Join us for our bi-annual showcase of media artworks from Integrated Media Arts MFA graduates, spanning animation, film, installation, sculpture, audio documentary, and more.
This spring’s show features thesis projects by 13 artists
AK Hansen · A.J. Cincotta Eichenfield · Amara Thomas · Celeste Newcomb · Dylan Hirsh · Prameswari Mrajabwana · Emma Rose Brown · Claire Kinnen · Carlos Morales · Alvin Seenauth · Camila Marchon · Dave Steck · Suzanne Schulz
When & Where:
May 15–16, 2026
Lang Auditorium, Room 424
Hunter North Building 69th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues
Accessible via ramp at the 69th Street entrance and elevators to the 4th floor.
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Schedule
🌿Friday, May 15
5:30–6:30pm — Reception with Food & Drinks
6:30–6:40pm — Welcome, Andrew Lund
6:40–9:00pm — Film Screenings & Q&A
- Tubuh yang Mengingat (The Body Remembers) — Prameswari Mrajabwana
- CATALYST: The Early Days of Chicago Hip Hop — Dave Steck
- North Country Dairy — Claire Kinnen
🌿Saturday, May 16
12:20–12:30pm — Welcome, Andrew Lund, Program Director
12:30–2:00pm — Film Screening & Q&A
- The Storyteller — Dylan Hirsh
2:00–3:30pm — Installation Viewing
3:40–5:35pm — Installation Presentations & Q&A Introduction by Betty Yu, Deputy Director
- we all still feel the missing being — A.J. Cincotta-Eichenfield
- Water and Wall — Amara Thomas
- Repeater — AK Hansen
- Visual Memoir — Carlos Morales
- bugs, birds, blue — Celeste Newcomb
5:35–7:00pm — Reception & Installations Open
7:00–9:00pm — Film Screenings & Q&A
- All of This — Camila Eiras Marchon · 22 min
- WHEN WE SHAKE — Emma Rose Brown · 24 min
- The I Need More Time Machine — Suzanne Schulz · 11 min
- The Knock That Never Leaves — Alvin Seenauth · 36 min
Artists & Projects
Repeater by AK Hansen
Installation and Film · 27 min
On the ocean floor, the internet runs in strands of glass as thin as hair. From these depths, Repeater weaves a story from strands of facts, myths, and experiences — the material costs of the “cloud,” shipping containers, comb jellies, colonial infrastructure, Norse gods, and the hugs lost in fiber optic cables — all while the narrator scrambles to create a home in another language.
Advisors: Zach Nader, Andrew Demirjian, Reiko Tahara
AK Hansen is a non-fiction artist and filmmaker from Denmark, resettled in Brooklyn. Her work explores how people make meaning of the world around them, often by teasing out facts from mundane objects, places, and doings.
we all still feel the missing being by A.J. Cincotta-Eichenfield
Multimedia Installation
A collection of image, sound, video, and text works that re-stage a familial history of migration and spectral interaction, built from source media collected on Stromboli, a continuously active volcano in the Aeolian Islands. Loosely informed by encounters in which family members have continued to see, feel, and sense the presence of long-deceased generations, these works pull traces of a geological past through substrates of familial resonance— images and videos of eruption, lumen prints made with volcanic sand, reconfigured matrilineal text archives, eco-acoustic recordings, and the wind-induced drone of an Aeolian harp.
Advisors: Andrew Demirjian, Christina Freeman, Dylan Gauthier
A.J. Cincotta-Eichenfield is a New York-based multimedia artist re-assembling digital memory from found texts, images, and family artifacts. A.J. has recently exhibited work at Ghostmachine Gallery (New York, NY), CultureHub (New York, NY), After/Time Gallery (Portland, OR), and Underground Art and Design (New York, NY).
