Art Papers Jury

Kayla Anderson
Kayla Anderson is an artist, writer, and organizer based in Chicago. Taking a playful approach to methods of excavation, her work engages with cultural artifacts of the past in order to propose parallel worlds. Her writing has been published by Leonardo/ISAST, the Royal College of Art, and MU TXT, and presented internationally. She curates exhibitions, lectures, and mentors students in the creation of artists’ publications at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Stephanie Boluk
Stephanie Boluk is an assistant professor in the Department of English and the Cinema and Digital Media program at University of California, Davis. She is co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3, co-director of the Alt-Ctrl lab, and her first book, Metagaming: Videogames and the Practice of Play, is forthcoming this year from University of Minnesota Press. For more information, see <stephanieboluk.com>.

Alejandro Borsani
Alejandro Borsani is an artist and educator who explores the intersection of natural and artificial systems by creating videos, installations, custom software, and electronics. His research is driven by a curiosity about physical phenomena and the exploration of emergent technologies. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Borsani is assistant professor in the Experimental & Foundation Studies Division at Rhode Island School of Design.

Garnet Hertz
Garnet Hertz is Canada Research Chair in Design and Media Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. His research explores DIY culture, electronic art, and critical design practices. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Irvine, and has exhibited his studio work in 17 countries. For more information, see <conceptlab.com/>.

Varnelle Noel
Vernelle Noel is a research scientist, computational designer, and architect who has worked in the United States, the Caribbean, India, and Singapore. Currently a PhD candidate in design computing at Penn State, she investigates craft, computational making, and technology in cultural design practices. Noel was also a presenter at TEDxPortofSpain in 2015, where she gave a talk entitled, “The Power of Making: Craft, Computation, and Carnival.”

Edward Shanken, Chair
Edward Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. Recent work addresses systems theory, art-science collaboration, surveillance culture, sound art and the environment, and bridging the gap between new media and contemporary art. His books include Systems (2015), Inventar el Futuro (2013), Art and Electronic Media (2009), and Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness (2003).

Ruth West
Ruth West is both artist and researcher. Her background spans new media, design, virtual and augmented reality, molecular genetics, psychology, participatory mobile and social technologies, and data visualization and sonification. Her work envisions a future in which art and science integration opens new portals of imagination, creative expression, invention, knowledge, and communication across cultures. West directs the xREZ Art + Science Lab and is an associate professor at the University of North Texas.

Jichen Zhu
Jichen Zhu is assistant professor in Digital Media at Drexel University. Her research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, creative expression, and critical theory. Her emphasis is on developing new forms of cultural artifacts afforded by intelligent systems, as well as innovating new AI techniques informed by expressive goals. Her current interests include interactive narrative, serious games, computational creativity, and digital humanities. She received a PhD in Digital Media from Georgia Tech.

Tertiary Reviewers
Fulla Abdul-Jabbar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Julieta Aguilera, U Hawaii at Hilo + Imiloa Astronomy Center

Asli Arpak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Berton, Drexel University

Yulatta L. Blalock, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Tega Brain, Purchase College

Jon Cates, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Kelly Christian, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Evelyn Eastmond, SAP

Jill Fantauzza, Exploratorium/Stanford University

Angus Forbes, University of Illinois, Chicago

Kai Franz, Rhode Island School of Design

Jacob Gaboury, Stony Brook University

Madeline Gannon, Carnegie Mellon University

Esteban Garcia Bravo, Purdue University

Laura Garofalo, University of Buffalo

Paul Hertz, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Todd Kesterson, Oregon State University

Omar Khan, University of Buffalo

Scott Kildall

Patrick LeMieux, University of California, Davis...