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The ArtScience Competition Jurors are an international group of artists, entrepreneurs, curators, scientists, and designers. Jury members will provide teen participants with feedback as their ideas develop, and will be a resource for teams who seek to pursue their ideas beyond conceptualization to realization.
ArtScience Prize jury members bring a broad range of expertise to the program, and will have opportunities to contribute knowledge and guidance to students and staff from their own areas of expertise. During the summer of 2009, jury members submitted a selection of "seed ideas" which will form the basis of teen participants’ engagement with innovation around the 2009 theme of Neuroinformatics. Jury members' insights into the creative processes of art and science inform teen participants' explorations throughout the competition, facilitating teens' developing mastery of the tools of critical inquiry, research, and artistic creation.
Mahzarin Banaji
Harvard University Department of PsychologyBIO: Mahzarin Rustum Banaji was born and raised in India, in the town of Secunderabad, where she attended St. Ann's High School. She holds a BA from Nizam College and an MA in Psychology from Osmania University in Hyderabad. She received her PhD from Ohio State University (1986), and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at University of Washington. From 1986-2001 she taught at Yale University where she was Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology. In 2001 she moved to Harvard University as Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology. She also served as the first Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2002-2008. Banaji was Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale, and is currently Head Tutor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard. Professor Banaji studies human thinking and feeling as it unfolds in social contexts. Her focus is primarily on mental systems that operate in implicit or unconscious mode. In particular, she is interested in the unconscious nature of assessments of self and other humans that reflect feelings and knowledge (often unintended) about their social group membership (e.g., age, race/ethnicity, gender, class) that underlie the us/them distinction. From such study of attitudes and beliefs of adults and children, she explores the social consequences of unconscious thought and feeling. Banaji's work relies on cognitive/affective behavioral measures and neuroimaging (fMRI) with which she explores the implications of her work for questions of individual responsibility and social justice in democratic societies.
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Jay Cantor
Director of Creative Writing, Department of English, Tufts University
Jay Cantor
Director of Creative Writing, Department of English, Tufts UniversityBIO: Jay Cantor is an essayist, screenwriter, and the author of numerous works of fiction. A MacArthur Prize fellow, Cantor holds a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been a Professor of English at Tufts University since 1977, with visiting professorships and residencies at Brandeis University, the University of Washington (Seattle), and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Professor Cantor’s literary criticism and short writings have appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and The New Republic.
Lynn Chang
ViolinistBIO: A top prizewinner of the International Paganini Competition in Genoa Italy, violinist Lynn Chang has enjoyed an international career as soloist, chamber musician, and educator. A native of Boston, Chang is director of the Hemenway Strings at the Boston Conservatory where he also teaches. For 25 years Lynn Chang was a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and has appeared at the Wolf Trap, Great Woods, Marlboro, and Tanglewood Music Festivals as a soloist. Chang has collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma on numerous occasions, including a 2004 residency as part of Ma’s Silk Road Project at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. In 2001, Chang received the first Distinguished Leadership Award from the Institute for Asian American Studies of the University of Massachusetts Boston. Currently he serves as a member of the Board of Overseers at Harvard University.
Chris Cole
President, Ur Studios Inc.BIO: Chris Cole is President of Ur Studios, Inc. As a graduate student at Caltech he co-wrote with Stephen Wolfram the first commercially available symbolic math package, SMP, which was a precursor to Mathematica. Soon after the creation of the Web in 1994, Cole hosted the first free multi-user homesteading community WebWorld, in which tens of thousands of people developed millions of pieces of virtual property. Cole founded several companies commercializing aspects of the Internet as a virtual world: Worlds, Inc. (WDDD), the first commercially available multi-user 3D environment, Active Worlds, Inc. (AWLD), one of the largest online paid subscriber communities, Mutation Labs, creators of the first multi-user Shockwave game Wave Rave, Headlamp, Inc., an integrator of transactional information into one coherent view of the customer, and Ask Earth, Inc., an online service that connects people looking for information with people who have that information. Cole also wrote the software for the online version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, worked with the Advanced Technology Group of Encyclopedia Britannica in implementing Britannica Online, helped Disney go online, and edits the archive for the Usenet newsgroup rec.puzzles. In 1999 Sterling published his book Wordplay, A Curious Dictionary of Language Oddities.
