Gosia Malgorzata Koscielak
Daria Tsoupikova
Helen-Nicole Kostis
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
 

Helen-Nicole Kostis is a media artist that works with video, animation, virtual environments, physical and digital sculpture. She is captivated by the creation of new, synthetic worlds, immersive bodily experiences, the combination of virtual and physical realities and the discourse that is generated by their coexistence. Born in 1976, lives and works in Chicago, USA. She has received a BS in Mathematics (1998) from the University of Ioannina (UOI), Greece, a MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Fine Arts at the same institution. She currently works as a Research Assistant at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she serves as a technical leader in CAVE based tele-immersive demonstrations and exhibitions, under the supervision of EVL’s co-director Prof. Daniel J. Sandin, and is also part of EVL’s webgroup being responsible for site content and integration of movies into the site, including technical solutions and video editing, under the supervision of EVL’s Associate Director Dana Plepys. She has exhibited at the Canariasmediafest – International Video and Multimedia Festival of the Canaries (2002), Version>03 :: Digital Arts Convergence - Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2003), IDEAS Festival (2003, 2004), IEEE VR Open House at EVL (2004), Networks Art and Collaboration Conference (2004), Electronic Visualization Exhibit (2004), Virtual World’s Festival Sao Paolo - Brazil (2004), Studio 74 Artful Object (2004) and in Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, SPIE (2005)

Contact information for collaborators:
Gosia Malgorzata Koscielak Ph.D.- Artist / Independent curator gosiakoscielak@covad.net
info@gosiakoscielak.com-
Gosia Koscielak Studio and Gallery -http:// www.gosiakoscielak.com

Helen-Nicole Kostis - Master’s in Fine Arts in Electronic Visualization candidate, Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) eleni@evl.uic.edu

Daria Tsoupikova - Assistant Professor School of Art & Design, Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) datsoupi@evl.uic.edu