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Elizabeth McTernan is an artist based in Berlin and Iowa City. Her work is a research-oriented and
mixed-media exploration of measurement and media ecologies. Through an interdisciplinary
practice of mapping, she problematizes and plays with methods of empiricism to access
subjectivities from which knowledge is produced. Working with scholars across fields, she is a
member of the research group Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting, an interdisciplinary
collaboration led by artist Olafur Eliasson and scientist Andreas Roepstorff of Aarhus University,
Denmark. In 2023, Elizabeth led an artist group in Field_Notes, a two-week art-science field
laboratory organized by the Bioart Society in Arctic Finland. https://www.elizabethmcternan.com/
Stephanie Miracle is an Assistant Professor in Dance at the University of Iowa, a certified teacher
of Klein Technique™, and the artistic director of FAKERS CLUB (est. 2015). Her interdisciplinary
work investigates dance within everyday public spaces. Described as “iconic and nuanced…with an
irreverence that makes you smile unconsciously”, her place-based performance interventions,
experimental films, sound installations, and live stage performances have been presented by
nationally and internationally festivals and institutions in NYC, DC, Los Angeles, Germany, Russia,
Mexico, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, Hungary, Portugal, and France.
https://www.stephaniemiracledances.com/
Heather Parrish’s artistic inquiry uses printmaking, experimental photography, and installation
with video projection to explore negotiations of perception and belonging across fluid boundaries.
Collaboration is a sustaining part of her practice, including work with scientists, poets and activists.
Parrish received an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and a BA from the University of Texas
at Austin. She worked as a fine art collaborating printer at Flatbed Center for Contemporary
Printmaking, and has exhibited work in the United States and internationally. She is currently an
Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.
https://www.heatherparrish.art/
Jamshid Jam, an award-winning album featuring Ramin Roshandel on setar and Jean-Francois
Charles on live electronics. A collision between Persian classical music and live sampling and re-
mixing. www.jamshidjam.com
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie is associate professor of religion and media at the University of Iowa,
with a joint appointment in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of
Communication Studies. She is the author of When the Medium Was the Mission: The Religious
Origins of Network Culture (NYU Press, 2021). Her current research offers a queer utopianist take
on the historical and emergent relationships among religion, infrastructure, and water.
Eric Gidal is Professor of English and Editor of Philological Quarterly. He is the author of Poetic
Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum (2001), Ossianic
Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age (2015), and numerous articles on literary and
environmental history. He is Senior Personnel for the Blue-Green Action Platform, an NSF-funded
program to connect data and storytelling to address nitrogen pollution in waterways across Iowa,
Florida, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. https://blue-gap.org/index.html
David Cwiertny, the William D. Ashton Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Iowa,
serves as Director for both the Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination and the
Environmental Policy Research Program. His research within the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Institute, and as a Faculty Research Engineer at IIHR--Hydroscience & Engineering, highlights his
interest in environmental chemistry and innovative water treatment methods.
Larry Weber is the Edwin B. Green Chair in Hydraulics and Director of IIHR – Hydroscience and
Engineering, the nation’s oldest academic research program focused on hydraulics, hydrology and
fluid mechanics. He co-founded the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa and the Iowa
Nutrient Research Center with Iowa State University. Weber and his team recently completed the
Iowa Watershed Approach project focused on improving community resilience to floods, droughts
and declining water quality.