Symposium Presenters

Avyes Alexandres

Avye Alexandres received her BFA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas where she studied directing, performance and photography. Since moving to Minneapolis she has collaborated with talented local actors, dancers and musicians and created works for Red Eye Theatre’s Works-in-Progress series, Artery 24 at the Soap Factory and the Minnesota Fringe Festival. She has exhibited her photographs locally at the Minnesota Center for Photography, Spotart Gallery and Concordia Gallery. Her recent work challenges perceptions of environment particularly in the realm of home and memory. She incorporates documentary audio and visual elements in both illustrative and disjunctive ways to create experiential performances rooted in real life which venture into the dreamlike. Some of her favorite performative endeavors have included cooking breakfast while making a mixed tape, constructing a house of 63 cinderblocks, and dancing with a huge black trash bag. Her works have utilized still and moving projections, improvised actions, cooking, dance, live recordings, silhouettes, simple drawings, and audio mashups. With the AOV mentorship Avye is interested in creating an immersive and interactive installation further exploring themes of memory and home.

Jack Becker

Jack Becker is co-founder and executive director of Forecast Public Art, established in 1978. After graduating from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1976 with an interest in sculpture, mixed media installations, theater, and collaborative events, he was hired as “gallery director” for City Art Productions, a federally funded program in Minneapolis. His “gallery” was the entire city, including parks, plazas, libraries, billboards, and other public spaces. Becker now specializes in projects that connect the ideas and energies of artists with the needs and opportunities of communities. He has organized dozens of exhibitions and events, produced numerous publications-including the national journal Public Art Review-and established an annual grant program for emerging Minnesota artists. In the 1990s Becker formed a consulting program at Forecast that offers a wide range of services to those seeking help with public art planning, programming, and commissioning. In recognition of three decades of services to the field, Americans for the Arts awarded Becker and Forecast its 2007 Public Art Network Award of Excellence.

Tom Borrup

Tom Borrup has been a leader and innovator in non-profit community and cultural work for over twenty-five years. His work explores the intersections between culture, community building, and economic development. He consults with foundations, nonprofits and public agencies across the U.S. in strategic planning and program evaluation.
As Executive Director of Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis from 1980 until 2002, Borrup developed a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural organization recognized nationally for its work in nurturing artists and other cultural assets in its diverse urban community. In 2002 he expanded on his knowledge of architecture, design and planning as a Fellow in the Knight Program in Community Building at the University of Miami School of Architecture. He was also awarded a St.Paul/Travelers Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods grant to travel and study the role of art and culture in community development. From 1994-2003, Mr. Borrup served on the board of the Jerome Foundation, a progressive funder of emerging artists in New York City and Minnesota. He served two terms as Chair of the Foundation board and for three years was a member of the Leadership Development Committee of the Minnesota Council on Foundations. He also served on the board of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture for eight years, serving two terms as Co-President. He is currently serving on the boards of Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY, Phillips Community TV in Minneapolis and Elliot Park Neighborhood, Inc., also in Minneapolis. Throughout his career, Mr. Borrup has participated on numerous funding and policy review panels, and consulted with such institutions as the Rockefeller, Ford, Wallace, and Andy Warhol Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He has been an invited speaker for the American Association of Museums, Planners Network, Grantmakers in the Arts, Americans for the Arts, and many others. He currently teaches for the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, and for the Institute for Arts Management at the University of Massachusetts.

Doryun Chong

Doryun Chong was raised in Korea and studied art history, anthropology, and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned his B.A. and M.A. and completed doctoral studies in art history. He began his curatorial career at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and has also worked for the Berkeley Art Museum and Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2001). He has been with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis since September 2003, where he holds the title of assistant curator of visual arts. At the Walker, Chong has developed artist residency and exhibition projects with a range of artists, including Puerto Rico-based Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Thailand-based Rikrkit Tiravanija, and Chicago-based Catherine Sullivan. With Philippe Vergne, he curated “House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective,” the first mid-career survey of the Paris-based Chinese artist and co-edited the first comprehensive monograph. Currently he is co-curating an international group exhibition titled “Brave New Worlds,” scheduled to open in October 2007. He has also organized several group exhibitions in other sites, including “Time After Time: Asia and Our Moment” (2003) at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and the Busan Biennale of International Contemporary Art in South Korea in 2006.