George Fifield
Director, Boston CyberArts FestivalBIO: George Fifield is a new media curator, a writer about art and technology and teacher. He is the founding director of Boston Cyberarts Inc., a nonprofit arts organization, which produces the Boston Cyberarts Festival. This international biennial Festival of artists working in new technologies involves numerous exhibitions of visual arts; music, dance, and theatrical performances; film and video presentations and symposia at numerous arts and educational organizations throughout Massachusetts. He is also an independent curator of New Media with numerous projects here and abroad. His most recent exhibition was Act React: Interactive Installation Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum from October 2008 to January 2009. For thirteen years until 2006, Fifield was Curator of New Media at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA. He continues to work with the DeCordova on a number of projects. He is adjunct faculty at Rhode Island of Design's graduate Digital Media program and teaches at Massachusetts College of Art. He was executive co-producer for The Electronic Canvas, a hour-long documentary on the history of the media arts that aired on PBS in 2000. Fifield writes on a variety of media, technology and art topics for numerous publications. In 2006, Fifield was honored with the First Annual Special Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Boston Arts Community by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) Boston Chapter. In 2007, the Boston Cyberarts Festival was honored with the Commonwealth Award by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the category of Creative Economy.
Jacinthe Gingras
Molecular Neuroscientist, Department of Neuroscience, AmgenBIO: Jacinthe Gingras is a scientist for Amgen Inc. She holds a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Montreal, an MSc in Neurobiology at the same Institution, and a PhD in Neurology & Neurosurgery from McGill University ('04). She completed her graduate studies as a postdotoral fellow at Harvard University, in the laboratory of Dr. J.R. Sanes. There, she carried out research on muscular diseases as well as designing new tools to generate skeletal muscle in vitro for transplant and therapeutic purposes. Her current research focuses on drug design and discovery for debilitating conditions such as pain and Alzheimer's disease.
Michael John Gorman
Director, The Science Gallery, Trinity College, DublinBIO: Michael John Gorman is the founding Director of the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin dedicated to sparking creative collisions between art and science through exhibitions, festivals, and events on themes ranging from immunology to robotic art. Prior to the 2008 opening of the Science Gallery, he worked as Senior Manager for Young People's Programmes with Discover Science and Engineering, leading projects including NanoQuest, a 3D video game exploring nanotechnology. For three years Michael John was Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society at Stanford University where his course Deception: Perspectives from Science, Technology and Art, co-taught with mathematician and magician Persi Diaconis was described by the Stanford Report as "the coolest course on campus." Michael John is the author of several books including Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility (Rizzoli-Skira: 2005) and numerous articles on the intersections between science, technology and the arts in journals including Nature and Leonardo. He holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and a PhD in History from the European University Institute in Florence, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at MIT (Dibner Institute) and Harvard University. His most recent book is a conversation exploring a mysterious seventeenth century Flemish painting representing the interplay between art and science with Lawrence Weschler, Pamela Smith, and others.
Fabrice Hyber
ArtistBIO: Fabrice Hyber’s artistic work, ranging from performance art to site-specific installation and beyond, explores ‘the enormous reservoir of the possible’ via a deconstruction of language and communication. Hyber’s installations and other projects not only function as demonstrations of creative cognition, but also challenge viewers to interact with fine art outside the museum in everyday life. Hyber’s work has been exhibited at the Paris Modern Art Museum and at the 1997 Venice Bienniale (where he received the Lion d’Or). His installations include a transformation of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the creation of The Biggest Soap in the World (Guinness Book of Word Records, 1991) as part of his ongoing Prototypes of Functioning Objects series. In 2007 Hyber was selected to create an extensive installation at Le Laboratoire in Paris (Food for Thought in collaboration with MIT scientists Professor Robert Langer), and was also commissioned to create the first permanent sculpture in Paris’ Luxembourg Gardens.
