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NYC

Specter Hall marries brand creative + emerging technology to create press-worthy engagements for brands. We specialize in combining tech in new ways to tell your brand’s story.

Brooklyn, NY

Portfolio of digitally-fabricated sculptures: https://katespecter.com.My work explores structural relationships of patterns in nature, the human body and movement through time.

New York, NY

Optoon creates shareable AR and MR experiences. Our app ToonPack lets users create expressive animated emojis and stickers using film-quality 3D characters they control with their face, which can be uploaded to social media and iMessage.

Brooklyn, NY

As principal 3D digital modeler for the studio, I digitally sculpted and altered 3D scans, adding new textures and forms to the pieces. Pieces I worked on have been internationally exhibited and recently shown at a solo show at the Park Avenue Armory.

New York, NY

Established a rapid prototyping studio with a stereolithography machine and designed fashion hardware for mass production.

Manhattan & Brooklyn, NY

Conducted video interviews with current artists for a documentary, researched contemporary digital art, and reviewed demo reels of applicants for Eyebeam's artists in residency.

Los Angeles, CA And Seattle, WA

After completing a pilot safety study of MDMA with rats at UC Irvine, I conducted a fascinating 40-year follow-up study to Dr. Oscar Janiger's LSD experiments on volunteers. I tracked down and interviewed 45 subjects in depth about their lives since participating in the 1950s. A story about the project appeared on the cover of the LA Weekly, and a research.

Seattle, Washington

Scheduled group shows for artists in a decommissioned naval air base, planned opening and closing parties, aided with installations and press releases.

Poolesville, Maryland

Led an anatomical study, which compared male and female squirrel monkey brains (in Dr. John Newman's lab). Discovered significant gender differences in the volumes of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus and the medial amygdala, parts of the brain's limbic system. This research became the groundwork for my senior college thesis.

Mfa, Computer Graphics, Honors

Activities and Societies: SIGGRAPHMFA thesis explored digital sculpture as an emerging field in the fine arts and featured a series of my.

Certificate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Y Combinator provided our startup with a mentor for weekly meetings and a 10-week online course.

Ba, Neurobiology, Honors

Majored in neurobiology with a thesis project from my work at the National Institutes of Health, titled "Sexual Dimorphism of the.