KRISTA FAIST
New Media Artist | Represented by Chaos Contemporary Craft
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SELECT PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
2026 Wonderball, projections / live visuals, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH
2025 Wanderlights, interactive light installation, Columbus Dept. of Parks and Rec, Columbus OH
2025 Portals, ArtsFest, Columbus OH
2025 Nocturne Grove, commission, Dawes Arboretum, Newark OH
2025 Mirror’s Echo, browser-based interactive installation, Chaos Contemporary Craft
2025 Ebullient Currents, interactive commission, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus OH
2024 Energy and Grace, architectural light installation, BLINK Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH
2024 Liken Lichens, installation, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2024 Alley Islands, installation, Blockfort, Columbus OH
2021 Mural ReMix, projection mapping, 934 Gallery, Columbus OH
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EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2026 CURRENTS New Media x RELAY, Ambient Intelligence, Santa Fe NM
2026 Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore MD
2026 AI Rising Conference, invited showcase, demonstration, Columbus OH
2025 GDEX (Game Developer Conference + Expo), invited artist, Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus OH
2025 AI Rising Conference, invited showcase, demonstration, Columbus OH
2025 AI Symposium, Ringling College of Arts, Sarasota FL
2025 Ebullient Witness, GH36 Gallery, Berlin, Deutschland
2024 Haptic Hearts, 934 Gallery, Columbus OH
2023 Eighth Edition, Barcelona Planet Film Festival, Barcelona, España
2023 Spring Juried Exhibition, Ohio Art League, Columbus OH
2022 Peace Letters to Ukraine, New Museum of Contemporary and Moving Arts, Köln, Deutschland
2022 Ohio Shorts, Wexner Center, Columbus OH
2022 The Form that Remains, ROY G BIV, Columbus OH
2022 Getaway, Seventh Son, Columbus OH
2022 Live Vids for Covid, Fuse Factory, Columbus OH
2021 VRE Fest, Iconia (Roma, Milano, Torino, Bologna, Palermo), Italia
2021 Plug and Play, Wild Goose, Columbus OH
2021 Pedestal, Dream Clinic, Columbus OH
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RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2026 Hangar, Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisboa, Portugal
2026 CAST (Contemporary Art & Sound Technologies), dadaLab, Austin TX
2025 Daydream Intensive, TouchDesigner development cohort
2024 Fuse Factory, artist in residence, Cultural Arts Center, Columbus OH
2023 TouchDesigner Artist Showcase, Grey Area, featured artist for Mandelbrot generative visualization, San Francisco CA​​
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TECHNICAL SKILLS
Software: TouchDesigner, Unity, Unreal Engine, Stable Diffusion, Blender
Programming: Python, C#, C++, Google Apps Script
Traditional: Oil painting, encaustic on glass, found object sculpture​
EDUCATION
2023 MFA, Visual Arts, magna cum laude, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
2020 BA, Digital Media and Design, Penn State University, State College, PA
2018 Academia Español Nicoya, Nicoya, Costa Rica (Spanish immersion)