PLASMA 2026

Eric Souther
Media artist and digital toolmaker

Eric Souther’s work draws from disciplines including new materialism, anthropology, ritual, deep time and toolmaking. His practice takes many forms, including interactive installation, audio visual performance, single channel video and software, often forming experimental systems that explore material relationships.

Azza El Siddique
Installation artist and Coalesce Fellow

Azza El Siddique is a multidisciplinary artist whose work combines steel and ceramic sculpture with ephemeral materials to explore ritual, mortality and memorialization. Her practice spans site specific sculpture, wall mounted steel panels, clay vessels and video. She is currently visiting Coalesce, a studio and teaching lab dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts, humanities and sciences.

Matt Kenyon
Activist and new media artist

Matt Kenyon’s project S.W.A.M.P. examines global corporate systems, mass media, military technologies and the space between biological and artificial life. He lives and works in Buffalo and is an associate professor in the Department of Art at UB, Art and Technology Program Director, and a member of PLATFORM, UB’s socially engaged design studio.

Sue Slagle (SUE-C)
Real time cinema artist, educator and engineer

Sue Slagle is an award winning artist whose live performances blend cinema, improvisation and custom built technologies. Her work pushes the boundaries of human computer interaction through real time image making, performance and teaching with emerging tools and systems.

Jason Corwin
Indigenous digital media artist and scholar

Jason Corwin is a citizen of the Seneca Nation, Deer Clan and a lifelong media maker. His work focuses on Indigenous ways of knowing, environmental education and digital media, with an emphasis on narrative sovereignty, sustainability and environmental justice.

Kara Güt
Image-based multimedia digital artist

Kara Güt is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with digital images. Her work investigates intimacy shaped by internet culture, constructed detachment and power dynamics in virtual space. She earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has exhibited widely in solo and group shows.

Meredith Kooi and Bianca Felix Biberaj
Co-directors of Wave Farm

Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization focused on experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. Based in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm supports radio art, interdisciplinary installations, residencies, research and artist services, including FM station WGXC.

Carrie Hott
Artist, designer and educator

Carrie Hott works across installation, video, websites and publications to explore opaque technological systems and their effects on agency, time and identity. Her work creates shared experiences that question how infrastructure is made visible and who has access to it.

Jennifer Reeves
Film and installation artist

Jennifer Reeves is a Brooklyn-based film artist known for immersive 16mm works exploring mental health, feminism, sexuality, and the natural world. A Blu-ray collection of her films, “When it was Blue: Jennifer Reeves Selected Works 1992–2022,” will be released in late 2025 and available for streaming in 2026.

Stephanie Rothenberg
Media artist

Stephanie Rothenberg works across digital and traditional media to expose inequities within technological systems. Her recent work examines conservation politics, sustainability myths and emerging blue economies, as well as anthropogenic sound and marine life.

David Mawer
Media artist and developer

David Mawer is an artist and researcher whose work explores programming identities in arts education. A former Media Study student, he earned a PhD in education from UB focusing on computational media in the arts classroom.

Tomás Henriques
Composer and digital instrument designer

Tomás Henriques researches digital instruments, spatial audio, game interfaces and computer aided vision. His work has been widely published and recognized internationally, including a first place award at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.

Wobbly (Jon Leidecker)
Musician and co-founder of Negativland

Jon Leidecker is an electronic musician whose work emphasizes live performance, collage and improvisation. His recent projects explore feedback, automation and the role of technology in shaping labor and creativity.