Joseph DeGiorgis

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Ph.D. – Neurobiology; Brown University

Joe graduated with a bachelors’ degree in Oceanography and Marine Ecology from the Florida Institute of Technology and worked as a SCUBA diver for the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He spent time at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute and at Harvard Medical School before obtaining a PhD in Neuroscience from Brown University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health and is now a Professor of Biology at Providence College and Adjunct Faculty in the MBL Cellular Dynamics Program. Throughout his academic career Joe has been interested in imaging using a wide variety of techniques from underwater photography to light and electron microscopy. Joe has taken his camera and dive gear around the world and has photographed the shipwrecks of Truk Lagoon, the sharks of Palau, the coral walls of Cozumel, and the coral reefs of Thailand, among others. His research focuses on the function of Alzheimer’s proteins and uses the squid giant axon as a model system. His work as been published in magazine articles and on the covers of scientific journals including; Molecular Biology of the Cell and Traffic. Currently, Joe is preparing for a year at sea capturing images of the organisms along Darwin’s Voyage through microscopes, telescopes, and the macro lens.

http://www.mbl.edu/cdp/laboratory-of-joseph-degiorgis

Tarah Rhoda

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Education: BFA, School of Visual Arts

Exhibitions include: SVA Gramercy Gallery; Greenpoint Gallery; Boston Convention Center; MU artspace, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; ACM SIGGRAPH

Publications include: The Guardian, Antennae: Journal of Nature in Visual Culture

Awards and honors include: Gold Medal, Best Art and Design Project, iGEM International Synthetic Biology Competition; Agar Art Competition, American Society of Microbiology

Suzanne Anker

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Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights.

Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the Phillips Collection, P.S.1 Museum, the JP Getty Museum, the Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charite in Berlin, the Center for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, the Pera Museum in Istanbul and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan.

Her books include The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, co-authored with the late sociologist Dorothy Nelkin, published in 2004 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Visual Culture and Bioscience, co-published by University of Maryland and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Her writings have appeared in Art and America, Seed Magazine, Nature Reviews Genetics, Art Journal, Tema Celeste and M/E/A/N/I/N/G. Her work has been the subject of reviews and articles in the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Nature and has been cited by Barbara Maria Stafford, Donna Haraway and Martin Kemp in their texts. Most recently she has collaborated with anthropologist Sarah Franklin, on an article and interview for Social Text journal.

She has hosted twenty episodes of the Bio Blurb show, an Internet radio program originally on WPS1 Art Radio, in collaboration with MoMA in NYC, now archived on Alana Heiss’ Art On Air. She has been a speaker at Harvard University, the Royal Society in London, Cambridge University, Yale University, the London School of Economics, the Max-Planck Institute, Universitiy of Leiden, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, Banff Art Center any many others.

Chairing SVA’s Fine Arts Department in NYC since 2005, Ms. Anker continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s new digital initiative and the Nature and Technology BioArt Lab.

http://www.suzanneanker.com

Gary Sherman

Gary Sherman earned his BFA and MFA at the School of Visual Arts. His one-person exhibitions include The Phatory LLC, and group exhibitions include Fractured Atlas; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA; Library of Congress, Washington, DC and Exit Art. His work is in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. He has published in The Shark and La Vigie-Art Contemporain.

George Boorujy

Education: BFA, University of Miami; MFA, School of Visual Arts

One-person exhibitions include: P.P.O.W. Gallery; Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center; AG Gallery

Group exhibitions include: Socrates Sculpture Park; Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland; Art Chicago: Jack the Pelican Presents; International Fair of Contemporary and Modern Art; Galerie Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin; Diesel Gallery, San Francisco; Smack Mellon; Judson Memorial Church; CRG Gallery; Ricco/Maresca Gallery; Stonefox Artspace; Rotunda Gallery

Publications include: George Boorujy: The Nature of Civilization (exhibition catalog); Time Out New York; NY Arts; Whitehot Magazine; The New Yorker; Brooklyn Rail; Harper’s; The New York Times; Bat City Review; Dirt Press; Anthem

Awards and honors include: New York Foundation for the Arts; artist residency, Smack Mellon