Guest Artists
Afroditi Psarra (Athens, 1982) is a transdisciplinary artist working in the intersection of electronic textiles and physical computing with sound art. Her research focuses on the merging of science fiction ideas with poetic representations and performative practices, traditional crafting methodologies with engineering and electronics, the art and science interaction with a critical discourse in the creation of artifacts. She is an assistant professor in the Center for Digital Arts & Experimental Media (DXARTS) of the University of Washington in Seattle, and a noisemaker immersing herself in textural soundscapes.
Asha Tamirisa works with sound, video, film, and computational media, and researches media histories. Asha has performed at venues such as the ICA Boston, Bitforms Gallery (NYC), has given talks at the University of Michigan, Mount Holyoke College, Oberlin College, and Wheaton College, and held residencies at The Media Archeology Lab (Boulder, CO), Perte de Signal (Montreal, CA) and I-Park Foundation (East Haddam, CT). Asha’s work has been mentioned in the Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics and the 5th Edition of Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture(Routledge). Along with many colleagues, Asha co-founded OPENSIGNAL, a collective of artists concerned with the state of gender and race in electronic music and art practice. Asha has taught courses at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Girls Rock! Rhode Island, and Street Level Youth Media in Chicago. Asha recently received a PhD from Brown University in Computer Music and Multimedia and an M.A. in Modern Culture and Media, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Bates College.
Jess Rowland is a sound artist, musician, and composer. Much of her work explores the relationship between technologies, popular culture and “other absurdities,” investigating “the weirdness of reality and how we all deal with it.” She is the Peter B. Lewis Arts Fellow at Princeton University where she teaches sound art and continues an active art practice. She received her M.F.A. from the University of California Berkeley, working at the Center for New Music and Audio Technology, developing techniques for embedded sound and flexible speaker arrays. She describes her work as continually aiming to reconcile the world of art and the world of science. She has been affiliated with neuroscience labs at New York University and elsewhere, researching music perception, and she has published in the fields of auditory neurosciences and music technologies. Recent installations and performances include the New York Electronic Arts Festival, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Berkeley Art Museum, Dartmouth Hood Museum, Harvestworks, and Spectrum NYC.
Jimmy Kuehnle, who teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art, has exhibited in the United States and internationally. In 2014, he was selected for the national survey exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In 2015 he installed a large kinetic inflatable in the atrium of MOCA Cleveland as part of the group exhibition, How to Remain Human. In 2016 Kuehnle received a Creative Workforce Fellowship. His 2016 solo exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York was favorably reviewed in The New York Times, featured in New York Magazine’s “Approval Matrix” and recommended by online sites such as the New York Daily News, Artnet and Hyperallergic. His 2016 monumentally scaled site-specific inflatables at the Akron Art Museum, Wiggle, Giggle, Jiggle, was reviewed in the Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, Canvas Magazine, CAN Journal, WCPN’s the Sound of Applause. In 2018 he exhibited a new interactive inflatable an exhibition at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco. In 2019 he opened Wow, Pop, Bliss an exhibition of 4 new interactive inflatables at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina. This fall he will unveil an new interactive inflatable LED light sculpture for BLINK 2019 in Cincinnati.
