MENTOR PROGRAM

This is the first time that we will be offering a Mentor Program at one of our Artsci symposia. Our "ArtSci Mentors" will be outstanding individuals [many presenters at our previous ArtSci symposia] who are seasoned veterans to collaboration in artscience practice. They will be offering 1-hour sessions of "one-to-one" personal advice on issues that you have about a current project... even if it's "How do I get started?" Mentors will brainstorm ideas, share resources, and give candid feedback. They will sign Non-Disclosure Agreements that will be on file at ASCI's office.

Mentors will be available on a first-come-first serve basis. Sessions will take place during 1-hour "Coffee-Break" times during the symposium and pre-arranged via email before the event.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A MENTOR: Please send an email to *Ana Serrano, Mentor Program Coordinator, by clicking hereto let her know the specific issues that you want feedback on so that we can match you to the most appropriate Mentor.

We have a couple more mentors' information to add to the list below, so check-back soon.

Fee: $50 processing fee for 1-hour Mentor Sessions [for administration], paid in advance by check to ASCI:PO Box 358, Staten Island, NY 10301, OR pay via Paypal.com. Instructions for using Paypal.com [pay via credit card or bank account] are at: Paypal instructions Type "Mentor Session" in the Subject Line.

3. Mentor Name: Garnet Hertz
Profession:  artist
Affiliation:  Artist in Residence, Soil Digital Media Suite (Regina,Canada); Lecturer, Department of Media Production & Studies, University of Regina, Canada
Email: garnet@vividworks.com
URL:  www.conceptlab.com

Collaborative skills:  Scientific research ethics in the context of contemporary art practice, policy and language, practical collaborative strategies.
Type of collab. experience: Ethical research, lab access, animal use, human subjects, team software development, pervasive computing

Short bio:
Hertz's current work involves the development of embedded webservers on miniature microprocessors, and analysis of these objects in the framework of network-as-object and the history of human-created semi-living beings. These computers - implanted into the preserved bodies of animal specimens - produce physically reactive beings caught in a state of attempted re-animation. His background includes interviews with Billy Kluver, Mark Pauline and Steve Dietz and his early experiments in DIY web-based telerobotics earned him a place in the writings of Eduardo Kac, Edward A. Shanken and Thomas J. Campanella. Critical responses include Artforum, CIAC Electronic Art Magazine, The Toronto Star, The London Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Popular press about his work is widespread, disseminating through 25 countries including The New York Times, I.D. Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, NBC, CBS, ZDTV and CNN Headline News.

4. Mentor Name: Adrianne Wortzel
Profession:  new media artist and educator
Affiliation:  Associate Professor, Advertising and Graphic Arts, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, and Adjunct Professor, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
Email: sphinx@camouflagetown.tv
URL:  http://artnetweb.com/wortzel

Collaborative skills:  Catalyst for collaboration, have produced collaborative projects.
Type of collab. experience: Robotic and Telerobotic Installations and Performance Productions

Short bio:
Adrianne Wortzel is an artist creating fictive web works, robotic and telerobotic installations and performance productions. Her telerobotic installation, Camouflage Town , was featured in the exhibition Data Dynamics at The Whitney Museum of American Art (March 20-June 10, 2001). She was a Principal Investigator in a National Science Foundation award (Grant No.DUE 9980873) for creating Robotics and Theater. Her play, Sayonara Diorama, produced with robotic and human performers at Lehman College, was funded by an Artist-In-Residence Grant from the Lehman College Art Gallery supported by the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts. She has also produced international performative webcasts, and was co-host and content provider for "Art Dirt" a weekly live video-streamed interview format internet show originating from Pseudo TV in New York from 1996-1998.

