Exhibitions and Interviews

Mental Mapping investigates the intersections of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and visual art to reveal how individuals navigate their internal and external worlds. This page serves as a hub for past interviews, discussions, and exhibitions that have shaped the project, providing insights into the evolving dialogue between memory, identity, and the spaces we inhabit.

  • Neuro Boston Logo

    Neuro Boston Presentation

    I recently presented a research poster on Mental Mapping at Neuro Boston, showing how artificial intelligence and visual art can reveal how artists' stories revisit recurring patterns of memory, identity, and experience.

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  • Logo for the Society for the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

    SLSA Grand Stage Presentation

    At this year’s Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) conference, I presented on hidden representational networks and how the ways brains, algorithms, and media shape what we perceive as reality.

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  • Flyer for the Mental Mapping Exhibition at SomArt at the Somerville Armory

    Mental Mapping Exhibition at the Somerville Armory

    Reception: April 24, 2025, 6:30-8:30 PM

    Artist Talk: June 10, 2025, 6-8 PM

    Location: The Somerville Armory
    191 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA

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  • Logo for the academic group, The Arts in Society

    Carnegie Mellon Presentation

    At this year’s Carnegie Mellon Arts in Society Conference, I presented my project, Mental Mapping: The Art of Exploring Connections, which focuses on neuroscience, LLM analyses, and photography to make hidden neural, social, and virtual networks visible.

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  • Harvard medical school logo

    Harvard Psychiatry Research Day

    My poster presentation at Harvard Psychiatry Research Day, exploring how spatial cognition influences identity across physical, social, and digital environments. Using large language models (LLMs) to analyze qualitative interviews, I examined how individuals navigate interconnected spaces, shaping their sense of belonging and adaptation.

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  • A young boy held up by a family member who is smiling. The title, Mapping Pathways Discovery is in the empty space of the overall image.

    Mapping Pathways of Discovery

    Listen to the Culture Matters podcast, where project creator Joshua Sariñana discusses his background in neuroscience and photography, highlighting how these disciplines converge in Mental Mapping. Science alone cannot fully explain the complex relationship we have with our external environment.

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  • Five individuals sitting around a round table discussing Mental Mapping project. (From Left: a woman, a woman, a man, a woman, a man)

    In the UMAverse: Tools for Understanding and Remembering

    In this roundtable, Joshua sits down with fellow neuroscientists, artists, and community organizers to examine how our environments shape self-perception and memory.

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    Urban Media Art Salon

    Delve into the Urban Media Art (UMA) Mental Mapping Salon, a platform for exchanging ideas on AI, storytelling, and creative exploration.

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