Karyn Nakamura

I've been following Karin Nakamura for the last few years. She's been doing an amazing work creating installations, but also focusing on AI, syntax. She doesn't care about the mediums: she creates these crazy installations full of different software.
It's super fresh and exciting to see this lack of distinction in between the physical, the virtual, and the digital.

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ABOUT

Karyn Nakamura (b. 2001, Tokyo) is a Tokyo-born, New York–based artist and researcher whose work merges technical possibility with poetic inquiry. Originally entering MIT to study physics and history, she graduated with a B.S. in Art and Design, and has since made a name through ambitious installations that reconfigure media and hardware into unexpected forms — from a massive 400-foot interactive projection on a dorm façade and a 20-channel video organism in an abandoned Frank Gehry pub, to generative audiovisual constructions in Tokyo and lower_cavity (MA). Nakamura’s projects explore agency, communication, and the materiality of technology, often incorporating both cutting-edge computational logic and repurposed, obsolescent equipment. She has exhibited internationally, been recognized with the Steve Jobs Archive Fellowship (2024), Schnitzer Prize, Wiesner Award, and other honors, and continues to navigate art and research with an experimental, hands-on ethos.

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