Mobility Town
Out of Our Cars and Into the World
About the Artists
Carla Diana
Carla Diana is a designer, author, and educator who explores the impact of future technologies through hands-on experiments in product design and tangible interaction. In addition to her studio practice, she is Design Advisor and former Head of Design for Diligent Robotics, an Austin, TX, based company where advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning manifest in robot assistants to help healthcare workers.
Carla has been part of innovation design firms Smart Design and frog Design where she worked on a range of products from robots to connected home appliances. Her work has appeared on the covers of Popular Science, Technology Review, and The New York Times Sunday Review.
Carla writes and lectures frequently on the social impact of robotics and emerging technology. Her latest book, My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human (HBR Press 2021) discusses design strategies for incporporating robotics and A.I. into everyday interactions. She is the creator of the world’s first children’s book on 3D printing, LEO the Maker Prince: Journeys in 3D Printing.
In 2018 Carla was granted the honor of creating the Interaction Design Program at Cranbrook Academy of Art, a 2-year masters program in creative technology, exploring the intersection of code, form, and electronics through work that manifests as sound, light and motion. She is the program’s first Designer-in-Residence and Head of Department.
Motomichi Nakamura
Motomichi Nakamura, Japanese born and graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York, is an award-winning digital media artist, animator and immersive and projection mapping artist and educator based in Croton On Hudson, NY.
His animated films have been screened at Sundance Film Festival, Onedotzero Festival, Pictoplasma, Holland International Film Festival among many and his recent experimental film “Okami” won in The Leeds International Film Festival. His projection installation work has been exhibited globally in numerous museums and galleries including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Winzavod - Moscow Contemporary Art Center, MARCO in Monterrey Mexico, Gaite Lyrique Paris among others.
Commercially he has worked on projects for clients such as MTA New York, Channel 4, EA, MTV, USA Networks, UNIQLO and produced short films and music videos for artists including Nicola Cruz and the Swedish band The Knife which earned him international recognition.