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ECHOES OF YOUTH:
an interactive sound map
of NYC memories
Chloë Bass
Chloë Bass is an artist who loves listening to sounds. She also serves as the co-director of Social Practice CUNY, an educational network that amplifies the collective power of socially engaged artists, scholars, and advocates throughout the City University of New York’s rich tapestry of faculty, staff, and students working for social justice.
Betty Yu
Betty Yu is a multimedia artist, photographer, filmmaker and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Yu integrates documentary film, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her practice, and she is a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College, and New Media Narratives program certificate from the ICP. Yu teaches at Pratt Institute and Hunter College, in addition to over 20 years of community, media justice, and labor organizing work. Her work was part of the After the Plaster Foundation, or, “Where Can We Live?” exhibition at Queens Museum from 2020-21. Her work has also been presented at the Brooklyn Museum and the NY Historical Society among other venues. Ms. Yu has been awarded artist residencies and fellowships from The Laundromat Project and A Blade of Grass, International Studio & Curatorial Program and more.
Coline Chevrin
Coline Chevrin is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Geography at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. After a Master’s Degree in Territorial Policies for Sustainable Development, Coline specialized in territorial and development studies. She was an assistant professor and researcher in Argentina at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario from 2013 to 2017. Her research focuses on the impact of the soybean extractivist model on the restructuring of the city of Rosario, Argentina. She is particularly interested in Latin American situated knowledge, decolonial praxis, Global South and feminist geographies. Coline has been experimenting visualizing her research through documentary photography and alternative methods and has incorporated working with artists as part of her praxis. She is an adjunct at the Geography Department at Hunter College.
Andrew Demirjian
Andrew Demirjian builds linguistic, sonic and visual environments that disrupt habituated ways of reading, hearing and seeing. His interdisciplinary artistic practice examines structures that shape consciousness and perception, questioning frameworks that support the status quo and limit thought. The works are often presented in non-traditional spaces and take the form of multi-channel audiovisual installations, generative artworks, video poems, augmented reality apps and live performances. Andrew’s work has been exhibited at The Museum of the Moving Image, The New Museum and many other galleries, festivals and museums. The Smithsonian, MacDowell Colony, and the MIT Open Documentary Lab are among some of the organizations that have supported his work. Andrew teaches theory and production courses in emerging media in the Film and Media Department and the Integrated Media Arts MFA program at Hunter College.
Meryl Jones
Meryl Jones (they/them) is a filmmaker, sound artist, and actor. They came to filmmaking for its capacity to intermingle and complicate multiple self-expressions. Their work blurs the boundaries between narrative, experimental, documentary, and home video. And they especially love the process of sound and how it can be in dissonance to the image! They have directed three short films; Goldilocks, The Love Spell, and Dom screened at various festivals including Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Newfest, and online for The New Yorker Magazine and No Budge. They are a co-founder of Sweet Potato Productions and sometimes educator at Brooklyn-based analogue film-collective Mono No Aware.
Madison Shaw
Madison Shaw is a multimedia artist focused on placemaking and promoting sustainable infrastructure across New York. She is particularly interested in how humans engage with an urban environment through movement and sound — and how city planning influences these experiences. In her SoundWalk series, she captures field recordings paired with satellite images, ecological archives, and personal essays to create an immersive soundscape of various locations in the Northeast. Shaw also works to keep New Yorkers thoughtfully engaged with their environment alongside the Museum Of Reclaimed Urban Space, where she coordinates group bike rides and fundraising for archive preservation.
This project is partially supported by a grant from Social Practice CUNY , an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-supported initiative.
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