Brian Knep
ArtistBIO: Brian Knep (www.blep.com) is a new-media artist who uses science and technology to explore change, healing, struggle, and acceptance. Often his works are dynamic and respond to changes in their environment. Some are simply aware of the passage of time while others are interactive, sensing and reacting to the people around them. Knep has had solo shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art, the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Arizona State University and has been part of group shows at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Laval Virtual in France, MobileArt in Sweden, and the Insa Art Center in Korea, among others. His works have won awards from Ars Electronica, Americans for the Arts, AICA/New England and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2005 Knep became the first artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School in a program co-sponsored by Harvard's Office for the Arts. Knep lives and works in Boston and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY and Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston.
Mathieu Lehanneur
DesignerBIO: Mathieu Lehanneur graduated from ENSCI-Les Ateliers (French National School for Industrial Design) in 2001. In the same year he opened his own studio dedicated to industrial design and interior architecture. Drom 2004 - 2008 Mathieu Lehanneur was the “design and research” post-graduate manager at ESAD in Saint Etienne, France. In 2009, he founded Everything But The Molecules a company specializing in pharmaceutical design solutions. His projects are part of several permanent museum collections including: MoMA in New York, FRAC in Paris, and Musee des Art Decoratifs (Paris). Lehanneur's designs build on his passion for engagement with interactions between the body and its environment, between living systems and the scientific world, and the combination of advanced technologies and natural elements (such as plants or seaweeds). Through his creations he has developed exploratory design projects within the pharmaceutical, biological or astrophysical fields. In 2006, he received the Carte Blanche from the VIA and he was awarded the Grand Prix de la Création from the city of Paris. In 2008, he received the Best Invention Award (USA) for Andrea, an air-cleaning system using plants which will be industrialized and sold in 2009 in partnership with Le Laboratoire.
Ellen K. Levy
ArtistBIO: Ellen K. Levy (www.complexityart.com) holds a BA in Zoology from Mount Holyoke College and a Diploma in painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After exhibiting at the New York Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, in 1985 she received a commission from NASA. This was followed by exhibitions at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and at galleries and museums in the US and abroad. She was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Skidmore in 1999, a position funded by the Luce Foundation and has taught at Cooper Union and Brooklyn College, among other institutions. She was elected President of the College Art Association (CAA) from 2004-2006. A guest editor of Art Journal’s, “Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code” (1996), she subsequently contributed chapters to Art et Biotechnologies, (Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2005), Ethics and the Visual Arts (Allworth Press, 2006), and CAA’s upcoming book, documenting its cultural history. Levy’s research explores the relationship between science and art, encompassing work in both the studio and the laboratory. Her graduate experience with biomedical research on attention informs and inspires her current visual arts practice.
Tod Machover
ComposerBIO: Tod Machover holds degrees from the Juilliard School in New York where he studied with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions. Since 1985, he has been Professor of Music AND Media, Head of the Opera of the Future/Hyperinstruments Group, and, since 1995, Co-Director of the Things That Think (TTT) and Toys of Tomorrow (TOT) consortia at the MIT Media Lab. Machover's music has been performed and commissioned by performers and ensembles in the United States, Germany, Japan, England, and France, among others. He has received international prizes and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the French Culture Ministry, the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, and the Reader's Digest/Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation. In 1995, Machover was named a "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres," one of France's highest cultural honors, and in 1998 he was awarded Germany's first DigiGlobe Prize for "creativity and innovation in interactive media." Also in 1998, his Angels CD (Erato Disques) was nominated for a National Public Radio "Performance Today" Award, "for introducing new audiences to classical music."
Stefan I. McDonough
Principal Scientist, Department of Neuroscience, AmgenBIO: Stefan McDonough is Principal Scientist in the Department of Neuroscience at Amgen, Inc., and also an adjunct professor at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He holds an ScB in Engineering Physics from Brown University and a PhD in Biology from Caltech, followed by postdoctoral training at Oregon Health Sciences University, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Maryland Medical School and a faculty position at Woods Hole. With a team at Amgen, he is developing and engineering new therapies to treat severe chronic pain, including the pain arising from shingles, diabetic neuropathy, cancer, and AIDS.
