Sophia Collender

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

Master’s Degree, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) — New York, NY

Fordham University, Lincoln Center

Bachelor’s Degree, Film, minor in Art History — New York, NY

Grant Recipient — Interledger Foundation

Awarded funding to research interoperable finance in global transit systems. Mexico City, Mexico.

Grant Recipient — NYU Prototyping Fund

Designed and built a prototype exploring tactile music interaction. New York, NY.

Presenter — Interledger Foundation

Delineated research findings at the annual international conference. Mexico City, Mexico, November.

Best Experimental Film — NYFTSA Short Film Festival

TECHNOLOGIC awarded first place in the Experimental Film category. New York, NY.

Group Exhibition — “Look at Her”

A Home Together, FLOHAUS Gallery, New York, NY.

Group Exhibition — “The Tridimensional Institute for Transportation Research, Analysis, and Discourse: Cartography Division”

The New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY.

Group Exhibition — “Portrait of an Alter Ego”

Reflections: Portraits that Define Community, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ.

Group Exhibition — “The Global Institute for Transportation Research, Analysis, and Discourse: Cartography Division”

Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), New Haven, CT.

Group Exhibition — “Escape Clause”

Complications, The New York Horological Society, New York, NY.

Group Exhibition — “Simulacra”

Regensis, Flora Residency and Group Show, Brooklyn, NY.

Performance — “The North American Institute for Transportation Research, Analysis, and Discourse: Cartography Division”

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) Show, Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY.

Group Exhibition — “Rhetoric in Arms”

The Public’s Domain: Transforming Iconic Works of Fiction and Sound, Mamdouha S. Bobst Gallery, New York, NY.

Group Exhibition — “MIND CONTROL”

Interactive Media Art Show, Brooklyn, NY.

Publication — “How Money Could Move Us: Digital Payments and Interoperability Among Global Mass Transit Systems”

Social Sciences Research Network (Preprint).

Publication — “Being Without Brains: Exploring Slime Mold, AI, and Non-Human Spatial Intelligence”

Adjacent Journal of Emerging Media.

Publication — “The Slime Mold Web Archive”

Ranger Magazine.

Publication — “The Consequences of Staying Still”

Wisteria Zine.

Art Collections Design Researcher — St. Lifer Art

New York, NY

• Built and maintained digital workflows, including ongoing updates to an active CMS sales platform, publishing email campaigns via Constant Contact, documenting artwork, and designing promotional graphics
• Designed the information architecture and schema for a FileMaker Pro database cataloging client artwork to support market research for an art appraiser
• Architected collections data across Google Sheets and Excel

Research and Data Specialist — NYU Equitable Syllabus Project

New York, NY

• Designed and built structured digital archives and datasets for accessible, long-term reuse
• Collaborated in Figma with the lead designer on product design decisions across information architecture, interaction patterns, and visual design
• Contributed to an accessible-by-design approach to data presentation, navigation, and usability

Graduate Assistant — New York University

New York, NY

• Assisted with the development of graduate-level curriculum
• Facilitated group discussions and provided academic feedback

Art and Film Editorial Intern — INTERSECT Magazine

Los Angeles, CA

• Wrote and published weekly articles about current events in art, film, and television
• Crafted weekly pitches based on analysis of Gen Z trends

Gallery Web Design Intern — WhiteBox

New York, NY

• Collaborated on the redesign and ongoing development of the organization's WordPress website
• Worked across curatorial, administrative, and digital-design functions in a fast-paced arts organization

Production Intern — Luminoustudios

New York, NY

• Wrote original commercial scripts and reviewed existing ones
• Worked as a Production Assistant and photographed commercial productions for clients such as H&M

Graphic Designer — Article 25

London, England

• Summarised the annual efforts of the UK’s leading architectural NGO
• Worked with InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator to create informative print material