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Ari Melenciano

Ari Melenciano (ITP'18) is an artist, designer, creative technologist, researcher, and educator who is passionate about exploring the relationships between various forms of design and the sentient experience. Currently, her research lies at the intersections of human-computer interactive technologies, societal impacts of technology, Black radical imagination, geo-political activism and counterculture, multisensory experiential design, biomimicry, architecture, experimental pedagogy and speculative design. Ari is the founder of Afrotectopia (created during her second year of ITP), a social institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation at the intersections of art, design, technology, Black culture and activism through collaborative research and practice. She currently teaches creative technology and design at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU's Dept. of Digital Photography and Imaging, Pratt Institute's Communications Design school, Hunter College's Integrated Media Arts MFA program, and as an Artist-in-Residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)'s Photographic and Electronic Media program, while earning a Master's of Architecture at the Pratt Institute.