“Interface: Enacted encounters with learning and knowing in the age of computation”
Dr. Sean Justice, Assistant Professor, Texas State University
"The new cyborg: Trans*identities, new materialism, and embodied identity"
Dr. Andrés Peralta, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Sean Justice, Assistant Professor of Art Education, teaches and writes about maker education, material inquiry pedagogy and teacher education in the digital age, and exhibits his artwork internationally. His book, Learning to Teach in the Digital Age: New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools was published in 2016 by Peter Lang, Inc. He holds a doctorate in Art and Art Education from Columbia University, Teachers College, where he taught digital fabrication, physical computing, creative coding and photography, to pre- and in-service teachers from across the curriculum. While at Teachers College, he designed and directed the Myers Media Art Studio, a center for exploratory art and technology research. As an artist, Justice has exhibited photographs, videos and computer animations both nationally and internationally.
Prior to pursuing graduate work, Andrés Peralta taught art and Spanish at the secondary level. He has also taught courses in Humanities, and Art Education at the Undergraduate level and Art Education courses at the graduate level. His research centers on identity construction, visual culture, and issues of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. His focus is on the politics of difference and the ways in which individuals negotiate identity within institutional attitudes towards acculturation, colonialism and domination, while maintaining a sense of self through resistance and subjugation. With a strong commitment to working with under-served populations, Peralta believes that art is a way for individuals to make meaning of the world they perceive and relate their understanding of the world in which they live.