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@dana_karwas
danakarwas.com
Dana Karwas is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in New Haven, Connecticut. Her work questions the relationship of the body to space through interactivity, sensory perception, and movement. Her practice is rooted in moving image and interactive sculpture and will occasionally extend to the scale of architecture.
Dana Karwas is the Director of Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) and a faculty member at the Yale School of Architecture. Her teaching focuses on mechanized perception and designing for alternative environments, including artifacts that perform in zero gravity and question the future of off-planet life. She holds a PhD in Urban Systems from NYU, an MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas.
Karwas’s creative practice explores human reference frames, emphasizing the boundaries of sensory perception and rendering the invisible visible. At CCAM, she leads the Ultra Space Lab and heads up the Maquette publication, where she has conducted interviews with Keller Easterling, Takashi Ikegami, and Sarah Oppenheimer. Her essays on unconventional architecture have appeared in publications such as Perspecta 56 and Paprika! She draws inspiration from the visionary work of Arakawa and Gins and from her collaborators.
Previously, Karwas served as Media Director for Maya Lin’s fifth and final memorial, What is Missing?, a global multimedia exhibition on climate change and endangered species. From 2013 to 2018, she was Industry Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media (IDM) at NYU, where she played a pivotal role in building IDM into a dynamic program blending design research and multidisciplinary experimentation with emerging technologies. She has also taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and NYU Courant Institute.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, museums, and festivals, including the Caracas Contemporary Art Museum, Artspace, The Helix Center, Exit Art, Karkula Gallery, The Center for Architecture, the Museum of the Moving Image, the Boston Museum of Science, ISOVIST Gallery, and the Chelsea Art Museum. Her projects and research have been supported by organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, Hewlett-Packard, Harvestworks, Eyebeam, NYU Provost’s Global Research Initiatives, and Tisch East.
Karwas recently directed the award-winning short film Ultra Space Terra Cosma, which reveals the creative processes behind designing artifacts for off-planet life.
@hullaballoo_
rachelmingwolf.com
Rachel Wolf is a multi-media artist based between Colorado, New York and Panama. Born in 1999 in New York Wolf grew up surrounded by the artistic influences of her city while also garnering an exacting relationship with nature in her travels to more remote enviroments. Wolf is extraordinarily unique in producing an artwork that explore forgotten and ignored materials from dead insects to soap. The focus on material and its potential relationships with other elements creates artworks that are both delicate and resilient in their ability to refocus the viewers attention toward the physical world.
@aarati.online
aarati.online
Aarati Akkapeddi (b. 1992 Edison, NJ) is a Telugu-American interdisciplinary artist, coder, and educator based on Lenape land (Brooklyn, NY). They create work that uncovers overlooked connections, histories, and relationships. Their process-driven practice integrates exhaustive research—including archival exploration, oral history interviews, and site-based investigations—with personal storytelling.
Aarati’s work often bridges the personal and the collective, exploring the interplay between memory, technology, and identity. Their projects frequently take the form of multi-modal series, combining mediums such as video, print, and digital platforms to present layered narratives. Their work has been supported by institutions such Ada X, The Photographers' Gallery, The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, ETOPIA Center for Art & Technology and LES Printshop. They currently teach at School for Poetic Computation.
@theteluguarchive
Sai Priya Kodidala is an independent writer and researcher from Hyderabad, India focusing on the intersection of Telugu literature, politics, history and art. Her past work includes a monthly column on Telugu socio-political history for Firstpost, an award-winning long form publication on the role of women in the people’s movements in Telangana published by The Caravan Magazine and upcoming book projects on Telugu translation. The Telugu Archive traces the rich socio-political history of resistance, civil rights and revolutionary politics of the Telugu-speaking regions through literature and art. Through archival research, translation, oral history and critical analysis, it documents and preserves the Telugu people's movements against colonial and feudal capitalist forces routinely overlooked or misrepresented in mainstream historical South Asian and dominant accounts. The project has been featured in The Hindu, The Indian Express, The Deccan Chronicle and the largest Telugu daily Eenadu among others.
@anniebielski
anniebielski.com
Annie Bielski’s paintings and drawings slide and drape between interiority and observation, landing in vivacious abstraction. She begins each work intuitively, often starting with bright and bold pour or paint or rendered shape on raw canvas. What follows is all in response to that first move. A sense of urgency, tension, playfulness, anxiety, ease, and working things out on the support’s surface may all be felt in the finished work.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, SEPTEMBER Gallery in Hudson, The University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery, and Paris London Hong Kong in Chicago. She writes about art and artists for various publications and creates artists’ books of writing and images often coinciding with exhibitions. Her work has been covered by Whitehot Magazine, Art News, Hyperallergic, MTV, and The New York Times. She received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from SUNY Buffalo. Bielski is represented by SEPTEMBER Gallery in Kinderhook, New York.
@lunch_m0n3y
lukacarter.com
Luka Carter is an interdisciplinary artist who lived on a boat for three years in Rockaway Beach, NY, a trailer in Bolinas, CA and plenty of places in between. The friends and community that he finds in each of these places has allowed for a strong, beautiful network of friendship and artistic collaboration, similar to what futurists might call tentacularity - “about life lived along lines, not at points, not in spheres.” With a background in construction and cooking, Luka has a knack for making space for art in overlooked or interstitial spaces–– including an outhouse, abandoned lot, and a van. His practice spans zines, furniture, tattoos, ceramics, clothing, and installations. He recieved a BA from Colorado College and an MFA from the University of Georgia and has been an artist in residence at Eureka!, Chautauqua School of Art, ACRE, and Anderson Ranch. Recent exhibitions include Baba Yaga Gallery (Hudson, NY) SCOPE Art Fair (Miami), Baltimore Print Fair, and Manitou Art Center.
@junecanedodesouza
junecanedodesouza.com
June Canedo de Souza works with painting, sculpture, and performance. She received an MFA from The Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College and is an alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent projects and exhibitions include The Geffen at MOCA, Los Angeles, On View at The Kitchen, New York, and MIMO Gallery, New York. Her books have been acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York University, Harvard University, the Getty Institute, and more. In 2022 she was a finalist for the Foundwork Artist Prize. She is currently a 2024-25 session artist at Recess, New York, and a 2024-26 Hamiltonian Fellow, Washington D.C.
@amandajasnowskipascual
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Amanda Jasnowski Pascual is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist based in Queens, NY. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally including Heavy Manners Library(LA), Recontres d'Arles(FR) and Sculpture Center(NY). Most recently, her practice utilizes photography, mixed media on paper, poetry and video. She is presently in school studying social work and works in an educational setting with preschoolers. Recent works explore imagination and narrative through a somatic lens.
@soniaruscoe
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Sonia Ruscoe is a painter and poet from and based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. She holds a BA from CUNY Brooklyn College. Her paintings have been shown at SEPTEMBER Gallery, Basilica Hudson, Baba Yaga, Better Read Than Dead, Lucas Lucas, and most recently a solo show at Nonchalant Gallery (all in NYC/HudsonValley). Elsewhere she has shown at Casa Lu, CDMX, 4WS space (LA), and in Richmond (VA) her works on paper were part of a performance where they were thrown into a hole and burned. In her recent paintings, narrative pushes into mysterious and abstract territories, where abstraction and the fantastic are utilized as accessible devices for describing more elusive concepts. As a result, an uncanny narrative world emerges where characters explore the social and philosophical fabric of reality, summoning vibes from early technicolor film musical dream sequences, shadows projected on window shades and flickering candle light.