Phillip Stearns is an artist who wears many hats. Also know as Pixel Form, Phil is a practitioner of sound and visual arts, a music composer and performer, and an electronics sculptor and installation artist. He describes his work as “characterized by judicial use of materials, restraint, simplicity, a careful balance between conceptual depth and playfulness.” In this conversation, he discusses his commitment to education, teaching as a form of artistic practice, and his latest project…

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New York-based visual artist Kira Lynn Harris uses drawings, light and reflective surfaces, such as mirrors and Mylar, to call attention to and even “destabilize” everyday space. Her work creates an intersection of fact and fiction, real and surreal, and asks the viewer to consider the question “what if?”

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Colorado-based photographer Tom Loughlin is the creator of “Pictures of You: Images from Iran”, a powerful multimedia installation that is poised to tour the U.S. throughout 2009. Set exclusively in outdoor venues — specifically “high-traffic areas, [where] it will be encountered by viewers who do not typically seek out art” — “Pictures of You” features large-scale photographs of everyday Iranians that are printed on silk. Viewers walk through and around a mosque-like structure and come face-to-face with both the Iranian subjects of the photos and their fellow viewers, whose reactions to the installation they are able to see because of the translucency of the silk.

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