CHAITANYA HARSHITA NEDUNURI KAHN
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Chaitanya Harshita Nedunuri Kahn is an educator, curator, and cultural producer. Her practice spans design and interdisciplinary research, often taking shape as exhibitions, publications, and multimedia programs. Nedunuri Kahn lives and works in New York City, where she is the founder and curator of Spill 180. She is also a core collaborator of Yale University’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. Her current focus in academia and the arts builds on senior industry experience at Google and McKinsey & Company.








EDUCATION
New York University
M.A., NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study; Interdisciplinary Design; Global Research Fellow


New York University
B.S., NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Media, Culture, Communication




EMPLOYMENTSpill 180 Gallery
    Founder & Curator


Design Consultant
    Creative Circle     
    Maya Lin Studios


Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media
    Fellow
    Critic/Student Mentor


Google: DeepMind, Gemini AI
    Senior Design Program Manager
    Design Program Manager


Google: Consumer Product Innovation
    Design Program Manager


McKinsey & Company: McKinsey Academy
    Design Program Manager


McKinsey & Company: McKinsey Digital Labs
    User Experience Consultant
    Design & Digital Strategy Analyst




SELECTED LECTURES, TALKS 
& PANELS

Ultra Space: Mechanical Artifact Course— Yale School of Architecture (ARCH 6114), Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.


Mechanical Eye Course— Yale School of Architecture (ARCH 2238), Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.


Vital Matter Panel— ECOLOGIES with Kate Wong: New Art Dealers Alliance Miami 2025, Ice Palace Studios, Miami Basel.


Ultra Space & Heat Death of the Universe Lecture — Illuminations: CCAM Symposium 2025, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media (CCAM), Yale University.


Living Forever in the Reversible Destiny Lofts Panel — Adaptation/s: Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.


Ultra Space Lecture— Adaptation/s Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.


Ultra Space Tokyo — Takashi Ikegami AI Lab, School of Engineering / Design & Media Studies, University of Tokyo.


Ultra Space Tokyo — James Jack Art Lab, School of Creative Science and Engineering / Media Studies, Waseda University.


Design Rituals for Bodies in Space — Beyond the Cradle 2023, MIT Media Lab.
    Bodies in Space — Workshop at MIT Media Lab
    Bodies in Space — Workshop at Seattle Museum of Flight
    Bodies in Space — Workshop at The New York Times


Body/Cyborg/Alien: Embodying What’s Out There Panel (with NASA’s Ravi Kumar Kopparappu)— CCAM Ultra Space Symposium 2023, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.


Living in Space Panel (with Ariel Ekblaw)— CCAM Ultra Space Symposium 2023, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.


The Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space 2021 (with Astronaut Don Pettit) — Yale School of Architecture, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, Yale University.


Design Research Foundations with Heidi Brandt— Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.




SELECTED WRITING 
& MULTIMEDIA
Ultra Space: A Zero Gravity Proxy for Objects and Architecture
Book, Yale University, 2026
Co-authored with Dana Karwas
With contributions from Trattie Davies, Ariel Ekblaw, Tiri Kananuruk, Kepler Karwas, Taylor Levy, Sarah Oppenheimer, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Taylor Rees, Alexis Sablone, Che-Wei Wang, and Pamela Zoline


BEANS
Curatorial Research Magazine, Spill 180
“Mirror, Mirror,” with ST Luk and Dana Karwas, BEANS no. 1, 2025
“On Forgiveness,” with Qingyuan Deng, BEANS no. 2, 2025
“Sublime & Unknown,” with Danielle Ezzo, BEANS no. 3, 2025
“Clockwork,” with Whitney Mallett, BEANS no. 4, 2025
“Tidal Locking,” with Charlotte Youkilis, BEANS no. 5, 2025
“Offset Attunement,” with Sarah Oppenheimer, BEANS no. 6, 2025
“A Cry for a Way of Being,” with Caroline Campos, BEANS no. 7, 2026


“Interview with Tokyo-Based Scientist Takashi Ikegami”
The Yale Maquette no. 4: Chaos and Control
Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, 2025


“Thirty Six Point Eight Hours at Spill 180”
The Yale Maquette no. 4: Chaos and Control, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, 2025


Ultra Space Printed Volume 2023
Essay Anthology, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, 2024


Ultra Space: Terra Cosma
Short Film, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, 2022


The Celestial World of CCAM
Podcast series, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media
    “What is CCAM?” 2020
    “I am Alan Turing,” 2021
    “ULTRA SPACE // Don Pettit Part 1,” 2021
    “ULTRA SPACE // Don Pettit Part 2,” 2021


