<div dir="ltr"><div>This is shaping up to be a lively discussion! We're off to a great start. Thank you to everyone who has participated so far. Looking forward to the discussion as we head into the second week of "Plan Art and New Media." Week two brings us four guest moderators: Alana Bartol and Pei-Ying Lin (with Dimitrios Stamatis, and Jasmina Weiss). </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Alana Bartol (CA) an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator from Windsor, Ontario. She is interested in ecology as a ‘life science’ that interrogates relationships between place and self, nature and community. Working in performance, video, drawing, installation, bioart, environmental and community-engaged art, her collaborative and individual works explore concepts of visibility and survival through our relationships with nature and each other. Bartol holds an MFA from Wayne State University (Detroit), where she developed and taught the first Performance Art course in the Department of Art and received a Rumble Fellowship. Her work has been presented and screened nationally and internationally including PlugIn Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg), Simultan Festival (Romania), Museo de la Ciudad (Mexico) and Media City International Film Festival (Windsor, ON). In 2015, she completed a six week residency with Lucy + Jorge Orta at The Banff Centre where she developed several collaborative works including The Banff Dream Experiment and Life in the Soil, with artist Amanda White (Toronto). Current and upcoming exhibitions include Bioart: Collaborating with Life at Karsh-Masson Gallery (Ottawa) and Far Away So Close: Part III at Access Gallery(Vancouver). </span><a href="http://www.alanabartol.com/" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">www.alanabartol.com</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Pei-Ying Lin (TW) is an artist, designer and programmer with an MA in design interactions, Royal College of Art, and a BSc in life science, minor in computer science and cultural studies from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Her main focus is on the combination of science and human society through artistic methods. She currently runs a Taiwanese BioArt community in Taiwan.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Dimitrios Stamatis (GR) is a designer with a formal background in Product / Graphic design. He has worked in Athens (Greece), London (UK) and Hangzhou (China) designing products for a range of diverse industries. Currently he is operating as a freelancer (</span><a href="http://leavenlab.com/" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">leavenlab.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">) exploring how design can contribute as a catalyst for positive change. His main influences are: design for social impact, the changing landscapes of post industrial production, increased cross pollination of disciplines, future of digital fabrication, human centered design / human behavior, inclusivity, biologically informed design and open knowledge. Contact information: </span><a href="mailto:dimitrios@leavenlab.com" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">dimitrios@leavenlab.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> </span><a href="http://www.leavenlab.com/" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">www.leavenlab.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Jasmina Weiss (SI) is an interior designer and designer with formal background in architecture / design. She has worked in different fields connected with design, architecture and art. She has long been interested in different fields of science, culture, psychology, biology, ecology and environment.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span></span><span></span>Patrick Keilty<div>Assistant Professor<br>Faculty of Information<br></div><div>Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies</div><div>University of Toronto</div><div><a href="http://www.patrickkeilty.com/" target="_blank">http://www.patrickkeilty.com/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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