AMELIA AMON
Amelia Amon is an industrial designer who combines simplicity and grace of
form with technical detailing of energy systems, in a variety of products
and site-specific projects. Her work includes a garden fountain with curved
photo-voltaic panels for the National Design Museum, a solar freezer cart
for Ben & Jerry's, a solar waterfall in a community park in the Bronx, and
a solar streetlight for Northern climes. She organized programs and
newsletters on environmental and justice concerns as co-founder of the NY
Chapter of the O2 International Designer's Network and Chair of the NY
Chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America.
amon@together.net
242 East 19th St, NYC, NY 10003
212 260 0806; fx 260 2315
ROBERT ATKINS
Robert Atkins is Editor in Chief of the Arts Technology Entertainment
Network, which produces arts programs for TV and the Net, as well as the
founding-editor of TalkBack! A Forum for Critical Discourse, the first
American journal about online art (http://talkback.lehman.cuny.edu/tb). A
former columnist for the Village Voice, he is the author of the bestselling
ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords, now
available in its second edition, and the companion modern art guide,
ArtSpoke. He is currently writing The Gay and Lesbian Looker: How Queer Artists Revolutionized Art at the End of the 20th Century.
ratkins@idt.net(Robert Atkins)
http://talkback/lehman.cuny.edu/tb
GREG BLONDER
Greg Blonder is Vice President of the Customer Expectations Research
Laboratory at AT&T Labs, Florham Park, New Jersey. Mr. Blonder joined AT&T
in 1982 with a Ph.D in Physics from Harvard University, studying
superconductivity and the quantum phenomena of semiconductor materials.
Much of this research has resulted in practical applications and he holds
over 50 patents in the areas of optical disk recording, integrated fiber
optic devices, displays, computer systems and improved user interfaces.
Mr. Blonder's current research is split between defining compelling new
services and creating new classes of consumer electronics devices. Greg
almost majored in architecture while attending MIT as an undergraduate, and
still harbors an occasional artistic burst of inspiration. Nothing serious, though.
WENDY BRAWER
Wendy E. Brawer is a eco-designer with an artist's background. Since 1990,
her company, Modern World Design, has created services, systems and
products that promote ecological stewardship, including the Green Apple Map
of NYC's green sites, which inspired the Green Map System, a global
collaboration that Brawer directs. Wendy was the 1997 Designer in Residence
at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and
is past chair of the Industrial Designers Society of America's enviro-committee (1993-95), and O2 NYC (1996). She has created collaborative works since the early 80s. Email: web@greenmap.com, website: http://www.greenmap.com.
RED BURNS
Red Burns is the chair of the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the
Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, a pioneering graduate center
for the study and design of new communications media forms and applications.
The program emphasizes the user's creativity rather than the machine. In
1971 Professor Red Burns founded the Alternate Media Center, a research adn
implementation center for new technologies at the Tisch School of the Arts.
During the 1970's and 1980's she designed and directed a series of projects
including: a two-way television system for and by senior citizens;
telecommunications applications to serve the Developmentally Disabled; and
one of the first field trials of Teletext in the United States. This work
led to the development of the Interactive Telecommunications Program in 1979.
The Interactive Telecommunications Program is internationally recognized as
a unique and vital contributor of new ideas and of talented individuals to
the emerging professional world of multimedia and telecommunications.
GEORGE CHAIKIN
George Chaikin is an artist, architect, and geometer. His work involves the
generation of curves, modeling of the visual system, environmental remote
sensing, and their applications to architecture and regional planning as well
as computer graphics and image processing. His work on curves ("Chaikin's Algorithm") has had wide impact on CAD,
computational geometry, and digital typography. With Carl Weiman, he created
a mathematical model of the global structure of the human visual system
("Complex Logarithmic Mapping"). Organizing the early Computer Art Festivals
at The Kitchen in the 1970's, he participates today in the artist
collaboratives Plexus and Ocean Earth. He is Assistant Professor of Art and
Mathematics at Lehman College and Associate Professor Adjunct of Architecture
at The Cooper Union.
ASHOK DHINGRA
Ashok Dhingra obtained his BS in Mathematics, Physics,
BE in Mechanical Engineering in India. He obtained his MS and
D.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from Washington
University, St. Louis, USA in 1969 and began his duPont career
as Research Engineer in the Pioneering Research Laboratory at the
Experimental Station in 1970. He has held several technical,
management and staff positions at DuPont including Chief of
Advanced Materials, Technology Consultant, and is currently
Director of Corporate India - ASEAN Technology Office and
Research Fellow in DuPont Research and Development.
