Heidi Wiren Bartlett is a filmmaker, sculptor, and performance artist from the Great Plains. Her work is concerned with the portrayal, oppression and subversive existence of women in America today. She sees her body as an object of power and vulnerability and she sees Nature and its processes the same way. Together these inspire a practice that illuminates the overlooked and forgotten. Whether creating laborious action or still objects, she blurs the line between public and private; deconstructing notions of gender, race, and corporeality. She holds an MA and MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa. She currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA, is an Artist & Designer for the University Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University, and teaches in the Interactive, Design, Arts, and Technology Interdisciplinary Program (IDeATe). She is a co-founder of Propelled Animals, a transdisciplinary arts and social justice collective.
Jen Shook is a digital and performance dramaturg whose work lives at the intersection of literature, theatre, digital humanities and media art, Indigenous and critical race and gender studies, and cultural memory. A CHI Visiting Fellow, she has taught at institutions including DePaul University and Grinnell College. She founded and directed Caffeine Theatre (2002-2012, Chicago) and more recently makes paper art and public puppets large and small. Jen serves on the steering committee of the American Studies Association’s DH Caucus and is currently co-editing an ongoing guest series on Soundwork and Media Activism for Resonance: A Journal of Sound and Culture. Her book project Unghosting Tribalographies: Performing Oklahoma-as-Indian-Territory connects politics and pop culture with plays, poetry, and virtual performances that remediate early archives.