Reid Arowood
BODY/TECH
Reid Arowood is a queer artist working and living in Knoxville, Tennessee. Their interests as an artist are anchored in exploring the possibilities of the queer body when fused with technology and body modification. For example, what can a body mean if we have the power to physically change the body and modify the perception of it through filters and editing software? Reid holds a BFA from the University of Tennessee has been a resident of the School of Visual Art’s Bio Art program in New York City, which culminated to the exhibition “Biotransmutations.”
Andrea Bagdon
A Disobedient Mediation
Andrea Bagdon is an artist whose hybridized practice examines the symbolic order of femininity and its relationship to the contemporary cultural programming of the female-identifying psyche. She has exhibited her paintings and experimental videos nationally and internationally– including recent exhibitions at the College of Art Association Conference in Chicago, IL, and the Fringe Bath Arts Festival in London, United Kingdom. Andrea received her BFA from Northern Arizona University in 2014, and her MFA from Colorado State University in 2021. Andrea is the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards for her work and research, including the Kennedy Art Center Scholarship and Robert Forsyth Graduate Scholarship. Andrea is currently an art instructor at Colorado State University, and a research assistant for Signal Culture’s experimental media art residencies.
Benjamin Cook
Post Documentation: Reexamining Relationships Between Physical Art Objects and Online Image Sharing
Benjamin Cook is an artist and educator from the United States. His studio practice combines physical object making and digital-based projects. Cook’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and featured in numerous publications, including The Art Newspaper, Forbes, and New American Paintings. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BFA from the University of Louisville. He currently teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and is represented by Zg Gallery in Chicago.
Galina Bleikh and Elena Serebryakova
Hybrid Neural Network Art and Simulacra-centric World
Galina Bleikh & Elena Serebryakova have authored the concept of Simulacra-centric World as a model of the human being’s future. Their projects are based on an individual innovative art strategy which they refer to as a Hybrid Neural Network Art (HNN ART). Both artists graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry, Russia (MA). Since 2011, they have worked together. Their imagery takes advantage of opportunities provided by New Media, including interactive installations, digital video, 3d-modeling and 3d-printing, augmented reality effects and ready-made network content. Galina Bleikh & Elena Serebryakova have participated in numerous art-shows all over the world, such as Nord Art (Germany), Street Art Museum exhibition (St. Petersburg), LA Art Show, Art Asia Miami, Chicago with Next Art Show (USA), and a number of solo exhibitions.
Cameron Buckley
Old Media
Cameron Buckley is a new media artist living and working in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States. He co-founded and curates Paper-Thin, an online virtual art archive. He teaches New Media and Game Design at Arkansas State University.
Mar Canet and Varvara Guljajeva
ENA – Participative Art Forms in the Time of Pandemic
Mar Canet Solà is a junior research fellow at Cudan and PhD student at Tallinn University in the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School(BFM). He works as artist-duo together with Varvara Guljajeva as Varvara & Mar. His research explores new methods and interfaces for navigating the latent space of the AI models with artistic research. Mar is a graduate in the master’s degree from Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design Linz. He holds two undergraduate degrees: a BA in art and design from ESDI in Barcelona and a BSc in computer game development from University Central Lancashire in UK.
Dr Varvara Guljajeva has a PhD in Philosophy from the Estonian Academy of Arts, a master’s degree in digital media from ISNM, the University of Lübeck in Germany, and a bachelor’s degree in IT from Estonian IT College. Varvara Guljajeva is an artist and researcher. Currently, she holds the positions of researcher and guest Associate Professor in Textile at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Varvara has been invited as a visiting researcher to XRL, Hong Kong City University, IAMAS (Ogaki, Japan), LJMU (Liverpool, UK), Interface Cultures in the Linz University of Art and Design, Blekinge Institute of Technology (Karlshamn, Sweden).
As an artist, she works together with Mar Canet forming an artist duo Varvara & Mar. Often duo’s work is inspired by the information age. In their practice, they confront social changes and the impact of the technological era. The duo has been exhibiting in international shows since 2009. Their works have been shown at MAD in New York, FACT in Liverpool, Santa Monica in Barcelona, Barbican in London, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Ars Electronica museum in Linz, ZKM in Karlsruhe, and more.
Melissa Johns
Nestle Here With Me
Melissa Johns is a multimedia visual artist and educator from a mixed Mohawk/French Canadian background, currently based in Toronto, ON. Melissa’s visual practice manifests at the convergence of contemporary media, using interdisciplinary methods to collect, preserve, and transform fragments of the stories around her. Specializing in virtual reality installations, digital painting, and video art, her work centers on investigating the narrative potential of these emergent channels. Having completed her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts & Business at the University of Waterloo, as well as an Advanced Diploma in 3D Animation from Humber College, Melissa is pursuing a Master’s in Interdisciplinary Art from OCAD University, and working as the Digital + Interactive Coordinator at imagineNATIVE. Her graduate research is focused on creating digital environments with embedded cultural narratives; facilitating emotional memory recall through constructions of the spaces that shape us.
