PANELISTS


(click on names to see bios)

 
AMELIA AMON industrial designer of ecologically smart products and public art projects

ROBERT ATKINS Editor in Chief of the Arts Technology Entertainment Network, writer, art critic

GREG BLONDER physicist, Director of the Customer Expectations Lab at AT&T

WENDY BRAWER director of the global Green Map System and of Modern World Design based in NYC

RED BURNS educator, Director of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program

GEORGE CHAIKIN professor, artist, architect, and geometer (Chaikin's Algorithm)

ASHOK DHINGRA a chief materials scientist at Dupont specializing in natural systems

LAURA DI LAURENZIO Biochemist & Molecular Biologist at the New York Botanical Garden

MICHELE OKA DONER grows materials for her public sculpture via ocean accretion

GREER GILMAN author of award-winning science fantasy novel,  Moonwise.

ELIZABETH GOLDRING poet, media artist and Senior Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

CYNTHIA GOODMAN curator and organizer of international exhibitions on art & technology

RONALD GRAHAM Director of Research at AT&T Labs, mathematician & juggler

ROBERT GREENBERG leading innovator in use of computers for movie special effects

JAN HAWKINS Director of the Center for Children & Technology, NYC

ROXANNE HILTZ Professor & author; first to conceptualize and study "online communities"

CHUCK HOBERMAN sculptor and designer of "unfolding structures"

DON IHDE one of the pioneers in the North American philosophy of technology

AMY IONE practicing artist and writer on the theory and practice of art and science

CHIRSTOPHER JANNEY creates interactive sound environments for public spaces

DAVID KATZIVE President of the Visual Technology Group for Ruder Finn, NYC

BILLY KLUVER co-founder E.A.T.(Experiments in Art and Technology), editor & producer

KEN KNOWLTON a developer of techniques for computer animation at Bell Labs in 60's and 70's

MARY LUCIER internationally renown pioneer of the video installation genre

ROGER MALINA astro-physicist and Editor of LEONARDO Journal

CARL MACHOVER world-wide lecturer & consultant on computer graphics, editor

TOD MACHOVER composer, hyper-instrument designer and professor at M.I.T.

MERYL MEISLER award-winning high school technology teacher, photographer, multimedia artist

PAULINE OLIVEROS composer, musician, educator, pioneer in electronic music

DORIS SCHATTSCHNEIDER professor of mathematics & author of book on the work of M.C. Escher

NADRIAN SEEMAN the originator of the field of DNA nanotechnology

DOREE SELIGMANN 3-D virtual environments & web projects for Lucent Technologies

STEPHEN SOREFF conceptual artist and futurist; author of AGAR (www.asci.org)

LINDA STONE The Director of Microsoft Research's Virtual Worlds Group

HELEN THORINGTON writer/composer, & Director of the "Turbulence" website & New American Radio

MURRAY TUROFF Co-author of The Network Nation, design of electronic-based social systems

DORIS VILA internationally exhibits: responsive installations of stories in space, rather than time

TYLER VOLK professor of biology at NYU; author, "Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth"

GEORGE WHITESIDES professor of chemistry at Harvard; research in chemistry, physics, and biology

CARL ZIMMER Sr. Science Editor at Discover Magazine, and author of At the Water's Edge