Carl DiSalvo

Carl DiSalvo an Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned a PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and was a post-doctoral fellow at The Center for the Arts in Society and The Studio for Creative Inquiry (also at Carnegie Mellon) from 2006-2007. His research and art/design practice focuses on the social and political uses of technology in cities. As part of this work he designs technology platforms and participatory programs that engage and enable urban communities. From 2001-2005 he was a collaborator in the tactical media collective Carbon Defense League. He currently runs a lab/studio called the Public Design Workshop at GA Tech. In addition to his academic pursuits he has extensive professional design experience, most notably working at MetaDesign (2000-2001) and as a consultant to the Walker Arts Center’s New Media Initiative (1997-2000). In 2006 he co-founded DeepLocal, a design and software company specializing in interactive mapping and location-based services.

R. Luke DuBois

R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and was the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season. Stemming from his investigations of “time-lapse phonography,” his recent work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. Just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his work reveals the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information. Exhibitions of his work include: the Insitut ValenciA d’Art Modern, Spain; 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; San Jose Museum of Art; National Constitution Center, Philadelphia; Cleveland Museum of Contemprary Art, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul; 2007 Sundance Film Festival; and the Sydney Film Festival. An active visual and musical collaborator, DuBois is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data. He appears on nearly twenty-five albums both individually and as part of the avant-garde electronic group The Freight Elevator Quartet. He currently performs as part of Bioluminescence, a duo with vocalist Lesley Flanigan that explores the modality of the human voice, and in Fair Use, a trio with Zach Layton and Matthew Ostrowski, that looks at our accelerating culture through elecronic performance and remixing of cinema. DuBois has lived for the last fifteen years in New York City. He teaches at the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at NYU’s Polytechnic Institute. His records are available on Caipirinha/Sire, Liquid Sky, C74, and Cantaloupe Music. His artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City.

Doug Geers

Douglas Geers is a composer living in New York City and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Director of the STRUM Electronic Music Studios at the School of Music of the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), where he founded and directs the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts. Geers specializes in electro-acoustic and multimedia musical works, including various combinations of live musicians, actors, video, dancers, and computer-generated sounds.

Wing Young Huie

“Wing Young Huie’s remarkable photographs have a touch of early-century Lewis Hine, a hint of the Great Depression’s Walker Evans, and a dash of Edward Hopper’s paintings, reflecting the loneliness and apartness of the them who are really us.” ~Studs Terkel Whether in large-scale public installations or major museum exhibitions, Wing Young Huie creates up-to-the-minute societal mirrors of our changing cultural landscape. In 2000 The Minneapolis Star Tribune named him “Artist of the Year” stating, Lake Street USA is likely to stand as a milestone in the history of photography and public art. Last year it hailed Lake Street USA as one of the 25 most important books ever printed about Minnesota. Lake Street USA transformed six miles of a Minneapolis thoroughfare into an epic photo gallery. After photographing everyday life for four years in the fifteen neighborhoods that bordered this singular street, 675 photographs were installed in store windows, bus stops, on the sides of buses, and on the sides of buildings along Lake Street in 2000. Reactions to the exhibit were many and varied. Two teenagers were overheard speculating that it must be a “Nike thing.” Another person was relieved when told it wasn’t a memorial service to those who had died on Lake Street. More surprising was a woman who told Wing’s wife she had heard the exhibit was a commemoration for the photographer who had died. In a comment book placed at a coffeehouse, one anonymous person wrote: “Where art is not afraid to look into the eyes of us, regular poor folks just living our lives, this art comes down from the pretentious, self-conscious and exclusive upper-class realm and becomes community art, art with a purpose, humane. These are the pictures you’ll never see in Nike ads or car ads or perfume ads. These are the majority of Americans picking up their broken identities and trying to scrape together a living, a culture, and identity, a life. Most of the images we see are of advertisements, trying to sell us a euphoria and prestige we could never achieve. We look around us and are disappointed; we struggle but don’t measure up. These photos show us, real and valuable just as we are. They are sad because they aren’t the perfect images of others we’re used to seeing. They are empowering for the same reason. Thanks, for these images and a chance to respond. Peace.” Wing is currently photographing the neighborhoods connected by University Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota for a six-mile installation in 2010. His recent third book, Looking for Asian America: An Ethnocentric Tour, explores the funny, touching, and sometimes strange intersection of Asian America and American cultures. His first book: Frogtown: Photographs and Conversations from an Urban Neighborhood, was published in 1996.

