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Warren Sack is a software designer and media theorist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. He is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz and earned a B.A. from Yale College and an S.M. and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory. Warren's writings on new media and computer science have been published widely and his art work has been shown at the ZKM|Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the artport of the Whitney Museum of American Art; and, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. |
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Troy Allman is a digital artist and media theorist residing in San Francisco. A background in computer engineering in combination with his practice as social critic inspires his use of digital technology as artistic medium. A fascination with systems and spaces fuel his work, which includes social commentary through interactive installation. |
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Lola Elfman springboarded her political career in 2003 as the official campaign photographer and web manager in the Democratic U.S. Senate Primary contest in Illinois, where she has her own artistic and political family ties. She went on to serve as the Internet Director for Phil Angelides' campaign for Governor from 2004-2006 in her home state of California. Lola is a member of the inaugural class of the New Organizing Institute (NOI), which trains progressive organizations in online organizing technologies and strategies. Lola continues to work with NOI to organize state-based trainings and the wildly successful 'un-conference' RootsCamp. Prior to working with NOI, Lola was part of M+R Strategic Services' eCampaigns team helping non-profit organizations plan and implement online advocacy and fundraising campaigns. Before entering into the political sphere, Lola was an art teacher and photographer with a passion for creative education and social change. She is a graduate of Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is currently in the Social Documentation Graduate Studies program at UC Santa Cruz. |
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Miki Foster is a queer hapa multimedia artist from Seattle, Washington. She is a maker of comics, zines, small crafted things, installations and experimental documentaries. Both her work as an artist and as an activist revolve around issues of sexual and domestic violence, prison abolition and queer and homeless youth outreach. She received her Bachelors of Arts at the Evergreen State College with an emphasis in Film and Gender and Race Studies. She is currently in her second year in the Digital Arts New Media MFA program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her current work and MFA thesis collapses DIY crafting and radical feminism and queer theory through the creation of feminist video tutorials and electronic crafting materials. . |
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The work of G. Craig Hobbs addresses themes at the intersection of nature, culture, and technology in the mediums of video, sound, and interactive programming. Hobbs' research focuses on issues of embodiment and collaborative affect in new media art and popular culture. His current work explores the use of metadata tagging, infrared computer vision, and open-source software in the creation of his thesis installation kwpe/ In Situ Δ the embodied search. Hobbs holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts, and is currently an MFA student in the Digital Arts and New Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. |
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Josh McVeigh-Schultz is an artist, scholar, and experimental documentary filmmaker whose work plays between the boundaries of documentary and performative genres. In both practice and scholarship he explores the kinds of ruptures that occur when voices of intimacy interject themselves into more public or professional spaces. He is currently developing a collaborative interview tool as a way of re-imagining the traditional one-to-one interview structure. He also holds an MA in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley, where his thesis focused on testimony and identity management in the Japanese social networking site: mixi. He is also an experimental documentary filmmaker whose work examines "voice" and identity in restaurant work, bathroom graffiti, death, and bilingualism. |
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Nada Miljkovic is an artist researching and developing new forms of interactive cinematic imagery in the virtual realm and real-time. She works in many forms of media from video, radio and net-art. She is currently working on an interactive performance and video piece that searches for identity through musical traditions. Her work focuses upon engaging people in way that inspires understanding and tolerance across socially diverse cultures. |
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Laila Shereen Sakr (VJ Um Amel) works with ideas and methodologies of information architecture and visualization. Her current project, R-Shief is is an entrepreneurial initiative that provides an archive that invites is users into new forms of participation on issues relevant to a 21st century, transnational public migrating to and from the Arab world. |
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Roopesh Sitharan's current project titled "The great NON-MALAYSIAN portrait" is a site-specific, interactive installation that captures and transforms the shadow of an audience into an object of display. By inviting active participation of the viewer in the presentation of the artwork, the artist questions the formal environment of an exhibition space, shaped by the cultural history of the West. Using the methodologies of exhibition-making as a tool for the creation of the piece, the installation (as artwork and exhibition) models non-western aesthetic theory by framing the unification of an artist, curator and audience through the method of display. |