InfoShow25 program

InfoShow25 is the annual showcase and celebration of Pratt School of Information student work, and is part of Pratt Shows. InfoShow25 is taking place Friday May 16 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.

Room 606 – Supporting Academic Communities
Moderator: Prof. Romel Espinel

Unlocking Creativity with VR: The VR Starter Kit at Pratt (S1606a)
Manjot Kaur

A Reflection on the Murky Water of Copyright Law, Artificial Intelligence, and Libraries (S1606b)
Annalise Domenighini

The Environmental Sustainability Implications of Emerging Digital Technologies and the Academic Library (S1606c)
Saille Caia Murray

Room 609 – Designing for Inclusion
Moderator: Prof. Katie Temrowski

Design Across Borders: Reflections on International Collaboration with Kerala Museum (S1609a)
Pujan Thaker, Manvi Tandon, Srishti Bhawal, and Youlu Xu

Image Description, Alt-Text and Accessibility in Zine Libraries and Special Collections (S1609b)
Hanna Sheehan

Room 610 – Archives & Communities
Moderator: Dr. Cristina Pattuelli

Guerilla Archival: How Internet Collaboration can Contribute to Digital Archival (S1610a)
Pom Ann Giordano

Digitizing Women’s Radio (S1610b)
Emily Kokotajlo and James Coleman

Our Streets, Our Stories: Post-Custodial Collecting at the Center for Brooklyn History (S1610c)
Jake Gibson

Room 611, 612 and Hallway In-Between – Archives and Art-making Student Works (S1612)
Moderator: Dr. Kathy Carbone

Rica Borich, Lexis Horvath, Adina Karp (612), Allegra Mathew (611) and Elijah Spiegel

Room 704 – Information and Society
Moderator: Dr. John Lauermann

AI, but Make it Cute: How Cute Design Fosters Trust between Human-to-Machine Relationships (S1704a)
Gerard Andrei Samson

Hudson Valley Gentrification and Changes in Farming (S1704c)
Darcy Krasne

Room 712 – Panel: Easy Appointments, Clear Expectations – Scheduling and Beyond with NYC’s Financial Empowerment Center (S1712)

Jiyoung Lee, Jimin Hong, Chu Yuan Chiu and Richa Shah

Room 714 – Museums & Design
Moderator: Dr. Nancy Smith

The Brooklyn Museum Website (S1714a)
Nidhi Gowda

Designing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art (S1714c)
Nimisha Malreddy

Room 517 – Demo: Translating Heritage into Virtual Spaces: Designing the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum Virtual Tour (S1517)

Cathelyna Suherman, Qiaochu Zhang, and Shrividya Kushalnagar

Break – 5:45 – 5:55pm

Session 2 – 5:55pm – 6:35pm

Room 609 – Service Design: Synthesis Wall Gallery Walks (S2609)
Moderator: Dr. Shruthi Chivukula

Sakshi Sonawani, Shivani Mehta, Michelle Sinofsky, Owen Meng, Rohan Boda, Liwen Chang, Sarah Geiz, Wenjia Liu, Nicolas Lord, Lillian MacGuire, Pujan Thaker and Betty Yang

Room 610 – Artists & Museums
Moderator: Dr. Filipa Calado

Digitizing Bettina (S2610a)
Shy Adelman

Critical Analysis: Archivo Franco Angeli (S2610b)
Jairo Samuda Mia Brice

My Product Design Fellowship at the Museum of Modern Art (S2610c)
Richa Shah

Room 702 – Internet of Things (IoT) Class project demos (S2702)
Moderator: Dr. Monica Maceli

Jeffrey Delacruz, Chieh Lei, Qasim Malik, Yuri Minami, Indrani Thool and Pete Wise

Room 704 – Design & Social Dynamics
Moderator: Dr. Nancy Smith

School shootings and the manosphere: spatially correlated or moral panic? (S2704a)
Jocelyn Fung

My Work at Pratt Center: Integrating Data Skills into Non-Profit Impact (S2704b)
Yuanhao Wu

Bursting the Bubble: Examining the role of algorithmic filter bubbles in the spread of misinformation amongst Gen-Z on TikTok (S2704c)
Pujan Thaker

Room 705a – Designing New Experiences
Moderator: Prof. Pam Pavliscak

Hatemap.io – Accessible UX for Complex, Credible, and Community-Focused Data (S2705a)
Rohan Boda, Jeffrey Delacruz, Manjot Kaur, and Lillian MacGuire

Chef’d: Perfect your cooking journey (S2705b)
Rohini Raj Rajan, Gloria Yang, Conner Meek and Claire Paisley

expressoh! (S2705c)
Shreesa Shrestha, Minh Nguyen, Jasmine Chen and Myra Chen

Room 712 – Music & Design
Moderator: Prof. Ambreen Molitor

Meet Me in the Data (S2712a)
Scarlett Moldovan and Veneranda Aguirre

BeatDrop—Amazon Music Challenge (S2712b)
Simran Kaur, Manvi Tandon, Rohini Raj, and Uraiba Zafar

Hold On! (S2712c)
Srishti Bhawal

Room 714 – Curatorial Experience
Moderator: Prof. Li Studier

Pratt’s Department of Exhibitions Fellowship (S2714a)
Nicolas Lord

Love’s Labour: Loss – a mini-exhibition on grief from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collections (S2714b)
Freddy Thompson

