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 <h3>Derek Curry</h3>
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-<p>Derek Curry's artistic practice engages questions of agency and knowledge production through a variety of mediums from video games and data analytics, to participatory performance and sculptural data visualizations, and his research focuses on algorithmic modes of control, particularly in the electronic stock exchanges. <a href="../jennifer-gradecki">Jennifer Gradecki's</a> art and research focuses on the relationship between information and power, and aims to make specialized knowledge and technical information more accessible. Curry and Gradecki are both currently PhD candidates at SUNY Buffalo, in Media Study and Visual Studies respectively. They earned their MFAs in New Genres from UCLA's Department of Art in 2010 and have participated in numerous international exhibitions and conferences, including the New Media Gallery in Zadar, the AC Institute in New York, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Critical Finance Studies in Amsterdam, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver.</p>
+<p>Derek Curry's artistic practice engages questions of agency and knowledge production through a variety of mediums from video games and data analytics, to participatory performance and sculptural data visualizations, and his research focuses on algorithmic modes of control, particularly in the electronic stock exchanges. Curry is currently a PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo in Media Study. He earned his MFA in New Genres from UCLA's Department of Art in 2010 and has participated in numerous international exhibitions and conferences, including the New Media Gallery in Zadar, the AC Institute in New York, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Critical Finance Studies in Amsterdam, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver.</p>

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 <h3>Jennifer Gradecki</h3>
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-<p>Jennifer Gradecki was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1980 and earned a BFA in sculpture, with a second major in experimental psychology, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2007. She received her MFA in New Genres from UCLA in 2010 and is currently a PhD candidate in Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo with a focus on the financialization of the art market. Gradecki's art and research emphasizes transparency and aims to make specialized knowledge and technical information more accessible.</p>
+<p>Jennifer Gradecki's art and research focuses on the relationship between information and power, and aims to make specialized knowledge and technical information more accessible. Gradecki is currently a PhD candidate at SUNY Buffalo in Visual Studies. She earned her MFA in New Genres from UCLA's Department of Art in 2010 and has participated in numerous international exhibitions and conferences, including the New Media Gallery in Zadar, the AC Institute in New York, the Science Gallery in Dublin, Critical Finance Studies in Amsterdam, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver.</p>