Lisa Moren is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with emerging media, bio-matter, public space, AR and works-on-paper. She has exhibited her work at the Chelsea Art Museum, Creative Time, Drawing Center (New York), Cranbrook Art Museum (Michigan) and Ars Electronica (Austria), Akademie der Kunste (Germany), uShaka Museum (South Africa), and the Artists Research Network (Australia). She received the National Endowment for the Arts award, is a Fulbright Scholar; a multi-year recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council and CEC Artslink International, is a R.W. Deutsche Award recipient and a Saul Zaentz Innovation Fellow in Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University. Her writing has appeared in Performance Research; Visible Language; Inter Arts Actuel; New Media Caucus for “Algorithmic Pollution: Artists working with Dataveillance and Societies of Control” and “CYBER IN|SECURITY”; and her books on “Intermedia”; and Issues in Contemporary Theory for “Command Z: Artists Working with Phenomena and Technology.” Lisa Moren is a Professor of Visual Art at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC); and taught at FAMU and AVU in Prague; and the University of California San Diego (UCSD).

Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff is an Associate Research Professor for the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) at The University System of Maryland. His research is focused on microbe evolution and uses DNA sequence analysis from data to study the evolutionary history of genes in dinoflagellate microbes. He has received numerous academic awards, including the William Trager Award from the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, International Society of Protistologists, culture independent methods such as single cell PCR, sequencing, and sequence analysis; Establishing dinoflagellate cultures. He received the Marsho award, Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Society for Plant Biology, University of Maryland College Park, and the Chemistry Prize, Trinity School, New York. Tsvetan Bachvaroff received his B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center of Marine Biotechnology and subsequently with the Smithsonian Institution.

This project is generously supported by the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund at Johns Hopkins University and the R.W. Deutsch Foundation. The exhibition is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council.