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Kyle Evans (MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago) is a new media artist, sound designer, educator, and performer. Focusing on the intersection of art and technology, his work commonly explores concepts of hacking, technological failure, and digital media artifacts. He has produced a wide range of tech-art performance and new media installation work throughout North America and Europe at venues such as Transmediale in Berlin, the International Computer Music Conference at Columbia University, the Dallas Video Festival at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Dimanche Rouge in Paris, the Vancouver New Music Festival, the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, and the GLI.TC/H festival in Chicago. He is a founding board member and instructor at the creative coding institution
John Hartigan is Director of the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. His most recent book, Care of the Species: Races of Corn and the Plant Science of Biodiversity, reports on maize genetics research in Mexico and features techniques for how to interview plants. Hartigan is also author of Aesop’s Anthropology (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), which reflects on multispecies dynamics broadly, theorizing culture across species lines, principally by considering nonhuman forms of sociality. Hartigan’s other books include Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit (Princeton, 1999), Odd Tribes: White Trash, Whiteness and the Uses of Cultural Analysis (Duke, 2005), What Can You Say? America’s National Conversation on Race (Stanford 2010). He also edited Anthropology of Race: Genes, Biology, and Culture (2014). Hartigan regularly posts on multispecies relations at @aesopsanthro