Dr. Dhingra holds five pioneering patents in the area of
Composite Materials Technology, and has presented numerous
technical papers at National/International meetings and published
over 85 papers including articles on "Engineering Fiber"
He is the co-editor of five books on advanced materials, including
"New Composite Materials and Technology" and "Cast
Reinforced Metal Composites".
LAURA DI LAURENZIO
Laura Di Laurenzio is a Research Scientist at the New York Botanical
Garden in the Molecular Systematics laboratory where her research
spans the fields of Developmental Biology and Molecular Systematics.
Her major interests focus mainly on developmental issues. In
particular, she has been investigating the evolution of processes such
as flower formation. Following completion of her doctorate in
Chemistry from the University of Rome, she received a Scholarship from
the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research to obtain a Ph.D.
in Biochemistry at the University of Alberta, Canada. From 1992-1996,
Dr. Di Laurenzio completed a post-doctoral fellowship and was
awarded the Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship while at New
York University, studying Molecular Genetics of root development in
Arabidopsis thaliana. Born and bred in Rome, the eternal city
beautified by the genius of Michelangelo and Bernini, Dr. Di Laurenzio
understands the intimate connection between Art and Science.
MICHELE OKA DONER
For artist, Michele Oka Doner, botany inspires and materializes in her work
in more ways than one. One extraordinary example was her growing the
materials for a public sculpture commission via an ocean accretion process.
For thirty years, she has crossed disciplines and media to produce
sculpture, jewelry, and furniture that has been included in exhibitions at
the Cooper-Hewitt, Metropolitan, and Guggenheim Museums in New York. She
is well-known for her monumental public works which have recently included:
a 150' long commission for Herald Square Subway complex in NYC; a work
entitled, "Flight" at the National Airport in Washington, D.C.; and the
celebrated 22,000 sq.ft. floor of Concourse A at the Miami International
Airport.
GREER GILMAN
Greer Gilman's first novel, _Moonwise_, won the Crawford Award, given by
the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. It was
shortlisted for the Tiptree Award, for speculative fiction exploring
gender roles. _Moonwise_ was also nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy
Award, given for a book written "in the spirit of the Inklings," the
Oxford group of fantasists including Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Ms. Gilman
was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award as the best new SF writer of
>1991. _Women of Other Worlds_, forthcoming from Duke University Press,
will reprint her poem, "She Undoes." Her latest story, "Jack Daw's
Pack,"
will appear in _Century_. Ms. Gillman is a graduate of Wellesley College and
Cambridge University, where she studied on a Scudder Fellowship, and is a
sometime forensic librarian for Harvard University.
Address: 1572 Massachusetts Avenue -Apt. 44, Cambridge, MA 02138;
gigilman@fas.harvard.edu
ELIZABETH GOLDRING
Elizabeth Goldring is a poet, media artist and Senior Fellow at MIT's
Center for Advanced Visual Studies. She has collaborated with artists,
scientists, engineers and physicians to visualize her vision loss,
resulting in videotapes and interactive media installations. The current
focus of these ongoing collaborations is to create a visual language and
internet-based interactive visual expericences / communication for people
who are blind, adapting the scanning laser ophthalmoscope as a "seeing
machine".
While Exhibits and Projects Director at CAVS / MIT Goldring co-directed
four international Sky Art Conferences with Otto Piene and organized,
participated in, and documented group Art-Science_Technology exhibitions
and events. Two collections of her poetry have been published: LASER
TREATMENT (Boston: Blue Giant Press, l983) and WITHOUT WARNING (Kansas City: BkMk Press and Helicon Nine Editions, 1995).
goldring@mit.edu Voice: MIT (617) 253-4517
CYNTHIA GOODMAN
Cynthia Goodman is the former Director of the IBM Gallery of Science and
Art, New York, where she organized the landmark Computers and Art
exhibition in 1988. Goodman was most recently co-director with Nam June
Paik of the InfoART Pavilion at the '95 Kwangju Biennale in Korea. A world
authority on digital art which she has been championing since the early
nineteen-eighties, Goodman's book, Digital Visions: Computers and Art,
serves as a textbook in the field. Also active in the field of museum
automation, she participated in the John Paul Getty Trust Museum Prototype
Project in the mid-nineteen-eighties as a Research Associate at the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
She is currently organizing a major traveling exhibition of interactive art
for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, producing videotape documentaries and
multimedia as Director of Exhibit Technologies at Rutt Video Interactive,
New York.
