Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2018
Master of Fine Arts, Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design The New School (Paris
& New York City)
2006
Bachelor of Arts with Provost’s Honors, Visual Arts (Media-Computing) & Political Science, University of California, San Diego
EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PERFORMANCES / PUBLIC ART
2024
Insistence on Another World, My Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024
En Común: Bookloving y Organizing film premiere, Footlight Underground, Queens, NY
2024
El Corito Sano: A Caribbean Pride Event, Starr Barr, Brooklyn NY
2023
Hummingbird Whispers, Bat Haus, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2022
The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology, and Critical Action, ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Exhibition, online
2022
Reunification, CultureHub Re-Fest, virtual 3D gallery, online
2020
lookingGlass, Oye Drum, online exhibition
2020
lookingGlass, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Night is Like the Ocean Release Party, Starr Bar, Brooklyn, NY
2018
La
Européenne
Nuit des Musées, Mona Bizmarck American Center, Paris, France
2018
Parsons Paris Graduation Exhibition, Mona Bizmarck American Center, Paris, France
2018
ReFrag Festival: Cradle to Grave, En Cours, Paris, France
2018
Occupy Earth, University of Aalto, Helsinki, Finland
2017
MERGE: An Exhibition of Art && Design with Code, Plateforme Gallery, Paris, France
2017
MAJOR MAJOR Spectrum, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2015
SONYA Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY
2015
BLUE, TRU Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
MIX NYC 27th Annual NY Queer Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2014
SONYA Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY
2013
MIX NYC 26th Annual NY Queer Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2013
SONYA Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY
2012
How’s the Weather (public mural in collaboration with Ellie Balk), Brooklyn, NY
2006
Frameline30 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2006
Cine Gay Showcase with Q&A, 13th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival, San Diego, CA
TEACHING
2024
Teacher, School for Poetic Computation, online
Fall / Scripting is Scrying with Aarati Akkapeddi
Fall / Scripting is Scrying with Aarati Akkapeddi
2018 - 2020
Part-Time Faculty, Parsons School of Design The New School, New York, NY
Spring / Core Studio Environments, BFA Design & Technology
Spring / Core Studio Environments, BFA Design & Technology
2019
Part-Time Faculty, Parsons School of Design The New School, New York, NY
Fall / Digital Divination with Aarati Akkapeddi, MFA Design & Technology
Fall / Design for This Century, MFA Design & Technology
Spring / Core Studio Environments, BFA Design & Technology
Fall / Digital Divination with Aarati Akkapeddi, MFA Design & Technology
Fall / Design for This Century, MFA Design & Technology
Spring / Core Studio Environments, BFA Design & Technology
2018
Part-Time Faculty, Parsons School of Design The New School, New York, NY
Fall / Design for This Century, MFA Design & Technology (Lead Lecturers: Melanie Crean and Marisa Jahn; Guest Lecturers included Lina Srivastava, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and Alice Sheppard)
Fall / Design for This Century, MFA Design & Technology (Lead Lecturers: Melanie Crean and Marisa Jahn; Guest Lecturers included Lina Srivastava, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and Alice Sheppard)
2018
Adjunct Faculty, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY
Fall / Costumes as Game Controllers, Game Innovation Lab
Fall / Costumes as Game Controllers, Game Innovation Lab
2017
Teaching Fellow, Parsons School of Design The New School, MFA Design and Technology, New York, NY
2017
| Facilitator / Mentor, Digital Media Mentoring Program, Girls Write Now, New York, NY |
2012 - 2013
Teaching Artist, Contemporary Art Education Program, BRIC Arts Media, New York, NY
2006
Media Arts Instructor, Teen Producers Project, Media Arts Center San Diego, San Diego
SELECT CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019
Radical Networks, October 18-20, Prime Produce, New York, NY. Organized with Sarah Grant, Björk Roi, and Nathaly Espitia Diaz
2019
#unsettle:
Decolonizing Tech Research Symposium, May 17, Data & Society Research Institute,
New York, NY. Hosted by Sareeta
Amrute. Produced with Rigo Lara
Guzman. Presenters: Paula Chakravartty,
Jessie Daniels, Jasmine McNealy, and Latoya Peterson
2018
Radical Networks, October 19-21, SPEKTRUM, Berlin, DE. Organized with Sarah Grant. Guest Jurists: Daphne Dragona, Marta Peirano, and Marcha Johnson
2018
ReFrag Festival: Cradle to Grave, March 28-31, En Cours, Paris, FR.
