Team
The TINT arts lab aims to create opportunities for artistic and theoretical development and thrives on the contributions of its participating artists and commentators. We invited experienced writers to give feedback on the resident’s projects and will introduce them below. While they will take the lead with their valuable contributions the TINT team will add feedback and asks you not to remain a silent observer but to become involved in the project by contributing questions, comments, critique, or advise.
Michael Demers
Michael has taught Digital Art and New Media courses at College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) since 2007. His work incorporates culture and cultural identity in a synthesis of critical investigation and his own adolescent preoccupation with toys and other weird ephemera. He is a member of the White Columns Artist Registry (New York) the Rhizome Curated ArtBase (New Museum, New York), BitStream New Media, and is a contributing author on “Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design” (Routledge, 2011). He received his BFA from Florida Atlantic University, an MFA from Ohio University, and a Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Diplom from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany.
Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Ph.D.
Susan, is Professor of Art History at Louisiana State University and a Fellow of the LSU Center for Computational Technology (CCT). She helped found an interdisciplinary Art/Engineering undergraduate minor at LSU entitled AVATAR. She developed courses in the LSU School of Art in digital and electronic media art history. She is currently at work on a book on wearable technology art. She has spoken on this subject internationally at conferences such as the International Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) in Tallinn, Singapore, and Belfast, UK and at the Mutamorphosis/ CIANT in Prague, and contributed articles to the journals Leonardo and Intelligent Agent. In 2008 she curated a major exhibition of wearable technology art at the College Art Association Annual Meeting in Dallas, sponsored by the Leonardo International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology (http://www.socialfabrics.org/). See further at http://www.artistory.us and http://www.design.lsu.edu/art/Art_History/Faculty.html
Greg J. Smiths
Greg J. Smith is a Toronto-based designer and researcher with interests in media theory and digital culture. His work is invested in exploring how contemporary information paradigms affect representational and spatial systems. These dynamics have been explored in a range of mediums including drawing, visualization, writing and editing. Greg is a principal designer at Mission Specialist, he co-curates and edits the digital arts publication Vague Terrain and blogs at Serial Consign.
Pau Waelder
Independent art critic and curator. He has recently curated the exhibitions Metapaisatges (Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca/ Deichtorcenter Hamburg) and FLOW (CCA Andratx), and coordinated the conferences Cultura Digital and En_lloc for the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation. Jury member of several art awards, among which the international award for media art FILE PRIX LUX. He has also participated as lecturer and tutor in several courses on art and new media at UOC (Open University of Catalonia) and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain). He has worked as site editor at Rhizome and Artnodes, and has writen reviews on contemporary and media art for several magazines and online resources such as Furtherfield, Magazine du CIAC, ETC Magazine, ASPECT and a::minima, as well as texts for exhibition catalogues. He has also produced videos for Artnodes and Vernissage TV. Currently he is the editor of the media art section in art.es contemporary art magazine.
