We are thrilled to announce that two amazing Artists in Residence, Solveig Suess and Laura Tripaldi, are joining us to provide student research opportunities. Throughout the upcoming academic year, they will develop a research project and offer fellowships for student involvement. If you're eager to engage in research opportunities, mark your calendar for the upcoming seminar, where they will provide in-depth insights into their research projects.
In the meantime, a sneak peek at their research is below:
Solveig Suess works within the fields of documentary film and artistic research. She draws on feminist science and technology studies, the environmental humanities and visual ethnography to examine questions of power, perception and epistemic politics, while using filmmaking as an intimate practice within global processes. Her research at NYU Shanghai is a continuation of her film project, Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains, set along the Mekong River and within the downstream politics of hydroelectric development, in which the river becomes a device to understand a series of infrastructural transformations between China and Southeast Asia.
Laura Tripaldi is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, and materials scientist. Her research focuses on the intersection of science and technology with art, design, and speculative thinking. She is interested in how emerging material technologies, like soft robotics, smart materials, and nanotechnology, transform our relationship with matter and shape our visions of the future. Building on the research published in her book Parallel Minds (Urbanomic, 2022), and leveraging new materialist thinking, cybernetic and post-cybernetic theories, as well as philosophy of mind, Laura's project will explore the cognition and agency of technological artifacts, ranging from nanorobots to biological computers and beyond.