Our Team
Froyo Tam - Lead Director / Transdisciplinary Design
Froyo Tam is a transmedia artist and curator, working across many disciplines in design, animation, and photography. She runs Y2K Aesthetic Institute's Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr along with Evan. Froyo also runs digicam.love with Sofi Lee + Bao Ngo, curating digital photography on point-and-shoots, and is an active member of Arte Et Labore, a design collective run by Mark Robinson. Froyo is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California with a BFA in graphic design. She is the finalist of the 2016 Adobe Design Achievement Awards in Social Impact. Her website can be found at: froyotam.info.
Evan Collins - Lead Curator / Architecture
Evan Collins is an architect and design archivist based in Hollywood, California. His early research into the 'Y2K Aesthetic' beginning in 2014 helped to lay the foundation for the many branching eras studied by CARI; he brings expertise particularly in the fields of graphic, industrial, and interior design of the 1970s-2000s. He holds a Bachelors in Architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a Masters in Architecture from Columbia University.
Favorite Aesthetic: Factory Pomo
Cindy Hernandez - Lead Curator / Design Historian
Cindy Hernandez is a design historian and writer based in New York City. Her focus is on speculative and futuristic design ranging from the 20th century to today, with an affinity for the material culture space age, theme parks, and fast food chains. Cindy is a Master's candidate in History of Design and Curatorial Studies at Parsons, The New School/Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, where she was also the 2017-2018 Curatorial Fellow in Textiles.
articution - Curator / Illustrator
Arti is a designer and illustrator based in Kentucky. Along with being an active member of Arte Et Labore, his work has also made appearances in various Y2K-related projects such as CROSSNIQ+ and u::r::here. He is a graduate from the Savannah College of Art and Design, with a BFA in graphic design. Arti has been a part of the CARI project since 2017, and is the creator of Cari-tan, the official mascot of CARI.
Favorite Aesthetic: Groovival
Jack Grimes - Curator / Designer
Jack Grimes is a graphic designer & artist with a focus on typography, online spaces, and graphic culture. He has a BFA in graphic design from Appalachian State University and is currently located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You can find his work at jackapedia.design.
Favorite Aesthetic: Factory Pomo
Chord Shore - Curator / Editor / Audio Designer
Chord Shore is an audio designer, QA engineer, and 3D graphics hobbyist based in the Silicon Valley-Bay Area. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz, he holds a Bachelors of Arts in Games & Playable Media, and has designed audio for award-winning video games and clients such as NASA. As a curator, he focuses on the interaction between future-optimism and future-pessimism—tracking how hope, anxiety, and nostalgia shape our vision of the future.
His work across different mediums can be found on www.chordshore.com.
Favorite Aesthetic: Hexatron
Max Krieger - Assistant Curator / Interactive Media
Max Krieger is an independent video game developer based in Cleveland, Ohio, who has been involved with the CARI project since late 2017. With experience in VR, AR, and traditional video game development, Max has focused on revisiting design conventions of both game mechanics and UI, approaching them from experimental perspectives informed and inspired by various aesthetics under CARI's umbrella of study. Presently, Max is working on CROSSNIQ+, a y2k-inspired arcade puzzle game coming to Nintendo Switch and computer platforms in 2019.
Linsang - Curator / Community Organizer / Software Support Engineer
Linsang is a SaaS support specialist located in the Denver, Colorado area. Outside of their work, they are passionate about music, design, and the ways in which the two intersect, which led them to discover CARI in 2019. Since joining the CARI team, Lin has worked as the administrator of the official CARI are.na group, with the aim of improving the standard of curation and attribution for the project and website, and assisted with hosting numerous community events.
Zovi McEntee - Webmaster / Project Manager
Zovi McEntee is an experimental musician, writer, graphic designer, InDesign specialist, and web/JavaScript developer from the New York City area. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has been involved with the CARI project since 2016.
Chad Miller - Web Developer / Musician
Chad Miller is a software engineer and musician based in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. When not writing code, Chad plays guitar and drums in various bands around Georgia. He has been involved with the CARI project since 2020.
Favorite Aesthetic: Contempo Eclectic