Contributors – Issue 26 http://switch.sjsu.edu/wp/v26 Online Journal of New Media Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:07:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 Contributor-Jenene Castle http://switch.sjsu.edu/wp/v26/2010/02/10/contributor-jenene-castle/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:50:52 +0000 http://switch.sjsu.edu/v26/?p=214 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 Zero1 Art Bi-Annual. Aside from being involved with Switch, Castle is also an active member in XAP (Experimental Audio and Performance Group) and Ars Virtua. Castle believes that every life experience can lend to inspiration for current or future works.

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Contributor-Alex Gibson http://switch.sjsu.edu/wp/v26/2010/02/10/contributor-alex-gibson/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:20:32 +0000 http://switch.sjsu.edu/v26/?p=211 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 media and exhibitions.

www.displacedak.com

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Contributor-James Morgan http://switch.sjsu.edu/wp/v26/2010/02/10/contributor-james-morgan/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:13:00 +0000 http://switch.sjsu.edu/v26/2010/02/10/contributor-james-morgan/ 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 for New Media in San Jose, and at the University of California San Diego as a visiting lecturer.

He is currently working with the Odyssey art simulator and taking solice in his laser paintings. He is available for lectures and mall openings.

Anything that can be made, can be made black.

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Contributor-Sara Gevurtz http://switch.sjsu.edu/wp/v26/2010/02/10/contributor-sara-gevurtz/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:52:49 +0000 http://switch.sjsu.edu/v26/?p=201 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 work focuses on ecological and environmental issues.  By employing various different media her work tries to make ecological issues easily accessible to those who do not necessarily have a scientific background.  She is also specifically interested in environmental issues that are not only biologically complex, but also have political complexities.

www.saragevurtz.com

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Managing Editor- DC Spensley http://switch.sjsu.edu/wp/v26/2010/02/10/dc-spensley/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:26:56 +0000 http://switch.sjsu.edu/v26/?p=196 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 of writer, director, cinematographer, composer, performance artist and most recently has achieved critical notoriety incorporating conceptual performance and situated technology in the virtual reality simulation of Second Life. While most people jealously guard their pseudonymity inside this alternate reality, Spensley attempts parity in both worlds and has exhibited this work internationally at the ZeroOne Biennial/ISEA conference in 2006, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival 2006, Ars Electronica 2007, and Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery in Brooklyn New York 2008. A 2008 Rockefeller Foundation nominee, Spensley’s work has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine i(2009) and has been profiled on PBS’s Art21 (2010) and appeared in numerous publications both in print and electronic media.


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Thomas Asmuth http://switch.sjsu.edu/wp/v26/2009/01/12/thomas-asmuth/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:08:49 +0000 http://switch.sjsu.edu/wordpress/?p=68 Thomas Asmuth is an artist and educator currently at the CADRE 
Laboratory for New Media. His work is concerned with cultural 
criticism and theory surrounding science and technology.

More: http://thomasasmuth.com

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Interim Managing Editor-Danielle Siembieda http://switch.sjsu.edu/wp/v26/2008/12/28/danielle-siembieda-managing-editor/ Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:13:55 +0000 http://switch.sjsu.edu/wordpress/?p=49

Danielle Siembieda has been the SWITCH editor since August 2007-February 2010. She has a background in journalism and social justice. Siembieda is currently working on a Masters of Fine Arts in Digital Media at the San Jose State University at CADRE Lab for New Media. Her projects include that involve bio art, green/ sustainable technology, institutional critique, and social practice. www.siembieda.com

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Liena Vayzman http://switch.sjsu.edu/wp/v26/2008/12/28/liena-vayzman-2/ Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:08:17 +0000 http://switch.sjsu.edu/wordpress/?p=47 Liena Vayzman’s hybrid artistic practice incorporates photography, video, and collaborative projects. As a curator of new media interactive art at Artists Television Access (ATA) in San Francisco, she organized “Captured Accidents: Valencia Street Live” by digital artist Tim Thompson, on view through Jan. 3, 2009. The installation uses a security camera rigged to a video game controller and software to capture, loop, and process footage by chance patterns or via Wifi. Vayzman co-curated two exhibitions/events at the Climate Theater, San Francisco in 2008:  “Chance Operations” and “Night Light: An Evening of Luminous Environments,” including artists Clint Imboden, Luis Maurette, Valerie Mendoza and others. She curated the 30-artist exhibition “HOME: The Aesthetics and Politics of Home in Contemporary Art” at Root Division, San Francisco in 2007. Vayzman’s self-portrait photographs and video work has been shown at Receiver Gallery, SF; Galerie Praz Delavallade, Paris; Glassbox, Paris; Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York; ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Georgia; Movies With Live Soundtracks, Providence; Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn; and the Fin de Siècle New York Festival in Nantes, France. Music projects include the DIY bands Jerk Alert and I Like Action! and a video/sound improvisation with trumpeter Elizabeth Meeker. She is currently at work on “The Lemon Tree Project” (a yearlong collaboration with a fruit tree) and a series of public clothing swaps. Liena Vayzman earned a PhD in History of Art at Yale University and a Post-Diplome at Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. She teaches in the Photography Department at San Jose State University. http://www.lienavayzman.com

http://www.atasite.org

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