Debra Swack (www.debraswack.com) is a Fulbright Specialist and new media artist affiliated with White Box Gallery whose projects have been presented at the 2011 Re-New Digital Arts Festival in Copenhagen (Aalborg University Press), "Virtual Public Art" at the Philadelphia Festival of the Arts, "Robots and Representation" at Purdue University, "Post Human/Future Tense" at Columbia College, "25th Anniversary" at Xerox Parc ("Art and Innovation"; MIT Press), Real Art Ways (Sol LeWitt Collection), "Soundlab VII" in Cologne, the University of California ("After Media"; University of California Press), White Box Gallery, "Sonic Fragments" at Princeton University, "Tomorrow" at the New York Hall of Science (curated by Anne Barlow of the New Museum), "The Gun Show" at Aaron Packer Gallery, "Voices I" at the University of Illinois in Chicago, Northern Illinois University Museum, Banff Center for the Arts, the Arts and Genomics Center in Amsterdam ("Kloone4000") and Vancouver ("Allegories of the Genome") and the Beecher Center for Arts and Technology.

Her most recent article on “the Emotions (after Charles Darwin)”; an interactive video on the universality of emotions on a biological level (and subsequent futuristic genetic modification) done in collaboration with neuroscientists at the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland will be published in an upcoming edition of Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT Press) and her last article was published by Hz Journal http://www.hz-journal.org/n17/index.html . She was awarded a Summer Art Institute Residency by Creative Capital/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in May 2012 and also does software testing and technical writing for the SUNY Research Foundation.