Allegory of Misfortune: Transsexuality In Between Identification and Transition (S2714c)
Charlie Chayyim Shaw

Room 613 – Panel: Books as Art, Art as Data: A DH project in Collaboration with the Center for Book Arts (S2613)

Maddy Casey, Darcy Krasne, Fengqi Long, Stephanie Naut and Nene Villalobos

Break – 6:35pm – 6:45pm

Session 3 – 6:45pm – 7:25pm

Room 609 – Working with Data
Moderator: Dr. Chris Alen Sula

Digital Humanities for Reality TV Fans: A Speculative Dataset for CBS’ Big Brother (S3609a)
Zoe Wilson

Visualizing Collection Insights: A Case Study Using Goodreads Metadata (S3609b)
Madeleine Casey

Data Science at the Brooklyn Museum (S3609c)
Ríain Fitzsimons

Room 613 – Metadata & Cataloging
Moderator: Prof. Molly Schoen

Cataloging for Representation – Considering Identity in Digital Collections at Thomas J. Watson Library (S3613a)
Aisha Khan

The NOSH Project: Copy Cataloguing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (S3613b)
Sylvie Freedman

LHA Fellowship Presentation & the Case for Metadata Remediation (S3613c)
Meg Carroll

Room 606 – Panel: Moral Panic, Practical Use: The Student GenAI Paradox (S3606)

Ellie Connors, Conor Mack, Merlyn Koonamparampath and Zoe Zapata

Room 201 – Posters and (Digital) Objects Session (6:45-7:45pm)

Info Trees: Participatory Data Physicalization for the Info School Community (S3201a)
Fengqi Long

The Home of Tomorrow (S3201b)
Reyna Yang, Maanya Agarwal, Radhika Balaji, Shriya Chipde, Roshni Ganesh, Yuexi Hua, Chelsea Mai, Owen Meng, Hridya Nadappattel, Anvita Shah and Ananya Yadav

The Amplification Project (S3201c)
Navya Thakkar, Nimisha Malreddy, and Kate Rowland

Charlie Chayyim Shaw, MSLIS: a portfolio (S3201d)
charlie chayyim shaw

Word Portraits Project (S3201e)
Christine Da Cruz

Serendipity and Research at MoMA Library (S3201f)
Shy Adelman

How Much Do We Share? A Hathitrust v. Pratt Libraries Collection Comparison (S3201g)
Ellery Bruns

Beyond the Western Gaze (S3201h)
Simran Kaur

Franklin Furnace: Centering Ephemera in the Archive (S3201i)
Mia Greenberg

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Records Finding Aid (S3201j)
Maddy Heller, Gabe Valenzuela and Micah Donovick

Accessibility Project at Leslie Lohman Museum (S3201k)
Azka Qasim, Freddy Thompson and Grace Croken

Keywords and Thesauri at The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (S3201l)
Alana Maisel

Five Activities for Navigating Ethics, Business, and User Needs using the Anti-Hero Card Deck (S3201m)
Shikha Mehta and Aayushi Bharadwaj

James Bond: Did All Of Those Martinis Impact His Performance? (S3201n)
Sara Zucker

VR Starter Kit: Reimagining VR for Pratt Students (S3201o)
Yuri Minami and Manjot Kaur

Visualizing Cognitive Health: Data Viz in Healthcare (S3201p)
Shreedhar Verma

Making Digital Collections Visible to All: Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (S3201q)
Zoe Kaperonis and Emily Drachman

BURO: Building Trust in Community Borrowing and Lending (S3201r)
Zhining Gu, Liwen Chang and Anita Liao

Motherhood effects on women’s labor force (S3201s)
Alice Viggiani

What Make NYC Hotter: A Data Visualization Project (S3201t)
Yuanhao Wu

Archiving the Web (S3201u)
Lila Milgrom

Playing the Humanities: Computer Games & History (S3201v)
Brendan O’Hagen

Human-Oriented Fast Fashion (HOFF) Framework for Digital Archives (S3201w)
Nick Brenner and Adonis Fuentes

Big Data – boon or bane? (S3201x)
Shrividya Shrihari

Hacked Nation: The Cybercrime Surge (S3201y)
Shayla Singh

The Big 3: Illustrating the Golden Era of Men’s Tennis (S3201z)
Krishna Kishore Lal

Reception and 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 InfoShow25.  These include:

• Best Individual Project – $500
• Best Group Project – $1,000 (divided evenly among group members)
• Best Poster Award – $500
• 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.

Also On Display at Pratt Manhattan Center

The following exhibitions are not part of InfoShow25 but are on display here at Pratt Manhattan Center. They include:

• Black | Box: Dona Ann McAdams
  Abby Robinson: AutoWorks & WaterWorks
  1st Floor Gallery – 11AM to 6PM only
• Associates Degrees School of Art (AAS) Graduating Student Exhibition
  2nd Floor Lobby
• Stand Up Straight, Girl!: Jamie Powell
  Hiroko Nakamoto Pratt Manhattan Lobby

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. John Decker, Leanne Bowler and Craig MacDonald, 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 Nene Villalobos 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: Chartwells, Westside Market and J’s Pizza.

Lastly, thank you to all our student presenters and our 2025 graduating class!

To learn more about Pratt Shows and see more Pratt student work, please visit: pratt.edu/prattshows/

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