NANCY VALLADARES
Artist, researcher and educator from Honduras currently based in New York. I’m currently researching the networks and flows of image making, and their accompanying technological regimes. Alongside Hsurae, I run Lythologies.org a decentralized research group interested in climate futures and new ecological imaginaries.
I teach at parsons Design and Technology and Integrated Design.
Find me on Are.na
Teaching
At the center of my pedagogical approach is a methodology that can be summarized by Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida: “Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see”. I first encountered this idea as a student of photography and film, and it has continued to expand in meaning as my practice grew to encompass other forms of media: from the synthetic and generative image, to games and creative tech.
In the networked era, Barthes' insight is both a call to think about materialism, and simultaneously open critical dialogue through complexity. Throughout history, the mechanisms that define our image-centric society have remained largely invisible to us: whether by hiding its modes of production, submerged political economies, or hidden technological labor. My teaching departs from this returning invisibility.
Parsons Design and Technology
2026 Thesis Studio II, Cloud Salon: Design for the Senses2025 Major Studio I, Thesis Studio II
2024 Creative Technology Studio: Systems, Major Studio I, Narrative and Dynamic Systems
2023 Thesis Studio I, Creative Technology Studio: Systems, Narrative and Dynamic Systems
2022 Thesis Studio I
Parsons Integrated Design
2024 Integrated Design Studio I, Creatives and Entrepreneurs2023 Integrated Design Studio II
2022 Integrated Design Studio I
Are.na: On Pedagogy