Jessica’s work deals with themes of control, anxiety, desire, and femininity. She is an image maker that is hungry to better understand the effects and results of mediation upon images using a variety of mediums. She often works with personal content and everyday objects as a means of focusing in on modest gestures. Jessica is an artist and photographer living in Chicago, IL.

Paul Dickinson is the Senior Instructional Lab Specialist for Moving Image. He manages the Moving Image computer labs and editing facilities, and oversees the Moving Image Equipment Room. Paul came to UIC after working for several years as a production sound mixer and sound designer for commercial, industrial and independent feature film production, and providing technical support for live performances. He received his MFA in Studio Arts from UIC in 1999.

Chris Markin is the Instructional Lab Specialist for Photography and the Building Manager for Art & Exhibition Hall. He brings years of photographic knowledge from both artistic and commercial practices to the School of Art and Art History. He has shown work in a variety of different galleries and worked with the Chicago Bulls, Bears, and Blackhawks as well as Playboy. While working through college he trained as a therapist for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder as well as taught photo classes for the Upward Bound Program.

Lisa Yun Lee is a member of the Art History, Museum and Exhibition Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lisa is also the co-founder of The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council, an organization dedicated to creating spaces for dialogue and dissent and for reinvigorating civil society.

Jennifer Reeder constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism. These films have shown consistently around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, The Berlin Film Festival, The Tribeca Film Festival, The Rotterdam Film Festival, The London Film Festival, SXSW, The Venice Biennale and The Whitney Biennial.  Her awards include several that have qualified her films for Oscar nomination.

Sabrina Raaf is a Chicago-based artist working in experimental sculptural media and photography. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at TEKS (Trondheim, Norway), Mejan Labs (Stockholm), Stefan Stux Gallery (NYC), Ars Electronica (Linz), Opel Villas Foundation Art Center (RÃsselsheim), Museum Tinguely (Basel), Espace Landowski (Paris), San Jose Museum of Art, Kunsthaus Graz (Austria), ISEA (Helsinki), Klein Art Works (Chicago), The Lab (San Francisco) and Painted Bride Center (Philadelphia).

Silvia Malagrino is an artist and filmmaker, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her artistic practice is fluid and, essentially, interdisciplinary. She works in different media—photography, film, and language to represent issues of historical and cultural interest, and also to explore in depth the fancies, the intricacies, and the idiosyncrasies of the personal imagination.

Since the early 1990s, Doug Ischar’s work has focused on the potentials of video and sound in ever more distilled manifestations. Following large multi-media installations such as Orderly (1994) and Wake (1996) Ischar turned to more minimal arrangements. His 1997 work for InSite (San Diego/Tijuana) used a high school basketball court as local for a multimedia meditation of adolescent homosexual desire. His 2001 work ground uses 24 channels of sound to replicate the sound of a gallery floor being swept.

Beate Geissler is an interdisciplinary artist researcher and educator interested in the question of how human actions transform the planet and how those transformations alter our existence. Her work concentrates on inner alliances of knowledge and power, their deep links in western culture and the escalation in and transformation of human beings through technology.