5. Mentor Name: Robert Peagler
Profession:  Independent Consultant re: knowledge formation and organizational development/ capacity building for collective thought and action
Affiliation:  independent
Email: peagler@aol.com
URL:  none

Collaborative skills: 
_team formation and coaching
_conversation design/ facilitation
_interviewing and observation
_participatory application and process design
_organizational design
_care and feeding of communities of practice

Type of collab. experience:
_interdisciplinary
_intercultural
_international
_team member
_team supervision & coaching
_program and organizational design
_corporate business divisions, corporate R&D units
_academic & not for profit organizations
_independent arts projects

Short bio:
Mr. Peagler's formal education includes: BA | Brown U. : Semiotics; Master of Fine Arts | SUNY Albany : Conceptual Art Installation; Master of Library Science | SUNY Albany : Reference and Computer Based Training. He is obsessed with developing an integrated understanding of collective human thought and action as they play across conceptual, social, physical and virtual space. Most recently, the pursuit of this obsession has lead him through the following trajectory: tacit knowledge and storytelling work at IBM's T.J. Watson Lab, corporate knowledge ecology strategy for Razorfish, Inc., collaborative work environment prototype development for Steelcase Inc.'s Advanced Concept Research and Design unit, information architecture and organizational design for Grisha Coleman's Faster Than A Speeding Bullet interdisciplinary art/science project, knowledge formation coaching for the Banff Centre Leadership Development Program's prototype innovation forum and interface design for the IBM Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity.

6. Mentor Name: Sara Diamond
Profession:  Artistic Director/Executive Producer and new media artist
Affiliation:  The Banff Centre, Banff New Media Institute
Email: sara_diamond@banffcentre.ca
URL:  www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi and www.codezebra.net

Collaborative skills:  Project brainstorming, artistic production, working with programmers; creating and leading think-tanks, facilitating think-tanks, experience design, cooking

Type of collab. experience: My program at Banff creates collaborative interdisciplinary projects and events. We match make people and assist in the birthing of new ideas and concepts; we are a research centre in new media collaborative methods and tools. My art work involves art and science collaboration and work with other artists and designers.

Short bio:
Sara Diamond is an award winning television and new media producer/director, video artist, curator, critic, researcher, teacher and artistic director. Born in New York City, Diamond has resided in Western Canada and has represented Canada at home and internationally for many years. She is currently the Artistic Director, Media and Visual Arts and Executive Producer, Television and New Media at The Banff Centre for the Arts. In recent years Diamond has worked increasingly with research and development projects in software, has consulted in developing interactive media curriculum and events and has created think tanks that bring together cultural industries, new media content producers, artists and investors. The Co-Production, CCII, and Deep Web projects that she has initiated at The Banff Centre for the Arts have resulted in key international projects in television and interactive media. Diamond programs new media events for the prestigious Banff Television Festival and develops the extensive Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre.

7. Mentor Name: Carl Weiman
Profession:  Researcher and professor in math, Java, vision, graphics.
Affiliation:  Adjunct, Cooper Union, NYC and Fairfield University, CT.
Email: weiman@optonline.net
URL:  http://carl_weiman.tripod.com/

Collaborative skills:  Interdisciplinary collaboration using robotics, math, and/or graphics.

Type of collab. experience: Cooper Union, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Co-designed and team-taught with Prof. Adrianne Wortzel new course "Robotic Visions and Theater" in Spring of '99, a collaboration between artists and engineers. Principal Investigator with co-PI's Professors Adrianne Wortzel and Stan Wei, NSF Grant DUE-9980873, $100,000, titled "Robotic Renaissance". Team teaching with Professor Adrianne Wortzel, new course we designed at Cooper Union in Fall '00, "Equally Avatar: Humans, Machines and Virtual Beings".

Short bio:
Carl Weiman is Adjunct Professor at Fairfield University teaching Java. Recently, as Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, he taught an art-science collaboration course in Robotic Theater with Professor Adrianne Wortzel under NSF funding. As Research Director at HelpMate Robotics in the 90’s he received nine patents and won $2M in grants from NASA and NSF for robot vision systems.

Earlier, he was Systems Engineer at GE, after several years of university curriculum development and teaching in computer science following his Ph.D. at Ohio State. Dr. Weiman is currently into art-science collaboration, kayaking, and Stephen Wolfram's work.