People
Art Project (A) Symposium Presenter (S)
Julie Andreyev (S)
Drifting the City: Participatory Engagement to Mobilize the Artists' Studio
Julie Andreyev is an artist involved in two areas of practice: “Four Wheel Drift” examines the social and spatial character of the city using mobility, performance and participatory engagement; “Animal Lover” explores animal consciousness through interactive installation and video. Her work has been shown across Canada, in the US, Europe and Japan in galleries and in media arts festivals. Andreyev’s work is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The British Columbia Arts Council, Foreign Affairs Canada, and The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. Andreyev is Artistic Director of Interactive Futures, www.interactivefutures.ca.
Engin Ayaz (A) (S)
TenderVoice/TenderNoise
Engin Ayaz is an energy and informatics consultant at Arup San Francisco. With an interdisciplinary background in architecture and engineering, Engin is passionate about bridging disciplines and seeking synergies across traditionally divided design cultures, spanning from interface to products, buildings to planning. Within Arup, Engin focuses on sustainability analysis, resource mapping, LEED coordination and data visualization for multidisciplinary projects. Engin has also been involved in a variety of Arup-funded research efforts regarding global sustainability innovation, visual search-engine, energy dashboard manufacturer research and urban informatics. Engin has a engineering degree from Stanford University and is a Merage Fellow. Engin co-leads the TenderNoise project.
Micha Cárdenas/Azdel Slade (A) (S)
City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Micha Cárdenas / Azdel Slade is an artist/theorist whose work spans from erotic mixed reality performance in motion capture studios to dislocative border disturbance art in remote desert areas, always striving to find limits and challenge them. Her transreal work mixes physical and networked spaces in order to explore emerging forms of queer relationality, biopolitics and DIY horizontal knowledge production. She is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She is an Artist/Researcher in the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at Calit2. Micha holds an MFA from UCSD, an MA in Media and Communications with distinction from the European Graduate School and a BS in Computer Science from FIU. She has exhibited and performed in Los Angeles, Tijuana, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland and many other places. Micha's work has been written about in publications including the LA Times, CNN, BBC World, Associated Press and Rolling Stone Italy.
Amy Sara Carroll (A) (S)
City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Amy Sara Carroll is Assistant Professor of American Culture / Latino / a Studies and English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (2004), and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University (1995). Her research, teaching, and writing interests include Latino/a American contemporary cultural production (performance, art, video, and literature), feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, visual culture, cultural studies, inter-American studies, border studies, and critical creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies such as Talisman, Carolina Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Mandorla, Chain, Bombay Gin, Seneca Review, Borderlands, Faultline, This Bridge We Call Home, and Not For Mothers Only: Contemporary Poets on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing. She has exhibited poem-prints at the Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, New York), Duke University Museum of Art, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center (Auburn, New York), and State-of-the-Art Gallery (Ithaca, New York).
Ben Cerveny (A) (S)
TenderVoice / TenderNoise
Ben Cerveny is a strategic and conceptual adviser to Stamen, helping to articulate an approach toward creative visualization and to evaluate and develop potential partners and engagements relative to that vision. Ben is a highly regarded experience designer and conceptual strategist, guiding the creative direction and vision of multiple successful endeavors, both public and private. His clients include Nokia , Sony , and Philips, as well as the cities of Amsterdam and Barcelona.
Previously, he was founder of the Experience Design Lab at frogdesign , an international product design company, and a lead designer and platform development strategist at Ludicorp. makers of Flickr.
Ben is a twelve-year veteran of the interaction design field. His past accomplishments include the design of network media sharing applications at Be Inc. and Silicon Graphics , and the management of the Research and Development group at web services agency Organic. He is the author of a forthcoming book on games as system models, and is a Director of a research foundation focused on investigating the intersection of play, interaction, and urban space.
Krissy Clark (S)
Block of Time: O'Farrell Street
Krissy Clark is an award-winning public radio journalist, documentary-maker and fifth generation San Franciscan. Clark has spent more than a decade covering San Francisco and the Western U.S. Her stories air on NPR, the BBC, and American Public Media, where she was a staff reporter and editor for the show Weekend America, and a frequent contributor to Marketplace. Clark spent the last year on a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford, where she worked with the d.school, the Computer Science and History Departments to explore location-aware media. Clark has a B.A. in The Humanities from from Yale University. She has received numerous awards for her stories, and was a finalist for a Third Coast International Audio Festival Award, one of the highest honors in public radio.
