Nettrice Gaskins

Nettrice Gaskins is a Ph.D. candidate and researcher in "Georgia Tech's Digital Media Program. Her work investigates culturally situated arts-based learning and new media, their invention, and use in underrepresented, creative communities of practice. This includes the use of digital media tools and platforms, and existing cultural art forms. She is a writer/columnist for Art21, the producer of the Peabody award-winning PBS series, Art in the Twenty-First Century. She has other works published online, in a catalog for Ghost Nature: Beyond and Between Transhuman Spaces and in Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader, scheduled to be published by Carnegie Mellon University’s ETC Press. Her essay, Advancing STEM Through Culturally Situated Arts-Based Learning was published in the fall 2013 issue of Media-N. Her panel, Enlightenment, Strange Mathematics and Rhythmic Equations was hosted by The Studio Museum in Harlem. Nettrice received a B.F.A. in Computer Graphics from Pratt Institute and a M.F.A. in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.