Jessica Tucker (she/they) is an American and Dutch artist, musician, and educator. Through performances, videos, sculptures, and installations, they playfully examine how machine-mediated vision constructs and distorts our experiences of embodiment, selfhood, and desire. Recent projects combine augmented reality, interactive video, and machine learning to visualize other-worldly transformations of the artist's own face and body. They explore cracks in machines as in humans, highlighting our entangled vulnerabilities in solidarity against the paralyzing myths of perfection, progress, and optimization. Jessica is currently conducting new artistic research in Germany through a residency at Scope BLN and at the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie, supported by the Fulbright Germany program. They have performed and exhibited throughout Europe and the USA, including Rewire Festival, FOAM Museum of Photography, Goethe Institut, the Van Gogh Museum, Mana Contemporary, and the International Museum of Surgical Science. In 2023-24, Jessica was a Grant Wood Fellow at the University of Iowa, specializing in interdisciplinary performance using digital media. They have also been supported by the Mondriaan Fonds, Chicago Artists Coalition, Thoma Foundation, and DCASE, among others. Jessica holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has taught video art, digital animation, sound, and new media at the University of Iowa, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago, China Academy of Art, and Gerrit Rietveld Academie.