium
- 2018 Women Always Rule at Glitch! Glitch on Medium
- 2018 Inside The Invite-Only Slack … Fast Co.Design
- 2018 Tech + Social Impact The Framework Project
- 2017 Y-Fi will show you how long it … htxt.africa
- 2017 Omayeli Arenyeka, Software … POCIT
- 2016 10 Questions with Omayeli … Women of Silicon Valley
- 2015 Women Who Reign: Omayeli … Women Who Reign
Writing
- 2025 What Is a Website Good For? Are.na
- 2018 How to think differently about … The Creative Independent
- 2018 Good internet things, brought … The Next Web
- 2018 Alternate Digital Realities Are.na
- 2018 Creating your own meme … CSS-Tricks
- 2018 Spring 2018: Week 9 School of Poetic Computation on Medium
- 2018 Spring 2018: Week 6 School of Poetic Computation on Medium
- 2018 Spring 2018: Week 5 School of Poetic Computation on Medium
- 2018 Creating a Parking Game With … CSS-Tricks
- 2018 Spring 2018: Week 2 School of Poetic Computation on Medium
- 2018 Spring 2018: Week 1 School of Poetic Computation on Medium