InfoShow24 is the annual showcase and celebration of Pratt School of Information student work, and is part of Pratt Shows. InfoShow24 is taking place Friday May 10 5:00-7:30pm in-person at Pratt Manhattan Center, followed by the SI Graduation Party (7:30-9:30pm).
More information and to RSVP can be found on Pratt.edu.
A PDF version of this program is available here.
Welcome – 5:00pm-5:05pm
The InfoShow print program will be available for pickup on Ground Floor Lobby or 6th Floor of Pratt Manhattan Center. Inside your program, please find a ballot for the People’s Choice Award ($500) which will be selected by attendees of InfoShow. To participate, please submit your ballot by 7:45pm to the ballot box in the 2nd floor lobby.
Session 1 – 5:05pm – 5:45pm
Room 606 – Data Visualization
Moderator: Dr. John Lauermann
Protecting Our Planet with Fungi (S1R606a)
Alya Zouaoui
Songbirds of Manhattan Through the COVID-19 Pandemic (S1R606b)
Dylan Granger and Gabby Evergreen
Visualizing Fanfiction Data: a case study of HBO Max’s ‘Our Flag Means Death’ (S1R606c)
Fengqi Long
Room 609 – UX Design
Moderator: Dr. Craig MacDonald
Inclusive Futures: Personalization of User Interfaces Through Systematized Design (S1R609a)
Magdalena Fraga
Pilot – Enterprise Printing Solution (S1R609b)
Sagar Yadav
Content Strategy for The Metropolitan Museum of Art (S1R609c)
Tharani Prabu, Evelyn Mukherjee, Julia Ahmad, and Tereza Chanaki
Room 610 – Digital Archives
Moderator: Prof. Quinn Lai
Preserving Primary Sources in Lesbian Film (S1R610a)
Beth Grassmann, Preston Nelson and Lila Milgrom
Preserving RAW Images for Digital Archives (S1R610b)
Emma Powell
Manhattan Uprising! (S1R610c)
Saille Caia Murray
Room 613 – Transportation & Travel
Moderator: Prof. Hasan Hachem
PlanPals Making planning trips for a large group less exhausting (S1R613a)
Bhavna Paikattil, Anjali Rao and Jiayi Jiang
Toyota SafeWave: Revolutionizing Pedestrian Awareness (S1R613b)
Laiba Sarwar
Bubble: Fostering Healthy Connections and Safety in Social Carpooling (S1R613c)
Nehal Sharma and Jennie Lin
Room 704 – AI & Sustainable Design
Moderator: Dr. Nancy Smith
Trust and Apprehension in Human-AI Interaction (S1R704a)
Marko Stanisic
Designing a Sustainable Operating System with Biomimicry and Green Design Strategies (S1R704b)
Mary Haws and Alexis Li
Room 712 – Museums & Information
Moderator: Dr. Monica Maceli
Seasons at the Met: Working with Exhibition History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (S1R712a)
Candace Hernandez and Olivia Buck
Cataloging the Ephemeral at the Franklin Furnace (S1R712b)
Morgan Võ
Room 608a – Demo/Interactive
Unmoderated
Web of Rights (S1R608a)
Scott Dunay
Break – 5:45pm – 5:55pm
Session 2 – 5:55pm – 6:35pm
Room 606 – UX & Data in Cultural Institutions
Moderator: Dr. Rachel Daniell
How Cloud Technology can Optimize Digital Experiences at the Met (S2R606a)
Alya Zouaoui
Using Eye-Tracking to Improve Discoverability, Readability, and Learnability of the Cooper Hewitt API Website (S2R606b)
Laiba Sarwar, Philip Garip and Kato Oppenheim
The intersections of Exhibitions and Information Experience Design (S2R606c)
Medhaswi Paturu and Vandita Handoo (MFA CommD)
Room 609 – UX Design
Moderator: Dr. Craig MacDonald
Design Systems for Digital Products: A Comprehensive Analysis and Framework (S2R609a)
Bryony Hoare, Priyanka Jain, Cassandra Cyphers and Shuyang Lin
Meet JJ: A Fun and Effective Design System for Jamba Juice (S2R609b)
Mary Haws, Alexis Li and Keyi Zhang
In Our Galleries (S2R609c)
Rishi Mudaliar and Bryony Hoare
