Shona Kitchen
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art (London) with an MFA in Architecture in 1997, internationally recognized artist, designer and educator Shona Kitchen has divided her time between creative practice and teaching. Her work spans public art, conceptual narrative proposals, book works, exhibitions and interactive sculpture/installation. Her practice is frequently collaborative, research-based and site-specific.
Using digital, analog, and biological elements, Kitchen creates work that allows physical and virtual, natural and artificial, and real and imagined to playfully and poetically co-exist. She explores the psychological, social and environmental consequences of technological advancement and failure. Her projects often function as imagined propositions, alternate or future histories that reveal and subvert the unseen technological forces in the world around us and expose our shifting role as creators, consumers and unwitting victims of technology.
Aly Ogasian
Aly Ogasian is an artist practicing in Providence, RI. Before getting her MFA in Digital + Media at RISD, she earned a BFA in Sculpture from Queen’s University (Canada). She has exhibited internationally and been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, School of Visual Arts, Montalvo Arts Center and The Arctic Circle. Her work deals with the moments between observation and perception and the space between conjecture and knowing. She is interested in exploration, expedition and the search for understanding.
Ogasian’s research-based practice draws inspiration from the history of film and photography, astronomy and the systemized annals of science. Her work is inherently performative, as she casts herself in the role of explorer or knowledge seeker and traverses a series of scenarios that are at once deeply absurd and poetic. The glitches or errors that occur within the process of making are celebrated not only as deviations from the intended path, but also as potential points of departure for the imagination.