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  • Art Gallery Jury

Sam Anvari is a graphic/user experience designer with 18 years of hands-on experience in graphic and interaction design. Sam has an MFA in Graphic Design from Otis College of Art and Design and also holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering. Sam is an assistant professor at California State University, Long Beach, and he is currently serving as cochair for the Graphic Design program.

Nik Apostolides is an independent curator, as well as a professor at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches courses on curating in the MA Museum Studies Program. As the Associate Director of the National Portrait Gallery, he conceived and curated 'Portraits After 5,' and other projects and commissions with contemporary artists. Nik earned an MA in Media Art Histories at Danube University (Austria), a BA from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and is a graduate of the Getty Museum Leadership Institute.

Erik Brunvand is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. His research and teaching interests include the design of application-specific computers, graphics processors, asynchronous systems and arts/tech collaborations. As an artist he has explored a variety of kinetic mixed media artworks, many involving printmaking, and also electronic control and interactivity.

Jon Chambers is an artist and educator based in Chicago, where he teaches media literacy, media art histories, net art, new media art (software + hardware) and video. He has shown work nationally and internationally, in screening venues, galleries and online. He has an MFA in New Media Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Tiffany Funk (PhD) is an artist, critical theorist and researcher specializing in emerging media, computer art, video games and performance art practices. She is the editor-in-chief of Video Game Art Reader and cofounding lecturer and academic advisor of IDEAS (Interdisciplinary Education in the Arts)—an intermedia, theory and practice-based Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Sue Gollifer is a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton, U.K., and the executive director of ISEA International. She is the ACM SIGGRAPH Lifetime Achievement in Digital Arts chair and a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community Committee. She is also curator and a jury member of a number of international digital exhibitions.

Isla Hansen is an artist working to reinterpret and complicate the relationship between the human body and technological progress. Her work has been exhibited at the Akron Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, moCA Cleveland, the Hammer Museum, the Parrish Art Museum and the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, where she is an assistant professor in Design Media Arts at UCLA.

Mona Kasra is a new media artist and interdisciplinary scholar. Her research trajectory involves exploring the confluence of media technologies, art and culture; reflecting on the impact of emerging media on personal, political and creative expression; and experimenting with affordances of such media for artistic practices of performance and installation. Currently, she is assistant professor of Digital Media Design at the University of Virginia (UVA).

Art Gallery External Reviewers
Kayla Anderson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Miho Aoki, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Andres Burbano, Universidad de los Andes
Frank Dufour, University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.
Chaz Evans, Northwestern University, VGA Gallery
Paula Gaetano-Adi, Rhode Island School of Design
Katherine Habeck, Electronic Arts
Manu Mathew Thomas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Savannah Niles, Magic Leap
Jessica Westbrook, DePaul University [End Page 396]

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