We’re excited to announce the students of Code Societies, a 3-week summer session and welcome them into our community. This session will cover how different platforms and processes structure social organization and reinforce existing systems of power.
This session will be taught by Lauren McCarthy, danah boyd, Allison Parrish, Sarah Aoun, American Artist, Melanie Hoff, Dan Taeyoung, Shannon Mattern, and Taeyoon Choi. The syllabus for their classes can be found here.
Code Societies is organized by Melanie Hoff, and with teaching assistance from Ying Quan Tan.
Here is a little bit about our students below. You can meet them in person at our final showcase from 6:00p to 9:00p on July 21st at Prime Produce, NYC. Say tuned on Twitter for announcements, or sign up for our newsletter for updates.
Izzy Ocampo
stud1nt is a multi-disciplinary sound artist from Queens. Their work sits at the intersection of improvisation and meticulous approaches to composition. A member of the collectives #KUNQ and Discwoman, their work is especially attentive to queerness, the body, sound, and space. stud1nt has given workshops on creative production at Vassar College, the New School, Recess Art, Pioneer Works, Moogfest, and Ableton Loop.
http://stud1nt.nyc/ | @stud1nt | Github | stud1nt
Azul Ceballos
“Azul Ceballos was born in 1979 in Cordoba, Argentina. Her work combines video and sound installation, generative technology, interactivity, and participatory art, photography, and works on paper. She studied Fine Arts at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina and various studies in technology and design. Additionally to her individual practice, she has participated in collectives like ObjetoAjeno and Recolectivo, both engaged in Public Art and New Media in Argentina.
Her work has been shown at the National Fine Arts Museum of Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Recoleta, and Centro Cultural San Martin, among other institutions and alternative spaces in New York, Portugal and Argentina. She received the Sony Corporation Europe Young Artists Award 2000, juried by the Documenta XI curator Okwui Enwezor among other remarkable international contemporary art curators.”
Greyory Blake
I am an artist currently residing in Richmond, VA and New Brunswick, NJ. My artwork directly combats the ideological foundations, capital cultism, and self-individuation principals that perpetuate the algorithmic bias and invisible labor that occurs under Digital Taylorism. I’m not sure if I should have written that in first or third-person.
greyory.com | @greyory | Github
Ruth Johnstone
Ruth is a Glasgow based artist striving to negotiate technology-oriented nostalgia through print media, poetry and computation. She possesses an unyielding infatuation with electronics, graphic/web design, philosophy and an even bigger monolothical love for Dolly Parton, making cassette tapes and scrolling through slime videos on the instagram explore page.
Jenny Nelson
Jenny Nelson is a writer and comedian from Chicago living in Brooklyn. Her work has been featured on The Hairpin, Funny or Die, and Splitsider. She is co-host of a live monthly comedy and lecture series called The Simple Show in Ridgewood, Queens.
jrnny.com | @jrnnynrlson | who.unfollowed.me
Maria Roszyk
Maria Roszyk (b. 1993, PL) is a media artist and researcher with a background in art history and printmaking. She works with found objects and materials creating both tangible and digital works refers to issues of embodiment. Her practice includes textile art, video, urban intervention, performance, Augmented and Virtual Reality experiences based on her photogrammetry sketches.
Lisa Larson-Walker
Lisa Larson-Walker is an artist, designer, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently the Art Director at Slate Magazine, and attended the Cooper Union School of Art.
http://cargocollective.com/l-l-w | @lrsnwlkr | Github | l_l_w
Kathryn Silverstein
Ryn is a queer Jewish writer and PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University. Her research interests include detection, speculative fiction, and Jewish diasporic magic. She believes in cats, and not in the capitalist construction of linear time.
@rynsilverstein | batpriestess
Nicolás Llano Linares
Colombian living in Brazil. PhD in Communication Sciences (São Paulo University). I write and translate. Currently working on my second book of conceptual poetry.
https://eca72.academia.edu/nlll | @enetreseles | clubdelosgallos
Cynthia Hoffman
I’m currently design lead for Bloomberg Data Visualization. Prior to that I was at Time Magazine and The Boston Globe. My journalism practice has focused on pulling apart story content, recognizing worn narratives and looking at the material anew.
@cornfact | Github
Luming Hao
Luming Hao is an occasional writer of code and music, and constant shuffler of to-do lists. They will begin attending NYU ITP this fall.
luminghao.com | @lh00000000 | Github | lh00000000
Tanja Hollander
Tanja Hollander is an artist who works with photography, video, social media and data to understand cultural and visual relationships. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1972 and received a B.A. in photography, film, and feminist studies from Hampshire College in 1994. Her last project, Are you really my friend? debuted in it’s entirety as an exhibition, short documentary and book at MASS MoCA in 2017.
www.tanjahollander.com | @tanjahollander | tanjahollander
Katy Gero
Katy is a poet and engineer seeking to find some space in between. She loves words and sound and the flow of getting sucked into a coding project.
katygero.com | @katyilonka | Github |
Katie Kovacs
I am a curious and friendly human. I want to learn more about how the Internet affects us and share these new understandings with others.
Annaka Olsen
Annaka Olsen is a designer for arts and cultural institutions and an amateur in almost everything else. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Rhode Island School of Design.
http://www.annakaolsen.com/ | @AnnaAnnaAnnaO | annakanotannika
Lynne Yun
Lynne Yun is a Brooklyn-based designer who specializes in type design, typography, hand lettering, and calligraphy. Lynne currently works as a full-time type designer at Monotype and previously held positions as a graphic designer at Apple, Publicis, and Deutsch. She holds a BFA in graphic design from the School of Visual Arts and a postgraduate certificate in typeface design from Type@Cooper.
www.lynneyun.com | @lynneyun
Pawas Bajaj
A GDMFA candidate at Maryland Institute College of Art, with interests in design for social impact, typography, jazz and techno music, and food from around the world!
Diana Dias
Diana is artist and designer living and working in Rio de Janeiro. She is interested on ways of expanding the uses of technical objects into poetic and affectionate levels on everyday life.
http://diasdiana.com/ | _diodi
Bailey Steele
Bailey Steele is a graphic designer by trade, and trusts in the power of visual art and design as a force for change. They are eager to explore the infinite correlations between digital sociology, urban design, reproductive rights, “the art world”, queerness, and transformative justice in the struggle towards a more loving future.
