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Basak Alper is a designer/engineer whose current research interests span information visualization, visualization of social networks, human computer interaction, virtual reality and its perception. Basak received her BA degree in Visual Communication Design from Sabanci University, Istanbul. She holds an MS degree from the same university in Computer Graphics. Currently she is a master's student in Media Arts and Technologies program of University of California Santa Barbara. http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~basakalper/ Ayhan Aytes is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California San Diego, is a Visual Media researcher with a special focus on ethno-cultural interfaces. His recent project, "Remembrance of Media Past," explores various interaction models for alternative cultural representations in digital media, influenced by visual analysis of pre-modern media such as illuminated manuscripts, maps and miniature books. His photography and multimedia works were recently exhibited in a joint project in Istanbul, "Reading the City of Signs: Istanbul: Revealed or Mystified." Rozalinda Borcila was born in 1971 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She currently is an Associate Professor of Sculpture, Performance and Installation at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. recent exhibitions include the Museum of New Art in Detroit (US); Watson Institute at Brown University, Providence (US); Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary (Canada); Vector Gallery, Iasi (Romania), Salon Y Coloquio Internacional De Arte Digital Havanna (Cuba), Public_Media_Space Festival Yerewan (Armenia). http://www.borcila.tk/ Brennon Bortz is a masters composition student at the University of California, Riverside. He is currently studying composition with Renée Coulombe, Paulo Chagas, Tim Labor and Byron Adams. His interests in composition range from intimate, chamber music to cutting edge electro-acoustic and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Jeff Burke has designed, managed or produced performances, new genre art installations and capital projects in eight countries over the last seven years and taught at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design. He is Executive Director of REMAP, the Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance at UCLA, a joint program of the School of Theater, Film and Television and Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is currently focusing on urban public space uses for mobile, embedded and media technologies, including approaches that involve communities in system specification and design. http://remap.ucla.edu/losangeles/ Paulo C. Chagas is Assistant Professor of Composition at the UC Riverside. He has composed more than 100 pieces - ballet music, operas, musical theater works, multimedia works, pieces for orchestra, instrumental and vocal ensembles, electronic and computer music. His theoretical work focuses on subjects such as musical semiotics, cognition, autopoiesis, system theory, philosophy (Wittgenstein), and digital technology. His current research explores the use of body sensors in interactive composition involving sound, image and movement. He is also developing a topology of sound cognition based on the theory of autopoiesis. http://www.music.ucr.edu/people/faculty/chagas/ Youngsuk Chae graduated from Seoul National University in 2000 then came to the United States in 2003 to study music at the graduate level at UC Riverside. Renee Coulombe's works bring together diverse influences and genres, challenging the borders of traditional composition. They range from instrumental and vocal writing to large-scale structured improvisations, multimedia performance art, and interactive/improvisative works utilizing digital technologies. She founded and directs the UCR Free Improvisation Ensemble. http://www.music.ucr.edu/people/faculty/coulombe/index.html Anne-Marie Hansen is an international student, who has an MA in digital media design from Designskolen Kolding, Denmark. During her design studies she collaborated with industrial design and architect students in order to develop concepts for interactive installations such as learning-, information- and playful environments. She did two internships in the Netherlands: One at STEIM (studio for electro-instrumental music), where she studied sound design and sensor mapping. One at Montevideo (Netherlands Media Art Institute), where she studied camera tracking and gesture recognition. She graduated from the design school in 2005 with a collaborative project - an interactive playground that encourages children in the age from 7-11 to play outside using their body. She received a Fulbright grant in order to continue her studies at the MFA program at UCSB, where she is researching performance possibilities and audio/visual system designs in interactive environments.
Garnet Hertz is a Fulbright Scholar, Research Fellow at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and is a doctoral student at the University of California Irvine. He also holds an MFA from the Arts Computation Engineering program at UCI and has completed UCI's Critical Theory Emphasis. His current interests include the history, theory and practice of electro/mechanical art, computing, media theory, digital/internet art and robotics. He has shown his work at several notable international venues including Ars Electronica and SIGGRAPH and is also founder of Dorkbot-Socal, a monthly Los Angeles-based lecture series on electronic art. Popular press about his work is widespread, disseminating through 25 countries including The New York Times, Wired News, I.D. Magazine, The Washington Post, Slashdot, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo, ZDTV and CNN Headline News. http://www.conceptlab.com Robin Hill is a sculptor and Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Davis. Her work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and abroad. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections, as well as in the collections of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection and the Fogg Art Museum. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship in Sculpture, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowships, and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. She is represented by Lennon-Weinberg, Inc. in New York City. Her most recent exhibition there was entitled ¡°Multiplying the Variations¡± and was the subject of an essay in Sculpture Magazine in September 2005: Between the Physical and the Invisible by Denise Carvalho. http://robinhill.ucdavis.edu Pearl Ho is as an engineer designing biomedical instrumentation and devices. She considers her current work as a critical practice of engineering. By using engineering methods in creating artwork, she hopes to introduce self-reflexivity and criticality to the industry. Carol Hobson is a Research Development Officer with the UCLA Art|Science Center and the Art|Global Health Center at UCLA. She has been with the University of California for over 14 years, and has supported the multi-campus research program UC DARnet since 2000. While at UC, Hobson has worked with the UCSD Center for Research in Computing and the Arts; the New Media Arts Initiative of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology; and the UC Digital Arts Research Network, a consortium involving eight UC campuses and their international collaborators. http://crca.ucsd.edu/~chobson/ Byeong Sam Jeon is an electronic artist whose interests include Telematic Culture, Robotics, Data Visualization, Interactive Systems, Post Human Theories and Human Networks & Global Communications. With a BFA in Sculpture from Hongik University, Seoul, Byeong Sam received a MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently a graduate student of Arts Computation Engineering program at UC Irvine. http://www.BSJeon.net Lisa Jevbratt is an artist and an associate professor in the Art Department and the Media Art Technology program at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her primary medium is programming and her work is concerned with collectives and systems, the languages and conditions that generate them, and the exchanges within them. Her projects have been exhibited internationally, in venues such as The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), The New Museum (New York), The Swedish National Public Art Council (Stockholm, Sweden), and the Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). Her work is discussed in numerous books, for example, in ¡°Internet Art¡± by Rachel Greene and ¡°Digital Art¡° by Christiane Paul (Thames and Hudson). Jevbratt also publishes texts on topics related to her work and research, most recently in the anthology ¡°Network Art - Practices and Positions¡± (Routledge). Tim Labor is a composer and sound designer specializing in music composition and sound design for theater and film. He holds a Bmus from Queens University (1987), where his principal teachers included Istvan Anhalt, Bruce Pennycook, and Clifford Crawley, and graduate work at the University of California, San Diego, where his teachers included Roger Reynolds, F. Richard Moore, Rand Steiger, Brian Ferneyhough, and Joji Yuasa. As a film and media composer, Labor has collaborated in composition or sound design for a variety of projects, including computer games ("Everquest", "Re-Elect JFK"), video, dance, and theatre, and several film/video projects. http://www.music.ucr.edu/people/faculty/labor/index.html Sarah Lewison is an artist and writer interested in provoking status quo relations between spectators, producers and raw materials. She has presented interdisciplinary installation, performance and media projects in galleries and public spaces throughout North America, Europe and Tijuana, Mexico. A nomadic corresponding editor for the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Sarah also writes for other independent journals and her recent essay "Tales from the Uni-nursery" will be published in an upcoming book titled "Failure: Idealism and History." http://carbonfarm.us/ Silvia Lindtner is a PhD student in the department of Informatics, University of California Irvine, and holds a Master in Media Technology and Design from the University of Hagenberg, Austria. Before joining UCI she has been working R&D industry in Europe and the US on topics such as proactive health care, mobile computing and collaborative systems. Currently, she is conducting ethnographic research on public play, urban computing and appropriation of public space. Her work has been shown at venues such as the Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Cebit Germany and Telic Arts Exchange Los Angeles. Derek Lomas is a scientist and artist pursuing his MFA at UC San Diego. He received his undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science from Yale University (2003), where he studied the cognitive basis for empathy and music perception. He currently co-directs the Social Movement Laboratory (socialmovement.org) under Natalie Jeremijenko at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Technology (Calit2), supported by the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). Derek Lomas regularly uses non-traditional ethnographic methodologies to explore the aesthetic of common collaborative social processes. His most recent work at ISEA2006, "Memory Columns: San Jose 2006," is a sculptural-performance piece structured as a comparative study of graffiti practices across four different neighborhoods within San Jose, CA. "Real-Time-Lapse" is a video piece using aerial surveillance cameras at an LA gallery opening to provide a self-reflective representation of the crowd's ongoing social interactions at 10x speed. Currently, Derek Lomas is working on "Party of the Year": an abstract animation