Cynthia Goodman
Creative Director and Producer, Exhibits and Atractions
Millennium Monument
403 York Street, Newport, Ky. 41071
ph- 606-655-9500; fax 606-655-9577; cgood5474@aol.com
RON GRAHAM
Ron Graham received a Ph.D, Mathematics, University of California (Berkeley),
M. A., Mathematics, University of California (Berkeley), a B. S., Physics,
University of Alaska (Fairbanks).
>From 1996 to present he holds the position as Chief Scientist at AT&T Labs
and since1986 he has been a University Professor of Mathematical Sciences,
at Rutgers University. A selection of his professional activities
include:American Mathematical Society: President (1993-1995),Board of
Trustees, Council, Executive Committee, National Academy of Sciences,
Treasurer (7/1/96--7/1/00), Chair, Class I, New York Academy of Sciences,
Board of Governors, President's Council andMathematics Advisory Board,
American Association of the Advancement of Science, Scientific Program
Committee, Mathematics Section (Chair and Secretary)
Mathematical Association of America: First Vice President, Executive
Committee National Research Council, Mathematical Sciences Education Board,
Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics
Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences, Executive Committee, Council;
Joint Policy Board on Mathematics, and the U.S. National Committee on
Mathematics, to name a few.
His current mathematical interests include combinatorics, number theory,
graph theory, discrete and computational geometry, theoretical computer
science, and applications thereof and is on the editorial Boards of
publications of these numerous fields.
ROBERT M. GREENBERG
Robert M. Greenberg is Chairman and CEO of R/GA Digital Studios, a design
and production company well known for pioneering new media and the creative
integration of film, video and computer-imaging techniques. Bob has forged a
unique interdisciplinary approach to media, and along the way has won almost
every industry award for creativity, including the Academy Award, Clios and
Cannes Lions.
For his achievements in imaging innovation, Bob was been presented with
numerous awards and honors, including an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree
from The University of the Arts/Philadelphia College of Art, the prestigious
Fuji Medal, conferred by unanimous vote of the Society of Motion Picture &
Television Engineers' Board of Governors, the New York City Mayor's Crystal
Apple Award for his achievements in film and advertising and the 1995
Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design.
Contact info:
Robert M. Greenberg http://www.rga.com
R/GA Digital Studios
350 West 39th Street,New York, NY 10018
Voice: (212) 946-4000; fax: (212) 946-4149
JAN HAWKINS
Jan Hawkins is Vice President of Education Development Center and Director
of the Center for Children and Technology (CCT). CCT is a research and
development group that has focused on desiging, understanding, and
implementing a variety of technologies for innovation in education. The
Center is located in New York City. With a background in psychology, Dr.
Hawkins has conducted a variety of studies and projects with schools,
teachers, students, and informal learning settings such as homes and museums.
The overall goal is effective use of technologies in roles that help to
solve the difficult problems of teaching and learning both nationally and
internationally.
STARR ROXANNE HILTZ
Starr Roxanne Hiltz is currently Distinguished Professor of Computer and
Information Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a
sometimes choreographer and dancer. She has spent most of the last fifteen years
engaged in research on applications and social impacts
of computer technology. Her research interests include educational applications of
computer-mediated communications. In particular, with major funding from
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
she has created and experimented with a Virtual Classroom [TM] for delivery
of college-level courses. This is a teaching and learning environment
which is constructed, not of bricks and boards, but of software
structures within a computer-mediated communication system. A prolific
writer, her publications include six books and over 150 articles and professional
papers.
http://eies.njit.edu/~hiltz
CHUCK HOBERMAN
Chuck Hoberman is an inventor of "Unfolding Structures" - objects that
transform their size and shape. He holds five patents in this area. His
unique folding methods have been developed for uses ranging from miniature
surgical tools to retractable stadium roofs. His work has been exhibited in
museums such as Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, New
York; the Liberty Science Center, Liberty State Park, NJ; Technorama der
Schweiz, Switzerland; and the California Museum of Science and Industry, Los
Angeles, CA.
His recent and ongoing projects include design
and production of
toys, tents, emergency shelters, folding houses, and portable theaters. For
all of these varied uses, he makes structures that transform fluidly and
completely.
