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Exhibition: The Space Between Words
Upcoming workshop: Translating text into kolam prints
About

I would like to acknowledge the Lenni Lenape peoples who are the original and continued rightful stewards of the land that I love and on which I work and reside.
I am a designer, artist, coder, and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). I'm interested in computational thinking, critical technology, trans/anti-disciplinary practice and handmade/indie web principles. I have my undergraduate degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design. I also have a certificate in web development from General Assembly and a decade worth of experience as a coder. I've worked to build digital spaces and tools for places like Linked by Air, Thinx, Lower East Side Printshop, The Photographers' Gallery, Autodesk, Small Editions, and The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network. I've also taught at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, China Academy of Art, School for Poetic Computation, Girls Write Now, and Bard Experiential Learning Lab.
Artist Statement:
My artistic practice investigates unexpected connections around memory, technology, and our relationship with a more-than-human world. I work experimentally between paper-based processes like printmaking, papermaking, and bookmaking, and digital mediums like code, 3D scanning, and video. Research is a big part of my work and I often conduct oral history interviews, search archival materials, and perform site-based explorations. My work has been supported by institutions like Ada X, The Photographers' Gallery, Fotomuseum Winterthur, The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, The Vasari Research Centre for Art & Technology, The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, ETOPIA Center for Art & Technology and the Center for Book Arts. I am currently a studio ambassador at Center for Book Arts and a (very) novice volunteer beekeeper at Q Gardens.
Full C.V.
Recent Exhibitions:
- Current | Contemporary Prints: Traditional - Digital | Long Island City Artists | Jun 12 - Jul 12
- Current | The Space Between Words | Center for Book Arts | Jun 5 - Aug 31
- Recent Exhibition | Rhizome World
- Recent Exhibition | Rituals of Recursion @ Spill 180 | Jan 12 - 26, 2025 (email/DM me or Spill for the address)
- Recent Group Exhibition | Chronoplasticity or How To Eat A Rolex @ Raven Row
- Recent | Nombrar_ @ Galería de Arte del Palacio Municipal de Puebla
- Recent | To Be — Named @ Opalka Gallery
- Recent | A·kin @ The Photographers Gallery
- Recent | Magical Hackerism. Or the Elasticity of Resilience @ Savvy Contemporary
- Recent | Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling @ Center for Book Arts
- Recent | Chosen Family -- Less Alone Together @ Fotomuseum Winterthur
Selected Press
- Semana 3581 A·kin - Doreen A Ríos
- Aarati Akkapeddi’s “A·kin” by Michael Kurtz | e-flux
- Algorithmic Apparitions by Meg Miller - Pioneer Works | Broadcast
- Can Fake Images Show Us Something Real? by Meg Miller - The New York Times
- Chosen Family - Fotomuseum Winterthur
- Interview with Aarati Akkapeddi by Riley Gunderson - 10011 Magazine
- Aarati Akkapeddi on the poetics and politics of beauty and identity through data sets by Girinandini Singh - Stir World
- Frieze New Writers Pick The Best Shows to See in the UK - Matthew Maganga
- Top photography exhibitions in London | Time Out London
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