Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art

Jesse Colin Jackson is a Canadian artist and designer based in Southern California. He explores the architectures we construct-from buildings to landscapes to virtual worlds-through objects and images made with digital visualization and fabrication technologies. His interactive Marching Cubes performances and installations (2016-present) have been featured in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Mexico City, Stockholm, Tehran, and across America. He was a 2023 Fellow at the Newkirk Center for Science & Society, a 2014 Hellman Fellow at the University of California, and the 2008 Howarth-Wright Fellow at the University of Toronto. Jackson is Professor of Electronic Art & Design at the University of California, Irvine, in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Executive Director of the Beall Center for Art + Technology. His website is http://jessecolinjackson.com/.



Antoinette LaFarge is an artist-writer with particular interest in nonlinear narrative and alternate histories. She has published several books, most recently Fictive Art: Art, Hoax, and Provocation (2021) and Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design (2019). Her articles on fictive art, new media, and related subjects have been published in the periodicals including Art Journal, Leonardo, Wired, and in books from MIT Press, Oxford University Press, and ICI Press, among others. She has exhibited her artwork internationally, including at the Venice Biennale and documenta, and is the co-curator of two early exhibitions on computer games and art: "SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games, and Art" (2000) and "ALT+CTRL: A Festival of Independent and Alternative Games" (2003). She is Emerita Professor of Digital Media at the University of California, Irvine. Her website is http://www.antoinettelafarge.com.