Ann Pegelow Kaplan
Apprehension & Suspension: Identity, Time, and Ethics in Video Art
Ann Pegelow Kaplan is an artist and ethnographer who ponders what photography is and does, the points at which visual arts and documentary collide and confuse, and the politics of representation. Currently an assistant professor at Appalachian State University, an institution of the University of North Carolina System of Higher Education, Kaplan previously taught at Elon University and Philippines Women’s University in Manila, Philippines. She has exhibited internationally and nationally, with solo exhibitions at venues including at the Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Münster, Germany; Department of Digital Arts, University of Malta; tête gallery, Berlin, Germany; De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines and group exhibitions at Manchester School of Art, UK; Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University; Venice International University, Venice, Italy; and the Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC, among others. She earned her MFA from Clemson University; MA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; and is currently an ABD PhD candidate in Philosophy, Art and Social Thought at the European Graduate School.
Herry Kim
The Value of a Statistical Life
Herry Kim is a visual artist working mainly with sculpture, film, and CGI(Computer-Generated Imagery) to create alternative futures. She centers her artistic inquiry on the ideological implications of emerging technologies and the agency of non-humans and humans.
She earned her BFA in painting and sculpture from Seoul National University and is an MFA candidate at California Institute of the Arts.
Hyemi Kim
Fragmented Landscape in the Digital Era
Hyemi Kim is a multi-media artist based in New York and Seoul. She received her MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and got her first MFA and BFA in Painting from Sungshin University in Seoul, South Korea. Her video works were shown at Time Square, from the ZAZ corner and several group shows in NYC. She participated in the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and 2016 ASYAF. She does numerous video and photo collages in recent years to create a new digital utopia, representing her scattered memories and experiences in contemporary life.
Bingyi Liu
Politicization and Depoliticization of Taste Identity
Bingyi Liu (b. in Liaoyang, China) is a New York based artist working with photography, video and performance. He has been focused on researching the multiple identities and ambiguities under the influence of taste memory. Identity characteristics of depoliticized identity catalyze his new assertion about identity. He is used to creating a certain visual language through transmedia research, field investigation and live performance. His performances take a variety of forms and allow him to engage with others or insert himself into the landscape. It is though these projects that he attempts to develop authentic ties to his own experiences, to give the cliche new and personal meaning.
Jill Miller
3D Modeled Hope
Jill Miller is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Art Practice and the Berkeley Center for New Media. She is a visual artist who works across a wide range of media, from new media art to public practices (and many hybrids in between). She often collaborates with individuals and local communities in the form of public interventions, workshops, and participatory community projects. In past work, she: lived in the remote wilderness in search of Bigfoot, used performance art to assist mothers who were harassed for breastfeeding in public, and organized teenage girls who were closing the gender gap by learning to edit Wikipedia. She founded and directs Platform Artspace, a public art venue on the UC Berkeley campus. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and collected in public institutions worldwide including CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Seokwoong Noh
Seokwoong Noh is an actor and dancer based in Seoul, Korea. He is an affiliated dancer of Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity since 2019. In 2020, Noh founded a dance agency “Dan-Dam” to curate interactive art and dance performances collaborating with other dancers.
Tore Terrasi
Type and Time
Tore Terrasi is an Intermedia artist and designer whose work spans static and dynamic media. His ambitions as a communicator are to reconsider the conventions through which we experience texts and images by way of exploring the simultaneously independent and interdependent nature of their relationship. He earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Design from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2005. Terrasi’s work has been nationally and internationally exhibited and published, including “Currents ” International New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, “L’Hybride Cinema Les Mots S’Animent (The Words Animated/Animation and Typography)” in Lille, France, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, The Cooper Union in New York, “Typomania ” at The Moscow Museum of Russia, “TypoDay” in India, and “Forward Festival” in Austria. He has also presented at TypeCon, an annual conference presented by the Society of Typographic Aficionados and numerous other venues. Terrasi is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Design at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Eric Zeigler and Aaron Ellison
Death for Some is Life for Others: A Biophilic Exploration
Eric Zeigler is an artist, designer, and researcher whose current work involves photography and unconventional transformation of images. He received an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, and exhibits his work nationally and internationally. Zeigler is an Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Art at the University of Toledo. He created and runs the Art Print Center which serves as a hub for all digital artwork production by university students, faculty, and local artists.
Aaron M. Ellison is the Senior Research Fellow in Ecology at Harvard University, Senior Ecologist & Deputy Director at the Harvard Forest, and a photographer, sculptor, and writer. He studies the disintegration and reassembly of ecosystems following natural and anthropogenic disturbances; thinks about the relationship between the Dao and the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis; reflects on the critical and reactionary stance of Ecology relative to Modernism, occasionally blogs as The Unbalanced Ecologist, and tweets as @AMaxEll17. Whenever he can, he works wood.