Artists/Presenters included Safiya Noble PhD, Tabita Rezaire, Rosa Menkman, and
Shawné Michaelaine Holloway
2017
Radical Networks, October 19-22, Chemistry Creative, Brooklyn, NY. Organized with Sarah Grant, Amelia Marzec, and Laura Welzenbach. Artists/Presenters include Nicolas Maigret, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Laura Lee McCarthy, Rosa Menkman, and Fran Ilich
2016
Radical Networks, November 4-6, Chemistry Creative, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Lady Tech Guild and Friends, with Rokudenashiko, May 19, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY.
Artists included Pamela Liou, Salome Asega, Annelie Koller, and Sophie
Zahn
2016
Black Spatial Matters, April 9, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY.
Panelists: Tony Bogues, Torkwase Dyson, and Mario Gooden
2016
Inside/Out event series, November-December, South Street Seaport, NY.
Artists: Gene Kogan, Lisa Kori Chung, Kenneth Kirshner, Joshue Ott,
Colin Self, Joanna
Cheung, Tega Brain, and Lilian Kreutzberger
2015
Radical Networks, October 24-25, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY.
Presenters include Surya Mattu, Ingrid Burrington, NYC Mesh, Caroline
Sinders
2015
Cells and Seams: A Discussion on Biotechnology and Fashion, September 12, South Street Seaport, New York, NY.
Panelists: Stefani Bardin, Annelie Koller, Ayodamola Okunseinde, Ali Shachtschneider
2015
Re-Making Patterns, September, South Street Seaport, New York, NY
2015
Adorn and Subvert: A Discussion on Wearable Resistance, August 9, South Street Seaport, New York, NY.
Panelists: Joanne McNeil (Moderator), Adam Harvey, Lisa Kori Chung,
Iltimas Doha
2015
Making Patterns (exhibition and public programs), July-September, South Street Seaport, New York, NY
SELECT LECTURES / WORKSHOPS
2023
Digital Divination, in collaboration with Aarati Akkappedi, NYC Resistor, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Feminist Fabulations and Storying, Guest Lecture & Artist Talk, Visual Intelligence, Prof. Clareese Hill, Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design
2023
NCZ: Not Channel Zero - The Revolution, Televised, panel with Black Planet Productions Collective, moderated by Betty Yu, hosted by Third World Newsreel, 0nline
2022 - 2023
Community Technology, Guest Lecture & Artist Talk, Alternative Internet of Things (IoT), Prof. Sibel Deren Guler, Parsons MFA Design & Technology
2022
The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology, and Critical Action, ACM SIGGRAPH Village, SIGGRAPH Vancouver conference
2022
SPARKS (Short Presentations of Art and Research for the Kindred Spirit), ACM SIGGRAPH
2021
Tech as Talisman/Talisman as Tech, Guest Lecture & Artist Talk, Objects of Revolution, Profs. Hala Malik and Anjali Nair, Parsons Design Strategies
2020
Creating a Broadband Bill of Rights, Open Data Week, with Claudina Sarahe
2020
HOT WIRED, Montez Press Radio / Wireless 24 Hour Radio Broadcast - Radio Espacio Estacion, Hosted by Guillermo Gómez, with Shannon Mattern, Yamil Lora, David Goren
2020
| Digital Divination with Aarati Akkappedi, #unsettle, Data & Society (postponed) |
2020
| Network of Ethnography, Guest Lecture, Anthropology of Networks, Profs. Greta Byrum and Shannon Mattern, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, New York, NY |
2019
|
Art
in the Anthropocene Conference, Science Gallery Dublin, IR |
2019
| Wearable Interfaces Guest Lecture & Artist Talk, Physical Interfaces & Net Devices, Professor: Scott Fitzgerald, Interactive Digital Media, NYU Tisch School of Arts, New York, NY |
2018
ATELIERS DE POLITIQUES TERRIENNE / Mondes possibles, in collaboration with Melanie Crean and Jamer Hunt, curated by Bruno Latour and SPEAP (Frédérique Aït Touati, Emanuele Coccia, Jean-Michel Frodon, Donato Ricci, and SPEAP students), Theatre de Nantes Amandiers, Nantes, FR
2018
