Spring 2023 Art Department Visiting Artist Colloquium

Anastasiia Raina is a Ukrainian-born designer, researcher, and Assistant Professor at RISD. She received an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale School of Art. In her research-based practice, Raina explores the aesthetics of technologically mediated nature and the environment through machine vision, evolutionary biology, and incorporating biotechnology into the artistic vernacular. She draws upon scientific inquiry and works with scientists to generate new methodologies in design.