Ruth West is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher working with emerging technologies. She envisions a future in which art-science integration allows us to open new portals of imagination, knowledge and communication across cultures and create solutions for our most pressing global problems. Ruth explores avenues for achieving works with multiple entry points that can exist concurrently as aesthetic experiences, artistic practice or cultural interventions and serve as the basis for artistically-impelled scientific inquiry and tools. Ruth is an associate professor at the University of North Texas, and director of the xREZ Art-Science lab. She is cross-appointed in the College of Visual Arts and Design / New Media, College of Information / Library and Information Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences / Biological Sciences, College of Engineering / Computer Science and the iARTA research cluster. Her work has been presented internationally in both arts venues and scientific forums.