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MiHyun Kim is a designer, an artist and an educator. Her research agenda focuses on creating meaningful connections between people and their communities. By using digital technology, human experience design, and data visualization, her interdisciplinary nature of projects serves to create a sense of belonging and to enhance humanity. 

Prior to coming to the United States to earn her MFA in Visual Design from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, she worked as a graphic designer at COEX (Convention and Exhibition) center in Seoul, South Korea, one of the biggest cultural venues in Asia. 

Her projects have been recognized from numerous international and national design organizations including Interaction Design (IxD) Association, ico-D, Ars Electronica, CAA, Cumulus, AIGA Design Educator Community, UCDA Design Education Summit, and eyeO festival. 

Her design projects are in the permanent collection at Lonsford Collection at Purdue University Galleries and Denmark Poster Museum in Aabyhøj, Denmark. 

Jeffrey Lieber is an art and architectural historian, author of Flintstone Modernism or the Crisis in Postwar American Culture (MIT Press, 2018). Highlighting canonical works within the contexts of Hollywood films and philosophical, political, and literary debates, his book surveys anxieties about the fate of the Classical tradition and durability of art in the post-WWII era. Lieber's wide-ranging interests in the field have been sponsored by the Delmas Foundation Grant for Independent Research in Venice among others. A visiting professor at Harvard University (2015-2016), his articles have appeared in the New York Times and international magazines as well as peer-reviewed journals. In recent years, Lieber has been invited to present lectures at museums and universities in the United States, Australia, England, and Germany. He received his AB from Vassar College and his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  

Nishra Ranpura is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, and creative technologist. She earned her Bachelor in Textile Design from National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), in Gandhinagar, India, and holds an MFA with honors in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York, along with a minor in Anthropology and Design. Her work explores the interactions between the physical and the digital through experimental and speculative narratives. She researches, practices, and teaches across the disciplines of new media, digital fabrication, digital design, creative technology, and design research. Essentially, she makes things and breaks things. Sometimes, she writes, and oftentimes, she wonders.

Molly Sherman is an artist, graphic designer, and Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Texas State University. Her practice consists of socially-engaged projects and client-based collaborations. She has worked at Project Projects in New York and with a range of cultural institutions including the Hammer Museum and Amherst College. Her work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, New Seasons Market, the Parthenon Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University.

Dimitry Tetin's multi-disciplinary design practice grew out of his background in ecology, European literature and interest in language. Places and their relationships to the popular American imagination and identity act as an organizing principle for the content and form for the majority of the projects in his experimental publishing practice. He also works independently and collaboratively on publication, web, identity, motion, signage and wayfinding projects for clients in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. 

He is the coordinator of the Undergraduate Communication Design Program. Prior to moving to Austin to teach and do research at Texas State, he was an Assistant Professor in the Graphic Design Design Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He also taught as an adjunct at Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons the New School for Design. He earned his BA in literature, ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Chicago, BFA in Visual Communication from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA in Graphic Design from the RISD.