Meet the Team

Audrey Oh

Research Specialist

Audrey Oh (Korean, b. 1996) is a new media artist who repurposes technology as a vessel for ritual, tradition, and collective meaning-making. With a background in race and ethnic studies and visual arts, her work draws on performance, cultural storytelling, and non-traditional research methodologies to explore the gaps where science and technology leave a vacuum. She is currently a second-year student in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

Sophia Collender

Research Specialist

Sophia Collender is a New York-based artist and researcher focused on investigating the systems that underpin daily life. Through microscopic and time-bending film, web development, and experiments in human computer interaction, Sophia uses materiality as a tool to explore the various scales of activity at work in our world.

Yafira Martinez

Lead Web Developer

Yafira Martinez (electrocute ✿) is a computer programmer, designer, and maker building at the intersection of software, hardware, and design. She creates web, UI, and physical interfaces that blend code, craft, and aesthetics into human-centered technologies — from e-textiles and soft circuits to tools for everyday makers. Currently an NYU ITP graduate student, her practice spans interaction design, physical computing, fabrication, and creative experimentation, with a particular interest in calm and soft computing. She is passionate about open source and deeply committed to building tools that make making more accessible.

Christina Tran

Christina, also known as tunapee, is a Vietnamese-American creative technologist. She is a first year ITP student with a background in data science, physics, and industrial design. Her work explores how technology as a creative tool produces emergent and unexpected outcomes, and how whimsy and absurdity can serve as a critical lens to ask what our motivations are for building the things that we do. She makes silly videos to share her fabrication and web art work online.

Nava Daniel

Hi! I'm Nava. I just finished my first year at ITP and I'm excited for thesis in my second year! I'm very passionate about ludomusicology — game/system theory + ethnomusicology and instrument design — as a lens for critical geography and legal philosophy. Lately, I've been studying French fin de siècle and deconstructionist thought, depopulation theory, and Latinx American disruption. The way I work through all these heavy reading projects is by baking them into the instruments I make (and journaling constantly)!