CROSSINGS

June-September 2022

Leaf Mycelium

Mycelium sculpture molded in a large leaf

Mycelium Hexagon

Mycelium Hexagon scuplture

Fungitopia Table

bird's eye view of circle table with mycelium and mushroom sculptures

jars and viles

jars of organic material and mushrooms under small glass domes

fungitopia signs

behind view of 5 hanging signs

disc mushrooms

mushrooms growing from a circular patty

Fungitopia hands

sculptures grown from mushrooms and mycelium in front of circular projected video of hands

Mushroom

little mushroom growing from a jar on a table

fungitopia vase

vase-shaped sculpture grown from mycelium

fungitopia circle table

circle table with sculptures grown from mushrooms and mycelium

CROSSINGS

large lettering on column which read CROSSINGS

Hermes profile

profile of artwork iris and hermes electronic box with dials

Hermes portait

profile of artwork iris and hermes electronic box with dials

High view of CROSSINGS

above view of the art show CROSSINGS

Iris head on

Image of box with wires with unreadable description in front of it

Iris profile

profile image of box with wires with title The secrets of Iris and Hermes in the background

Iris and Hermes Landscape

Image of the artwork Iris and Hermes taken landscape

Soteria focus

Image of table full of jars in foreground with two children one wearing an oculus and a projected image on of a logo for Soteria on the wall

Ires and Hermes portrait

Image of the artwork Iris and Hermes taken portrait

Soteria goggles

Oculus goggles on white table in front of the squiggly image with the word soteria repeated

Soteria virtual

Soteria

Soteria title

Soteria title on the wall

Fungitopia hands

sculptures grown from mushrooms and mycelium in front of circular projected video of hands

CROSSINGS

large lettering on column which read CROSSINGS

Mushroom

little mushroom growing from a jar on a table

jars and viles

jars of organic material and mushrooms under small glass domes

fungitopia signs

behind view of 5 hanging signs

fungitopia circle table

circle table with sculptures grown from mushrooms and mycelium

disc mushrooms

mushrooms growing from a circular patty

fungitopia vase

vase-shaped sculpture grown from mycelium

Hermes profile

profile of artwork iris and hermes electronic box with dials

High view of CROSSINGS

above view of the art show CROSSINGS

Hermes portait

profile of artwork iris and hermes electronic box with dials

The panel and audience members at multimodality and academic publishing event

The panel sitting in front of audience members at multimodality and academic publishing event

The panel of multimodality and academic publishing event

Building Fungitopia

BUILDING FUNGITOPIA is a series of STEAM workshops for NYC youth to engage in biotechnology framed as an ecologically mindful space to work with fungi. Through hands-on making at the Snow Day Learning Lab and exploration at Riverside Park, we imagine future worlds where things are grown instead of built and where students learn with nature rather than only about it. The study of biotechnology as a learning space reveals the entangled dynamics between humans and nature, ancient and future technologies, organic and artificial materials, and indoor and outdoor learning spaces.

Isabel Correa
Nathan Holbert
Lucius Von Joo
Ayse Unal
Blake Danzig
Chenyou Wu

www.interspeciescreativity.com

Soteria

The city of Soteria captures experiences from the physical world and represents them in the immersive virtual reality to enhance an exchange of social support, and in doing so, reduce social isolation. In Soteria, remote workers will engage in self-disclosure, thereby bettering social connectedness and well-being during an unprecedented time, and in an expansive virtual cityscape.

Team Cerberus:

Jordan Burkland
Grace J. Choi
Blake DanzigPeople’s

Choice Award,
Innovation Award (INA) 2022

The Secrets of Iris and Hermes

THE SECRETS OF IRIS AND HERMES refers to ancient Greek gods whose roles were to deliver important messages to faraway places. Communicating at a distance has always captured the human imagination—from drums to beacons to the telegraph and beyond, we have continuously explored ways to encode our messages in forms that can be delivered at greater distances and with greater speed and accuracy. These Wi-Fi connected toys provide children with a panel of lights, switches, and dials that they can use to create their own coded messages and communicate secretly with a friend, exploring computational thinking and communications concepts in a meaningful way.

David Zikovitz
Tools and Toys for Knowledge Construction Final Project
ACM Interaction Design and Children 2022 Demo

People’s Choice Award,
Innovation Award (INA) 2022