Profiles in Thought — Lives Behind the Conversations

Mara Mills: Where Technology Hears Differently

The interview is currently unavailable. Below is a detailed biography of the artist. Stay tuned to FigureGround.org — we’ll let you know if the original interview becomes available. There’s something about how Mara Mills listens that feels… not disruptive, exactly. Just precise in a way that makes everything else feel fuzzy by

Noam Chomsky: Language, Power, and the Reluctant Voice

The interview is currently unavailable. Below is a detailed biography of the artist. Stay tuned to FigureGround.org — we’ll let you know if the original interview becomes available. Noam Chomsky’s name has long outgrown disciplinary borders. Some know him as the founder of modern linguistics. Others, as a relentless critic of American

Catherine Malabou: Forms That Refuse to Stay Still

The interview is currently unavailable. Below is a detailed biography of the artist. Stay tuned to FigureGround.org — we’ll let you know if the original interview becomes available. Catherine Malabou never positioned herself as a “disruptor.” Yet she has quietly rewritten how 21st-century philosophy speaks about form, structure — and what resists

Sharon Butler: Slow Thinking on Canvas

The interview is currently unavailable. Below is a detailed biography of the artist. Stay tuned to FigureGround.org — we’ll let you know if the original interview becomes available. There’s something about how Sharon Butler works that resists being pinned down. Not vague — just slower than expected. Born in 1959, she grew

Misty Upham: Beyond the Frame

Misty Upham’s presence on screen always held a certain weight — not flashy, not loud. Just quietly insistent. Born July 6, 1982, in Kalispell, Montana, and raised near Seattle in the Blackfeet Nation community, Upham’s early years were marked by what she later called “a constant negotiation between survival and art.” That