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Ar Ducao
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Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Biography

Ar Ducao (they / zey pronouns) is a new media artist, engineer, organizer and educator who specializes in working with underrepresented and incarcerated STEAM (science, tech, art, engineering and math) makers. They created the animation series “The Great Tit is a Bird.” The films’ technology themes are based on Ducao’s work co-developing Multimer, a system that uses EEG (brainwave) and ECG (heart rate) data to analyze the experience of participants moving through cities, towns, and buildings. Their work has been honored with the SXSW Community Service Award. Ducao’s films and visualizations have been shown in venues and festivals around the world, including the Margaret Mead Documentary Festival, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora, and the New York African Film Festival. Their innovation work has been profiled by the New York Times, MSNBC, WIRED, Discovery Channel, NPR, and many more. Ducao is a research affiliate and instructor at MIT and a part-time professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NYU School of Engineering, and the NYU Prison Education Program. They are a past winner of the Science Channel reality show “All American Makers.”

The DuKode Studio. “About Ar.” Accessed March 11, 2025. https://dukodestudio.com/dukodewop/index.php/about-ar/.