Design Thinking Roundtable
Podcast series, DESIS Lab at Nova SBE and Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace, 2018-2020
    “Disability-Led Design: Inclusive Design Futures”
    “Empowerment through Play: Inclusive Design”
    “Equality vs. Equity: Intro to Inclusive Design”
    “On Co-Creation in Sustainable Innovation”
    “On Human Behavior as a Medium”
    “Designers and Consultants”




CURATORIALUltra Space: Mechanical Artifact
Broodworks, 2026

Women-Led Galleries
Artsy and Artnet, 2026

New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Miami
Ice Palace Studios, Miami Basel, 2025

Split Level Fair
Rimadesio Studios, 2025

Art in General Benefit Auction
YveYANG Gallery, 2025

Spill 180
    Waves, 2025
    Gauze, 2025
    Passion for the Void, 2025
    High Dynamic Range, 2025
    Thirty Six Point Eight Hours, 2025
    Mercy Clubhouse, 2025
    Doliolida, 2025
    Rituals of Recursion, 2025
    Sharpe Surface Residue, 2024
    Spill Inaugural, 2024




PRESS
Maldonado, Samantha. “First, Meet the Upstairs Neighbors.” The New York Times. 2025.

Kaufman, Toby. “Independent Curator Kate Wong Organizing NADA Miami’s ‘Curated Spotlight’ Section.” ARTnews. 2025.

Ezzo, Danielle. “Anti‑Solutionism as a Curatorial Framework.” Ill Angels Substack, 2025.

Tafoya, Harry. “May’s Must-See Art Shows in NYC and Beyond.” PAPER Magazine. 2025.

Deng, Qingyuan. “Quori Theodor and Bobbi Salvör Menuez host ‘Synanthropy’ at Spill 180” Purple Fashion Magazine. 2025.

Kwak, Lily. “Creighton Baxter and Agnes Walden Take Us Inside Their ‘Mercy Clubhouse’.” IMPULSE Magazine. 2025.

Towfiq, Shirin. “Gauze.” Artforum (Artguide MustSee), Spill 180, Brooklyn, NY. 2025.

Metakis, Marc. “McKinsey Academy celebrates reaching over one million participants.” McKinsey & Company. 2024.

Hsiao, Sissie. “Bard becomes Gemini: Try Ultra 1.0 and a new mobile app today.” The Keyword. 2024.

O’Connor, Hailey. “Ultra Space Lab at CCAM.” YaleVentures. 2024.

Ventura, Bryan. “CCAM Kicks Off Two-Day Symposium, ‘Ultra Space’.” Yale Daily News. 2023.

Cummings, Mike. “Yale project brings creative expression to space flight.” YaleNews. 2022.




AWARDS & HONORS
Ultra Space: Terra Cosma. Best Documentary Short. Experimental Dance Film Festival. Los Angeles, CA. 2023.

Provost’s Global Research Initiatives, Graduate Student Fellow, New York University. New York, NY. 2019.

Interdisciplinary Award for Academic Excellence, New York University. New York, NY. 2019.

Community Service Award, Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PSVA). 2019.

Community Service Award, Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PSVA). 2013.

Community Service Award, Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PSVA). 2011.










  


WORK

I.
Spill 180

I founded and direct Spill 180, a contemporary art and research space in NYC. Through exhibitions, publications, and public programs, Spill 180 brings artists, architects, writers, and researchers into dialogue. 

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II.
Yale CCAM

I’m a fellow and core collaborator of Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, developing work across art, design, architecture, science, and technology.

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III.
Google

From 2019 to 2024 I worked on product design at Google.

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IV.
Ultra Space is a research lab.

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V.
What is Missing? Maya Lin’s Memorial for the Planet



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VI.
Heat Death

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VII.
Bodies in Space Workshops


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VIII.
Podcasts

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IX.
Previous Work

Design work from 2019 and prior!

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WORDS

I.
Ultra Space
A Zero Gravity Proxy for Objects and Architecture

A design book I co-authored with Dana Karwas and produced with Olga Kedya and Xiwen Zhang. The publication captures more than six years of Ultra Space research and project explorations, alongside design awakening contributions by Trattie Davies, Ariel Ekblaw, Tiri Kananuruk, Kepler Karwas, Taylor Levy, Sarah Oppenheimer, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Taylor Rees, Alexis Sablone, Che-Wei Wang, and Pamela Zoline.  

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II.
Maquette: Chaos & Control

I contributed to the latest volume of the Yale CCAM journal edited by Alex Zafiris.

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© Chaitanya Harshita Nedunuri Kahn 2027