Hey, my name is Anthony Chimbay, a transfer student from New York City, majoring in Computer Science. Originally, I pursued architectural engineering during high school for four years, creating a portfolio of designs (complexes, floor plans, landscapes, etc.). Though at the end of it (and some pressure from the pandemic), I noticed my interest shifting to the idea of creation with intent; something that was only seen in Iron Man as a kid. Hence, I became interested in the study of Artificial Intelligence, specifically the area of applied AI and Machine Learning mechanics in aerospace engineering. And so, after a two-year gap, I attended community college, which ultimately led me to Lawrence.
But the geometry of these buildings, and the data structures that create forms of communication, cultivated the artistic lens I carry today, that of a man who uses numbers as his canvas, where computation is seen, felt, and composed visually. This way of seeing is shaped by my synesthesia: the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body (Google). So when McLauhn said,
When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised, put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
I recognized this not as an abstract theory, but as a description of how I experience information. Synesthesia causes numerical values, algorithms, and structural relationships to register visually, often as shapes, spatial arrangements, or shifts in texture. In this way, computation is not processed solely as logic, but as form. This perceptual overlap allowed me to approach problems intuitively, translating code into visual systems and treating data as something that can be composed, arranged, and refined much like architecture or art.
