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Emma Kline, Living Art and Ecology Lab Specialist

Emma is the staff technician for LAEL. She oversees the lab facility and garden while assisting students, faculty, and staff in work that engages with local ecosystems through art. Previous to this position, Emma worked as a field technician on wildlife monitoring and ecosystem restoration projects. Her current interests are in craft, community ecology, and what counts as an art material.

Jude Howard, Art & Ecology Student Assistant

Jude Howard is a multimedia artist who works primarily in fiber. They are a 4th year BFA in Art and Technology with Research Distinction, and have received two research fellowships from the university to study quilts and quilt history. They are currently focusing on combining their fiber and painting practice into a cohesive body of work. 

Madison Blue, Art & Ecology Student Assistant

Madison Blue is an Art and Technology major in her fourth year at OSU. She is an interdisciplinary artist with an interest in ecology and eco-friendly processes. In her work, she focuses on themes of environmental and human interactions using images and written word. Madison hopes to continue to work with local ecosystems to better understand the environment that she lives in and appreciates.

Amy Youngs

Amy creates eco art, interactive sculptures, and digital media works that explore interdependencies between technology, plants and animals. Her research involves entanglements with the non-human, constructed ecosystems, and seeing through the eyes of machines. She has created installations that amplify the sounds of living worms, indoor ecosystems powered by a rocking chair, an interactive museum for live insects, and an augmented reality tour of real nature.

Doo-Sung Yoo
Doo-Sung is a lecturer in the area of Art & Technology. He works with interdisciplinary media in art, science, and technology, exploring interactions between human and technological nature and trans-species communication between human and non-human animals. His current focuses are on surpassing the human body and organic forms with technological augmentations.

Dani ReStack
Dani is an Associate Professor of Art at The Ohio State University. She received an MFA in film/video from Bard College in 2009, and an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003. Her single channel videos and experimental films have received international acclaim, and her drawings are included in the permanent collection at MoMA.

Dionne Lee
Dionne is a visual artist working in photography, collage, sculpture, and video to explore power and personal history in relation to the American landscape, interrogating the historical narratives that exist within photographic representations of land and place. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts.