Current Residents

Thumbnail Carrie Mae RoseComputational Fashion Fellow Carrie Mae Rose is a sculptor, performer and interactive installation artist creating Wearable Weapons, Agave Armor, and interactive costumes that awaken the power of vulnerability.  By using materials that can create shock and deadly injury, she brings a heightened sense of caution, reverence, and pushes the boundary of...
Thumbnail CHiKACHiKA is an interactive visual artist and an educator. She creates a minimalist geometric visual narrative in sync with the sounds of live music performance in addition to interactive projection mapping installations that explore the relationship between visual, light, sound and public audience. She is a creator of a 3 day projection mapping workshop...
Thumbnail Greg LeuchGreg Leuch is a creative & user interaction designer with specialty in user interface design, usability, front-end production, and feature development. He and his work have been internationally featured by NBC, The Guardian, CBC, TIME, ARTINFO, MTV, The Creators Project, and GOOD, and has received numerous Reddit frontpages, high-fives, and death...
Thumbnail Hadjar HomaeiBorn and raised in Tehran, Iran, Hadjar Homaei is a Seattle-based computer scientist, specializing in computational cognitive modeling, machine learning, and user experience design. Her research and development work is mostly focused on using machine learning and natural language processing techniques for structured improvement of people's...
Thumbnail Joe McKayJoe is an interdisciplinary New Media artist. He uses many mediums in his practice including; web, photo, video, sculpture, games and performance.  At the center of Joe's practice is an interest in human interaction with everyday technologies. He explores this with a playful sense of humor. Recently, Joe is interested in creating...
Thumbnail Katayoun VaziriKatayoun Vaziri  was born and raised in Iran and is currently based in New York. Vaziri draws on a wide range of cultural references to question the linearity of political and social narratives. She received an MFA from Yale University in 2009 and a BFA from Tehran University in 2005. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in San Francisco, London,...
Thumbnail Kristin LucasKristin Lucas is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work investigates the uncanny overlaps of virtual and lived realities, and the physical and psychological effects of technologies on perception of time and space, behavior, and identity. Her video, installation, networked performance, intervention, augmented reality, and hybrid media works...
Thumbnail Lauren McCarthyLauren McCarthy is a designer/artist/programmer/person. She holds an MFA from UCLA Design | Media Arts. Her work explores the structures and systems of social interactions, identity, and self-representation, and the potential for technology to mediate, manipulate, and evolve these interactions. She is fascinated by the slightly uncomfortable moments when...