Room 610 – Classification & Linked Data
Moderator: Dr. Cristina Pattuelli
Critical Feminist Perspectives and the Vestiges of Man in the Library of Congress (S2R610a)
Alex Nakahira
Modeling MoMA’s traveling exhibition history in Wikidata (S2R610b)
Samie Konet
The Interconnectedness of All Things: Automatic Discovery and Description of Digital Archives (S2R610c)
St John Karp
Room 613 – UX & Museums
Moderator: Dr. Shruthi Chivukula
LCPA Fellowship 2023-24 (S2R613a)
Mehika Singhal
Gallery Quest (S2R613b)
Sanjana Subramani, Tharani Prabu and Gatha Bhakta
My fellowship at the Museum of Modern Art (S2R613c)
Tharani Prabu
Room 704 – Art & Information
Moderator: Dr. Kathy Carbone
Archives Weren’t Built In a Day: Artist Archives in Rome-New York (S2R704a)
Hannah Rothfield, Stefany Merkelbach and Grace Volinsky
Artistic Legacy in Italian Archives (S2R704b)
Emma Powell and Francesca Strathern
RFP: Y2K Origins Project: The First 10 Years of Net Art Commissions (S2R704c)
Samie Konet, Francesca Strathern, Grace Volinsky, Emily Rawson, Gibson Field, and Leo Krakowsky
Room 712 – More Art & Information
Moderator: Dr. Irene Lopatovska
Perversity in Paris: Eugène Atget and La Belle Époque (S2R712a)
Ann Bell
Preservation of Cultural Sites and Artifacts During Wartimes (S2R712b)
Sylvie Freedman
“IT’S FUN TO BE CLASSIFIED”: Lens-based Artwork about Trans Oppression and Misrepresentation in Archives (S3R712b)
Charlie Chayyim Shaw
Room 611 – Demo/Interactive
Unmoderated
I Called to Her and She Answered Me: A Reading from the Oracle for Techno-Spiritual Feminism (S2R611)
Erica Weidner, Gabriella Evergreen and Meina Naeymirad
Break – 6:35pm – 6:45pm
Session 3 – 6:45pm – 7:25pm
Room 609 – Music & UX
Moderator: Meredith Brull
MixLive – Improve the live concert experience for Amazon Music App by using AI technology (S3R609a)
Cici Lin, Jennie Li and Xinru Wen
Amazon Music Challenge Finalist: Podcast Picks (S3R609b)
Meng Shi and Sara Ma
Amazon Music Challenge Finalist: Rhythmic Focus (S3R609c)
Yu-Jung (Rong) Chengm and Chu-Yuan Chiu
Room 610 – Archives
Moderator: Dr. Kathy Carbone
Merging Collections at the Center for Brooklyn History (S3R610a)
Anna Leuning
R.A.T.’s Nest: A Case Study in Archival Bonds, Orphan Image Research & Applying Radical Empathy (S3R610b)
Calista Donohoe
Selecting Lines: Archival Appraisal at the Drawing Center (S3R610c)
Olivia Buck
Room 613 – Community Spaces & Information
Moderator: Dr. Leanne Bowler
Redefining Community Centers: The Modern Role of Public Libraries (S3R613a)
Elijah Spiegel
Unreal: Non-Fiction for Younger Readers (S3R613b)
Grace Pickering
Recreating Edgemere Farm’s magic in the digital landscape : Website Redesign for a non-profit community farm (S3R613c)
Kiyo Yang, Shivani Kolte, Jiayi Jiang, Anne Kuo
Room 704 – AR, VR & Spaces
Moderator: Dr. Gopi Kannabiran
Designing Inclusive Spaces for Emotional Equilibrium (S3R704a)
Alya Zouaoui
SyncItUp: Bridging Sign Language Communication Gaps with AR (S3R704b)
Nehal Sharma, Jennie Lin and Cici Lin
VR starter kit for designers: introducing students to the potential of VR (S3R704c)
Yuri Minami and Manjot Kaur
Room 712 – Identity & Representation
Moderator: Dr. Chris Sula
“Oyster Bisque”: A zine about food and archives (S3R712a)
Alyse Delaney
A Citation Study on the Interdisciplinary Field of Fat Studies (S3R712c)
Eleanor Morgan
Room 201 – Poster and Digital Objects Session (6:45-7:45pm)
Nourishing People and Policy: Revisiting Fresh Food Access in NYC’s FRESH Program (S3R201a)
Alyssa Bement
Digital Object – The color analysis of Artistic Giants at Art institute of Chicago (S3R201b)
