BRIC and Data Through Design Present: Echo(logies)

Trpti Sanghvi is a New York–based creative technologist whose practice spans Odissi dance, algorithmic art, and embodied data exploration. Her work translates invisible systems into tangible human-scale experiences. Trained in neuroscience, she approaches technology as both an analytic tool and an expressive medium. Trpti works as a data scientist in healthcare and uses code to reveal patterns that surround us.

Vincent Zhu and HaoChe Hung are artists working at the intersection of design and technology. Vincent is a creative technologist working with computation and audiovisual media to build interactive experiences through visual, sound and light; HaoChe is an urban analyst and data visualization designer who transforms urban data into tangible, reflective experiences. Together, they create responsive installations that translate invisible patterns of the city into sensory and poetic expressions.

Becca Ellsworth is a ceramic artist who combines clay and embroidery to explore the contrasts of texture, fragility, and permanence. As an emerging urban planner, Becca integrates spatial data, fieldwork, and design to investigate how people navigate and shape the urban environment.

Becca Odell is a data specialist and urban planning student passionate about creating city spaces that put people first. After spending ten years developing embroidery skills, she is excited for her first show.

Charlotte Gartenberg is a writer, translator, podcaster and audio artist, who combines found sound with internet prowling to create immersive, humorous and provocative soundscapes. Ivan Himanen is an architect, urbanist, and storyteller whose practice seeks to democratize the built environment through social infrastructure interventions. Other than their marriage, their daughter and their life together, this is Charlotte and Ivan’s first creative endeavor as a team.

Karissa Whiting is a data scientist whose work integrates computational methods and data visualization to analyze patterns of disease. With an MS in Biostatistics from Columbia University, she is interested in using data to understand and communicate complex biological and social processes. Elizabeth Costa is a Brooklyn based artist and designer. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 2013 and uses her fine arts and industrial design background to design and fabricate installations and experiences for retail, events, photoshoots and more.

Craig Fahner is an artist, musician and educator. His research and creative work questions and reimagines the ways that algorithms and digital infrastructures shape everyday life. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Integrated Design & Media at New York University. A.L. Haley is a creative technologist, researcher, and mechanical engineer. Her work addresses ecology, surveillance, community, and the shortcomings of human attempts to engineer a perfect world. She is currently a graduate student in NYU’s Integrated Design & Media program.

Mark Heller and Mariel Collard Arias are designers and educators with the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Pratt Institute. Mark is a computational designer whose work involves building software for urban and environmental visualization, incorporating such technologies as parametrics, public data, and drones. Mariel is an architect whose work investigates ancestral practices, tools, and materials that build landscape competence and cultivate unmediated relationships with the living world.

Jingrong is a researcher at MIT exploring art, design, science, and cities. She focuses on social interaction in public spaces, racial and gender equity, and urban greenery and biodiversity. Her projects have been featured by the Council for the Arts at MIT, World Economic Forum, Venice Biennale, and Shanghai Library. Trained in urban planning, she holds a master’s degree in Applied Urban Science and Informatics from NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress.

Karla Rothstein, architect and educator, directs Columbia University GSAPP’s transdisciplinary DeathLAB and co-chairs the University Seminar on Death. Her work bridges research, pedagogy, and building through LATENT Productions, whose projects span affordable housing to large-scale adaptive reuse.

Ian Benjamin Callender, artist and designer, investigates material digital ecologies across architecture, infrastructure, and media archaeology. His work has been presented during the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023) and he is co-editor of the volume Provocations on Media Architecture.