Contributor Biographies
Contributor Biographies
Lorelei d’Andriole is an American queer transsexual woman artist, musician, and assistant professor in electronic art and intermedia at Michigan State University. As an artist and scholar, d’Andriole produces work at the intersections of intermedia, sound, and transgender studies and has given presentations on these topics across the United States and Canada. Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, d’Andriole earned her MFA with honours from the University of Iowa’s Intermedia program. d’Andriole has completed artist residencies at Wave Farm in Acra, NY, the Institute for Electronic Art at Alfred University, and was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in New York City for 2021–22. She currently serves as a board member for the International Alliance for Women in Music and plays in punk bands across Michigan in her free time.
Lindsey french (they/she) is an artist, educator, and writer whose work considers positions of listening, receptivity, and marginality as valid and active political and communicative positions. Lindsey has shared her work widely in museums, galleries, screenings, and DIY art spaces, including OCAD’s Onsite Gallery (Toronto), SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). Recent publications include chapters for Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (Actar, 2022), Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance (Routledge, 2021), and Why Look at Plants (Brill, 2019). Lindsey earned a BA through an interdisciplinary course of study at Hampshire College, and an MFA in Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2021, they moved from Pittsburgh to Treaty 4 to teach as an assistant professor in creative technologies in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina.
Kate Joranson
Kate Joranson is an artist, librarian, and educator whose work explores listening and attention as embodied, relational, creative practices. She has exhibited at the Drawing Center, the Mattress Factory, and orchestrates collaborative works that exist outside gallery spaces, inviting people to encounter her work in libraries, mailboxes, and the built environment. During her ten years as head librarian at the Frick Fine Arts Library at the University of Pittsburgh, she cultivated engagement with arts collections, centring creative, liberatory research practices. She earned an MFA in drawing and painting from the Ohio State University, an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has published on the topics of browsing, embodied inquiry, and critical pedagogy, and co-founded a long-running discussion series about curiosity at the University of Pittsburgh. She continues to explore ways of engaging people’s curiosity through various modes of cultural production and creative practice.
Nikki Lindt, a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, works primarily in the mediums of painting, sound, and video. Her work focuses on environmental stewardship and people’s relationships to natural areas. Lindt regularly works with researchers and is a part of several interdisciplinary research teams. Lindt has had residencies at various field stations, including Toolik Field Station, Alaska, Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden, and the Urban Field Station in New York City. Lindt’s work has been internationally exhibited as public art, in museums and in galleries. Her work has been covered by a host of media outlets, including the Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Forbes, NPR’s Here and Now, CBS Sunday Morning, and New York Magazine. Lindt regularly gives public talks about her work and has received a Pollack-Krasner Grant, a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant, a Dutch Artists Grant, and has been awarded the Environmental Cultural Award the Milieudienst (Environmental Protection Agency) in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Eleni-Ira Panourgia is a sound and visual artist and researcher. Eleni-Ira is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. She completed a PhD in Art at the University of Edinburgh as a scholar of the Onassis Foundation. Her work focuses on the development of new forms of expression and creative methods that combine sound, objects, spaces, and environments. She explores the potential of such complex morphologies within artistic, design, social, and ecological processes. Eleni-Ira’s work has been presented internationally in museums, galleries, festivals, exhibitions, radio shows, academic journals, edited volumes, and conferences. Eleni-Ira is co-founder and managing editor of the journal Airea: Arts and Interdisciplinary Research.
https://eleniirapanourgia.com/
Jami Reimer (she/her) is a musician, performance maker, composer, and educator from Winnipeg, Manitoba. From choral music to field recording practices, Jami explores voice—human and otherwise. In 2023, Jami was awarded the Robert Fleming Prize for composition from the Canada Council of the Arts for her ongoing creative research about bioacoustics and amphibian chorusing. Jami holds a Bachelor of Music from Canadian Mennonite University, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Manitoba, and a Masters of Fine Arts from the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Jami currently resides on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵw̱xwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Josh Rios is a founding member of Sonic Insurgency Research Group and a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches courses in social theory and research-based practice. As a media artist, writer, and educator his projects deal with the histories, presents, and futurities of Latinx and Chicanx subjects and hemispheric resistance to globalization and neoliberalism. Recent projects have been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Portland, ME), Locust Projects (Miami, FL), and the Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA). Recent publications include “What Is Justice to the Dead? On Sabra Moore’s Recon-struction Project” for the exhibition catalogue Art for the Future: Artist Call and Central American Solidarities, and “Sonic Legal Spaces: An Essay of Overdubs” for Columbia University’s Academic Commons. Other projects include a series of conversations and autonomous study groups sponsored by MARCH International: A Journal of Art and Strategy.
