Gallery II, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. April 8– 13, 2024 Asian hate crimes occur without warning for the victims. Anti-Asian violence did not begin during the pandemic but has occurred in waves throughout U.S. history. We see this in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII, and in Vincent Chin being beaten to death in 1982, during the rise of Anti-Asian sentiment known as the “yellow peril” and the 1992 Los Angeles Rodney King riots and the Black-Korean conflicts. During the COVID-19 pandemic anti-Asian hate crimes again rose to extreme numbers with new incidences of violence towards Asians broadcasted on televised news and social media nearly every day in the year 2020. Karaoke is a pleasurable experience; it is also an Asian-created technology with its origins in Japan. In this piece I juxtapose a karaoke version of Frank Sinatra’s “New York New York” with Asian hate crime news clips. I do this to draw out the tension between techno-Orientalist pleasures and the painful reality that many Asians in America must face as part of their everyday lives. By “techno-Orientalist pleasures,” I mean the assumptions that Asians as technology are here only to provide pleasurable experiences for users. Because this piece disrupts this experience, I refer to this piece as a work of “techno-disorientalism.” Here New York City represents the American Dream. To sing along with “New York New York" is easy at first, but it becomes increasingly difficult, as not only the lyrics become challenging to read amidst the news clips’ text and violent news content, but to maintain the karaoke performance one must also sing over the reporters’ voices and the testimonies of those who experienced the violence firsthand. In a way, this simulates the tension between trying to enjoy the American dream while being unable to ignore blatant acts of racism in America. The looping of the video represents the repeating history of anti-Asian sentiment in America. Yes, I lived in New York during the pandemic. Contents may not be suitable for children.