Tra Bouscaren
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Mail code: 2151Campus: West
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Tra Bouscaren is a post-disciplinary artist focused on spectacle at the crossroads of waste culture and the surveillance state.
Bouscaren has exhibited at Vittorio Manalese (Berlin), the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Victor I Fils Gallery (Madrid), the Malta Biennial (Birgu), Ammerman Triennial (New London), Mattress Factory Museum (Pittsburgh), Fort Mason Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Florida Prize Exhibition at Orlando Museum of Art, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia) and Lincoln Center (NYC), among other venues.
Research presentations and publications include: RE: SOURCE Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology (Venice), Dallas Contemporary, MOCA Tucson, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Stony Brook University Conference on Art and Philosophy, Studies In Control Societies Journal, Ildo Lobo Center for Culture (Praia), CAA Conferences (Chicago and LA), the Rubin Center for Visual Arts (El Paso), and the FLAT Journal (UCLA). Bouscaren builds projects with a broad array of visual artists, performers, hackers, musicians, and scholars through the Expanded Media Lab, which he founded in 2019.
PhD Candidate, Media Study, State University of New York at Buffalo (ABD)
MFA, Interdisciplinary Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
BA, Philosophy, Yale University, with Distinction
Courses
2026 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| IAP 361 | Digital Editing/Media Literacy |
| IAP 465 | Media Technologies & the Arts |
| IAP 465 | Media Technologies & the Arts |
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| IAP 361 | Digital Editing/Media Literacy |
| IAP 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| IAP 480 | Art as Praxis: Concept to Prod |
| IAP 361 | Digital Editing/Media Literacy |
| IAP 480 | Art as Praxis: Concept to Prod |
| IAP 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| IAP 361 | Digital Editing/Media Literacy |
| IAP 111 | Foundatn Sound, Dig Art, Games |
| IAP 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| IAP 361 | Digital Editing/Media Literacy |
| IAP 421 | Composition: Process/Technique |
| IAP 560 | Composition:Process/Technique |
| IAP 421 | Composition: Process/Technique |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| IAP 103 | Found I: Interdisc Art Pract |
| IAP 361 | Digital Editing/Media Literacy |
| IAP 103 | Found I: Interdisc Art Pract |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| IAP 361 | Digital Editing/Media Literacy |
| IAP 361 | Digital Editing/Media Literacy |