South Brooklyn Community High School + Pioneer Works
Instructors 2022
Elaine Young
楊綺鈴 (Yang Yi Ling) is an artist and designer with a background in bioethics and medical anthropology. She founded the LAByrinth PROJECT fashion brand, designing modern lockets that can be personalized with real DNA extracted and purified from people, pets, and plants. She also creates graphics for bomber jackets that incorporate scientific images and geopolitical population data into wearable visual essays that question the future of humanness. Through the intimacy of personal adornment, Elaine’s work examines how technology affects the politics of how we know, define, value, and govern bodies as material, culture, and data through science and science-fiction aesthetics and narratives.
LaJuné McMillian
LaJuné McMillian is a multidisciplinary artist and educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our current forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination. LaJuné was previously the Director of Skating at Figure Skating in Harlem, where they integrated STEAM and figure skating to teach girls of color about movement and technology. They have continued their research on Blackness, movement, and technology during residencies and fellowships at the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works, Barbarian Group, and Barnard College.