Angela Li
Militarization of Big Data (S3R201c)
Ellery Bruns, Tatum Cordy and Erica Weidner
My Experience as a Fellow at the Pratt Center for Community Development 2023-2024 (S3R201d)
Evelyn Mukherjee
Fidelity in Web Archives: The Luxury of Quality Assurance (S3R201e)
Francesca Strathern
Digital Object – More than Walls: Information and the U.S. Carceral State (S3R201f)
Lee Miller
From Battlefield to Exhibitions: Cataloging MoMA Exhibition Unveiling War Stories 1930-2020 (S3R201g)
Leewon Seo
Global Debt across the last decade (S3R201i)
Medhaswi Paturu
PROJECT HAY-LO (S3R201j)
Mehika Singhal
Reference and Research Resources at the MoMA Library (S3R201k)
Noa Ryan
AI & The Trolley Problem (S3R201l)
Rishi Mudaliar
Digital Object – Assessing the Impact of Bike Lanes on Cyclist Safety in New York City (S3R201m)
Sagar Yadav
Just Dansss – Designing for the entertainment of captive snakes (S3R201n)
Sanjana Subramani
Anti-Hero Card Deck (S3R201o)
Shikha Mehta
Mapping Mental Health Interconnections (S3R201p)
Wenge Wang
Whitney Museum Collection Information Fellowship (S3R201q)
Zixuan Zhao
On Display at Pratt Manhattan Center
Archives and Art-Making Class Exhibition (S13R608b)
Room 608b and exterior hallway
Work by: Julia Amsterdam, Olivia Baerga, Alyse Delaney, Candace Hernandez, Patrick Kingchatchaval, Anna Leuning, Lila Milgrom, Erin Moss, Hannah Rothfield, Kate Rowland, Charlie Shaw, Declan Sokolska, Riley Trist, Morgan Võ and Zixuan Zhao
Handmade Archival Box for ‘The Juniper Tree’ and ‘It’s Fun to be Alive in Colma!’ (S13R602)
Room 602
Charlie Shaw
Please note the final exhibition is not part of InfoShow since they do not include School of Information student work but is included here if you’d like to visit:
The Apex Is Nothing
1st Floor Gallery – 11AM to 6PM only
School of Information Graduation Party – 2nd Floor Lobby and Room 201 – 7:30-9:30pm
Around 8pm we will announce the award winners for best individual and group project, as well as the People’s Choice Award.
Awards
Thanks to a generous gift from the Estate of Robertina Campbell (MSLIS ’66), we are able to offer cash Prizes to Best Projects at InfoShow24. These include:
- Best Individual Project – $500
- Best Group Project – $1,000 (divided evenly among group members)
- Best Poster Award – $250
- People’s Choice Award – $500
The winner of the first three awards will be decided by a jury of faculty. The People’s Choice award will be selected by secret ballot by attendees to InfoShow. You can find this year’s award winners here.
Thank you to…
Thank you to the Estate of Robertina Campbell (MSLIS ’66) for making possible the awards. Thank you to our faculty for nominating and shepherding student work all the way through InfoShow and to graduation. A special thank you to our awards jury: Profs. Nancy Smith, John Lauermann and Hasan Hachem, and to Assistant Dean Quinn Lai for tallying the People’s Choice Award. Thank you to our session moderators for keeping our sessions moving smoothly this evening. Thank you to School of Information staff, including Vinette Thomas and Meredith Brull, as well as staff from across the Institute for their hard work in making this event possible. Thank you to our food staff for serving us this evening: AVI Foodsystems, Westside Market and J’s Pizza.
Lastly, thank you to all our student presenters and our 2024 graduating class!
To learn more about Pratt Shows and see more Pratt student work, please visit: pratt.edu/pratt-shows/
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