DxD 2025 – Corpus: Bodies of Data

Simon(he/him) and Elias(he/him) have been working together since 2021, when they collaborated on several projects at the design office NADAAA. Since then, Simon has begun pursuing his SMArchS in Design and Computation degree at MIT, where he is continuing research into overlooked infrastructures and their civic potentials. He holds an M.Arch degree from Princeton University. Elias is currently pursuing his M.Arch II degree from the Harvard GSD, and holds a B.Arch from Cornell University.

Mauricio Delfin (he/him) is an artist, researcher, and expert in cultural policies and civic technologies, focusing on making culture and arts policies more democratic and transparent. As director of Realidad Visual, a Peruvian media arts organization, he headed the creation of artworks, international media art exhibitions, publications, and initiatives that examined the intersections of art, culture, and technology. Mauricio’s creative practice involves documentary filmmaking and other time-based and sequential media. He currently works as a member of UNESCO’s Expert Facility and Co-directs the Culture and Arts Policy Institute in NYC.

Michelle (she/her) is a technologist, researcher, and artist exploring the intersections of data, design, and urban life. As a Cantonese American, her work is shaped by a pursuit of identity and multicultural motifs.

She is pursuing her M.S. in Urban Technology at Cornell, worked with the United Nations, developed urban air quality detection algorithms, and co-founded the Art + Tech Collective. Through digital fabrication and data storytelling, she examines environmental justice, using technology to elevate marginalized voices and reimagine the built environment.

Cass Yao explores the concept of bodily modification, iInvestigating the construct of alternative corporeality. Yao envisions deformed representation of flesh, their endurance to violence, and their innate restorative resilience. Alison Long is a interdisciplinary designer specialized in data visualization and the digital humanities and currently is a graduate student at Pratt Institute. Keyarow is a qualitative UX researcher, focusing on digital analysis and community advocacy.

Matías and Arden are NYC-based creative technologists exploring the intersection of society and biology through immersive installations and simulations. With backgrounds in computer science, they bring complementary perspectives: Matías, from Chile, approaches work through data science and interactive experiences, while Arden, from California, focuses on complex systems and spatial design. Together, they create ambitious works that invite speculation on the future. Both are completing their MFA in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design.

Natch Quinn (he/him) is a designer/maker specializing in fabrication, architecture, and data visualization. Raised in shops and studios emphasizing materiality and craft, he brings a tactile and detailed lens to his work across scales and mediums. His designs combine both digital and analog processes, bringing handmade details and customization to modern digital fabrication techniques. Centering environmental topics and critical thinking methodologies, he believes in the power of visual artifacts. 

Nishra Ranpura (she/her) is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, creative technologist, and educator. Her work explores the interactions between the physical and the digital through experimental and speculative narratives. She researches, practices, and teaches across the disciplines of new media, digital fabrication, digital design, creative technology, and design research. Essentially, she makes things and breaks things. Sometimes, she writes, and oftentimes, she wonders.

Aida Razavilar is a systems neuroscientist at Mount Sinai working to advance scientific facts, foundations, and subsequent discourse around psychiatric disorders. With a multidisciplinary toolkit rooted in science, she seeks to similarly illuminate insights through the arts. Paul Hanna is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and graduate student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Through his art, Paul seeks to challenge and address themes within race, ecology, and technology.

Jessica Reisch (she/they) is a new media artist, designer, and educator. Her audiovisual projection-based installations collaborate with ecosystems through techniques like field recordings and microscopy. Her installations and films have been shown internationally, including at Locust Projects in Miami, FL, SIGGRAPH 2024 in Denver, CO, International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2024 in Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia, The Engine Room in London, and Rockaway Artist Alliance sTudio 7 Gallery in Far Rockaway, NY.