Water and Wall by Amara Thomas
Installation & Performance
Water and Wall is a multimedia installation exploring how Black communities reshaped 19th-century Lower Manhattan’s waterfront. Through performance, video, collage, and printmaking, it traces the lives of Black oystermen who turned sites of constraint into spaces of resistance, connection, and possibility. The work reframes Lower Manhattan as a landscape shaped by Black history and presence, and calls for the recovery of these histories alongside ongoing ecological efforts to restore oysters to New York’s waters.
Advisors: Kara Lynch, Christina Freeman, Betty Yu
Amara Thomas is a Queens artist working in collage, video, installation, walking, and performance. Through these varied methods, she confronts historical omissions and makes sense of what remains invisible — and what might be possible.
Visual Memoir by Carlos Morales
Installation
Visual Memoir traces the artist’s trajectory from day laborer to graduate student and teaching artist. Incorporating different visual mediums, this piece centers the artista obrero (worker artist), calling for the viewer to see beyond the demonization of immigrants.
Advisors: Ricardo Miranda, Kara Lynch, Andrew Lund
Carlos Morales is a Make Space Fellow in the Mellon Public Humanities and Social Justice program. His photo essays, Rosie and Entre Sombras have won juried exhibitions, Out of the Pandemic initiated Gallery North’s outdoor projection series, and two multimedia pieces were exhibited at LIM’s SOMOS/We Are show. He has presented at Framingham State, La Universidad Autoìnoma de Quereìtaro and LIM, and was an invited speaker for the Lichtenstein Lecture Series at the Pollock-Krasner house. As founder of THE CLASS, he teaches virtually, curating student work for diverse galleries in Latin America and the U.S.
bugs, birds, blue by Celeste Newcomb
Interactive Installation
An interactive ecological feedback system where bodily samples, microbial life, water, and horizon footage collected in Florida form a generative instrument of extraction and containment. The work confronts ongoing state and federal legislation restricting trans healthcare and legal recognition by situating trans embodiment within ecological collapse, proposing queer life as fundamental to sustaining environments. Advisors: Zach Nader, Andrew Demirjian, Sha Sha Feng
Celeste Newcomb is a multimedia artist working in installation, sound, and moving image. Their practice engages trans embodiment through the lens of queer ecology, using time-based and interactive systems to examine bodily archives, microbial life, and environmental collapse across shifting material and temporal scales.
The Storyteller by Dylan Hirsh
Documentary Film · 75 min
The Storyteller chronicles the life of Francis Kalnay, a Hungarian immigrant who became a high-level Allied spy during World War II while burying his Jewish ancestry. The documentary unravels his decades-long deception, revealing how a master of espionage reinvented himself as a celebrated children’s book author and architect in exile to escape the traumas of the 20th century. Told through his descendants and disciples, the film seeks to personalize history.
Advisors: Christina Freeman, David Briggs, Olivia Olah
Dylan Hirsh is an internationally focused filmmaker whose work explores fragile ecosystems and the unique identities shaped within them. His independent practice is grounded in the production logistics and technical expertise he hones daily as an educational video producer.
Tubuh yang Mengingat (The Body Remembers) by Prameswari Mrajabwana
Performance Film · 27 min
A performance film set in the ecologically damaged landscapes of Cirebon. Tubuh yang Mengingat follows a series of ritualized movements inspired by the five-mask cycle of Cirebonese mask dance, reimagined as responses to environmental crisis. As performers engage polluted rivers, eroding coasts, and industrial sites, their bodies become living archives of memory, translating the land’s trauma into gesture and sound. The film asks what forms of ritual and remembrance can survive in a destabilized world.
Advisors: Reiko Tahara, Andre Daughtry, Darmawan Dadijono
Prameswari Mrajabwana is an interdisciplinary filmmaker and media artist whose practice spans film, performance, and photography. Her work explores memory, intimacy, and relational dynamics through experimental and narrative forms. Based between Indonesia and New York, she approaches storytelling as a fluid, embodied process across moving image and performance.
