Faculty 2008

Lynn Book's adventurous performance work has evolved over the past 20 years from a very physical and visually charged form to include a broad range of vocal activities ranging from textual play and DaDa scores to more free-form musical and extended vocal territories.  Her vocal work appears on several compilation recordings and she has produced CDs and tapes on her own  and other independent labels. >> website

Michael Bowdidge has been a practicing artist since 1989. His current practice makes use of found materials at a variety of scales ranging from small wall pieces to large-scale site-specific installations. Recent exhibitions and projects include: TOTAL KUNST Gallery, Edinburgh, Process(ion) at Slumgothic, Gainsborough, 1851 gallery, Nottingham and RED Gallery, Hull. He is currently undertaking doctoral research with Prof. John Newling at Nottingham Trent University. >> website

Jean Marie Casbarian is an interdisciplinary installation artist who incorporates photography, film and video projections, sound, sculpture and performance into her artworks. She received her MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College in New York in the year 2000. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the City Colleges of Chicago. Along with a nomination for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Jean Marie has received a number of awards and artist residencies including The LaNapoule Foundation Grant in LaNapoule, France, the Chicago Artist’s Assistance Project Grant, and a yearlong Associateship with The Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Currently, she resides in the Pioneer Valley where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Film, Video, and Photography Department at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. >> website

Geoff Cox has a research interest in 'software art'. Geoff co-curated the touring exhibition 'Generator' in collaboration with Spacex Gallery, and 'Vivaria.net' that asks the question 'why look at artificial animals?'. He co-organised (with Joasia Krysa) two conferences: 'globalica: artistic and conceptual tensions in the new world disorder' as part of the WRO biennial, Poland, and 'artist as engineer', as part of an Arts Council of England initiative around socially-engaged arts practice. >> website

Carolyn Guertin, Director of the eCreate Lab and Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is also a Mentor in the de Montfort University's Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media in the U.K. and Senior McLuhan Fellow at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada. She was last in Linz when she was a presenter at the Hybridities Symposium at Ars Electronica in 2005. She earned her doctoral in digital narrative at the University of Alberta in 2003, and does theoretical work on cyberfeminism, interface technologies and born-digital arts. The author of textbooks on hypertext literature and information aesthetics, she is a literary adviser to the Electronic Literature Organization, an editorial board member of Convergence, a founding editor of the online journal MediaTropes, and curator of Assemblage: The Online Women's New Media Gallery. She is working on a new book called "Connective Tissue: Queer Bodies, Postdramatic Performance and New Media Aesthetics". >> website

Leon Johnson produces work in film, performance, and site-specific events. He has an active studio practice, is the proprietor of The Long Bell Press and a founding member of Creative Material Group, a new non-profit arts collective. He is the recipient of a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting and a Yaddo Residency Fellowship. His film FAUST/FAUSTUS IN DEPTFORD was selected for the KunstFilmBienale in Cologne, Germany and the Raindance Film Festival in London, UK. AFTER, a recent video, was published by Chiasmus Press last summer as part of The End of Reality, a DVD and fiction anthology. His new video project, FORTRESS BOY BRIDGE, was finished in 2007 during a Cuts + Burns Residency at The Outpost in Williamsburg. Leon is a recipient of the Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio and Theory in the Graduate Program at Maine College of Art.. >> website

London based painter Thomas Helyar-Cardwell, holds an MA in Fine Art Painting from Wimbledon College. He teaches studio art at University of Huddersfield and University College for the Creative Arts, Canterbury. Recent exhibitions include Faith Primo Allonso Gallery, Hackney, London, Approaches to What? Nunnery Gallery, Bow, London, Deutsche Postbank, City of London, Arts Unwrapped Maryland Studios, London and Currents, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London. Thomas was shortlisted twice for the Celeste Art Prize. >> website

Sophia Lycouris is an artist and academic researcher with background in dance, choreography and performance, currently interested in the dynamics of space, and urban space in particular. She holds a PhD in movement improvisation from the University of Surrey (UK), has been a post-doctoral research fellow in interdisciplinary choreography at the Nottingham Trent University (UK), and was recently appointed director of the Graduate Research School at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Her explorations include the use of movement-related composition techniques on media other than the dancing/human body, to create ‘choreographic environments’ which can be shared experientially by the viewer. She works both individually and collaboratively, has performed with a range of improvisational performance groups between 1995 and 2003, has run her own company KUNSTWERK-BLEND between 1997 and 2003 and most recently started collaborating with architects, engineers, product designers and social scientists in long-term interdisciplinary projects.>> website

Klaus Knoll  received a PhD from the University of Salzburg for work on "Social and Private Use of the Photographic Medium". Klaus has lectured and taught photography and media studies in Europe and Japan. His photographs are in the collections of the Cologne Museum Ludwig, Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, and Austrian National Fine Art Photo Collection. His exhibition record includes one man shows at the Tokyo Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Berlin Brennpunkt/DGPh, Alfred Lowenherz Gallery, New York, the Art Complex Musem in Boston. >> website

Aaron Levy is the Executive Director and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also lectures in the History of Art Department on curatorial practice and theory. He has organized over 200 exhibitions and events on contemporary art and theory with figures such as Hélène Cixous, Arakawa + Gins, Gayatri Spivak, William Anastasi, Dennis Oppenheim, and Hal Foster. In March 2007 he co-organized Evasions of Power, an international conference situated at the intersection of literature, architecture, and geopolitics. >> website

Wolfgang Sützl is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer and educator chiefly concerned with a critique of violence and understanding the conditions in which such a critique is possible. His Ph.D. is in Philosophy from the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Spain where he wrote on "Emancipation or Violence. Aesthetic Pacifism in Gianni Vattimo“. He is Chief Researcher of World-Information.Org a project of Public Netbase / Institut fuer Neue Kulturtechnologien, Lecturer in Peace Studies at the MA Programme in Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Universtat Jaume I (Spanien) und Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Méxcio, Mexiko, a Faculty member of the UN University for Peace; MA Program in Media, Conflict and Peace Studies, Lecturer in political science at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, and Lecturer in philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck. >> website

Within Mary Ting’s varied art practice of installation, drawing, photography and video, the prevailing emphasis is the use of the fragment within a nonlinear narrative.  Her work inhabits the realm of temporality, private obsessions and the sensual.  Layered with stories, glimpses of memories, metaphors, her animals, figures, limbs, and cropped forms are both personal and allegorical.  Mary Ting's artwork has been exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad since 1986. Mary currently teaches sculpture, drawing and paper, 2D/3D, and bookarts for Pratt Manhattan, SUNY at Nassau Community College and CUNY- John Jay College.  She lives and works in New York City. >> website

Jeff Thompson currently lives and works in New York. He received his MFA from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of Art in 2006. Jeff’s work uses similes, amplification, distillation, and chaotic systems to build sculpture, sound, and performance works. Materials are not transformed, but are surfaces of potential. Layering and sifting systems are used by which small bits are organized in a way that is at once ecological, poetic, and conceptual. Scintillations found in macro experience are amplified within a chaotic system. Subtle chance variations are made manifest. Thompson has exhibited his work in the US and internationally, most recently at Hogar Collection Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; Ohio State University Gallery in Columbus, OH; and Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. Among various awards received, Thompson was selected for the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art at the Weisman Museum of Art, a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and a collaborative project with Dispatx.com. His sound work is currently traveling with SoundLab, which has been exhibited at museums and galleries in Palestine, Italy, Poland, and Argentina. >> website