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from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Angela holds a tenured Professor position at RIT, Rochester, NY where she has served as the coordinator of the MFA Imaging Arts Photography programme from 1994-99 and again from 2009-11. Nominated for the 2017 Prix Prictet Global Award in Photography and Sustainability, recent exhibitions include the 2016 Tianshui Biennale, China. She was awarded a professional academic leave grant in 2011-12 to pursue her creative work. Collections holding her work include: the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and the Arts Council, London. In 2011, she exhibited Catharsis: Images of Post Conflict Belfast at the 3rd International Photography Festival, Dali, China, where her exhibition was nominated out of 200 international exhibits for the best exhibit. A solo exhibit of Catharsis was held at the Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Demorest, GA in 2014 and will be the subject of a forthcoming artist’s book.

ERIN MCNEIL is an artist and museum professional living in Minneapolis. She received an MFA in Photography and MA in Art History from the Savannah College of Art and Design and received the Art History department’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 2014. Her thesis dealt with the uses of ruin imagery in videogames, and her artistic work focuses on the body’s relationship to technology.  Erin’s essays have appeared in numerous publications, including the Journal of Games Criticism and The Reflexive Photographer. She currently works at the Walker Art Center as their Visual Arts Exhibitions Administrator.

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