Artist Alumni Panel

Interactive Art Panel Talk with Chika, Molmol, and Jason Krugman.

CHIKA is a Japanese-born New York-based artist who works in light sculptures, audiovisual performances, and technology.
She received her BFA at the School of Visual Arts and her Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. As an educator, she is the founder of a projection mapping and LED pixel mapping workshop, Mappathon™, teaching mapping techniques and technology, from conceptualizing to finalizing the installation and artist development through her practice.

Molmol is an art worker who works with technology. She is interested in visualizing human experiences that would otherwise remain invisible to others. Her recent research focuses primarily on body and movement in public space.
Molmol is an artist in residence at Google Art and Culture Institute and Adobe, working primarily on creative applications around Augmented Reality. She is a Media Fellow at the Bric Media Center to produce content for the Brooklyn Free Speech Program. Her art and work is featured on National Geographic’s Tech + Art: Obscuring Reality, Vice Media’s creator Project, Ted Talk, and the Brooklyn Free Speech Program.
When she is not in front of a computer or a soldering station, she volunteers for the Sanctuary for Families in New York to advocate for victims of violence and sex trafficking, and she works with survivors of gender-based violence to rebuild their lives beyond trauma.
She is a partner at YesYesNo Studio which uses technology to create wonder and delight.

Blending craft with technology, Krugman works to discover new ways of arranging electricity in three dimensions. His sculptures often use their physical structure to conduct electricity allowing thousands of lights to sit softly amongst minimal wire forms. Krugman holds two US patents and has numerous permanent LED installations in the United States, Asia and Europe. Krugman Studio is located at New Lab in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, an old ship-fabrication facility that now houses dozens of small companies inventing new types of hardware and software.