"Meet The Fellows"
This past year, ITP/IMA launched a new Fellowship program where we’ve invited a handful of amazing individuals to join our department, either for a semester or for a year. And it’s time that you all meet the Fellows! In this round-table, ITP/IMA Fellows, Torin Blankensmith, Kameron Neal, Tony Patrick, and Sara Raza, will share about their work and practice.
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 5th, 6 PM
Location: Zoom
Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94524875176
About the Fellows
Torin Blankensmith
Torin is a creative technologist, real-time graphics artist, and educator focused on creating restorative mixed reality installations, interactive experiences, and open-source creative tools. His work explores emerging techniques in real-time graphics pulling inspiration from systems and patterns of emergent behavior in nature.
He's currently the Associate Director of Technology at Studio Elsewhere. His work involves creating large-scale interactive and immersive environments for medical professionals to alleviate stress, for patients in clinical studies aiding in neuroscience research on brain recovery, and for children during their visits to medical centers to improve their rehabilitation process.
Kameron Neal
Kameron Neal is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersections of media, performance, and design. He uses technology as a tool to encode history and craft compelling performances of self. A Princess Grace Awardee and NYSCA/NYFA Fellow, Kameron is currently a Public Artist in Residence in the NYC Department of Records where he is researching new ways to engage with the city’s municipal archives. In 2020, he co-created MukhAgni, an irreverent multimedia performance memoir that was presented at Under the Radar. He has also worked with clients like Billy Porter and Rufus Wainwright to bring their music videos and live performances to life. Kameron’s work has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, National Geographic, HYPEBEAST and presented by a variety of institutions including The Public Theater, BAM, Ars Nova, CultureHub, Digital Graffiti, New Orleans Film Festival, and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum. kameronneal.com
Tony Patrick
Tony Patrick is a WorldBuilder, Immersive Director, and founder of the Tenfold Gaming Initiative. As an author/director of numerous screenplays, documentaries (HBO) and published comics (Batman & The Signal, X'ed), Tony's penchant for creating fictional worlds has catapulted him into future-facing residencies sponsored by Sundance New Frontier, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Verizon 5G and Ryot, laying the foundation for a new XR format termed Experiential Comics. When he is not generating opportunities for underrepresented youth to pursue game design and innovation careers, he is catalyzing new artworks, prototypes, and civic solutions in his Community-WorldBuilding workshops (also known as the ReWriters Room) with artists, entrepreneurs, institutions, and communities-at-large.
Sara Raza
Sara Raza is an award-winning contemporary art curator and writer based in New York City, where she founded the curatorial studio Punk Orientalism, which specializes in global art and visual cultures, mainly from Central and Western Asia and its international diaspora. Between 2015–2018, she was the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator of Middle Eastern and North African art in New York where she built the collection and organized the acclaimed exhibition But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, which debuted in the capital in 2016, later traveling to the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan in 2018.
Alongside this, Sara has curated numerous other exhibitions for international museums, biennials, and festivals, including the Rubin Museum of Art, New York; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; the 55th Venice and Tashkent Biennials; and the 3rd Baku Public Art Festival, among others