Multidisciplinary artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya on how she protects her explorer's spirit and invites strangers to join her in her discoveries

Published: July 5, 2022, 10:30 a.m.

b'A neuroscientist-turned-artist, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, has long known how to \\u201cmake the invisible visible,\\u201d as her artist statement declares. Her ability to make intricate scientific concepts accessible through art and design earned her a TED residency as well as the opportunity to speak on two TED mainstages. Her numerous works \\u2014 including an AR installation immersing viewers in the world of microbes and \\u201cBeyond Curie,\\u201d a project that harnessed both technology and design to celebrate the most badass women in STEM history \\u2014 have been featured in spaces all over the world, from a highway tunnel in the Netherlands to New York\\u2019s Cooper Union.\\xa0In the last couple of years, Amanda has focused her talents on engaging with and revealing often-hidden parts of the human psyche, from the bigotry and racist violence that have reared their heads throughout the country to the cumulative trauma and grief of the COVID crisis. As an artist-in-residence with the New York City Commission on Human Rights, she created a citywide mural project titled \\u201cI Still Believe in Our City\\u201d to counter anti-Asian violence and center the lives and experiences of Asian Americans and people of color as crucial threads in the American fabric. Soon after the shootings at a spa in Atlanta in 2021, Time magazine featured images from the series on its cover.Pier Carlo Talenti spoke to Amanda while she was taking a brief break from troubleshooting one in a series of installations on Lincoln Center plaza in New York City. In this interview she describes the challenges and joys of expanding her artistic practice to invite even more collaborators \\u2014 from institutions to the public at large \\u2014 into her creations.https://www.alonglastname.com/https://www.istillbelieve.nyc/abouthttps://www.lincolncenter.org/series/summer-for-the-city/s/GATHER:%20A%20series%20of%20monuments%20and%20rituals'