Tra Bouscaren serves as Director of eXMeLab (Expanded Media Lab) and as an Assistant Professor in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He earned a BA in Philosophy from Yale University, an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and is ABD towards a PhD in Media Study at SUNY Buffalo. Bouscaren’s work has been featured at Vittorio Manalese (Berlin), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Victor I Fils Gallery (Madrid), San Diego Art Institute (now ICA San Diego), the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), Fort Mason Center for the Arts (San Francisco), the Florida Prize Exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia), and Lincoln Center (NYC), among many other venues. 
Bouscaren has delivered research presentations at Dallas Contemporary, RE: SOURCE International Conference on Media Art, Science and Technology (Venice), the Stony Brook University Conference on Art and Philosophy, the Museum für Naturkünde (Berlin Museum of Natural History), MOCA Tucson, and the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. 

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Statement: 
I am a neo-cave painter. Working with e-waste, salvaged neon, billboards, and rebar pulled from demolition sites, I construct spectacles that critique spectacle culture in its own language. From the ceiling down, I build storms of trash, woven through with surveillance equipment. Live video feeds of installation visitors are algorithmically combined with test patterns and redeployed through a multichannel array, submerging the work in a projection-mapped video bath. By illuminating the installation with the calibrated image of the spectator, the work recalibrates the viewer in relation to the salvaged substrate upon which it is projected.