Julie Lazar

Julie Lazar is an independent curator and directs ICANetwork.org whose clientele includes: American Film Institute, Art Center College of Design, Cornerhouse (UK), Creative Capital, KCET Public Television, Los Angeles’ Metro Arts Program, Montalvo Arts Center, San JosA(c)’s Cultural Affairs Department, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Getty Museum, Seattle Public Arts Commission, and the USC/Getty Arts Journalism Program. She was a founding Curator then Director of Experimental Programs for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1981-2000). In New York, Lazar led development programs at PS 1 Center for Contemporary Art, The Hudson River Museum, Rockefeller University, The Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. As a curator, Lazar specializes in commissioning new art works in all media. Among the artists with whom she has worked are: John Adams, John Cage, Remy Charlip, Mel Chin, Anthony Discenza, Juan Devis, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Brent Green, RenA(c)e Green, Katherine Finkelpearl, Karen Finley, Janie Geiser, Frank O. Gehry, Gary Hill, Carole Kim, Hirokazu Kosaka, George Legrady, Sherrie Levine, Rick Lowe, Anthony McCall, Pat Oa€™Neill, Martin Puryear, Navin Rawanchaikul, Bruce D. Schwartz, Peter Sellars, Marie Sester, Carl Stone, Elizabeth Streb, Do-ho Suh, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Bill Viola, Garry Winogrand and Grahame Weinbren.

Diane Mullin

Diane Mullin is Associate Curator at the Weisman Art Museum. She earned her PhD in Art history from Washington University in St. Louis. Her curatorial and scholarly work focuses on postwar and contemporary art. She is Associate Curator at the Wiesman Art Museum, University of Minnesota. She was on the MCAD faculty from 1998 to 2004. As director of MCAD Gallery (2002-2004) she also ran the MCAD/McKnight and MCAD/Jerome fellowship programs.

Kevin Obsatz

Kevin Obsatz started his career in the world of classical Hollywood filmmaking at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but then left Los Angeles to pursue seasonal affective disorder, documentary and experimental filmmaking in the midwest. His film Journeyman has won several Best Documentary awards, has screened in a dozen cities and has aired on Twin Cities Public Television. He has created video elements for performance pieces by Skewed Visions, Live Action Set and Elliot Durko-Lynch, and his web video journal Video Haiku has received, on occasion, more than 20 hits per day(!). He is very excited about his first commissioned video installation piece with Artists on the Verge.

