Will Allstetter
Students
Visualizing Data and Life-Like Processes in Digital Art
December 8 – 11, 2025
Viewable by appointment. Please contact the TA for the course, Will Allstetter (SMACT ’27).
The exhibition is a showcase of the students’ final projects for the course “Visualizing Data and Life-Like Processes in Digital Art,” taught in Fall 2025 by Matej Vakula. Their projects aim to interpret information from a wide range of datasets: from pollution concentration in Shanghai to cyanobacteria growth in the Charles River. Taking an artistic lens to work, the works not only display the data, but augment it with artistic, open-ended lines of questioning.
Students in this course are:
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Annie Yining Chen
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Annie Yining Chen is an artist, architectural designer, and MDes Ecologies student at Harvard Graduate School of Design whose work bridges environmental research and interdisciplinary art. She is interested in merging architecture, ecology, and digital media to create immersive, research-driven installations. Her recent work experiments with sound, code, and atmospheric data to explore collective rituals and shared environments.
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Hanzhang Lai
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Hanzhang Lai is a multidisciplinary designer and photographer currently pursuing a Master of Design Studies (Ecologies) at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her current research at Harvard GSD explores the intersection of sustainability, climate change, and social inequality. She is particularly interested in how climate migration and flood resilience strategies can be developed through a bottom-up architectural design approach to empower marginalized communities.
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Michelle Peyer
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Michelle is in her second year of her Masters in Architecture and on exchange from ETH Zurich. She originally is from Bern, Switzerland.
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