Chelsea Thompto
Chelsea Thompto (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist and educator working at the intersections of art, trans studies, and technology. Born and raised in Iowa, she currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media Art at San José State University. Her work is strongly rooted in her experience as a transwoman and is currently focused on fog as a means of interrogating and resisting bureaucratic and technological systems used to visualize and categorize our world, and the violences they produce and reproduce. Her research based studio practice spans a variety of media which often include code, video, sound, writing, and sculpture.