Paula Gaetano Adi teaches in Experimental and Foundation Studies and Computation, Technology and Culture. An artist and scholar working at the intersection of robotics, crafts and performance, Gaetano Adi has exhibited and lectured extensively in museums, conferences and media art festivals throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, in locales such as the National Art Museum of China, Istanbul Design Biennial, Matadero Madrid, Vancouver National Art Gallery, Ars Electronica, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, BienalSur, SECS Sao Paulo, Mejan Labs Gallery Stockholm, Humboldt Forum Berlin and CENART Mexico, among others.
She was awarded first prize in the international competition VIDA, Art, Robotics & Artificial Life and first prize in LIMBØ by the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, and was distinguished with Fundación Telefónica’s Award for Ibero-American artists. A former fellow at Argentina’s National Endowment for the Arts, Gaetano Adi was recently honored with the 2023 Creative Capital Award.
Academic areas of interest
Robotics and Robotic Art, Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence, Interactivity, Embodiment, Performance, New Media Art, Phenomenology, Feminist Techno-science, Postcolonialism and Decolonization, Mestizaje, Postcolonial Techno-science, Posthumanism, High+Low Technologies, Digital Fabrication, Physical Computing and Kinetics, Latin American Art and Studies, Pedagogy.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
FOUND 1003-15 - STUDIO: DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1003-15
STUDIO: DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM; T | 9:30 AM - 12:30 PMInstructor(s): Paula Gaetano-AdiLocation(s): Auditorium, Room 520Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Design promotes multidisciplinary studio experimentation across an array of media and processes. Students explore the organization of visual and other sensory elements in order to understand perceptual attributes and the production of meaning. Using various methods of expression, students may create objects, spaces, and experiences that demonstrate their analysis of composition, color, narrative, motion, systems, and cultural signification. Assignments allow for inquiries into scientific, social, cultural, historical, philosophical, technological, and political topics. Critical and experimental utilization of design principles, which underpin all of the arts, are emphasized. Students are guided through progressive investigations, in which the act of seeing is amplified by the study of physiological and cognitive factors that generate perception. Examined subjects are taken through stages of representation, abstraction, and/or symbolic interpretation to reveal essential communicative properties.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Undergraduate Students.
Major Requirement | BFA
Spring 2025 Courses
FOUND 1004-03 - STUDIO: DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1004-03
STUDIO: DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: TH | 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM; TH | 9:30 AM - 12:30 PMInstructor(s): Paula Gaetano-AdiLocation(s): Waterman Building, Room 43Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Design promotes multidisciplinary studio experimentation across an array of media and processes. Students explore the organization of visual and other sensory elements in order to understand perceptual attributes and the production of meaning. Using various methods of expression, students may create objects, spaces, and experiences that demonstrate their analysis of composition, color, narrative, motion, systems, and cultural signification. Assignments allow for inquiries into scientific, social, cultural, historical, philosophical, technological, and political topics. Critical and experimental utilization of design principles, which underpin all of the arts, are emphasized. Students are guided through progressive investigations, in which the act of seeing is amplified by the study of physiological and cognitive factors that generate perception. Examined subjects are taken through stages of representation, abstraction, and/or symbolic interpretation to reveal essential communicative properties.
Enrollment is limited to first-year undergraduate students.
