Krystelle Denis is a developer and designer specializing in visual frameworks, and data-driven narratives. Her functional and aesthetic design approach has led her to projects at metaLAB at Harvard, Paris Sorbonne, the Fogg Museum, MIT, and Piaggio Fast Forward, among other institutions. While working with Ateliers Jean Nouvel, she collaborated with acoustics engineers to design the ceiling of the Philharmonie de Paris concert hall. She studied at the Harvard GSD.
Alex Horak is a developer and designer with a background in human-computer interaction, information science, and the philosophy of relational fulfillment. He has worked on projects ranging from looted cultural object restitution for the Kingdom of Benin, to chief technology officer at software company Fetchnotes, to experimental museum curation with metaLAB at Harvard. His current projects touch on Anishinaabek sovereignty, deep maping land, grief and conflict literacy.
It has become our shared circumstance to frequent flat, glowing screens. As their content grows more insistent for our time and manipulative of our behavior, we begin to resemble actors directed this way and that. The film director David Fincher has been credited as saying that, “Every scene you direct … it’s the same thing: behavior over time.” Fincher’s pithy clause is as relevant for film makers as it is for digital creators—it compels us to respect the influence we have over the time and behavior of those who use our tools. It implores us to work critically and humanely.