Art Papers Jury

Joanna Berzowska
Joanna Berzowska is Chair of the Design and Computation Arts Department at Concordia University and the research director of XS Labs, a design research studio focusing on innovation for electronic textiles and reactive garments. Her research involves the development of enabling methods, materials, and technologies for 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 Montréal startup developing a line of biometric garments. Her art and design work has been shown at the Cooper-Hewitt in New York City, the V&A in London, the Millenium Museum in Beijing, the Australian Museum in Sydney, and NTT ICC in Tokyo, among others. She lectures internationally about the field of electronic textiles and related social, cultural, aesthetic, and political issues.

Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Jonah Brucker-Cohen is an award-winning researcher, artist, and writer. He received his PhD in the Disruptive Design Team of the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department of Trinity College Dublin. He teaches at Parsons in the MFA Design and Technology program. His thesis, titled “Deconstructing Networks,” includes over 80 creative projects that critically challenge 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, Transmediale, 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 in Europe, South America, North America, Asia, and Australia since 2003.

Dan Collins
Dan Collins is a Professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University where he teaches courses in Intermedia. He is founding Co-Director of the PRISM lab (a 3D modeling and prototyping facility). He studied studio art and art history at the University of California, Davis, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Art Education from Stanford University (1975), an MFA in “New Forms” and Sculpture from UCLA (1984), and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from ASU (2009). His studio work includes a range of interdisciplinary approaches, including site-specific sculpture, performance, 3D printing, interactive computer graphics, and visualization. Recent work focuses on digital sculpture, projection mapping, and a participatory project involving high schools along the Colorado River.

Katja Kwastek
Katja Kwastek is professor of modern and contemporary art history at VU University Amsterdam. Her research interests include media history, theory and aesthetics; public, participatory, interactive, and processual art; and digital humanities. Prior to joining VU University in 2013, she taught at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich), the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) and the Humboldt-University (Berlin). From 2006 to 2009 she worked at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research (Linz, Austria), first as (Key) Researcher, then as Vice Director, and finally as Director of the Institute. In 2004, she curated the first international exhibition and conference on “Art and Wireless Communication.” She has lectured internationally and published many books and essays, including her most recent, Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art (MIT Press, 2013).

Alan Price
Alan Price designs and creates real-time responsive animation. With a background in filmmaking and animation, he emphasizes narrative and cinematic structure in his works with immersive and interactive storytelling. Utilizing video game technology and a combination of ready-made and custom hardware, he creates virtual environments and responsive spaces to explore alternative forms of personal expression in time-based digital media. His animation and interactive work has been awarded and exhibited internationally and is on permanent display in museums of art, technology, science, and history. He is currently a professor at The Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD).

Victoria Szabo
Victoria Szabo is an Assistant Research Professor in Visual Studies and New Media, Program Director of Information Science + Information Studies, Core Collaborator with the Wired! Group for Visualizing the Past, and Affiliated Faculty of the Franklin Humanities Institute Labs at Duke University. She has co-developed augmented reality and...