BioLogic Art Gallery Jury

Suzanne Anker

Suzanne Anker is an artist, theorist, and chair of the BFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she works at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She has been a guest curator at the New York Academy of Sciences and the author of many texts concerning the implications of the bio-technological revolution on culture and society. She hosted the “Bio-Blurb Show” on WPS1 art radio, organized with the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As an artist, she has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, the Smithsonian Institute, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is co-author of The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, an exploration of the ethical questions posed by current scientific advances.

Cézanne Charles

Cézanne Charles is an artist, curator, writer, Director of Creative Industries for ArtServe Michigan, and former Executive Director of New Media Scotland. She has commissioned, curated, and presented talks, research, and works by creative practitioners who are exploring the implications of emerging technologies and scientific developments on contemporary culture in both the US and UK. She is co-founder of rootoftwo, a hybrid art and design practice. Her work concentrates on the interactions between audiences, objects and sites using electronics and digital media to explore these relationships. rootoftwo has exhibited in the US, Europe, and Australia and is now based in metro Detroit. She co-curated the exhibition Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders (United Kingdom). She has been an invited contributor and presenter at conferences including Cool Fusions: Digital Humanities, Contemporary Art at MOCA Cleveland, and Creative Cities Summit 2.0 Detroit. She also serves on the programming committee at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

John Marshall

John Marshall is an artist, designer, curator, writer, and assistant professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. His work concentrates on the development of experimental objects and spaces combining coding and electronics with computer-based design and fabrication methods. He co-founded rootoftwo to explore art, design, and electronic culture. Selected exhibitions include Chain Reaction—Museum of the City of Skopje (Macedonia), Digital Media at La Nau Valencia (Spain), Federation Square Melbourne (Australia), Museum of Science and Industry Manchester (United Kingdom), and folly—Lancaster (United Kingdom). He co-curated the art, design, and technology exhibition Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders (United Kingdom) and edited the companion catalog. He has published and presented his research in China, Europe, Japan, and the US. He has a PhD from Robert Gordon University (United Kingdom) for work exploring hybrid art and design practices mediated through computer-based design and fabrication technologies.

Sascha Pohflepp

Sascha Pohflepp is an artist, designer, and writer currently based in London. He recently obtained his MA in the Design Interactions Program at the Royal College of Arts, London. He studied visual communication at the University of the Arts Berlin and at ENSAD, Paris. His work investigates notions of the future, social technologies, and business and idealism. He is a member of Mediamatic and has organized and participated in exhibitions, salons, and workshops that investigate the co-evolution of cultural developments and new technologies. His work has been recognized by IdN/Shift, I.D. magazine, PAGE magazine, and Art Review. He has exhibited and given talks internationally including at Eyebeam (New York), Nokia Design Center (Los Angeles), O’Reilly Foo Camp 2008 (Sebastopol), Dislocate 07 (Tokyo/ Yokohama), Ars Electronica 2007 (Linz), Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne), Transmediale 07 (Berlin), and SIGGRAPH 2006 (Boston). He also contributes to the blog we-make-moneynot-art.

Sabrina Raaf

Sabrina Raaf is a Chicago-based artist working in experimental sculptural media and photography. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Mejan Labs (Stockholm), Stefan Stux Gallery (New York), Ars Electronica (Linz), Opel Villas Foundation Art Center (Rüsselsheim), Museum Tinguely (Basel), Espace Landowski (Paris), Artbots 2005 (Dublin), San Jose Museum of Art, Kunsthaus Graz, ISEA (Helsinki), Klein Art Works (Chicago), The Lab (San Francisco), and Painted Bride Center (Philadelphia...