Rutgers University
PROJECTS | 2020
Yeasties, Protein to the People
Kenzie Mozitis, Alexis Winters, Aaron Scharonknight, Brian Mazzucco, Taylor Vincent, Aliyah Jones, Layla Fitzgerald, Alyson Ung, Josh Feinbaum
A domestic farming system meant to address urban food deserts, Yeasties turns high-sugar content food into a nutrient dense source of protein in under 24 hours.
Finalist Team
instructor
Elizabeth Demaray
Elizabeth Demaray builds listening stations for birds that play human music, cultures lichen on the sides of skyscrapers in New York City, and fabricates floraborgs, robotic supports that allow potted plants to freely navigate in a domestic environment. Demaray is currently an Associate Professor of Fine Arts and head of the sculpture concentration at Rutgers University, Camden where she teaches classes in sculpture, physical computing, art/sci collaboration, and eco-art. On the Rutgers New Brunswick campus, she is an advisor at the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which is a platform for the artistic use of machine learning and computer vision. http://elizbethdemaray.org.