WHEN WE SHAKE by Emma Rose Brown
Film/Video · 24 min
In a daylong training with NYC firefighters, trembling bodies become an archive of lived experience, quietly undoing hardened images of masculinity and tracing a shared human impulse toward relief.
Advisors: Reiko Tahara, Kelly Anderson, Chloe Bass
Emma Rose Brown is a Queens-based multidisciplinary artist, performer, and oral historian working across film, installation, and performance. Her practice explores lived experience, care, and the body as archive. She is Archives Director at the Community Library of Voice and Sound and teaches at Oral History Summer School and the Columbia Oral History Summer Institute.
North Country Dairy by Claire Kinnen
Audio Documentary · 40 min
North Country Dairy explores what it means to farm on the Canadian border, examining connection and labor in an increasingly globalized world.
Advisors: Reiko Tahara, Mitra Kaboli, David Weinberg
Claire Kinnen is a multimedia artist, editor, and producer. She is from the North Country, New York’s rural frontier along the Canadian border, and is based in Sunnyside, Queens.
The Knock That Never Leaves by Alvin Seenauth
Documentary Film · 36 min
Loving father, husband, and small business owner Peter Asan built a life of fulfillment in New York — until immigration agents arrived at his home in 2021. An over-40-year-old criminal conviction, stemming from a coerced plea deal in 1989, reemerged and threatened to separate him from his wife Catalina and their three children. Through an intimate, day-in-the-life portrait, The Knock That Never Leaves follows Peter as he navigates the delicate space between ordinary routine and extraordinary unpredictability. Advisors: Reiko Tahara, Betty Yu, Walis Johnson
Alvin Seenauth is a visual storyteller specializing in documentary, creating emotionally driven narratives that center real people and real impact. His creative intentions are drawn from his upbringing in an immigrant household in Queens, NY.
All of This by Camila Eiras Marchon ·
Film/Video 22 min
A film built from objects accumulated over a lifetime, each carrying fragments of memory, family history, and personal transformation. As these objects are introduced one by one, they form a quiet inventory of a life shaped by attachment, loss, and movement across places and generations. Advisors: Reiko Tahara, Betty Yu, Andrew Lund
Camila Eiras Marchon is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores how identity and memory are assembled through fragments, objects, images, language, and collective voices. Working across film, installation, photography, and participatory projects, she reflects on time, mortality, and the ways a life takes shape through encounters with others.
CATALYST: The Early Days of Chicago Hip Hop by Dave Steck
Documentary Film · 40 min
Why did Hip Hop happen much later in Chicago than in other cities? CATALYST tells the story of Duro Wicks, a young Black music lover who overcame the city’s segregation to launch the first weekly Hip Hop open mic night, bringing young people together from across a divided city to create community. Though ultimately unsustainable, his dream forever transformed the lives of everyone it touched.
Advisors: Kelly Anderson, André Daughtry, Ricardo Miranda
Dave Steck is a New York-based filmmaker and multimedia artist whose practice combines creativity and technology to tell stories across a wide range of formats and mediums. Working in analog and digital media, he shares the dichotomy of the creative visions he sees in his head and the range of stories he wants to tell.
The I Need More Time Machine
Suzanne Schulz
Documentary Film · 11 min
The I Need More Time Machine imagines alternatives to gendered overwork and exhaustion. Incorporating animation and interviews with twelve NYC-based female and nonbinary artists who are caretakers and full-time workers, the film dwells in spaces of fatigue and repetition — from the vantage point of commuting — then draws on forgotten feminist and utopian housing blueprints to create science fiction-inspired, fantasy-imbued sites for gendered flourishing. Advisors: Reiko Tahara, Andrew Demirjian, Samita Sinha
Suzanne Schulz’s video projects and essays deal with practices of everyday life, hidden histories of place, solidarities across difference, and gendered labor. Her art is informed by her work as an educator at Bard Queens and her former life as a scholar, which taught her to grasp new languages, to comb archives, and to read closely.