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

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. Misty Upham’s presence on screen always held a certain weight — not flashy, not loud. Just quietly insistent. Born July 6, 1982, in Kalispell,