Applied Math in Art and Archives

Eric Li is a designer, software engineer, and educator based in New York. His practice focuses around crafting meaningfully designed experiences across physical and digital spaces which question the boundary of what each medium can do. With Nazli Ercan, he runs the collaborative practice Ercan–Li. Current and past collaborators include MoMA, Eames Institute, O-R-G, LUST, Google Design, Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, The Brooklyn Rail, Yale School of Architecture, IDSR architecture, and Karel Martens. Eric also teaches design at Parsons.

Philip Ording is a mathematician, writer, and educator based in New York. His research and writing have been published by the Serving Library, Cabinet, Princeton University Press, the American Mathematical Society, and elsewhere. He holds a Mathematics PhD from Columbia University and a Writing MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He recently co-founded an arts-based mathematics workshop for young learners in Brooklyn and has worked for over twenty years as a consultant in art and design studios throughout NYC. His latest publication, Wallpaper Memories, is forthcoming from Rakish Light, LA. He is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College and Pratt Institute.

Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwean-born visual artist and educator whose practice spans design, publishing, archiving, and institution building. She holds a diploma in Multimedia from the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA), an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, and an honorary doctorate from Montserrat College of Art. She is currently Director of Graduate Studies in Graphic Design at Yale and has held academic positions at ZIVA, SUNY Purchase, and VCUarts.

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Her major design commissions include publications for Njideka Akunyili Crosby (David Zwirner Books), Derek Fordjour (David Kordansky Gallery), Simone Leigh (ICA Boston, Guggenheim, New Museum), and Àsìkò (CCA Lagos). Her work supports critical discourse through projects such as Where Is Africa (CARA), Studies into Darkness (Vera List Center), and web design for the Practicing Refusal Collective. She also led identity design for Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter and Loophole of Retreat at the Venice Biennale.

David Reinfurt is 1/2 of Dexter Sinister, 1/4 of The Serving Library, and 1/1 of O-R-G inc. Dexter Sinister began as a workshop on Manhattan's Lower East Side and branched into projects with and for contemporary art institutions. The Serving Library publishes a journal, maintains an artwork collection, and circulates PDFs online. O-R-G is a small software company. Reinfurt was a 2010 USA Rockefeller Fellow and 2017 Rome Prize Fellow in Design. He is Professor of the Practice in Visual Arts at Princeton University.