We are so happy to announce the winner of the Henry Armero Award for 2023 is Angie Bonilla (aka Angelica Bonilla Fominaya). Angie grew up in the US and Colombia and excelled in her time at Carnegie Mellon. All her work is vastly creative and original. The project that won[…]
The following were the winners of this years award: Alexander Kampas BCSA, Computer Science and Music Performance Music composition has long been considered a purely artistic act. Autobach ventures to explore how music can be written algorithmically with the use of computers, independent of humans. https://symposium.foragerone.com/meeting-of-the-minds-2022/presentations/46187 Cleo Perez BCSA, Computer Science and Drama[…]
In a moving FB post back in December, Zach Condon, founder of the band Beirut, spoke openly about the physical and mental challenges he faced when touring and performing live. It was impressive and heartening to see such a popular and well regarded artist talking publicly about a subject that[…]
It’s been nine years. Henry lived for 7,220 days and he’s now been dead for 3,287. What does that mean? What am I measuring? Some things don’t change so there’s nothing to measure. For example, that sinking feeling every time I realize that he’s not coming back. No matter how[…]
This year’s winners of the Henry Armero Award for Inclusive Creativity at Carnegie Mellon are Sebastian Carpenter, Alyssa Lee and Emily Zhou who created an interactive educational game called ZOBITS. This generative building toy permits players to explore the impact on an ecosystem of different combination of organisms. The inputs[…]
The 2020 Award winners reflect the breadth, diversity and creativity of CMU BXA students
Today is that day when, seven years ago, the unthinkable happened and Henry abandoned his future. It’s impossible for me to imagine the pain and the momentary delusion that made him feel that taking his life was the best solution to what he was going through. I can only wish[…]
Lingdong Huang is the winner of this year’s Henry Armero Award. Lingdong is a very creative guy with a lot of cool projects under his belt. You can check them out here and here. The project that won him the award is Pose Estimation Playrooms which is an online multi-user[…]
Henry’s friend Klara sent a letter to the Museum accompanied by the Nathan Pyle comic above. This is what she said: This comic reminded me of Henry for a couple of reasons. First of all, Henry used to love web comics! I think he caught on to them way earlier[…]
On the occasion of his 26th birthday we flash back 20 years with this interview from late 1999, a few months after Henry moved to Old Greenwich from Mexico City. We find out what Henry got for Christmas and what he wanted to be when he grew up, among other[…]
