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Sara Schnadt is an artist who also works in a variety of different fields mainly as a UX designer and software systems architect. She is currently a designer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is mostly focusing on software human interface design and different types of system architecture for machine learning for the Europa Clipper mission.
“Visualizing the idea that we simultaneously live in a real and virtual world, and that the virtual is infinitely expansive”
Personally, I was very intrigued by her work primarily because of the perspective, scale, and ambitious nature of the projects she creates and is heavily involved in. Sara Schnadt talks about how her work in NASA inspires the majority of her installation works and vice versa because she finds numerous similarities between the creative processes of both practices. Schnadt also discusses that although space projects involve an abundance of technological skills and an engineering mindset,
the projects should also be thought of as also creative projects and design problems, which opens up endless possibilities and complexities.