Creative Showcase Vol. 5
A chance for creatives to show off what they’ve been working on or be inspired by others in a series of quickfire 20-slide presentations.
This is an opportunity to share a creative project that you have been working on with the Index Community in the form of a Pecha Kucha – a quick style of presenting where each person will present 20 slides, for 20 seconds each. This fast pace encourages storytellers to be concise, creative, and to the point—perfect for keeping the audience’s attention.
Whether you are presenting or just attending, this is an open forum, a space to gather and share, a place to mingle with other NYC creatives. Come be inspired or present what you’ve been working on.
Presenters
Product and Beauty Photographer
My childhood passion turned self-taught career has left room for curiosity. 'What do you notice? What do you wonder?' These are questions I use to bring intentionality into my experience, from my work process to human connection. My lighting style combines vibrant grit with soft tones, mirroring the energy of significant moments and the calmness of life's little joys.
Tompkinsville Square: Afro Caribbean and Latin Market and Lighting Installation.
In partnership with the non-profit Staten Island Urban Center, the market and Abuelita Masala kiosk is the first installation in a series of public structures developed by A+A+A to support public space improvements and cultural representation in Tompkinsville Staten Island. Building on its success, the Tompkinsville square lights is a project under development to create a welcoming gateway into the business district of the neighborhood.
Job Tracker
This project is a simple web tool that helps people keep track of job applications status automatically from emails.
Maia Leandra
Color Rx
Color Rx™ is a Harvard research project turned immersive art experience that fuses AI, Color Theory, and Synesthesia; taking your feelings and prescribing you a color that boosts your mood.
Ontology of the Synthetic Noosphere
This project investigates emerging paradigms of knowledge, reality, and belief shaped by synthetic cognition. By mapping the ontology of a noosphere no longer centered on human thought, it examines how scientific models, cultural narratives, and epistemologies evolve, fragment, or disappear. The work challenges inherited frameworks of meaning, proposing alternative ontologies where artificial systems, collective intelligence, and non-human agencies co-produce reality, fostering dialogue between past worldviews and speculative futures.