DON IHDE
Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SUNY-Stony Brook. His
primary areas of interest lie at the intersection of philosophy of technology
and philosophy of science. He is known as one of the pioneers in the North
American philosophy of technology and is author of the first English language
book on this topic, TECHNICS AND PRAXIS: A PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY (Reidel, l979).
He has subsequently published five more books extending the results of
the first: EXISTENTIAL TECHNICS (SUNY, l983), TECHNOLOGY AND THE LIFEWORLD
(Indiana, l990), INSTRUMENTAL REALISM (Indiana, l991), PHILOSOPHY OF
TECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION (Paragon, l993), and forthcoming,
EXPANDING HERMENEUTICS: VISUALISM IN SCIENCE (Northwestern, l998).
Particular interests have included scientific instrumentation, the
impact of technologies upon multiple cultures, and, most recently,
imaging technologies.
dihde@ccmail.sunysb.edu
AMY IONE
Amy Ione (MA) is a practicing artist and has internationally published and
presented her work on the theory and practice of art and science. Recently
she served as a consultant to the San Francisco Exploratorium Museum for
"Our Bodies, Our Facsimiles", an exhibition scheduled to open in the year
2000. In 1985 she was commissioned by the City of San Francisco to create
the poster/publication illustration for San Francisco's 40th annual arts
festival. Her background includes teaching the History of Science at John F.
Kennedy University and gallery, museum, and conference exhibitions of her
paintings throughout the world.
ione@lanminds.com
http://users.lmi.net/~ione.
CHRISTOPHER JANNEY
Christopher Janney, a sound artist, was born in 1950 and educated at
Princeton and M.I.T. A knowledge of architecture and a background as a jazz
musician prepared him to create his large-scale, interactive sound
environments. These environments are a synthesis of elements which combine
public spaces, certain "laws" of harmony, and a participatory nature based on
jazz improvisation. He has created temporary installations in public sapces
and has built special musical environments to bring participatory music into
the streets, making it an integral part of daily life. Current projects
include: "Media Glockenspiel," East Carolina University, N.C., "Chromatic
Oasis," for the Sacramento Airport, CA, as well as a Spring tour of his
"Heartbeats" performance featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov. Other
installations include "Inside Rhythms," Joyce Theater, NYC; Symphony Space, NYC;
"Soundstair," Piazzi diSpagna, Rome; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, and
"Harmonic Runway," Miami International Airport, Miami, FL.
DAVID KATZIVE
Since 1987 David Katzive has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of
Humanities at Cooper Union, and President of the Visual Technology Group,
the new media and broadcast division of Ruder Finn.
At Cooper Union, he teaches a course on Art and Technology to architecture,
art and engineering students. The course focuses on 20th Century art and
guides students towards a better understanding of the positive and negative
critical attitudes towards technology-based art forms. At Ruder Finn, he
matches visual technologies to the needs of corporations or institutions.
For MTV, Levi's, and Swatch he has created interactive displays; for the
Jason Foundation, live television feeds from erupting volcanoes and rain
forest canopies. Currently, he is completing a series of CD-ROMs on
careers in science
and engineering.
BILLY KLUVER
Billy Kluver was born in Monaco in 1927. He graduated from the Royal
Insitute of Technology, Stockholm, and received his Ph.D in Electrical
Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1958 to 1968
he worked as a scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories, in Murry Hill NJ. He
has published numerous technical and scientific papers and holds 10 patents.
He worked for several years with individual artists like Jean Tinguely,
Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Yvonne Rainer, and John Cage. In 1966, he
Fred Waldhauer, Rauschenberg, and Robert Whitman founded Experiments in Art
and Technology, an influential foundation that provides artists with access
to new technology and has carried out more tha 40 collaborative projects
world-wide. He is co-author with Julie Martin of Kiki's Paris, a history of
the Montparnasse art community from 1880 to 1930, co-editor of Kiki's
Memoirs, and author of ¨MDIT A Day with Picasso¨MDNM published in 1997 by MIT
Press.
