On November 30, we will welcome Tega Brain for a lecture presented as part of the Fall 2021 Rutgers Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Register at art.rutgers.edu/design-lecture-series
Tega Brain is an Australian-born artist and environmental engineer whose work examines issues of ecology, data systems and infrastructure. She has created wireless networks that respond to natural phenomena, systems for obfuscating fitness data, and an online smell-based dating service. Her work has been shown widely including in the Vienna Biennale for Change and the Guangzhou Triennial. Her first book, Code as Creative Medium, is co authored with Golan Levin and published with MIT Press.
On November 16, we welcomed Nontsikelelo Mutiti for a lecture presented as part of the Fall 2021 Rutgers Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Register at art.rutgers.edu/design-lecture-series
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwean-born visual artist and educator. She is invested in elevating the work and practices of Black peoples past, present, and future through a conceptual approach to design, publishing, archiving practices, and institution building. Mutiti holds a diploma in multimedia from the Zimbabwe Institute of Digital Arts and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, with a concentration in graphic design.
On November 16, we welcomed Channel Studio for a lecture presented as part of the Fall 2021 Rutgers Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Register at art.rutgers.edu/design-lecture-series
Channel is an independent design and technology studio based in New York City specializing in digital products, identities and archives. Channel Studio was founded by Will Denton and Seth Kranzler in 2017 with the intention of radically rethinking the ways we discover, explore, and interact with content. Today Channel partners with global brands, technology startups, and cultural institutions to imagine futuristic interfaces and build them at scale. Channel aims to preserve and democratize the world’s knowledge and culture by making them more accessible.
On November 9, we welcomed Nika Simovich Fisher for a lecture presented as part of the Fall 2021 Rutgers Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Register at art.rutgers.edu/design-lecture-series
Nika Simovich Fisher is a designer, writer, and educator based in New York. She is a partner at Labud, a multi-disciplinary design and development studio. As a design educator, Nika teaches interaction design at Parsons School of Design as well as at The University of Pennsylvania. She is passionate about helping students develop a clearer sense of themselves that informs their research and design work. Nika’s written work focuses on how design changes over time, particularly on the internet. Her work is published in The New York Times and AIGA Eye on Design. Nika was born in Belgrade, Serbia and grew up in the United States. She holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design and is completing her masters degree in journalism from Columbia University.
On November 2, please join us in welcoming Cybele Grandjean for a lecture presented as part of the Fall 2021 Rutgers Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Register at art.rutgers.edu/design-lecture-series
Cybele Grandjean is a designer and educator specializing in branding, visual design, user experience, typography, and art direction. She has created websites, apps, and design systems for companies as diverse as Frog, The New York Times, Brown University, and Apple. Cybele is currently Design Director: Content Experience at Hearst where she serves as a liaison between the digital and product teams. She is a partner and co-founder of Area of Practice—a design and branding consultancy based in New York City.
