I’m a New York–based cultural strategist and researcher working at the intersection of contemporary art, emerging technologies, and the sciences. Over the past decade, I have shaped complex, collaborative projects that translate experimental research into compelling public form—building the conceptual, technical, and institutional structures that allow ambitious work to take hold.
I am currently Studio Manager and former Director of Research at Anicka Yi Studio, where I have led research and development for projects ranging from kelp-based sculptures to autonomous floating machines to paintings and video produced through machine learning. The studio’s work has been presented internationally at institutions including Tate Modern, the Venice Biennale, TED, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, and the Leeum Museum of Art. My curatorial practice includes symposia and exhibitions developed with partners such as Pirelli HangarBicocca, Stanford University, and NEW INC.
I steward seven-figure, multi-stakeholder budgets across international productions and institutional timelines, build artist-centered systems, and develop ethical cross-sector partnerships. I hold an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design, where I have designed and taught graduate and core curriculum courses as a part-time faculty member. I participated in NEW INC’s Year 7 Creative Science Track and remain an active community member. My work is grounded in equity-driven leadership and sustainable growth rooted in care.
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Studio Management & Research Direction
The Ediacaran Swimmers, British Land and Royal London Asset Management, 2025
There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One, UCCA, Beijing, 2025
There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, 2024
A Shimmer Through The Quantum Foam, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2023
Avant l'Orage at Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, 2023
Symbionts, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2022
ÄLñ§ñ, Gladstone 24th St, New York, 2022
Anicka Yi: Intelligent floating machines inspired by nature, TED: A New Era, Vancouver, 2022
Metaspore, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2022
In Love With The World, Hyundai Commission, Tate Modern, London, 2021
May You Live In Interesting Times, Venice Biennale, Venice, 2019
We Have Never Been Individual, Gladstone, Brussels, 2019
Recent Exhibitions and Curation
Frequencies We Can't Yet Name, Creative Science Showcase, DEMO 2025, NEW INC
Metaspore Symposium 2023: The Networked Sensorium, Stanford University & Four One Nine, 2023
Symposium Sensory Ecologies, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, April 2022
Shadow Metabolism, Solo Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Department of Architecture, NY, March 2022
Guest Lecture Series: Simulated Life, Fluid Machines, and Hypernatural Studio, Design and Technology, Parsons, NY, 2020-2021
Writing and Editing
There Exists Another Evolution, But In This One, CONG 002, December 2025
Anicka Yi: The Sensory Ecology of Intelligence, Interspecies Future: A Primer, LAS Art Foundation, April 2024
Peacock Feathers In The Machine, Antennae, Spring 2024
Anicka Yi: Metaspore, Catalog, Editor, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Sept. 2022
Anicka Yi, Hyundai Commission Catalog, Associate Editor, Tate Modern, London, May 2022
The edge of life-as-we-know-it: Aesthetics of decay within artificial life and art, Technoetic Arts 19, June 2021
Soft Rot, Sweet Rot, Bitter Rot: The Politics of Decay, Heichi Magazine, May 2021
As If They Were Thinking: New Aesthetics of ‘Thought’ in Machine Learning, Proceedings of Art Machines 2, City U HK, June 2021
Militain Us, The New Inquiry, 56, November 2016
Virulence in the Virtual, The New Inquiry, 54, August 2016
Unfit For Consumption, The New Inquiry, 48, January 2016
Decompose Institute
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Teaching at Parsons School of Design
Sustainable Systems, Parsons First Year, Core Curriculum, Spring 2022
Simulated Life, Design and Technology, Original Graduate Course, Spring 2021
Fluid Machines, Design and Technology, Original Graduate Course, Fall 2020
Hypernatural Studio, Design and Technology, Original Graduate Course, Spring 2020
Core Studio: Virtual and Networked Environments, Design and Technology, Spring 2020
Core Studio: Creative Systems and Methodologies, Design and Technology, Fall 2019
Core Studio: Virtual and Networked Environments, Design and Technology, Spring 2019
Code 1: Creative Computation, Design and Technology, Fall 2018
Teaching Assistant, Immersive Storytelling, University Liberal Arts, Spring 2017