Art Papers Jury

Marcus Bastos

Marcus Bastos is an artist, curator and researcher focusing on the convergence of audiovisual, design, and new media. He received a PhD in communication and semiotics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, where he has been teaching and researching since 2003. He is author of the e-book Recycling Culture (NOEMA Gallery, 2007) and co-editor of the e-book Appopriations of the (Un)common: Public and Private Space in Times of Mobility (Sergio Motta Institute, 2009). He edited, with Lucas Bambozzi and Rodrigo Minelli, the book Mediation, Technology, Public Space – A Critical Panorama of Art in Mobile Media (Conrad, 2010). He was curator of Noise on Video (Itaú Cultural Institute, 2005) and of the exhibition Cellular Geographies (Fundación Telefónica, 2010). He has been the curator of VIVO Arte.Mov – International Festival of Art in Mobile Media since 2007.

Joanna Berzowska

Joanna Berzowska is Associate Professor and Chair of the Design and Computation Arts Department at Concordia University, as well as the founder and research director of XS Labs, a design research studio with a focus on innovation in the fields of electronic textiles and reactive garments. A core component of her research involves the development of enabling methods, materials, and technologies — in the form of soft electronic circuits and composite fibers — as well as the exploration of the expressive potential of soft reactive structures. She is the Head of Electronic Textiles at OMsignal, a Montreal startup developing a line of bio-sensing clothes together with a wellness application. Her art and design work has been shown in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC, the V&A in London, the Millenium Museum in Beijing, various SIGGRAPH Art Galleries, ISEA, the Art Directors Club in NYC, the Australian Museum in Sydney, NTT ICC in Tokyo, and Ars Electronica Center in Linz among others.

Marc Böhlen

Artist-engineer Marc Böhlen, aka RealTechSupport (Switzerland and USA), offers the kind of support technology really needs. He designs and builds information-processing systems that critically reflect on information as a cultural value through speculative robotic interventions. His projects query the relationship between people and automation systems in fundamental ways, with a focus on public computational media: the making of information for shared concerns in the public realm. He is on the faculty of the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, New York.

Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Jonah Brucker-Cohen is an award-winning researcher, artist, and writer. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Trinity College Dublin. His work and thesis are titled “Deconstructing Networks” with projects that critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. His work has been exhibited at venues such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MOMA, ICA London, Whitney Museum of American Art (Artport), Palais du Tokyo, Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, and more. His writing has appeared in publications such as WIRED, Make, Gizmodo, Neural and more. His Scrapyard Challenge workshops have been held in over 14 countries on five continents since 2003.

Teri Rueb

Teri Rueb is professor in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) where she is founder and director of the Open Air Institute. Her work has been funded with major commissions from the Banff Centre for the Arts, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Santa Fe Art Institute, La Panacée Centre Pour L’Art et Culture Contemporaine, Turbulence.org, the Arnold Arboretum, and the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art / Vita Brevis. She has exhibited her work worldwide at conferences and festivals including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, ISEA, and Transmediale. She received a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in 2008 and has been nominated for the CalArts Alpert Award, Rockefeller Fellowships and the Boston ICA Foster Prize. She holds a doctorate from Harvard University, where she is currently Artist Resident at the MetaLab. Rueb lectures internationally and has been published by presses including MIT Press, University of Minnesota Press, and Routledge.

Brooke Singer

Brooke Singer is associate professor of new media at Purchase College, State University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technology...