Engendering Visions: Women, Art and Technology

Irina Aristarkhova

Professor at University of Michigan

Irina Aristarkhova is a writer and scholar interested in cultural transformations and new forms of thinking, making, and being. She is the author of numerous publications, including monographs "Hospitality of the Matrix: Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture" (Columbia University Press, 2012) and "Arrested Welcome: Hospitality in Contemporary Art" (University of Minnesota Press, 2020, Open Access at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv1220r8x). Between 2024-2027, Aristarkhova serves as a co-editor of "Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience" Journal, at https://catalystjournal.org. Aristarkhova is Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Associate Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Between 2001-2005, Aristarkhova directed Cyberarts and Cyberculture Research Initiative at the National University of Singapore. 

Jo Ho

Artist

Jo Ho is a media artist working with digital installations and generative systems to examine how technologies shape and often distort our understanding of the body, memory, and meaning. Her practice centers on the concept of digital corporeality, treating the digital not as immaterial but as deeply embedded in systems of flesh, code, and material. Through speculative image-making, she works with fragmentation, reassembly, and visual ambiguity to reflect on how meaning is abstracted and reshaped in increasingly automated environments. 

Jo Ho teaches creative coding at LASALLE College of the Arts, the University of the Arts Singapore, has a background in Architecture (B.Arch) and a Master’s degree in New Media Design.

Margaret Tan

Artist

Margaret was Senior Lecturer and Director of Programmes at Tembusu College, National University of Singapore (NUS), and Co-director of the NUS Art/Science Residency Programme. She was one of the first artists-in-residence at the Cyberarts and Cyberculture Research Initiative at NUS (2001), and the Artist-in-Labs programme at the University of Applied Science and Arts in Zurich (2004). Her artworks investigate the intersections of body with space, technology, and culture from a feminist perspective. 

Margaret holds a B.F.A. from RMIT/LASALLE College of the Arts, an M.A. in Interactive Media and Critical Theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Communications and New Media, NUS, on the topic of pervasive computing and Singapore’s IT Masterplan called “Intelligent Nation 2015”.

Samantha Yap

Writer, Curator

Samantha Yap practices in the intertwined capacities of writer and curator across visual and literary fields. Guided by interests in time and reciprocity, and drawing on feminist and affective frameworks, her work is shaped by long-form modes of reading and relating, unfolding through shared forms of work, curatorial projects, and writing programmes. Her writing appears in creative writing publications and exhibition catalogues, and her recent exhibitions include Time Passes at the National Gallery Singapore and Ongoingness at Gillman Barracks. She is currently Assistant Curator at NUS Museum. [88 words]