We’re excited to share that our affiliates have been awarded two of the seven CAMD Creative Catalyst grants! The goal of this internal Northeastern grant program in its inaugural year is to support new collaborations that bridge disciplines.

The program aims to catalyze research and creative work that is expected to make substantial knowledge contributions and to advance socially beneficial outcomes, demonstrating our college’s capacity for transformative leadership in research and creative practice.

Our CfA-affiliated projects include:

• Forensic Architecture: Maps of the Ungrievable – Advanced Fabrication Methodologies for Creative Practice & Research
  Yulia Pinkusevich, Suzanne Schmidt, Juliana Barton, Rebecca Leong
  The project creates artistic works that transform declassified aerial reconnaissance photos from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum archives into hybrid fabrication-based installations, synthesizing archival research, ethical inquiry, and advanced material practice with both exhibition-based and curriculum-focused outcomes.
• CAMD Data Ark: Defining Provenance Frameworks for AI Training Data
  Gloria Sutton, Juliana Barton, Derek Curry, Jennifer Gradecki, Sylke Meyer, Albert-László Barabási, Julia Flanders
  The project develops a humanities-driven provenance framework for AI training datasets, applying art-historical catalogue methodology to computational objects to create an infrastructure that makes the origins of training data legible — serving art historians, cultural organizations, and archival researchers across art history, digital humanities, AI ethics, and network science.