inter.sect Art Collective Artists

inter.sect Artists

Christi Nielsen, Founder & Director Christi Nielsen is a multimedia artist who works with photography, video, and new media. Her recent work using mobile devices was shown at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Contemporary, and at the George Pompidou Centre in Paris. Nielsen directs inter.sect Art Collective, a group of artists who explore new media and digital exhibition spaces.	Kyle Kondas, Assistant Director Kyle Kondas is a new media artist whose current work is creating video paintings through the use of video games. It was this area of focus that lead to his co-curating his first show last year, “On_game” which looked at artists whose work had either been influenced or was based upon video games. Kondas is a member of the inter.sect Art Collective and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas where he also teaches Intro to Video.
Elizabeth Alavi Elizabeth Alavi is a digital video artist and Ph.D student in the school of Arts & Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Allowing the abstract to prompt suggestive, more introspective examination by the viewer I want to push the creative process and portray abstraction through a manipulating process where video and digital media are the protagonist.	Mona Kasra Mona Kasra is a new media artist and educator currently pursuing a PhD at UT Dallas with a focus on Arts and Technology. Her videos have been displayed in a number of exhibitions and festivals both in gallery settings and online. Mona's most recent video work “ in my entirety” was screened in the LAUNCH at Art Lab presented by the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas in July 2009.
Sheila Cunningham Sheila Cunningham is an award winning fine art photographer exploring the world through Cell Phone Photography, Digital Collages, Polaroid Transfers and Artist Books. Cunningham exhibits in solo and national juried shows.	Manuel Pecina Manuel Pecina is a photographer, and multimedia artist working with film, and digital arts in emerging new media technologies. He enjoys building systems that make information accessible to communicate in a world that has become smaller and on any given day, you will find him about, designing, creating, and producing whimsical sets for visual pleasures.
Fontana (Anthony and Sandy Fontana) Anthony and Sandra Fontana have been collaborating on artworks and installations in the real and virtual world of Second Life. Most of their work focuses on virtual identities in social networks and virtual worlds. Recently, they have exhibited work at The Gallery Project in Ann Arbor, Michigan and a two-person show at The Secor Gallery in Toledo, Ohio.	Vanessa VanAlstyne Vanessa VanAlstyne’s primary area of focus in digital work is the role of people's identities and how that shifts when the preconceived concepts of the self are allowed to decay in a virtual environment. Her altered voyeuristic videos from youtube that have a decaying sense of self have been included in a recent internationally juried show in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Vermont.
LeeAnn Harrington LeeAnn Harrington, a New Media artist, delves in the prospect of exploring the human condition via the moving image. LeeAnn received her Masters of Fine Art in Art and Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2007 and has since exhibited her videos in online and real-life exhibitions.
Past Guest Artists
Michele Atwater Michele Atwater is an emerging multimedia artist and a post graduate student in Museum Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has been shown in juried exhibitions at the Cade Gallery for the Fine Arts in Arnold, MD. Michele’s recent new media work includes inter.sect’s online exhibit, SecondHand, on 12seconds.tv and #Twitter MailArt.	Cynthia Lewis Cynthia Lewis works in a wide range of media from sculpture to video and photography. Her recent flow of work focuses on social media and cell phone technology to communicate and exhibit conceptual and visual imagery of immediate experience. Lewis currently collaborates with other artist through inter.sect Art Collective to explore new ground in digital media.