Lisa Sandlos holds a PhD in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, an MA in Dance, and is a certified movement analyst. She teaches at York University (School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Faculty of Education, School of Kinesiology, and Department of Dance), the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, and is a research associate at Brock University.
Dr. Sandlos is co-founder of two research/teaching groups: Soma-City and Sonic Kinesthetic Forest. A keen interdisciplinary collaborator, she has worked on dozens of community projects with actors, musicians, puppeteers, and visual artists. Through organizations such as the Ontario Arts Council’s Artists in Education program, the National Ballet of Canada’s Creating Dances, Global Water Dances, and the Toronto District School Board’s Drama/Dance Project, Sandlos has taught contemporary dance, somatics, and improvisation to all ages and levels for over three decades.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-sandlos-07080133/
Magda Stanová is a multidisciplinary artist. Her research-based practice results in artistic forms like visual essays and lecture shows. She smuggles performative lectures into academic conferences and a drawn theory of photography into photographic festivals. She looks into cognitive sciences for ideas about creative process and perception of art and combines them with the experience of an artist.
She has authored two books—Algorithms in Art (2016) and In the Shadow of Photography (2022)—and is co-author of The Pedestrian’s Venice (2017). She holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied as a Fulbright scholar, an MFA in Photography from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, and a PhD in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she now teaches doctoral-level classes related to artistic research.
Sean Steele is an educator, writer, musician, and academic currently based in Victoria, BC. His interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of music, religion, and culture, and he is currently completing a dissertation that focuses on music festivals as expressions of secular sacrality. He holds an MA in the Humanities from York University, a BA in Philosophy and History from Concordia University, and a Diploma In Music (Jazz Studies) from Vancouver Island University. Sean’s other research interests include artistic expression and deep time, the intersections of spirituality, religion, ecology, and climate change, and alternative forms of liberal arts education. His scholarly work has appeared in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, the American Studies Journal, the Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning, Rock Music Studies, and the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion. Outside of his academic pursuits, Sean is a musician who performs and records in a variety of styles.
https://seansteele.owlstown.net/
Steve Stelling is an artist from Pittsburgh, PA. His comics are light on narrative and heavy on poetry. He spent a number of years exhibiting abstract paintings, reading, and experimenting with home-recorded music. Those interests have left their mark on the image-text combinations found in his work. Steve has an MFA from Ohio State University and his self-published booklets are/have been available at Copacetic Comics (Pittsburgh), Quimby’s (Chicago), Howling Pages (Chicago), Eye Level Gallery (Halifax), and Printed Matter (New York).
http://smstelling.blogspot.com/
Rennie Tang is a designer and educator based in Los Angeles. She is a professor of landscape architecture at California State Polytechnic State University Pomona, where she coordinates and teaches the Design Foundations curriculum. Her research explores human movement as a shared language between all living beings and the development of kinesthetic design and pedagogical methodologies. With her collaborators she is deeply involved in sensory design projects involving sound, movement, and embodied drawing. Projects are often fuelled by interdisciplinary collaborations with visual artists, choreographers, and health-care researchers. Her work draws from her background in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and dance. Notable designers she has worked with include landscape architect Walter Hood and artist Mary Miss. She holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture from McGill University and a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University.
Fereshteh Toosi is an artist, educator, and learner whose work involves encounter, exchange, play, and sensory inquiry. They produce immersive performances, small sculptures, short films, installations, scores, and poetry, often situated in gardens, parks, and waterways. The audience listens, walks, or even floats while engaging in a series of affective activities and meditations. People are invited to slow down and reflect upon the layers of human and other-than-human life, usually in an urban landscape. These experiences are designed to support people to reconnect with the land, speculate about ecological futures, and construct their own spatial narrative. Documentation of Fereshteh’s artwork and creative research is available at http://fereshteh.net and http://oilancestors.com.
