Our downstairs area showcases artists and makers incorporating projection mapping, interactivity, camera tracking, custom hardware, data visualization, and more. More details, to be announced.
Featuring works by:
- Nabira Ahmad
- Jenesis Blancaflor
- Chris Brasil
- Owen Caldwell
- Yannairis Cruz
- Dariana Gonzalez
- Jay Kim
- Adit Mandal
- Anagha Menon
- Pranav Ramkumar
- Louie Rivera
- Chloe Rodriguez
LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island
For more information on this show, visit the main exhibition page.
List of Works
Before We Go
Before We Go is a projection-mapped visualization of the lives of the artists, Nabira Ahmad, Jenesis Blancaflor and Dariana Gonzalez. The visuals showcase journeys of childhood, adolescence and adulthood through photos and video memories as well as text collected throughout the artists’ lives. Each compartment reveals a different stage of life or nature, creating a reflection of memory and growth. The piece implements MAX/MSP for projection mapping and p5.js for the additional text elements.
Jenesis Blancaflor is a programmer and designer from Northern California, currently based in New York City. While her work and studies are grounded in computer science, she’s especially drawn to creative coding and physical computing and the ways technology can be used for personal expression. She enjoys blending logic with artistry, building interactive experiences that live at the intersection of code, design, and human connection.
Website: jenesisblancaflor.com
Dariana Gonzalez is a programmer and designer from the Dominican Republic, currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. She studies Computer Science and Integrated Design & Media, focusing on the intersection of technology and creativity. At NYU, Dariana has been exploring how innovative design can drive the development of meaningful, real-world applications. Her passion lies in creative technology and reimagining user experiences to be more inclusive and accessible for everyone.
Website: darianagonzalez.webflow.io
Nabira Ahmad is a programmer and web developer from Queens, New York. She is finishing her bachelors in Computer Science at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, with minors in Integrated Design and Media and Game Engineering. She’s interested in interaction design, game design, and computer vision.
Github: https://github.com/nabiraahmad
Without Words
Without Words is an abstract visualization of language that exists at the intersection of code, literature, and data visualization. Different texts are parsed and visualized such that each line represents one sentence and individual dots represent words. Reimagining literature as an abstract representation, Without Words writes without words.
Chloe Rodriguez is a writer and designer based in New York City.
Night Shift
Night Shift uses a Frame Differencing technique commonly used in surveillance technology to plot the movements of people in an exhibition space. A camera takes a photo of the empty environment and a p5.js program calculates the difference between the original image and the latest updated frame. Positions are plotted live on a digital screen, higher speeds are represented with red coloring and decaying trails are drawn to show movement.
Inspired by Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns, and Sovit Ranjan Rath’s DebuggerCafe article on moving object detection.
Owen Caldwell is an artist and web designer born in Wilmington, Delaware. His work includes a spec redesign of the FDA’s Nutrition Facts label and an L-system pattern generator for his senior project at NYU Tandon. Owen also designs and develops websites for clients and fellow artists in need of a unique digital presence.
Website: www.owencaldwell.info
Color Crescendo
Color Crescendo is a Max project that connects color and sound to create various sound tracks of peace and tranquility creating soothing soundscapes inspired by the visual spectrum. By translating hues and tones into melodic elements, this project transforms color into an auditory experience, evoking calming and harmonious tracks. Each color is mapped to a musical scale, allowing listeners to immerse themselves in a combination of sight and sound. Whether through blues, reds, or greens, Color Crescendo offers a multisensory journey that calms the mind and soothes the soul. Perfect for relaxation or creative inspiration.
Chris Brasil is a programmer from New Rochelle, New York, and a junior at NYU. He has a great affinity for technology, Chris’ focus is on software development and computer science, honing skills in areas like algorithms, game design, and system programming. Throughout their academic journey, Chris has worked on various projects, combining creativity and technical expertise to solve complex problems. Always eager to learn and grow, he is particularly interested in computer vision within gaming and software development.
