Art Papers Jury: Introduction

xREZ Art + Science Lab, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, Denton, TX 76203, U.S.A., Ruth.West@unt.edu

Ruth West is an artist-scientist and creative technologist bridging big data, visualization, sonification, virtual and augmented reality, 3D fabrication, and social and mobile media with domains such as neuroscience, genomics, astronomy, urban ecology, microbiome, live performance, entertainment, and digital remix culture. She creates works with multiple entry points that can exist concurrently as aesthetic experiences and cultural interventions or serve as the basis for artistically impelled scientific inquiry and tools. West is the Chair-elect of LEAF, the Leonardo Education and Art Forum, and is an Associate Professor and Director of the xREZ Art + Science Lab at the University of North Texas where she is cross-appointed in the College of Visual Art and Design, College of Engineering, College of Information, and College of Arts and Sciences. Her work has been presented internationally in museums, festivals, and publications including MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, FILE 09 São Paulo, SIGGRAPH, Wired magazine’s NextFest, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, IEEE Visualization, IST/SPIE The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality, Leonardo, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.