WORKBIO
I always knew that architecture would be a great thing to study even if I did not become an architect in the end. Shout out to my former boss, MacArthur Fellowship winning architect, artist, and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar for telling me that...and being so right!
The stuff they teach / help you hone in architecture studio comprise a magical toolkit: outside the box thinking, visual descriptions of the problem, ordered idea generation, ...aka design! This comes in handy in software engineering (as well as everything else in life!) .
Below is my old architecture bio / work sample, from way back in the early aughts, just for fun:
Beatrix Carroll (b.1989) Artist, based in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Architecture and Mathematics in 2011. Currently she works doing data analysis, insights, and optimizations at a tech start-up in NYC, while maintaining a presence in the art world. She has worked with many established artists. Her previous employment includes work for Alfredo Jaar (project manager, administrative, background research for projects), Tino Segal (active performer in his “This Progress”, at the Guggenheim, January to March 2010), and Pedro Reyes (active performer in “Sanatorium”, using mathematic skills to therapeutically quantify abstract problems). In the past year she has worked with Nicole Cohen (3D Render using Rhino and Photoshop, for public art work exhibited at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, CA.), sound artist Justin Bennett and poet Matthea Harvey (facilitator for Guggenheim-curated walking tour of Staten Island, "Telettrofono") and composer Arvo Part (facilitator for Guggenheim walking tour of lower Manhattan, "To a Great City"). She is a member of the artist groups The Berlin Collective founded by Cohen, the RenaissanceNYC, and EmergArts, and is also a staff writer for the web site TheRapInsider.com.
Her artwork has a focus on urban and anatomical systems and their functionality. She also has a strong interest in performance art and recently has been exploring popular music and particularly hip hop culture in her work. She has exhibited in galleries on the Lower East Side, and in numerous group exhibitions. For more information, please email beatrixcarroll@gmail.com.