Aftermath: About the 2024 exhibition artists
Emissions of a Real Fantasy:
The Aftermath of Fresh Kills
Helmuth Rosales researches and crafts imagery of radical spaces, rendering them with a toolkit borrowed from architecture, game design, and science fiction. His work compounds the spatial realities of a site into a virtual representation that speaks to the site's truths while unearthing fantastical undercurrents. The work is at the service of storytelling and creative documentation, with the understanding that the world’s spatial reality has always been changing and will never stay the same.
Chaosphere
Angel Mai is a mixed media artist who works with 3D environments, projection mapping, and interactive audio. Her work explores landscapes of information technology, data transfer across mediums, and technological encroachment. Zongze Chen is an artist and creative technologist who explores the non-linguistic relationship between humans, physical matters, and information. Sharell Bryant is a computer scientist but also an NYC-based independent songwriter who ponders universal insecurities, fears, and heartache with vital, pop-leaning originality. Yitong Chen is a new media artist who makes work at the intersection of art and technology, responding to the consequences of the digital age and its conditioning of human existence.
NYC Clock
Trained as an architect, Saralee Sittigaroon is a Thai multidisciplinary designer in New York City. Her work revolves around the interplay of bits, atoms, and humans, crafting new interfaces for paradigm-shifting and enjoyable experiences. In ongoing research, she focuses on clock time, exploring clock interfaces and their impact on space and life. Saralee holds a Master of Computational Design Practices from Columbia University GSAPP and a Bachelor of Architecture from Chulalongkorn University. Ziyu Zhang is an interdisciplinary designer specializing in UI/UX Design, Creative Coding, and Data Visualization. She is a graduate of Columbia University in Computational Design and focuses on AIGA immersive work. With a deep passion for the intersection of technology and aesthetics, she always pursues a sense of romance and poetic vibes in her design. She thrives on projects where she can create digital works that are thoughtfully conceived with innovative concepts and distinctive visual expression.
Parcel ATM
Raphaël Laude is a full-time urban planner and spatial analyst, part-time artist and serial hobbyist. Raphaël blends personal and professional interests to explore how the visual languages of maps and data translate to other media. He is particularly interested in how sociotechnical systems evolve and what artifacts they leave behind, digitally and physically. Raphaël lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Plants: Informational Entities Over Time
Sonia Sobrino Ralston is a designer and researcher, and currently is the Research and Teaching Fellow in Art + Design at the Northeastern College of Media, Art and Design. Educated as a landscape architect and architect at Harvard and Princeton respectively, her work explores how plants and information systems collide in the built environment. She served as assistant curator for the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale, and she currently teaches multidisciplinary design courses at Northeastern and the University of Pennsylvania.
Pockets of Information:
Community Care in a Speculative New York
Claudia Berger and Gabriella Evergreen are librarians who integrate data with textiles and fiber arts to create data physicalizations. They are interested in how crafting data physicalizations can make stories more tangible, and exploring research questions in the digital humanities through this lens. Claudia Berger is a Digital Humanities Librarian at Sarah Lawrence College and Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt’s School of Information. Gabriella Evergreen is M.S.L.I.S. candidate at Pratt Institute.
Rat Revolution
Danny Yang is currently a software engineer at Meta, and a part-time freelance data visualization engineer. Lesley Huang is currently a news engineer at Hearst Newspaper, where she designs and develops interactive data visualizations. Pia Bocanegra is currently a product manager at Kikoff. Linda Yang is currently a junior at UCLA pursuing a major in Economics and minoring in Digital Humanities and Stats & Data Science.
Soil on the Move
Sophie Weston Chien is a designer-organizer who builds community power through social and ecological infrastructure to liberate sites and histories. Her practice draws on her background as an architectural and landscape designer, planner, and political organizer, with experience in writing, textile art, and graphic design. She has shown design and artwork, lectured, and written extensively for public and academic audiences in the US and worldwide.
Rezoning: At What Cost?
Tatiana Lahera Kalainoff is a multidisciplinary mixed raced designer and data visualization artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds degrees in architecture and data visualization and believes information is power, but has little to no value without context and a compelling story. In her work, she investigates the intersection of data, design, technology and storytelling with a focus on equitable access to information and providing opportunities for underrepresented voices to be heard.