Kluverb@aol.com
KEN KNOWLTON
For thirty-five years, Ken Knowlton has done research and development of
programming methods for computer graphics and person-machine interaction
(20 for Bell Labs, 8 at Wang Labs). He wears many hats: computer
scientist, writer, speaker, teacher, inventor, artist, consultant, critic,
and expert witness. His graphics works have been exhibited in many books,
magazines, shows, and museums. His writing includes: forty technical
papers, six book chapters published, and eighteen U.S. patents, six pending. Art & technology collaborations have been with: Leon Harmon,
Stan VanderBeek, Lillian Schwartz, Emmanuel Ghent, Laurie Spiegel. Recent
solo artwork includes mosaic portraits made of type fonts and dominoes, and
a series of "American Icon" seashell mosaic portraits.
MARY LUCIER
Mary Lucier was born in 1944. She attended Brandeis University receiving her
BA with honors in 1965. She moved to New York in 1974 where she has lived
and worked since. Lucier has made work in many mediums, including
sculpture, photography, and performance, but has concentrated primarily on
video installation since 1973, producing over forty-five major pieces in that
time. Her work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries,
alternative spaces and festivals and is represented in public and private
collections. In the past 24 years, Lucier has been the recipient of
grants, awards, and commissions from public and private foundations. She
is a Guggenheim Fellow and was recently awarded a $25,000 grant from
Anonymous Was A Woman. Her work since 1971 will be the subject of a
forthcoming book from Johns Hopkins University Press. She is currently
engaged in several new projects concerned with issues of technology,
obsolescence, and false notions of utopia.
marylucier@aol.com, or FAX to 212-255-4947
ROGER F. MALINA
Roger F. Malina is an astronomer; he is Director of the NASA Extreme
Ultraviolet Explorer Observatory, and also Director of the Laboratoire
D"Astronomie Spatiale in Marseille, France. He is a member of the
International Academy of Astronautics and co-chair of their Committee on
Space Activities and Society. Since 1981 he has been Chairman of the
International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology and editor in
chief of their scholarly journal, Leonardo, published by MIT Press. He is
currently helping organise a workshop on "Space Art- Earth Art" involving
artists and scientists involved in space exploration and in environmental
issues. He is also working on the Virtual Africa project.
leo@mitpress.mit.edu
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/home.html
TOD MACHOVER
Tod Machover is widely considered one of the most important and influential
composers of his generation, and has been highly praised for music that
boldly breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries, offering a unique
and innovative synthesis of acoustic and electronic sound, of symphony
orchestras and interactive computers, of operatic arias and rock songs, and
consistently delivers serious and powerful messages in an accessible and
immediate way.
After receiving degrees at the Juilliard School where he studied
with
Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions, Machover was Director of Musical Research
at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM institute in Paris (1978-85). Since 1985, he has
been Professor of Music & Media, Head of the Music Group, and, since 1995,
Co-Director of the Things That Think consortium at the MIT Media Lab.
tod@media.mit.edu email
CARL MACHOVER
Carl Machover,a computer graphics pioneer and graphics evangelist is
president of Machover Associates Corp(MAC), a computer graphics consultancy
he founded in 1976,which provides a broad range of management, engineering,
marketing, and financial services worldwide to computer graphics users,
suppliers, and investors.
Machover is also an Adjunct Professor at RPI, president of ASCI,
past-president of NCGA, SID, and Computer Graphics Pioneers, on the editorial
boards of many industry publications ,writes and lectures world-wide on all
aspects of computer graphics, and was guest editor of special computer
graphics art issues of Computer and Graphics and the IEEE Computer Graphics
and Applications, Machover received the North Carolina State University,
Orthogonal Award , the NCGA Vanguard Award, .and was was inducted into the
FAMLI Computer Graphics Hall of Fame.
cmachover@aol.com
http://gwol.org/companies/comp0192.html
MERYL MEISLER
Meryl Meisler is a multimedia artist and public school teacher whose
work is inspired by surreal and conflicting images of the underwater
world and urban life. Two recent series: "Grand Splash" (featured in both Print and WIRED
magazines) and "Deep Research" explore treasures and resources at risk
by combining underwater images with those of Grand Central Terminal,
and the Arts and Humanities Branch of the New York Public Llibrary.
Meisler's awards include a NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and
the Disney American Teacher Award. Her students' collaborative art work
has been exhibited in the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the
Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial. Meryl teaches computer
graphics at The Instititute for Collaborative Education (I.C.E.) in NYC.
merylart@earthlink.net
PAULINE OLIVEROS
Pauline Oliveros is known worldwide as a composer, accordionist,
performer and teacher. She has become a leading figure in contemporary
American music through her pioneering work in electronic techniques,
attentional strategies, teaching
methods, inter-artistic collaboration and improvisation. She is
pre-eminently
concerned with the social implications of the sound environment.
