Ava Porter is a photographer, installation artist, experimental filmmaker and UCSD MFA student in Visual Arts (Class of ’15). She has worked in film for over 10 years. Her art attempts to analyze the overlooked influences and exploited bystanders of Western popular (entertainment, religious, and war) culture, vis-a-vis the history of aggression and theories of embodied cognition. To reinforce her content, she usually presents film and photographic works as large-scale installations, through which viewers must walk and therefore acknowledge their own physicality. Recent examples include Ima and The Vessel, which both investigate the contemporary role of the adult woman in modern society as seen through its traditional, religious precursors. Yvette Jackson has worked in theatre, radio drama, film, and other media for over 13 years. She earned a BA in Music from Columbia University, an MA in ’13 from UC San Diego, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Music-Integrative Studies, also at UCSD (expected in 2016). Her current projects bridge her experience in sound design and composition with her academic interests in critical musicology and ethnomusicology. The result is the creation of long-form compositions that draw from history and examine relevant social issues. This was exemplified in two performances in the Conrad Prebys Music Center Concert Hall: Vernaculus I, performed by the Mark Dresser Bass Ensemble in Winter 2012 and Vernaculus II, performed by the Improvisation Ensemble of Anthony Davis during Spring 2012. Both works are sonic expressions of the catastrophic Middle Passage of Africans to the Americas. In 2013, these concepts were expanded with text-sound composition, musique concrete, and electronic techniques and performed-as-tape pieces in a complete blackout in the CPMC Experimental Theater. These were early prototypes of Invisible People (A Radio Opera), and the final UCSD performance integrated video and live trumpet.