Chuck Olsen

Chuck Olsen is a cofounder of The UpTake, a non-profit dedicated to training and distriibuting the work of video-based citizen journalists. He is also the founder of Minnesota Stories, called one of the best videoblogs by the New York Times. He is the producer-director of “Blogumentary,” the first documentary film about the rise of political and personal blogs. His work has screened at the Walker Art Center, Get Reel Documentary Film Festival, Harvard University, and on renegade laptops all around the world. He is the Minneapolis correspondent for Rocketboom and works as a freelance producer, videographer, editor and educator. Chuck was the first credentialed blogger at Minnesota’s state DFL convention in 2004. He produced a successful online campaign ad for Keith Ellison, now the first Muslim congressman in the United States. He was also involved in Sen. John Edwards YouTube announcement of his 2008 presidential bid, and documented citizen journalists on the Edwards campaign trail. In a previous life, Chuck was Senior Web Producer at Twin Cities Public Television where he managed the design, technology, and strategy of the corporate web site serving many audiences. He was an early proponent of online video and helped produce companion web sites for numerous PBS programs including American High and Liberty! The American Revolution. More recently, Chuck worked as a media specialist at Clockwork Active Media Systems. Chuck’s personal blog was nominated for Best Weblog at South By Southwest Interactive Festival in 2004. Chuck has spoken about blogs, videoblogs, and journalism around the country, including: SXSW 2006, Vloggercon, Woods Hole Film Festival, International Symposium on Local E-democracy, International Symposium on Online Journalism, Preview Forum, Twin Cities Citizen Media Fair, Minnesota Public Radio, Twin Cities Public Television, and numerous colleges.

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Andrea Steudel

Andrea Steudel was born in Hortonville, WI and migrated to Minneapolis to complete a bachelor’s degree in Art at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She is interested in work that bridges traditional media and experimental technology. One such endeavor was a collaborative live projection performance with two-dimensional artist, Rachel Cisler, at the 2008 ZERO1 festival. She is currently creating a public shadow projection work with performer/creator Kyle Loven of Open Eye Figure Theater with assistance from Dr. Ali Momeni of Minneapolis Art on Wheels. The AOV fellowship will facilitate the construction of a custom mobile art-broadcasting unit that is human-powered via bicycles.

Scott Stulen

Scott Stulen is the Project Director for mnartists.org at the Walker Art Center, an independent curator, musician, writer and visual artist. He received his BFA in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1998 and his MFA in Painting and Drawing with a minor in Art History from the University of Minnesota in 2004. Scott worked as the Curator of Education and Associate Curator at the Rochester Art Center (MN) from 2004-2008. Scott’s visual artwork explores personal and collective memory, pop culture, failure, loss and obsession through painting, sculpture, installation and video. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2004 Katherine E. Nash Purchase Prize, 2005 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant and 2008 Meet the Composer’s Creative Connections Grant. Scott exhibits throughout the country and his work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Weisman Art Museum and University of Minnesota. His work was selected for inclusion in the juried national publication New American Paintings in both 2004 and 2007.

SuttonBeresCuller

SuttonBeresCuller met at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA while pursuing degrees in sculpture. Their first collaboration was the “Drive-Through Gallery” in 1999. Since then, the three artists have shown in many venues in the Northwest, including the Henry Art Gallery, The Seattle Art Museum, The Tacoma Art Museum, On the Boards, Crawl Space, Lawrimore Project, CoCA, Suyama Space, Consolidated Works as well as many public performances and mobile projects throughout King County. They were awarded a residency at the Bemis Center in Omaha, NE in the winter of 2004. They have received grants for special projects from the Creative Capital Foundation, Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Seattle Arts Commission, and One Reel and in 2005 received a Stranger “Genius Award” for outstanding artistic accomplishment. Beth Sellars, curator of Suyama Space writes that we are, “three bright and talented artists who combine their specific abilities and passions, subverting their individual egos for what they consider to be a greater overall statement,” while Regina Hackett of the Seattle P.I. confirms: “Not since Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and Morris Graves confounded admirers in the 1930’s has Seattle seen a trio of artists such as Ben Beres, Zac Culler, and John Sutton.”

Piotr Szyhalski

Multimedia artist and designer Piotr Szyhalski came to United States in 1990 from his native Poland to teach at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the following decade, he has maintained a furious pace teaching, lecturing, and performing. Moving between fine arts (painting, photography, drawing, installation) and design, Szyhalski began producing art on the Internet in 1995, and his award- winning net art and multimedia works “The Spleen” (spleen.mcad.edu), “Ding an sich (The Canon Series)” (www.walkerart.org/gallery9/szyhalski/), “Electric Posters”, and “Die ZeitstAcke” have been featured in national and international exhibitions at such venues as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the New York Expo Film Festival, the International Center of Photography in New York City, Siggraph 2000 in New Orleans, and ISEA 2000 in Paris. Of “Ding an sich,” the New York Times says “Szyhalski’s user-controlled creation is deeply involving and richly allusive. It is one of the most accomplished pieces of art on the Web.”"His work has also been featured in Wired, I.D. Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Public Art Review, Details Magazine, and others. In addition to Internet-specific works, and gallery exhibitions, Szyhalski develops multimedia stage projects. His stage commissions include an interactive video installations produced for Vaughan Williams’ “Sea Symphony,” which premiered in November 2001 at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, as well as “Nobel Symphony” by Steve Heitzeg performed on April 18, 2004, at the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Hall. Szyhalski is a Professor in the Media Arts Department at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he mentors graduate students and teaches a variety of undergraduate courses with an emphasis on interactive and multimedia art.

Peter Haakon Thompson

Peter Haakon Thompson is an artist based in Minneapolis. Minnesota. He earned a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, making his home in Oakland, CA for 11 years, moving home to Minnesota in 2000. He is interested in exploring and claiming place, privately and publicly. His photography explores his personal and private relationship to landscape and place. He photographs in places that are often ignored, fields, piles of rocks, both here and abroad. He has also created public art about place, The A Project, an effort to create solidarity among artists in their neighborhoods through the use of window signs with a large red ‘A’ indicating a household of artists/artist supporters. A public art community called The Art Shanty Projects, existing for five weeks on frozen Medicine Lake in suburban Minneapolis. The Auto-Ethnographic Guide Service, started at the 2006 Minnesota State Fair provides an opportunity for community members to lead tours in their area of ‘expertise’, thrift stores, state fair, urban fishing etc. His most recent work has been with Minneapolis Art on Wheels and specifically researching how bikes with integrated video projectors can be used as tools by neighborhoods to solve problems and address issues with community engaged artistic projects. He is a past recipient of a Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Photographers, Forecast Public Projects grant and a two time artist-in-residence at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim, Norway. His work has been published in Photo Metro, Camerawork Journal and The New Yorker. He has exhibited work at the Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco, The Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks, Soo Gallery and The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, The Duluth Art Institute, Jen Bekman in New York and Trans Art in Trondheim, Norway. He is currently a member of the City of Minneapolis Public Art Advisory Panel. In his spare time he sails, canoes and ties knots.

Pramila Vasudevan

The Aniccha Arts ensemble is a cutting edge and experimental performance company. The current core group includes Pramila Vasudevan, Jennifer Jurgens, Mark Fox, and Mike Westerlund. We live and breathe the arts, and strive to find strong relationships between dance, sound, and media through interactivity, while decreasing the divide between audiences and stage. Our performances have interaction between audiences, performers and the media. Interactions influence the flow of performances, which makes each show unique. Forms are usually derived from Indian dance and music backgrounds, but usually adapt to the artistic skills and experience of the diverse artists in our transient group. The content is created through conversation with various communities in the Twin Cities, addressing questions relevant to our ever- evolving community.

This ensemble has now produced four works including Dowsing the Mirage, 90 minutes, Center for Independent Artists, Minneapolis, November, 2007; Mann Manam: call of shifting ground, 55 minutes, Center for Independent Artists, Minneapolis, October, 2006; Fragile Lines, 45 minutes, Mixed Blood Theater, Minneapolis, August, 2005; and Fear Of Freedom II, 40 minutes, Caliban Co Theater, Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, August, 2004.