Born in Houston in 1932,
Ms. Oliveros has enjoyed a long and successful career in experimental
music. She has
collaborated with Robert Duncan, David Tudor, Merce Cunningham,
Anna Halprin, Deborah
Hay, Paula Josa Jones, Susan Marshall, Linda Montano, and many others.
In 1985,
she was honored with a retrospective program of her music at the Kennedy Center in
Washington D.C. Current projects include commissions from the West Deutsche Rundfunk,
Frauen Musik and the Rova Saxophone Quartet and an opera Neiro with libretto by Ione.
Currently based in Kingston, NY, Pauline Oliveros combines a busy schedule of
international touring, solo performances, appearances with music ensembles and
orchestras playing her commissioned works, touring and recording with Stuart Dempster
and David Gamper - The Deep Listening Band.
New CD available! - Ghostdance -
"Deep Listening"
paulineo@deeplistening.org
DORIS SCHATTSCHNEIDER
Doris Schattschneider holds a Ph.D in Mathematics from Yale Univeristy and
is Professor of Mathematics at Moravian College. Her primary interests are
tiling and polyhedra, dynamic geometry, geometry and art (especially
symmetry), visualization in teaching mathematics, and public exposition of
mathematics. She has lectured widely and helped to develop the computer
software, The Geometer's Sketchpad as well as other teaching materials. She
has more than 30 published articles and several books, including Visions of
Symmetry: Notebooks, Periodic Drawings, and related work of M.C. Escher (W.H.
Freeman and Co., 1990), Escher's Combinatorial Patterns (Electronic Journal
of Combinatorics v.4, no.2, 1997), and (edited with Jim King), Geomtery
Turned On: Dynamic Software in Learning, Teaching, and Research (Math Assn.
Of America, 1997).
schattdo@moravian.edu
DR. NADRIAN C. SEEMAN
Dr. Seeman was born in Chicago in 1945. He received his B.S. in
biochemistry from the University of Chicago in 1966 and his Ph.D form the
Department of Crystallography at the University of Pittsburgh in 1970. He
was a research associate in molecular graphics at Columbia University during
1970-1972 and was successively a Damon Runyon and an NIH postdoctoral fellow
in nucleic acid crystallography at MIT from 1972 to 1977. After 11 years on
the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences at SUNY/Albany, he
joined the Department of Chemistry at New York University at Professor of
Chemistry in 1988 and has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Chemistry
since 1991. Dr. Seeman was awarded the Sidhu Award (1974) for excellence in
diffraction studies. In 1981, he wrote the first paper introducing DNA
nanotechnology and has worked in the field ever since. His contributions
have been recognized by a Popular Science award in Science and Technology
(1993), the Feynman prize in Nanotechnology (1995) and a Discover award in
Emerging Technology (1997).
DR. DOREE DUNCAN SELIGMANN
Dr. Seligmann is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. She earned an A.B. in Anthropology at
Harvard University, spent several years directing and designing theatrical
productions in Paris and then returned to New York to complete a Ph.D. in
Computer Science at Columbia University. For her dissertation work she
developed a system to automatically generate 3D illustrations based on
communicative intent.
At Bell Labs she developed systems for a multimedia conferencing,
collaboration, and more recently, Archways, a system that automatically
generates a 3D virtual environment consisting of intelligent objects and 3D
sound. She heads the Metaphorium project
(http://www.multimedia.bell-labs.com/metaphorium), an experimental web-site
featuring MessageInABottle, SandTypewriter/Skywriter, SubwaySurface, and
LiveWebStationery.
URL: http://www.multimedia.bell-labs.com/metaphorium/people/doree
STEPHEN SOREFF
A native New Yorker, Soreff was educated at Brooklyn College and at Pratt
Institute. He worked for many years as an engineering designer, Industrial
Designer, and finally as design professor at Long Island University. His
fine art career has involved sculpture (static and kinetic), drawings, and
mixed-media, showing at galleries in New York City, and around the U.S.
