Jenene Castle is a New Media artist now studying at the CADRE Laboratory in San Jose, California. In 2009 she completed an international internship, had an exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum, and was selected to participate in the 2010 ...Read More

Alex Gibson is a visual artist working primarily in printmaking and drawing, his work focuses on notions of reality and mortality. Within Switch Alex is primarily involved in the physical manifestations of the Journal primarily in the form of printed ...Read More

James Morgan is an internationally exhibited artist who has shown work at EMAF, Zero1 and ISEA. He is currently the director of Ars Virtua which has hosted international exhibits, conferences, artist presentations and residencies. James teaches at the CADRE Laboratory ...Read More

Sara Gevurtz is a graduate student at San Jose State University pursuing her Masters of Fine Art in Digital Media.  She received her undergraduate degree in Evolution, Behavior and Ecology Biology from the University of California, San Diego.  Her current ...Read More

Managing Editor 2010 to present DC Spensley Presently a graduate student at San Jose's CADRE Laboratory for New Media and alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute, DC Spensley has lived and worked in Northern California since 1986. Spensley wears the hat ...Read More

The curatorial team has worked vigorously on making this exhibition happen. Danielle Siembieda Lead Curator/ SWITCH Managing Editor www.siembieda.com James Morgan Art Direction http://arsvirtua.com Alex Gibson Exhibition Design Lianne Scott Exhibition Design Francis Estrand Co-curator http://rsfilms.com/ Xiaoqing Jing Web design Special Thanks to: Erica Wo Graphic Design Joe Miller WORKS/SJ Graphic Design Stephanie Battle WORKS/SJ Gallery Coordinator Bruce Gardner CADRE Liaison Thanks to any volunteers ...Read More

POLAR IDENTITY AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION Can’t make it to downtown San Jose? Join us virtually at SWITCH.SJSU.EDU. We will have LIVE Streaming of the opening! Watch First Friday Live starting around 8 on Friday August 7 at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/works-live. For live First Fridays go ...Read More

Annick Bureaud Annick Bureaud is a new media art critic and researcher. She  works and lives in Paris, France. She is the director of Leonardo/Olats, the French branch of  Leonardo/Isast (www.olats.org). As an art critic she contributes to the French ...Read More

Honorable Mention Bio Catherine Rannou is a video artist and an architect, she teaches at the "l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne" (ENSAB) (Higher National School of Architecture of Britany) in France. She is conducting a research in collaboration with the French ...Read More

HONORABLE MENTION BIO Bachelor of Science (Sociology) Nanterre University. Boulle School (Paris) Graduate Versailles School of Architecture Graduate Since 2003 - Lecturer at the National School of Architecture in Brittany [ENSAB] PhD Paris VIII Architecture Practice Since March 2007, independent practising architect currently working on an Urban Planning ...Read More