A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
This past semester, archivists-in-training from the School of Information worked to make accessible several feet of unprocessed materials from the Pratt Institute Archives, ranging from Pratt Center community projects to The Black Alumni of Pratt galas
Chair of Fine Arts Jane South spoke with The New York Times about the state of New York City. She noted that applications to Pratt’s Fine Arts program are up, indicating that artists still see the city as a place of hope. “[Artists] generate opportunities for themselves, for others. There’s a tremendous amount of that going on.”
Associate Professor in the School of Information Nancy Smith is presenting at the Data | Art Symposium at Harvard. Her presentation, “Environmental Data & Fiber Arts: Experiments in Stitching, Quilting, and Sculpture,” explores her recent work in data physicalization and slow technology.
Ananda Ray, BFA Digital Arts ’24, presented on the Apollo Theater’s Career Panel, “Beyond the Algorithm: New Voices in AI & AR.”
Agnes Questionmark, MFA Fine Arts ’25, was featured in Art in America. A work by Questionmark titled Draco Piscis is also being presented at the Banca Ifis International Sculpture Park at Villa Fürstenberg.
Assistant Professor in the School of Information Kathy Carbone presented “Amplifying Refugee Voices: Art, Memory, and Collective Interventionist Archiving” at the Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, she published an essay in the inaugural issue of perhaps magazine, “Art Against Erasure: The Amplification Project’s Digital Archive of Forced Migration.”
Siwoo Kim, BFA Film ’25, was accepted into the 2025 Sundance Institute Ignite X Adobe Fellowship. The fellowship, which is awarded to ten emerging filmmakers, “identifies and supports new voices and talent from the next generation of filmmakers and fosters fresh audiences for independent storytelling.”
Jack McKernan, Lauren Holmes, and Cleo de Lasa, all MSLIS ’26, presented their paper, “The Revolution, In Boxes,” at the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2025 conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on May 19–21, 2025.
Sixty-five projects were presented at this year’s InfoShow, representing the work of over 100 students, with over 350 attendees. You can find the program here with detailed information on each presentation. Awards were presented to Jocelyn Fung, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’26, (School shootings and the manosphere: spatially correlated or moral panic?); Jeffrey Delacruz, MSIXD ’25, Chieh Lei, MSIXD ’25, Qasim Malik, MSIXD ’26, Yuri Minami, MSIXD ’25, Indrani Thool, MSIXD ’25, and Pete Wise, MSIDX ’25, (Internet of Things (IoT) Class project demos); Simran Kaur, MSIXD ’26, (Beyond the Western Gaze); and Shreedhar Verma, MSIXD ’25, (Visualizing Cognitive Health: Data Viz in Healthcare).
James Garrison, adjunct professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design (GA/LA/UD), was interviewed in Gothamist for an article on whether modular housing can address New York City’s housing crisis. “One of the great benefits of modular construction is that it assembles very rapidly, sometimes in half the time of a conventional building,” he said. “So that means that that 10%, 12% construction loan that you’re paying now is cut in half.”
From Pratt Institute News
From Pratt Institute News
