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      Tiffany Funk (PhD) is an artist, critical theorist, and researcher specializing in emerging media, computer art, video games, and performance art practices. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Video Game Art Reader and Co-founding Lecturer and Academic Advisor of IDEAS (Interdisciplinary Education in the Arts)—an intermedia, theory and practice-based Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

      Education

       

      PhD     2016     University of Illinois at Chicago, Art History

      MFA     2012     University of Illinois at Chicago, New Media Arts

      MA       2005     University of Chicago, Humanities

      BA        2003     University of Wisconsin–Madison (High Honors)

       

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        Publications

         

        Forthcoming

         

        “Deep Listening: Early Computational Composition and its Influence on Algorithmic Aesthetics,” British Computer Society Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) (April 2020).


         

        Book Chapters

         

        “Dirty Your Media: Artists’ Experiments in Digital Bio-Sovereignty,” chapter in The Aesthetics of Necropolitics, ed. Natasha Lushetich (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018).


         

        Articles

         

        Alex Estorick, with Cécile B. Evans, Jenna Sutela, Jonathan Yeo, Tiffany Funk, Luba Elliott, Anna Ridler, “From Wetware to Tilt Brush, How Artists Tested the Limits of Technology in the 2010s,” Frieze, December 18, 2019, https://frieze.com/article/wetware-tilt-brush-how-artists-tested-limits-technology-2010s.


         


        ’A MUSICAL SUITE COMPOSED BY AN ELECTRONIC BRAIN’: Reexamining the Illiac Suite and the Legacy of Lejaren A. Hiller Jr. in Conceptual Art,” Leonardo Music Journal, 28 (December 2018).


         


        “Would You Like to Play a Game?” The Video Game Art Reader, 1:1 (Fall 2017).


         


        “The Prosthetic Aesthetic: An Art of Anxious Extensions,” Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications (2012).


         

        Catalogs

         

        Editor, Chicago New Media 1973-1992 exhibition catalog (VGA Gallery, 2018).


         


        “Magic, the Future, and Code: Casting Coding within the Prosthetic Relationship,” Art2Code Catalogue, College Art Association and v1b3 (Winter 2016).


         


        “The Man Who Pictured Space from His Apartment—A performance piece by Cupola Bobber,” Cue Art Foundation exhibition catalogue, 2007.


         

        Interviews

         

        “‘Scale’: The Sound of Interspecies Communication? Tiffany Funk interviews Marlena Novak,” Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture 28 (Summer 2014): 50-59.


         

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