In Search of the Miraculous Art Gallery Jury

Cézanne Charles
Artist, curator, and writer Cézanne Charles is the 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 in contemporary culture in both the US and the UK. She co-founded rootoftwo with John Marshall — a hybrid art and design studio that uses electronics and digital media to explore interactions among audiences, objects, and sites. They have presented work in the US, Europe, Japan, Australia, Brazil, and China. She was art committee chair for the Detroit Institute of Arts Friends of Modern & Contemporary Art fundraiser Sync: Art Meets Technology at Next Energy (2011); and a juror and member of the curatorial committee for BioLogic: A Natural History of Digital Life, an exhibition of international artists at SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans. In 2006, she co-curated Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders, an art, design, and technology exhibition.

Nick Hasty
Nick Hasty is an artist, programmer, writer, consultant, and musician. He currently serves as director of technology for Rhizome at the New Museum. He has presented on digital preservation and internet art at SXSW Interactive, Internet Week NYC, and ISEA. As an artist, he uses sound and networked technologies to reflect on contemporary culture and plays drums and electronics in the avant-rock band Source of Yellow. He received a BA in English literature from the University of Georgia and a master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts.

Mona Kasra
Mona Kasra is a new media artist and educator, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas with a focus in arts and technology. Her research is centered around the impact, power, and politics of the image in the digital networked era. She is especially interested in ways by which digital images, coupled with social media technologies, reconstruct the extent of public awareness and action against unjust sociopolitical affairs around the world. She holds a BA in graphic design and an MFA in video and digital art, and has shown work in many exhibitions in both gallery and online settings. She served as the Art Gallery Chair for SIGGRAPH 2011.

Osman Khan
Osman Khan is an artist interested in constructing artifacts and experiences for social criticism and aesthetic expression. His work plays with and subverts the material and media behind themes of identity, communication, economics, and public space through participatory and performative installations and site-specific interventions. In 2004, he completed his MFA at the Department of Design Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles. His work has been shown at the Shanghai Biennale, ZeroOne/ISEA Festival (San Jose, California), L.A. Louver (Los Angeles), Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam), Ars Electronica Center (Linz), the OK Center for Contemporary Art (Linz), and Socrates Sculpture Park (New York). He is the recipient of an Art Matters grant, Ars Electronica's Prix Ars Award of Distinction, and The Arctic Circle 2009 Residency. Articles about his work have appeared in Artforum, Artweek, Art Review, I.D., the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Artnet. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Daniel Sauter
Daniel Sauter is an artist who creates interactive installations and site-specific interventions dealing with the cultural and social implications of emergent technologies. His research is driven by a curiosity about how technologies shape and transform urban spaces, social relationships, and the human body. He uses technology as artistic material, embedded in larger social and cultural contexts. His works have been exhibited internationally, in Europe, Asia, and the United States. His current research and writing focus on sensor-based mobile interfaces. In 2010, he founded Chicago's Mobile Processing conference. He received an MFA from the Department of Design Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, and a diploma from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design at the ZKM in 2002. He is an associate professor of new media arts and...