Our study of the intersection of dance and interactivity, has been a long – term investigation, and will hopefully be seen as a positive contribution to the contemporary practice of dance, and performance in the theater.
The Aniccha Arts ensemble is a cutting edge and experimental performance company. The current core group includes Pramila Vasudevan, Jennifer Jurgens, Mark Fox, and Mike Westerlund. We live and breathe the arts, and strive to find strong relationships between dance, sound, and media through interactivity, while decreasing the divide between audiences and stage. Our performances have interaction between audiences, performers and the media. Interactions influence the flow of performances, which makes each show unique. Forms are usually derived from Indian dance and music backgrounds, but usually adapt to the artistic skills and experience of the diverse artists in our transient group. The content is created through conversation with various communities in the Twin Cities, addressing questions relevant to our ever- evolving community.

Krista Kelley Walsh

Krista Kelley Walsh is a multidisciplinary artist and art activist living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her projects use simple materials, responsive collaboration and audience interaction. Collaboration is essential in her practice with other artists and with her audience. Her aim is to remove any barriers that prevent art from being a part of our everyday life. Krista had exhibited drawings and paintings extensively for 20 years when she began making installation, process and performance art in the mid “90s. In the summer of 2005, as a member of the multidisciplinary collective Local Strategy, Krista co-created “LandMARK: 24 hours at the Stone Arch Bridge”, Mpls. In 2004 She worked with Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl on “Limo” for the Whitney at Altria, NYC and with them again in 2007 on “Bird Eye Blue Print” a performance tour of a vacated office space in the World Financial Center, NYC. She is currently working on an endurance life and art project under the leadership of Linda Montano “Another 21 Years of Art and Life 1998-2019″. Krista currently has an interactive installation at the Science Museum of Minnesota and is just completing her most recent project the “Gratitude Guerilla Action; because there is so much to be grateful for” May- October 2008 in the City of St. Paul. Krista has been a recipient of Blacklock Residency Fellowship, State Arts Board Video Documentation Grant, Intermedia Arts Installation Fellowship, Intermedia Arts Naked Stages Performance Fellowship, Science Museum of Minnesota Artist Residency and Forecast Public Art project grant.

Diane Willow

Diane Willow is a multi-modal artist. Working at the nexus of art, technology, science, and architecture, she experiments with hybrid media to explore the poetic dynamics of nature, technology and community. She invites people to engage in multi-sensory experiences as participants and choreographers rather than as viewers. Diane is interested in the ways that we develop and transform our sense of place and the subtle ways that we express empathy with one another, with other life forms and with responsive objects, immersive environments and dynamic media. Her public installations, interactive environments and evocative objects involve media as eclectic as bioluminescent plankton, embedded computers, found sound and time-lapsed video. By any medium necessary best describes her process. Currently an Assistant Professor working with tangible media and new genres within the Department of Art, Diane’s tenure on the faculty of the University of Minnesota follows a multi-year appointment as artist in residence at the MIT Media Lab. She is the catalyst for symposia, studio-based action workshops, and exhibitions such as culturing nature::culturing technology, Wonder Women :: Art & Technology and Digital Dialogues :: Technology and the Hand. Sites of upcoming and recent exhibitions of her work include the Exploratorium, Weisman Museum of Art, Beijing Film Academy, Danforth Museum of Art, Subtle Technologies and Pixel Gallery.

Marcus Young

Born in Hong Kong, Marcus Young is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist living in Minneapolis. He received his BA in music from Carleton College and his MFA in theater from the University of Minnesota. Past works include Pacific Avenue, a lifelong slow-walking and smiling project; Break, a fortune cookie project for Chinese restaurants; Untitled Painting, a moving art object at the Walker Art Center; and And, a work of Zen-theater that explores the performer-audience relationship. Marcus is a recipient of awards from the Bush Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Drama League, and Franklin Furnace. His most recent works include From Here to There and Beyond, a drawn two-mile line from the gallery to the Mississippi River, and untitled works performed at live art festivals in Manchester, England, and Sete, France. He is currently Artist-in-Residence for the city of Saint Paul, a program of Public Art Saint Paul and an Associate of On the Commons.