Jessica Tucker
Department of Art History
Hertzstrasse 16
Bldg. 6.34
76187 Karlsruhe
jessica-tucker.com
Jessica Tucker (she/they) is an American and Dutch artist currently based in Berlin. Her performances, videos, sculptures, and installations playfully examine how machine-mediated vision constructs and distorts our experiences of embodiment, selfhood, and desire. Jessica is a visiting researcher in the Coded Secrets research group in Art History at the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie, supported by the Fulbright Germany program, and a Lecturer of Digital Media at New York University in Berlin. They have performed and exhibited throughout Europe and the USA, including Rewire Festival, FOAM Museum of Photography, Goethe Institut, the Van Gogh Museum, Mana Contemporary, and the International Museum of Surgical Science. In 2023-24, Jessica was a Grant Wood Fellow at the University of Iowa, specializing in interdisciplinary performance with digital media. Other supporters include the Mondriaan Fonds, Chicago Artists Coalition, Thoma Foundation, and DCASE. Jessica holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has taught courses in video and new media art at the University of Iowa, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago, and China Academy of Art.
Vita
- Fulbright Scholar, Germany
- Grant Wood Fellow in Interdisciplinary Performance, Department of Theater Arts, University of Iowa
- Visiting Professor, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
- Lecturer, Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Envision Grant for New Media Artists, Thoma Foundation and Chicago Artists Coalition
- MFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago