Miki Foster and Laurel Ptak

Miki Foster was born in 1984 in Northern California. Raised in the Seattle area she started organizing creative interventions and educational workshops while a teenager working with all-ages DIY venues. Her work as a performer, educator and installation artist has been featured at the National Queer Arts Festival, the Wing Luke Asian American Museum, the Museum of Art and History and DIY venues across the West Coast. She received a Bachelors of Arts in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College in 2007 and a Masters of Fine Arts in Digital Arts/New Media from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2009. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. http://mikifaux.com

Laurel Ptak is a curator whose work investigates social and political dimensions of technology and contemporary art. Based in New York City, she teaches in the Art, Media and Technology department at The New School and is as at-large curator for Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm. She is currently researching the history of cyberfeminist art practices since the early 1990s as a Fellow at Eyebeam. www.laurelptak.com