Website: https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/chrisbrasil/home
Instagram: @chris_brasilll
The Petals in Shapes
The Petals in Shapes is an interactive visual that uses shapes to create different kinds of flowers. The visual allows for the polar rose to be made, which uses polar coordinates to create various flowers. The visual uses different layers in order to demonstrate how polygons can also be used to form an image that can seem to appear as a flower.
Yannairis Cruz is a Hispanic programmer studying Computer Science at NYU, born and raised in New York City. She is always eager to learn and be able to apply her skills to different situations. Yannairis is passionate about bringing more Hispanics into the STEM field.
Instagram: @yannidk__
The TempSphere
The TempSphere is an interactive global temperature visualizer. This project consists of a dashboard showcasing several visualizations techniques to display temperature data, as well as displaying the evolution of the world’s temperature anomaly throughout the years. It was implemented using D3.js.
Anagha Menon, Indian born and Philippines raised, is a Visual Designer based in New York City.
Website: www.anghmnn.com
Liquid Echo
Liquid Echo is an immersive audio-reactive visualizer that reimagines the iconic MilkDrop experience for modern audiences. Inspired by the retro internet aesthetic of the 90s and early 2000s, this interactive installation transforms sound into hypnotic visual patterns using Max 9’s real-time rendering capabilities. Users can experience mesmerizing liquid geometries, waveform-driven warping, and vibrant color morphing that responds dynamically to music or voice input. With multiple visual presets that mimic the beloved cycling variation of the original MilkDrop, Liquid Echo serves as both a functional music visualization tool and a nostalgic portal to digital experiences of the past.
Pranav Ramkumar, Indian born and Saudi Arabia-raised, and Louie Rivera, a native New Yorker, are computer science seniors collaborating on digital media projects that bridge audio and visual technologies. Their shared passion for nostalgic computing aesthetics led them to explore how iconic visualizers like MilkDrop can be reimagined through contemporary programming tools. This project represents their interest in computational audio processing and real-time visual programming, creating experiences that feel familiar to those who experienced the early 2000s digital landscape and fascinating to newer generations encountering these aesthetics for the first time.
Pranav’s Instagram: @g_p_r228
Louie’s Instagram: @L00nyLouie
Seeing Red
Seeing Red is an experimental expression of how our mind deals with large amounts of news. Born out of a collection of headlines from the past few years, of which violence and conflict is represented by the color red, we are randomly presented with fleeting views of the moving whole. The data blurs together, often obscuring, and rarely— but sometimes flaring, of “Red”, inviting the viewer to reexamine their own perception against their relationship to information.
Jay Kim is a South Korean creator, briefly working from a NYU undergraduate program.
Performances from the Demo Stage
See the following performers on (Sat) 5/3 at 3PM
Granular Analysis
Granular Analysis is a granular synthesis based performance with the aim of reflecting on the current geopolitical reality of the global citizen.
Medo Mandel is a music composer, producer, and sound designer from India.. His work includes the original score for El Rancho de Pasión, an official selection at the 2025 Watsonville Film Festival, and his debut single Euthanasia, which reached over 1,000 streams on Spotify.
CTRL+U
CTRL+U combines live coding on Strudel with audio processing and visuals with Max to create an inviting and immersive audiovisual performance. Using Strudel to write music, Max to generate visuals and process bass guitar input, and a game controller to tie everything together, CTRL+U utilizes a unique interface that invites the audience to control the performance as well. The performance features bright audio and visuals that emphasize thoughts of control, decisions, and interaction.
Abby Sophia Santos is a programmer and designer born and raised in Astoria, Queens. At NYU, Abby has delved into collaborative live coding performances (4C1D R3FL3X at NYU Algorave 2024), combining audio and visuals with various softwares and hardwares such as Strudel, Sonic Pi, Hydra, Arduino, and p5.js. Abby has also developed and designed both video games and interactive applications with fellow computer scientists and designers at NYU.
Website: abbytime.itch.io
GitHub: github.com/abbys4
Instagram: @ybba.s