Over the past 25 yrs. or more, Soreff has published a one-page, fictional,
futurist art-review magazine called AGAR (Avant Garde Art Review). Here he
reviews types of art which might appear in the future... like sculpture
that grows, or tele-projection murals. Several issues of AGAR have been
re-designed for the web and can be found at the ASCI web-segment called
"Into The Future": www.asci.org/future/agar.html
agar@octet.com and URL: www.asci.org (future icon)
LINDA STONE
Linda Stone is the director of Microsoft Research's Virtual Worlds
Group. For over a decade, Stone has been a leader in the effort to
create both community and content on the computer. Since joining
Microsoft Corporation in December of 1993, she has focused on improving
human social interactions in cyberspace. She created and now directs
Microsoft's virtual worlds team, a joint effort by engineers, artists,
and animators to develop multi-user, multimedia, technologies for the
construction of social environments that really work on a human level.
Her group's approach to virtual worlds blends sociology, design and
technology with the goal of enhancing net-based relationships.
Prior to joining Microsoft in December of 1993, Stone worked for Apple
Computer as that company's key person in building the multimedia
marketplace. She was instrumental in forging the first significant
relationships between a technology firm, Apple, and the traditional
creative media, such as book publishers.
HELEN THORINGTON
Helen Thorington is a writer, composer, and media artist. She began her
career as a writer with short stories and other fictional forms that were
published in small press magazines and journals throughout the 70s.
She is the founder and director of the media arts production
organization, New Radio and Performing Arts; the executive producer of the
World Wide Web site, somewhere, (http://www.somewhere.org) which launched in
February 1996, and the Turbulence site (http://www.turbulence.org) that
commissions artists' works for the web. She is also the originator and
executive producer of NEW AMERICAN RADIO, the only national weekly series
of radio art commissioned from American artists (1989-present).
Recent awards include a 1997 and 1995 Meet the Composer Commissioning
Program award to create new work for the radio medium; a 1995 NYSCA
Individual Artist Award; and 1996 residence at Harvestworks, NYC.
newradio@interport.net
http://www.turbulence.org
http://www.somewhere.org
MURRAY TUROFF
Murray Turoff has been a designer of computer based group communication
systems since the late 60s. He is co-author of the award wining book: The
Network Nation. He has always viewed his work as the design of electronic
based social systems and considers it an artistic endeavor. He believes in
the objective of designing group systems that will all the group to be more
intelligent than any member acting alone. He is a distinguished professor of
Computer and Information Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Some of his favorite pass times are gardening and scuba diving.
http://eies.njit.edu/~turoff/
turoff@vc.njit.edu
DORIS VILA
Doris Vila creates responsive installations where stories stretch out in
space, rather than over time. Spanning a range of technologies, these
environments allow viewers' bodies to trigger sounds, video and
holographic scenes. In her recent works, words swarm like birds, flying
in and out of linear readability through a real-time artificial-life
algorithm. She has worked extensively with art and technology for many
years in Europe, the United States and Latin America. Born in Miami of
Cuban descent, she studied at at University of California, Berkeley, and
Hunter College. She frequently shows internationally, lectures widely,
and is a longtime observer of bird flocks.
vila@dorsai.org
phone/fax 718 388-6533
TYLER VOLK
Tyler Volk, Professor of Biology at New York University,
studies the role of life in biochemical cycles, including those of Earth and
the miniaturized earths of advaced life support for NASA. His most recent
book, "Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth," examines the biosphere as
a living, breathing network. Results of Volk's ongoing quest for
interdisciplinary patterns are in his previous book, "Metapatterns Across
Space, Time, and Mind," which presents a visual logic within the world and
our minds. He has a B.S. in architecture and a Ph.D in Applied Science and
lives in New York and New Mexico.
volk@is.nyu.edu
GEORGE WHITESIDES
George Whitesides' career has been spent as professor of
chemistry, originally at MIT and now at Harvard. He has carried out research
in a number of fields of chemistry, physics and biology, with "surfaces" as
one common theme. He has also been active in science policy and in technology transfer.
He and Felice Frankel have recently published a book of images of science
for the general reader ("On the Surface of Things", Chronicle Books, 1997).
gwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.edu
CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is a Senior Editor at Discover Magazine, where he has been
reporting on fields including evolution, paleontology, ecology, and earth
sciences for eight years. He is also the author of At the Water's Edge, a
book that takes a look at major evolutionary transitions, such as the
emergence of vertebrates onto land and the origin of whales. His work has won
awards including the American Institute of Biological Sciences Media Award,
as well as the Evert Clark Award for science journalism. He lives in Brooklyn.
zimmer@panix.com