Faculty Projects
The Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia: Reimagining Cities within the Brazilian Rainforest, Kent Larson. Image courtesy of the artist
The Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia: Reimagining Cities within the Brazilian Forests
Envisioning sustainable Amazonian cities at COP30
Fungi prototype. Image courtesy of the artist.
Of Boar and Fungi: A Nuclear Love Affair
Exploring radioactive entanglements in post-Chernobyl forests
Rendering for Touching Grass, A Digitally Physical Experience. Courtesy of Joshua Higgason.
Touching Grass, A Digitally Physical Experience
Blurring the digital and natural through immersive experience
My Onliness. Credit: One Eight Theater, Soho Think Tank, and IRT Theater.
My Onliness
A nonconformist and playful performance about the possible nightmares of the near future
Golden City Album Cover. Courtesy of Miguel Zenón.
Golden City
An extended musical composition for Large Ensemble, inspired by California’s rich and complex history.
Professor Jen Light performs partner acrobatics
Thinking on Your Feet
Exploring the potentials of embodied education through dance
KINETIC. Photo credit: Ben Doyle
Kinetic Ensemble
“Agile virtuosity and vibrant sound… brilliantly executed” — Arts and Culture Texas
Jaffer Kolb and Ivi Diamantopoulou, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Queer Assemblies
Three installations evoking famed architect Bruce Goff’s eclectic palette
Derek David. Photo Credit: Courtesy of the artist.
Di Fayerdike Libe – Passionate Love – די פֿײַערדיקע ליבע
Exploring modern love through Yiddish music and culture
Magma Matter, Cristina Parreño Alonso, Courtesy of the artist.
Magma Matter
Reconsidering the aesthetics of function
Ekene Ijeoma, featuring Dr. Kristín Taylor, Dr. Bryan Stanley, Deconstructed Anthems: Nebraska 12 (2015)
2021.
Software-generated score, incarceration data, piano, machine-plotted ink drawings, duration 18:12 min. Installation view, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, USA
Photo by Colin Conces courtesy of Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts
Sonifying the increasing loss of Black Americans to carceral systems
Joshua Bennett performs America Will Be (2022).
The People’s Poetry Archive
Uniting voices with a living archive of African diaspora poetry
*Spider's Canvas / Arachnodrone*, Palais de Tokyo, 2018. Credit: Aurelie Cenno.
Arachnodrone
A three-dimensional spider web soundscape
The Pilgrimage. Grid of stills from video interpolations trained on the archival and individual photo documentation of key Yugoslavian memorial monuments. Courtesy of the artists.
Bootleg Futures — The Pilgrimage | Pionirsko Hodočašće
Injecting missing pieces of the past into the datasets used by predictive algorithms in order to influence the future of architecture
Xavi Laida Aguirre'sProofing: Resistant and Ready at the Venice Biennale, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
Proofing: Resistant and Ready
Exploring the promises and pitfalls of plasticity
Testbeds Pilot Project, The Garden by the Bay Community Garden in Edgemere, Queens.
Testbeds
A new life for the byproducts of architectural design
Dancer Marcus McGregor in Dan Safer's History of Empires. Credit Christopher L. Hicken.
The History of Empires
Cheerfully nihilistic dance/theater by the iconoclastic Witness Relocation/Dan Safer
One of the augmented-reality motifs in the new production of “Parsifal” at Bayreuth, directed by Jay Scheib. Credit: Bayreuth Festival
Parsifal
Augmenting Richard Wagner’s Bühnenweihfestspiel, Parsifal
A digital rendering of the Green Mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan, a 16th Century building. Image: Nikolaos Vlavianos.
Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan
Generating digital twins to document endangered heritage sites in Afghanistan
Kazuko Ishii and a black telephone, TeleAbsence. Image courtesy of Hiroshi Ishii.
TeleAbsence
Addressing the vast emotional distance caused by the loss of a loved one
Map courtesy of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.
Native America: The Choctaw Music of Charles Shadle
Capturing contemporary classical music by a living Choctaw composer
Ken Urban's The Conquered. Courtesy of the artist.