Ruth Martinez-Yepes

Ruth Martinez-Yepes is a Ph.D. student in Information Science focusing on doing research through Art. She is interested in creating metaphors to explore the relationship between body, data, and information. Also, to think critically about the narrative of information technology as neutral and immaterial. Before joining Cornell, she worked as a master facilitator on a gendered-focused Art+STEM educational program supported by Maloka Interactive Museum and the Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications. 

Additionally, she was a Design department professor at Los Andes University. Ruth has exhibited her artwork in Voltaje: Art and Technology Salon. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts with a minor in Audiovisual production from Javeriana University and an M.F.A. in Electronic Arts from Los Andes University in Bogota, Colombia. Currently, she is working with Chris Csíkszentmihályi and Malte Jung.