My work is inspired by the ontological questions which explore the nature of existence and experience.  I ask through dilation, deconstruction, and examination.  I find resolutions through naming, ordering and reconstructing.  I ask ‘What Is There?’ because I believe composition affects function and I ask ‘Why?’ because understanding affords us choice.  Becoming more aware of what’s going on allows us to work with the elements involved more efficiently and absolutely.  We, then, are able to think and behave in ways less contradictory to our truth (whatever we decide that to be), ultimately

Amanda Taves explores states of perception using multisensory interdisciplinary projects. Influenced by her training in criminal investigation and interest in scientific procedures, Taves investigates psychological encounters within the realm of routine experience.

Caleb MacKenzie-Margulies (b. 1992, Malden, MA) works with photography and music, and is particularly interested in paper, reproduction, mass production, and individuality. He uses quotidian objects and photographs as diaristic, autobiographical indexes, and includes the conditions of his work’s production inside of its prescriptive frame. His work unmoors its audience from the certainty that images exist in a plane separate from themselves, and challenges viewers to take part in its existence.

Inseok Choi (pronounced 'IN-suk CHE') was born in Incheon, South Korea. He worked in a documentary/video production in Seoul. He is a photographer and videographer. His work investigates resistance to anthropocentrism, androcentrism, and explores the metaphor for borders.

whereischoi@gmail.com

Tiffany Funk (PhD) is an artist, critical theorist, and researcher specializing in emerging media, computer art, video games, and performance art practices. She researches and develops work exploring both current and historical digital technological art practices, alternately taking the form of critical and conceptual writing, drawing, software, video, and installation.

William Estrada grew up in California, Mexico, and Chicago. His teaching and art making practice focus on addressing inequity, migration, historical passivity and cultural recognition in historically marginalized communities. He documents and engages experiences in public spaces to transform, question, and make connections to established and organic systems through discussion, creation, and amplification of stories through creativity already present.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History and Contemporary Art Practices in Iran and the Arab World

Professor Hannah B Higgins is solo author of Fluxus Experience (University of California Press, 2002) and The Grid Book (MIT Press, 2009) and co-editor of with Douglas Kahn of Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of Digital Art(University of California Press, 2012). She has received the UIC University Scholar Award, DAAD, Getty Research Institute, Philips Collection, and Emily Harvey Foundation Fellowships. Higgins is the daughter of Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles and is co-executor of the Estate of Dick Higgins and the Something Else Press.