"Meet The Fellows" Part 1!

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, we’ll have four of the spring 2022 project Fellows, Molly Soda, Matthew Siu, Khushbu Kshirsagar, and Torin Blankensmith, join us to share their work! 

Location: On zoom + the floor (TBD)!
Zoom link:  https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93441096874
Floor location: TBD (will be updated and announced when confirmed).

About the Fellows:

Molly Soda
Molly soda is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Nearly all of her work lives online, as she uses a variety of social media platforms to host her work, allowing the work to evolve and interact with the platforms themselves. Soda makes videos, installations, and web-based, interactive works that touch on concepts around performing the self, memory, aspiration, and consumer culture.

Matthew Siu
Matthew Siu is an interaction designer and storyteller. He is interested in how the digital mediums we use can support human creativity and expression. Supporting questions include how digital mediums can help people discover meaning, communicate complex ideas and increase individual agency. Literary forms such as poetry, non-fiction and fiction have been sources of inspiration in his explorations.

Khushbu Kshirsagar
Khushbu Kshirsagar is an artistically inclined engineer, maker and educator. Her work follows an interdisciplinary approach to making at an intersection of engineering design, art and mathematics. As a maker, she finds herself more intrigued by the "making process" than the final product and she finds it as expressive as story-telling. She designs educational technologies in the form of interactive mechanical art, paper zines and puzzles; with the intention to take one away from the computer screen, and to enable accessibility in tinkering while learning. Khushbu is currently developing Zine Machine, a paper-based math tinkering kit that uses two-dimensional mechanical movements to enable physical sense-making about mathematical functions.

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. His work in