Dr. Dana Karwas is Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale and teaches at the Yale School of Architecture. She leads CCAM’s artistic, research, and curatorial direction and oversees Maquette, the center’s publication, shaping interdisciplinary work across art, architecture, design, and emerging technology.
Her teaching focuses on mechanized perception and spatial systems. Her courses The Mechanical Eye and The Mechanical Artifact shape CCAM’s Ultra Space research program.
Karwas’s artistic practice sets the tone for CCAM’s experimental culture. Working across sculpture, installation, painting, and architecture, she examines how technology reorganizes perception, space, and power. Her work treats materials and systems as sites of inquiry, revealing the structures that shape everyday life and cultivating new modes of attention and agency.
She holds a PhD in Urban Systems from NYU Tandon, an MPS from NYU Tisch’s ITP, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas.
Previously, Karwas served as Media Director for Maya Lin’s final memorial project What Is Missing? and as Industry Assistant Professor in NYU’s Integrated Design & Media program. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with writing in Maquette and Perspecta.
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