of social structures, based upon aerial surveillance footage taken at a large party held in a San Diego art gallery. http://www.socialmovement.org Rene T.A. Lysloff is an ethnomusicologist and composer. He has studied and performed the traditional gamelan music of Java for more than twenty-five years, working with renowned artists and ensembles in Yogyakarta, Surakarta, and the region of Banyumas. He composes and performs laptop digital music, often employing principles and timbres from the Javanese gamelan. He is the founder and director of the UCR Javanese Gamelan Ensemble which performs both traditional and contemporary music. http://www.music.ucr.edu/people/faculty/lysloff/index.html Darrin Martin works in a variety of media exploring the fuzzy borders of our mediated perceptions. Most recently his works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, and the Mass Art Film Society. His frequent collaborations with Torsten Zenas Burns have recently screened at the New York Video Festival, Cinematexas in Austin, and the Medical Museion in Copenhagen. http://darrinmartin.com Michael Mateas' research in AI-based art and entertainment combines science, engineering and design into an integrated practice that pushes the boundaries of the conceivable and possible in games and other interactive art forms. He is currently a faculty member in the Computer Science department at UC Santa Cruz, where he is helping to develop a new degree program in Game Engineering and Design. Prior to Santa Cruz, Michael was a faculty member at The Georgia Institute of Technology, where he founded the Experimental Game Lab. With Andrew Stern, Michael released Façade, the world's first AI-based interactive drama in July 2005. Façade has received numerous awards, including top honors at the Slamdance independent game festival (co-located with the Sundance film festival). Michael's current research interests include game AI, particularly character and story AI, ambient intelligence supporting non-task-based social experiences, and dynamic game generation. Michael has presented papers and exhibited artwork internationally including SIGGRAPH, the New York Digital Salon, AAAI, the Game Developers Conference, ISEA, AIIDE, the Carnegie Museum, and Te PaPa, the national museum of New Zealand. Michael received his BS in Engineering Physics from the University of the Pacific, his MS in Computer Science (emphasis in Human-Computer Interaction) from Portland State University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Michael Neff is an assistant professor at UC Davis, cross-appointed to Technocultural Studies and Computer Science. His position is meant to serve as a bridge between the arts and technical communities on campus. Sam Nichols teaches music theory at the University of California, Davis. He studied guitar with Terry Champlin at Vassar College, and recently received his Ph.D. in composition and theory at Brandeis University. He has studied composition with Ross Bauer, Eric Chasalow, Annea Lockwood, David Rakowski, Richard Wilson and Yehudi Wyner. His recent projects include a clarinet quintet commissioned by the Wellesley Composers Conference and the composition for the sound component in a 2006 collaborative work by Robin Hill and Steve Kaltenbach, ¡°Say It Back¡±. For ¡°Kardex¡± Nichols filtered Hill¡¯s chosen recordings using a variety of digital signal processors, and then linked the Kardex cabinet¡¯s physical files to the manipulated sound files using Max/MSP, a powerful and flexible software application. Greg Niemeyer Born in Switzerland in 1967, Greg Niemeyer studied Classics and Photography. He started working with new media when he arrived in the Bay Area in 1992 and he received his MFA from Stanford University in New Media in 1997. At the same time, he founded the Stanford University Digital Art Center, which he directed until 2001, when he was appointed at UC Berkeley as Assistant Professor for New Media. At UC Berkeley, he is involved in the development of the Center for New Media, focusing on the critical analysis of the impact of new media on human experiences. His creative work focuses on the mediation between humans as individuals and humans as a collective through technological means, and emphasizes playful responses to technology. Christopher O'Leary is an artist whose work explores the relationship between our physical natures and our frenetic culture. These themes are expressed through photographic images (moving or still) within linear and nonlinear artworks. Installation, performance and interaction take part in his current research. http://users.design.ucla.edu/~oleary/Scarlett.html Ed Osborn is a sound and media artist who works in sculpture, installation, video, performance, and public site formats. He has exhibited extensively in Europe, Australia, and North America and has received many awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a residency in the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. He is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department and the Digital Arts and New Media Program at UC Santa Cruz. http://www.roving.net no.e Parker: Experimental electronic musician, and a founding member of the San Francisco Bay Area based multi-media event production collective, SPAZ since 1992. saKAna has DJayed and played her own flavor of live improvised electronic music in venues across Europe, Japan, Indonesia, and most major cities in the United States. Currently a second year Digital Art and New Media MFA Candidate, her thesis work explores weaving aspects of traditional Indonesian gamelan music, experimental digital video, electronic musical genres such as DJing, soundscape, and other non-linear musical forms. http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/no.e Cynthia Payne is an MFA candidate in Digital Arts New Media (DANM) at UC Santa Cruz. She is focusing on telematic music improvisations as a forerunner in the continuum of experimental