Art Papers Jury

Todd Berreth

Todd Berreth is a designer, programmer and architect, experimenting with emerging technologies for architectural applications, advanced visualization, and novel human-computer interaction. His research interests focus on the pervasive use of display and sensor technologies in the designed environment, as well as potential opportunities for creating intelligent, useful and engaging spaces and experiences, particularly within the contexts of museums and art. Berreth is affiliated with Duke University, as an instructor and research associate in the Art, Art History and Visual Studies Department /Visualization and Interactive Systems Group. He heads his own research-based design practice, Studio Berreth, that explores the dynamic relationship between people and their media, digital technology and the built world. More information can be found at http://studioberreth.io or via email at todd@studioberreth.io.

Stephanie Boluk

Stephanie Boluk is an assistant professor of media studies at Pratt Institute. She is currently writing a book with Patrick LeMieux, entitled Metagaming: Videogames and the Practice of Play. For more information see http://stephanieboluk.com.

Patrick FitzGerald

Patrick FitzGerald has a BA from Southern Methodist University and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Prior to joining the faculty of the College of Design at North Carolina State University, where he was founding professor of the Advanced Media Lab, FitzGerald served as an instructor, artist and manager at the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine. His work has been exhibited across the United States, Canada and Japan. FitzGerald’s research and teaching span the full range of multimedia production, from digital video to interactive 3D animation.

Joyce Rudinsky

Joyce Rudinsky is a visual artist working with digital media. She creates both real and virtual interactive, immersive environments. Her current work is with the art collective Psychasthenia Studio, which uses game platforms to investigate our current psychological condition. Rudinsky is an Associate Professor in Media and Technology Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She also serves as an officer in the New Media Caucus and is on the Steering Committee of HASTAC.

Timothy Senior

Timothy Senior is a scholar and artist, currently serving as a Knowledge Exchange Researcher for the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK. His work asks how contemporary forms of practice in the arts, sciences and humanities might be opened up to new collaborative influences. Following his D.Phil. in Systems Neuroscience (Oxford, 2008), he has explored these issues through an artist residency at Duke University (US) and visiting lectureships at Jacobs University Bremen (Germany) spanning the arts, neuroscience, digital humanities, and the social and political sciences. In 2012 he was awarded a Junior Fellowship at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Germany to conduct research on the emergence of innovative performance-based methods at the intersection between contemporary artistic and scientific practices.

Edward Shanken

Edward Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. Recent and forthcoming publications include essays on art and software, art historiography, land art, investigatory art, sound art and ecology, and bridging the gap between new media and contemporary art. He came to DXARTS after serving as Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History at University of Memphis. Prior academic posts include Universitair Docent of New Media at University of Amsterdam, Executive Director of the Information Science + Information Studies program at Duke University, and Professor of Art History and Media Theory at Savannah College of Art and Design. He is a member of the Media Art History faculty at the Donau University in Krems, Austria, and is active in professional organizations including CAA, Leonardo/ISAST, and the International Conference on the Histories of Media, Art, and Science. Shanken earned a PhD and MA in Art History at Duke University, an MBA at Yale University, and a BA in Fine Art at Haverford College.

Ruth West

Ruth West is an artist-scientist—a creative catalyst. She envisions a future in which art + science integration opens new portals of imagination, invention, knowledge, and communication across cultures to create breakthrough solutions for our most pressing global problems. West directs the xREZ Art + Science Lab and is an associate...