Helen Molesworth
Contemporary Art Curator, Harvard University Art MuseumsBIO: Helen Molesworth is the Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary art as well as the Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harvard University Art Museums. From 2002 to 2007 she was the Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts where she organized Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back) an exhibition of new and old works by Louise Lawler and Part Object Part Sculpture which charted a genealogy of transatlantic sculpture produced in the wake of Marcel Duchamp’s erotic objects and hand made readymades of the 1960s. From 2000-2002 she was the Curator of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she organized Work Ethic, which traced the problem of artistic labor in post-1960s art, and BodySpace, which explored the legacy of Minimalism for contemporary artists. She is the author of numerous articles and her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. Her research areas are concentrated largely within and around the problems of feminism, the reception of Marcel Duchamp, and the socio-historical frameworks of contemporary art. Her first exhibition for Harvard was a survey exhibition of New York based photographer Moyra Davey.
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Caroline Naphegyi
Artistic Director, Le Laboratoire
Caroline Naphegyi
Artistic Director, Le Laboratoire
Caroline Naphegyi has worked as a curator of contemporary art in Paris, France for nearly ten years. She holds degrees from L'École du Louvre and the Université Paris Sorbonne in curatorial studies and art history. From 2000 - 2004 she led the performing arts and design programming of the Lille international art festival, curating work for exhibitions exploring urban microarchitecture, industrial design, and work by emerging international comtemporary artists. As Curator for Lille 3000 (2005 and 2009) Naphegyi curated exhibtions exploring Turkish and Indian popular culture, including a site-specific installation by Shilpa Gupta. As Artistic Director of Le Laboratoire, she has curated exhibitions of work by artists and designers including Mathieu Lehanneur, Fabrice Hyber, Ryoji Ikeda, and François Roche.
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David Rabkin
Vice President for Innovation, Strategic Partnership, and Sustainability, Boston Museum of Science
David Rabkin
Vice President for Innovation, Strategic Partnership, and Sustainability, Boston Museum of ScienceBIO: David Rabkin holds an AB from Harvard University and a PhD in Technology and Innovation Management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. His teaching experience includes four years of guest lecturing and teaching assistant work in masters-level technology strategy courses. Dr. Rabkin has over 16 years of experience in software engineering, technology and product development, general management, and strategy consulting. He was a founding partner of HotHouse Venture Partners, an Internet strategy consulting and early-stage investment firm. Prior to Hothouse, he has eight years of software development and project management experience, six spent in the field of industrial automation. Dr. Rabkin serves on the board of trustees of the Fenway High School in Boston and the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council’s Education Foundation.
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Francois Roche
Architect
Francois Roche
ArchitectBIO: Francois Roche originally trained and worked as a mathematician, and graduated from the School of Architecture of Versaille in 1987. He is the founder of R&Sie(n) Architecture Studio along with fellow French architects Stephanie Lavaux and Jean Navarro, building a 15-year history of investigative approaches to architecture. Roche’s studio work focuses on developing technological experiments leading to the creation of architectural 'scenarios,' forms of cartographic distortion or territorial mutations transforming nature into a dynamic element of a design. R&Sie(n) has exhibited work at institutions around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, Columbia University in New York, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and MIT's Media Lab. R&Sie(n) also exhibited for France at the 1990, 1996, and 2000 Venice Architectural Biennales. Francois Roche has been a guest lecturer and professor at a number of universities and is currently teaching at the Advanced Research Studio at Columbia University.