Disorienting Identities Symposium, presenter, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD), Paris, FR
2016
The Queer Red Phone: Designing Interfaces and Community Accountability Networks, workshop facilitator with Miki Foster, Allied Media Conference 2016, Detroit, MI
2016
Computer Science & The Arts, panelist & presenter, CSNYC, eBay NYC, New York, NY Panelists include Daniel Shiffman, Lauren Gardner, Brian Cohen
2016
Art and Technology Panel, panelist, West Harlem Arts Fund & Iconic Linx Present Fusion, New York, New York, NY
2016
The NYCMER Digital Playground: exploring new tools for creating and distributing digital content in museums, presenter, New York City Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER) Conference, New York, NY
2016
Their visionary projects result in new public engagements that cascade far beyond our communities, curator & panel moderator, Residency Reset, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY. Panelists: Joanne McNeil, Tahir Hemphill, and Kaho Abe
2015
The Queer Red Phone: Designing Interfaces and Community Accountability Network Through Mesh, workshop facilitator with Miki Foster, Radical Networks, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Clothing, Beauty and Identity in Technology, panelist, Facets 2015, Brooklyn, NY. Moderator: Caroline Sinders; Panelists: Arabel Sicardi, Joelle Florentin
2014
Arts and Innovation, presenter/expert, French-American Foundation / French Ministry of Culture and Communications Arts and Innovation Program, New York, NY
2014
Maker Party, presenter, Mozilla Festival, London, UK
2014
Museums and Digital Fabrication, presenter, New York City Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER) Annual Conference, Museum of Moving Image, Queens, NY
2014
ArtsEdTechNYC Celebrates Fashion, panelist, Apple Store SoHo, New York, NY
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2020
Ars
Electronica, Nomination, Golden Nica in Digital Communities Category, Linz,
Austria
2019
eTextile
Spring Break Residency, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2017 - 2018
Hive NYC Mozilla Foundation Leadership Grant
2017
Parsons The New School Teaching Fellowship
2017
Parsons The New School Graduate Student Travel Grant
2016 - 2018
The New School President’s Scholarship
2014
Ace Hotel Artist-in-Residency (Ace AIR), New York, NY
2014
Hive Digital Media Learning Fund Travel Grant, New York Community Trust
2012
Brooklyn Arts Council Local Capacity Building Grant, Brooklyn, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Oxford University Textbook of Arts Education, Oxford University Press, Photo Credit
2020
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Volume 6: Computing in/from the South, Cover Art, eds. Sareeta
Amrute and Luis Felipe R. Murillo
2020
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Volume 6: Computing in/from the South, Cover Art, eds. Sareeta
Amrute and Luis Felipe R. Murillo
2020
Baseline
Report: The People’s Internet - Measuring Progress towards Healthier Digital Ecosystems, with Ever Bussey and Greta Byrum – The New School for Social Research, Digital
Equity Lab and Community Tech NY
2016
“Using New Tools: An Interview with
Erica Kermani”, by J. Soto, Temporary Art Review
AFFILIATIONS
Aki-Kindi-Lazul Artist Coven
Eyebeam, Alum
Feminists for Jina NYC
Global Action Project, Board of Directors (2019-2021)
Hive NYC Learning Network, Member (2012-2019) & Leadership Grantee (2017-2018)
Jewish Voice for Peace, various action affinity groups
Just Tech
Queer Arts & Technology (QUAT) Research Group (2013-2015)
Radical Connections Network
Raha Iranian Feminist Collective
Shadow Work Media, Co-Founder & Worker-Owner, Collective Member
STOP NYPD Spying & RadTech (2019-2020)
South of the Navy Yard Artists (SONYA), Secretary, Board of Directors (2012-2015)
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, Volunteer, NYC and Athens, Greece (2015-2018)