Chelsi Cocking
- Media Artist & Product Designer
- United States
- Member since 2021
Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Chelsi Alise Cocking is a Jamaican-American media artist, product designer, and creative coder. The foundation of her practice falls within using computing and media technologies for craft in art and design, particularly within the visual arts, interactive arts, and performance. More singularly, her work also explores the inherent possibilities of understanding the human body, motion, and movement through computing and utilizing that understanding to create updated and novel experiences in computational and interactive arts. The goal of her research and art is to use computing to aid and enhance human creativity and expression. Empowering us with new ways to create and express ourselves through computing and also creating new ways in which we experience art, design, and performance in the world today through technology.
Chelsi is currently a researcher and graduate student at the MIT Media Lab in the Future Sketches group under Zach Lieberman, where she is studying for her Masters of Science in Media, Arts, and Sciences. She is a 2022 LEGO Papert Fellow. She received her Bachelors of Science in Computational Media – an interdisciplinary degree that combines computer science, digital media, and design – with the highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2017.
Prior to the Media Lab, she worked as a product designer in the technology industry. Most notably, being the designer over the Dropbox Preview and the Dropbox Family product and redesigning Dropbox Photos on the web.
She currently lives in the United States in the Boston area.
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