Kevin Collins (A)
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Kevin Collins, CoFounder of Sutro Media. Kevin Collins recently founded Sutro Media, which creates guides and iPhone ap- plications to help make it easier and more fun to explore towns, cities, and places by publishing real world guides on mobile phones. He received his Masters in Human Computer Interaction and Design at Stanford where he taught and worked with Terry Winograd and Scott Klemmer. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego. Prior to starting Sutro Media, he has worked at Genentech, Oracle, CNET, Or- ganic, Brodia, UCSF, and Bank of America. More importantly, he is always the first one on and the last one off the dance floor. Kevin is a co-creator of Wishing Wall
Stefano Corazza (A)
[no where now here]
Stefano has a degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Master in Design, a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Bioengineering and Computer Vision. He is very active in the domain of Visual Interactive Arts and New Media. Since his first large scale art project in 2006 he put together a community of high tech artists which are focusing on highly interactive forms of art. Previous art installations are “A Field of Sunflowerrobots” (2006), [timelovememory] 2009 and significant contributions to SWARM (2007). The current artistic focus is to develop techniques to have the audience become the center of the art installation. Stefano is also involved with binaural sounds and music research and is a guest at the CCRMA department for computer music at Stanford. Formerly researcher at Stanford University he founded Mixamo Inc. in 2008, a company active in 3D animation and motion capture, where he serves as CTO.
Robert Damphousse (A) (S)
Visualizing the invisible: Findings from wireless landscape
Robert Damphousse is a conceptual artist, computer programmer and a builder of electronics. His work studies technology for what it is: the new natural environment. His projects make this new nature accessible in a way that engenders the viewer with a better understanding of the technological landscapes that surround us.
Carl DiSalvo (A)
Urban Remix
Carl DiSalvo is an assistant professor of Digital Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he runs the Public Design Workshop. DiSalvo’s work centers on using design and art to prompt new forms of creative and critical public engagement with technology. He has lead participatory design and art workshops in Pittsburgh, PA and Atlanta GA, and has worked extensively with community organizations and youth groups. From 2007-2009 he lead the Neighborhood Networks project, working with residents in Pittsburgh neighborhoods to explore how sensing and robotics technologies could be used for community expression and intervention into local issues of concern. He is currently working with urban framing and sustainable agriculture groups and the Boys and Girls Club Youth Art Connect in Atlanta GA as part of the City as Learning Lab project, to explore how art and design can contribute to developing community technological fluency.
Ricardo Dominguez (A) (S)
City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is co-Director of Thing (thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum, Micha Cardenas and Amy Sara Carroll the *Transborder Immigrant Tool* (a GPS cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border was the winner of "Transnational Communities Award", this award was funded by *Cultural Contact*, Endowment for Culture Mexico - U.S. and handed out by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico), also funded by CALIT2 and two Transborder Awards from the UCSD Center for the Humanities. Ricardo is an Assistant Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department, a Hellman Fellow, and Principal/Principle Investigator at CALIT2 (http://bang.calit2.net). He also co-founder of *particle group* with artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll a gesture about nanotechnology entitled *Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter Market* (http://pitmm.net) that was presented in Berlin (2007), the San Diego Museum of Art (2008), Oi Futuro, and FILE festivals in Brazil (2008).
Scott Doorley (A)
tendersecrets
Scott Doorley, Director of the Environments Lab at the d.school at Stanford. Scott Doorley hails from Boston and makes his way to the d.school after a brief return to the cold and snow of the east coast, where he taught film production at Boston University. Unlike most Northern California residents, Scott loves Los Angeles, where, among other things, he attended film school, met his wife, and performed almost every job imaginable in the film industry -- from early days in music videos running cases of Crystal to rap stars, to later years shooting footage for CBS reality shows in undisclosed locations overseas (and plenty in between). As a Masters Student in Learning, Design & Technology at Stanford, Scott explored what it means to design for thinking. He joins the d.school with an interest in applying design to domains, such as writing, filmmaking, and informal learning, that don’t always take advantage of design methods. Like many mammals, Scott loves to eat, but he also loves to cook, a habit he developed while working as a “chef” on a dive boat around Catalina Island in Southern California. Scott is a co-creator of Wishing Wall
Jason Freeman (A)
Urban RemixJason Freeman’s works break down conventional barriers between composers, performers, and listeners, using cutting-edge technology and unconventional notation to turn audiences and musicians into compositional collaborators. His music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Speculum Musicae, the So Percussion Group, the Rova Saxophone Quartet, the Nieuw Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and Evan Ziporyn; and his works have been featured at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Boston CyberArt Festival, 01SJ, and the Transmediale Festival and featured in the New York Times and on National Public Radio. N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella) (2003), a commission from Turbulence.org, was described by Billboard as “…an example of the web’s mind-expanding possibilities.” Freeman received his B.A. in music from Yale University and his M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Music at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
Elizabeth Goodman (Organizer)
Elizabeth Goodman is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information. Her writing, design and research focus on the production of pervasive computing in everyday urban spaces. Elizabeth has taught on site-specific art practice, tangible interaction design, and design research at the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited her multimedia design work in New York, Paris, and San Francisco. Elizabeth speaks widely on the design of mobile and pervasive computing systems at conferences, schools, and businesses, including ACM CHI and CSCW, Where 2.0, the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference, Yahoo! Research, and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She has a masters degree in interaction design from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University as well as a BA in Art from Yale University. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and has received an Intel PhD Fellowship.