music. Cynthia is currently developing a web presence for the collection and discourse of telematic music improvisations. http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/Synthia Simon Penny has been building interactive/machine installations involving custom hardware and software for 20 years. He is Professor of Art and Engineering at UCI and founder of the Arts Computation Engineering graduate program. http://www.ace.uci.edu/penny. Paula Poole holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from the California College of Art, a Master of Fine Arts from San Jose State University and a Single Subject, Art Secondary Education California Teaching Credential. http://www.paintersflat.net Sapto Raharjo: Sapto is an active electro-acoustic artist who works with computers and traditional gamelan sounds. He is the Organizer / Project Director of the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, the Coordinator of Komunitas Gayam16, a community for cultural activity in Yogyakarta, Java, and has been an artist in residence and gamelan teacher with the UC Riverside Gamelan Ensemble in Spring 2006. http://gayam16.net/sr/ Casey Reas is an artist and educator living and working in Los Angeles. His work employs ideas explored in conceptual and minimal artworks as focused through software. He exhibits, performs, and lectures in the US, Asia, and Europe. As an associate professor in the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA, and is a UC DARnet representative on campus. Reas interacts with undergraduate and graduate students. His classes provide a foundation for thinking about software as a medium for visual exploration. http://processing.org Shadi Shariat is a graduate student at University of California, Irvine, pursuing a Master¡¯s degree in the Arts, Computing, and Engineering program (ACE). As an interdisciplinary practitioner with a background in Information and Computer Science, she is interested in examining the possibilities and limitations of digital media and technology as a means to address social, cultural, political, and economical issues. Kazumi Slott is a PhD student in computer science at UC Riverside. For her dissertation, she is planning to do research on how to search for music in a database. Wesley Smith is a video artist and programmer. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara's Media Arts and Technology program, researching the technical and artistic aspects of realtime audiovisual performances and environments. He also works for Cycling '74 on Jitter and has built a substantial set of extensions to Jitter over the past year and a half called xray.jit. http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~whsmith Brett Stalbaum holds an MFA from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University, and a BA in Film Studies from San Francisco State University, and currently teaches in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego, where he is the coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major (ICAM). http://visarts.ucsd.edu/node/view/491/46 Jacqueline Stevens is an Associate Professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She coordinates agoraXchange and writes about how laws create hereditary membership groups that seem to be natural. She is the author of Reproducing the State (Princeton, 1999) and ¡°States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals,¡± under review. http://www.jacquelinestevens.org Frederico Fialho Teixeira¡¯s research interest lies in the area of morphogenetic architecture, and Neo-Hybrid spaces. Within this field of studies, he centers his research in systems with emergent/evergent spatial characteristics, and the connection of its systems with the networks of the receptacles. Presently, he is pursuing his PhD degree as a member of the Media Arts and Technology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds a BA in Architecture and Urbanism, an MA in History of Architecture, and recently he earned a MArch from the Design Research Lab at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~frederico/ Lisa Tucker is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, who works both independently and collaboratively, currently in the area of biotech art. Recent collaborations include Food Forever, an installation exhibited in the UCI Art Gallery and an upcoming symposium interrogating food production and consumption. Graham Wakefield is a composer, media artist and software developer with a research focus in electronic music with visual interaction. He is currently a PhD candidate in Media Arts and Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds a Masters in Composition from Goldsmiths College, University of London. http://www.grahamwakefield.net Angela Willcock is from Australia and moved to the West Coast, 2.5 years ago via Atlanta Georgia. She is obsessed with art and how Art functions in society today. She has been tackling issues such as Disabled access to Art as Technology, Illegal Immigration and Language misidentification and presently the medical term Precocious Puberty. She has exhibited in Spaces Lab Columbus Ohio, 7 Deadly Sins - digital animations, 2005. The High Museum of Art – Thraxpat – installation, 2002, and will be exhibiting at Ruby Green Foundation, Nashville Tennessee, Bang Bang – an interactive installation in 2007. Willcock is presently in her 2nd year at the ACE program at the University of California Irvine. http://www.awillcocks.com/ Julie Wyman makes film/video/performance work that investigates, interrogates, and reinvents the body as a site of visceral experience and an index of social categorization. Her work latest film, Buoyant, (2004) recently screened in Taiwan, Finland, and at New York¡¯s MoMA, and her feature A Boy Named Sue aired nationally on the Showtime network. She holds an MFA from UC San Diego¡¯s Visual Arts program. http://www.iamjuliewyman.net/ |
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