Design Credits
Essay: Erin Kathleen Bahl and Kaustavi Sarkar
Videos
Web design: Erin Kathleen Bahl
Photos
CSS animated waves: Loktar (https://codepen.io/loktar00/pen/kfrKC)
Erin Kathleen Bahl is a doctoral candidate in the English department at the Ohio State University studying digital media, composition, and folklore. Her research investigates the possibilities that new media and digital technologies offer for creating knowledge and telling stories. She is currently working on a dissertation exploring the relationship between technology, invention, and design in composing new media scholarship. Her work has been published in Composition Studies, Humanities Journal, Harlot of the Arts, Signs and Media, and Showcasing the Best of CIWIC/DMAC, with forthcoming work in Computers and Composition Journal and Computers and Composition Digital Press.
Kaustavi Sarkar, researcher at Ohio State University, is an Indian classical dancer, choreographer, dance-scholar and educator, performing and teaching well over the past decade. Recognized as one of leading Odissi dance exponents, she is an Indian national fellow working on meaning-making processes in dance studies as pertaining to South Asian dance. She is the artistic director of Kaustavi Movement Center, aimed at spreading the dance form and build communities through movement. She presents her scholarly work as well as her creative work in dance conferences and festivals and conducts master-classes and lecture-demonstrations across universities in Europe and America. She has published in Research in Dance Education, Performance Research and the Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship.
Kerry Murphy (http://www.oddone.nl/) is a passionate full-time filmmaker/animator mainly using live-action, graphic design and animation as his tools to create moving imagery. Most of his time is spent working for advertising and film production companies, providing them with directing and motion graphics animation services, although he’s currently transitioning his passion and focus towards narratives and documentaries.
Amber Jae Slooten (http://www.amberjaeslooten.com/) is a future-oriented fashion designer. She received her education at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) and has worked as a researcher/fashion designer for MediaLAB Amsterdam Creative Industries. Her work connects clothing, the body, culture, feeling, technology and science into a new vision on fashion design.