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Don Ritter is a Canadian artist and writer who has been active internationally in the field of digital media art since 1986. Ritter’s large, interactive installations are controlled by body position, body gesture or voice, enabling audiences to become actors within narratives that are formed by an installation’s technology. Many of Ritter’s installations are intended […]

Nancy Buchanan is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice includes installation, drawing/mixed media, performance and video. Politically outspoken against nuclear war and American international policies, Buchanan began performing in the 70s during the first wave of Los Angeles performance artists. She found a new kind of performance stage in portable video equipment. Her use of […]

Bruce Wands has been involved with digital media and music for more than forty years as an artist, musician, writer, curator and educator. His creative work explores the relationship between visual art, music, mathematics and the invention of new forms of narrative. Current projects include abstract digital images based on Buddhist geometry and electroacoustic multi-channel music […]

Jacquelene Drinkall is an artist, research-writer, curator and educator based in Gosford/Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Following her participation in 2015 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) for which she worked as TA and received a SFSIA scholarship and a Developing and Recognising Talent (DART) award, she is further developing her ongoing research into telepathy […]

Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner began collecting art individually in the 1980s and have continued their life-defining passion since they became a couple in the early 1990s. They recently donated some 850 works to the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Centre Pompidou. Each institution has described their donations as “transformative.” Works from their donations were […]

Victoria N. Alexander is a philosopher of science, working mainly on a secular redefinition of teleology, the study of purpose in nature — and in human behavior — as emergent self-organization.  Her 2011 book, The Biologist’s Mistress: Rethinking Self-Organization in Art, Literature and Nature, is named for Haldane’s famous quip, “Teleology is like a mistress […]

Lisa C Soto was born in Los Angeles, CA, and grew up in New York City and Spain. Her Caribbean heritage and continuous movements between continents and islands have informed her themes, providing her a unique, global perspective. The motifs of trans-culturalism and diminishing borders resonate throughout her sculptures, installations and drawings. Soto currently lives and […]

Alison O’Daniel weaves narrative between moving image, live performance, experimental music and object-making, she is building a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary through varying levels of access to sound, color and material. Her projects engage scoring, music-making, and captioning, though not necessarily in that order. Listening and sensitivity are of the most importance. Often her projects build […]

Jane Dickson has been exhibiting her paintings, drawings, and prints in museums and galleries domestically and internationally for two decades. She frequently works with unusual surfaces such as Astroturf, sandpaper, vinyl, or carpet to exploit the implicit references and the textural possibilities these materials offer. Solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at The […]