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Steve Seidel
Harvard Project Zero and the Arts in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Steve Seidel
Harvard Project Zero and the Arts in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of EducationBIO: Steve Seidel holds the Patricia Bauman and John Landrum Bryant Chair in Arts in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is faculty director of the Arts in Education Program and a former director of Project Zero. At Project Zero, Seidel has been principal investigator for projects that have studied the use of reflective practices in schools, the close examination of student work, and the documentation of individual and group learning. His current research includes The Qualities of Quality, a study of what constitutes quality in arts learning and teaching, and Talking with Artists who Teach, a study of working artists’ ideas and insights into the nature of artistic development and learning. Before becoming a researcher, Seidel taught high-school theater and language arts in the Boston area for 17 years. He has also worked as a professional actor and stage director.
Doris Sommer
Director, Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard UniversityBIO: Professor Doris Sommer's research interests have developed from the 19th-Century novels that helped to consolidate new republics in Latin America through the particular aesthetics of minoritarian literature, including bilingual virtuosity, to her current more general pursuit of the constructive work in rights and resources that the arts and the humanities contribute to developing societies. Professor Sommer has enjoyed and is dedicated to developing good public school education; she holds an MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University, as well as degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently the Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and in African and African American Studies and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University
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Nita Sturiale
Studio for Interrelated Media Department, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Nita Sturiale
Studio for Interrelated Media Department, Massachusetts College of Art and DesignBIO: Nita Sturiale is Associate Professor of Media and Performing Arts at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She holds a BFA in interrelated media from Massachusetts College of Art, an EdM from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Professor Sturiale’s work has been exhibited at the MIT Media Lab, the National Gallery of Beijing, Harvard University’s Smithsonian Observatory, The Boston Museum of Science, the University of Wales, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Boston Cyberarts Festival, and more. Her writing appears in the Proceedings of Consciousness Reframed Conference, The Lancet, Information Arts, Macromedia Devnet, and Showcase. Professor Sturiale has received grants from the LEF Foundation and Cambridge Arts Council, and is a Jacob K. Javits Fellow. She has been a member of the Nature and Inquiry Artists Group since 1991.
Clara Wainwright
ArtistBIO: Clara Wainwright is a quiltmaker and public celebration artist. Many of her quilt projects are collaborations with community groups which explore their lives. In 200l she initiated the Faith Quilts Project which involved 28 quiltmakers who worked with 50 faith groups to create quilts which explained their faiths to the wider world and resulted in an exhibition at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. She is the founder of The Great Boston Kite Festival (1969) which ran until 2006 and First Night - a New Year's Eve Celebration of the Arts (1976), which is now celebrated in a number of cities and towns across America.
Debra Wise
Artistic Director, Underground Railway TheaterBIO: Debra Wise is a Founding Member of the Undergroud Railway Theater (URT), and currently leads URT’s participation in an alliance with The Nora Theatre Company, in partnership with MIT and the City of Cambridge. In July 2008 this partnership opened a new theater arts facility in Central Square Cambridge. Wise has been a principal performer in URT productions for the company's entire history, appearing in over 60 performances annually. In 1998 she received a 'Top Ten' Globe citation for solo performance. As a playwright, director and, dramaturge, Wise has collaboratively created over 30 new works. She continues to pursue an interest in theater in non-traditional venues, directing and playing leading roles in new works for museums, libraries, the street, and the stage. Wise is a founding member and Artistic Co-Director of the Catalyst Collaborative@MIT (CC@MIT). In collaboration with Alan Lightman (Physicist, Author), Alan Brody (playwright, formerly MIT Associate Provost for the Arts, currently MIT Professor of Theater) and Jon Lipsky (formerly playwright in residence at the Museum of Science Boston), she selects science theater productions and commissions teams of playwrights and scientists to create new works of science theater.
Lisa Wong
Physician and ViolinistBIO: Lisa Wong holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Harvard and an MD from New York University. As a pediatrician, Dr. Wong advocates the importance of music for all children, to foster discipline and creativity. She encourages parents to immerse their children in music appreciation and music education from infancy. As President of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Wong works with a unique ensemble of musical and medical caregivers who collaborate with community service organizations throughout Boston to "Heal the Community through Music." Dr. Wong also served on the board of the Young Audiences of Massachusetts for eighteen years and helped start the Bring Back the Music program, which revitalized in-class instrumental music instruction in the Boston public schools.
