About Aarati

Aarati Akkapeddi (they/them) is an artist, teacher, designer and technologist living and working on Lenape land (Brooklyn, NY). Their creative research probes memory across personal, collective, biological, and computational scales. Their practice centers unofficial archives, from family photographs and ancestral rituals to the flora and fauna that carry histories of colonialism and trade. Moving between digital and traditional mediums, they work with code, printmaking, video, bookmaking, and other forms to reveal unexpected connections and question what gets recognized as record. Their creative work has been supported by institutions including Ada X, The Photographers' Gallery, Fotomuseum Winterthur, The Vasari Research Centre for Art & Technology, and The Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. They have worked as a designer and technologist for cultural organizations like Lower East Side Printshop and The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, and have taught at Bard College, Parsons School of Design, School for Poetic Computation, and other universities and community spaces. They are currently a studio ambassador at Center for Book Arts (New York) and a volunteer beekeeper at their local community garden.

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