Virtual Dance Collection™ Media Manager
B.S. Electronic Media Communications
M.F.A. Dance and Technology, The Ohio State University

Ms. Cavender is a screendance artist and specialist in the merger of dance and technology. First a dancer, Ms. Cavender has spent the last decade studying dance through the camera lens honing the craft of mediating the moving body at the intersections of performance, motion research, and visual art. Her research focuses on the posthuman body, its augmentations with technology, networked intelligence, and cyborg performance. Jess teaches performance documentation, creative and documentary filmmaking, technical lighting and sound, image and video editing, intermedia performance production, media and communication theories, and theories and philosophies of the body. She has been with the VDC™ project team since August 2016, has edited all film and assisted with the design of the website.