Livingmaps Review

Jin-Kyu Jung
https://www.uwb.edu/ias/faculty-and-staff/jin-kyu-jung
University of Washington Bothell
United States

Jin-Kyu Jung is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. He is an urban geographer/planner whose interdisciplinary research program contributes to qualitative GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and geographic visualization, community engagement, and urban poverty and inequality. His research particularly offers epistemological and methodological innovation that integrate various forms of data and representation, and analysis often seen as incompatible. He is committed to develop new ways of expanding these critical, qualitative, and creative possibilities of/with GIS and geo-visualization intersected with urban theory, critical visual methodologies, arts and digital spatial humanities. 

Ted Hiebert
http://www.tedhiebert.net/
University of Washington Bothell
United States

Ted Hiebert is an interdisciplinary artist and theorist. His work examines the relationships between art, technology and speculative culture with a particular focus on the absurd, the paradoxical and the imaginary. He is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Art and Director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. He is the author of In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty and Postmodern Identity (McGill-Queens University Press, 2012), A formalized forum for informal inquiry (Noxious Sector Press, 2015), and co-author (with The Occulture theory collective) of Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture (Bloomsbury, 2017).