Lunch on Fridays: Belinda Haikes

Belinda Haikes is a South African born, Canadian-raised, Philadelphia-based artist, printmaker and designer who creates conceptually driven projects that examine digital and social relationships. She is a member of the experimental sound and multi-media ensemble group, Pilottone, as well as the Video-Gang Collective. Recent exhibitions include the Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, The Los Angeles Center for the Digital Art, Village Nomad, France, Digital Fringe, Australia, the Weatherspoon Museum, North Carolina and with Pilottone in the New Museum's Flash:Light Festival, New York.

She studied Printmaking as an undergraduate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and went on to earn an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Printmaking. She is currently putting the finishing touches on her dissertation for a Phd, in Media Art and Text from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her writings have appeared in HZ Journal, and the New Media Caucus Journal.

Belinda is currently Assistant Professor of Art at West Chester University building the interaction design courses. She also runs two blogs, Life, the Universe and Art an artist interview blog and I Love Mark Making, a studio blog.

Website: http://www.belindahaikes.com/