www.confectious.net
Kari Gray (organizer)
Kari Gray has more than 30 years experience organizing environmental, arts, and community events; educational festivals, conferences, and workshops. She currently works with service providers in the Tenderloin and other low-income communities to organize Computer Help Days, where volunteers and certified technicians increase broadband Internet access in just one day with training, tech support and one-on-one tutoring. Other projects and clients include Access Now, Community Technology Network Bay Area
SF Connect, Independent Arts & Media, Common Assets Defense Fund, Zerodivide, Spitfire Agency, Parents for Public Schools - San Francisco, and Earth Day
Network.
Molly Hankwitz(Organizer)
Molly Hankwitz is a contributing editor to the Newmediafix blog on networked art, a resident of San Francisco, a media artist, designer and co-founder with Kari Gray of the Wireless Art Group/SF. She presented at Mobile Media 2007, UTS, Sydney and her curatorial/editorial experience in the media arts includes exhibitions at Artists Television Access (SF), Ars Electronica, ISEA, Fibreculture, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Metro Arts/Video Space (Brisbane), Multimedia Arts/Asia Pacific (MAAP), and Other Cinema. She was Artist in Residency with David Cox, at Artspace, Sydney, 2004 and her research practice defines interdisciplinary overlaps between architecture, planning and mobile media with a focus upon cities, networked communication, activism, and gender. She is currently a completing PhD candidate in Media and communications discipline at the Institute for Innovation and Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology.
Bjoern Hartmann (A)
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Bjoern Hartmann, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Bjoern Hartmann’s research in Human-Computer Interaction investigates authoring tools for professional designers and end-user programmers. He is affiliated with the Berkeley Institute of Design and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Bjoern received his PhD from the Stanford Computer Science department in 2009 and his MSE in Com- puter and Information Science as well as Undergraduate Degrees in Digital Media De- sign and Communication from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Bjoern is a co-creator of Wishing Wall
Catherine Herdlick (S)
Play the city
For more than six years, Catherine Herdlick has worked in productive and creative leads for successful locative media, casual games and cross-media projects "managing fun products that people love." She was the 2008 nominee for the Diana Jones Awaryd for Excellence in Gaming, worked with Gamelab in New York, and was the co-Founder and Director of New York City's Come out and play festival, a festival that draws thousands of players annually to play locative and pervasive games in the streets of New York.
Paula Levine (organizer) (S)
Transposing Spaces
Paula Levine is a media artist and educator who comes from deep roots in experimental narrative, spatial theory and practice. Her current work uses cartography and locative media to bridge between local and global by collapsing the safety of distance and spatially translating the impact of distant crises and traumatic geo-political events in local terms, on local ground. Works from her series "Shadows from another place," which include "San Francisco<->Baghdad" and "TheWalll," have shown in the HTMllES Festival, IMAGE FESTIVAL's Transposing Geographies: Mapping on the internet, and ISEA. She has given talks at San Jose's Zer01 Festival, MIT's Media in Transition conferences and the University of Wisconsin's Conney Conference for Jewish Studies and she was a recent keynote speaker at the 2009 Interactive Futures Conference in Vancouver, BC. Her videos have shown in festivals and galleries in the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan including Lincoln Center, the Mill Valley Film and Video Festival and in "HotBed" at the J.Paul Getty Museum. She is an Associate Professor of Art in Conceptual Information Arts at San Francisco State University.
Jake Levitas (A) (S)
TenderVoice/TenderNoise
Jake Levitas is a freelance consultant working at the Hub Bay Area. He has worked on a wide variety of sustainability and planning projects at Arup until April 2010, with an emphasis on GIS mapping, spatial analysis, and visualization components of this work. He helped lead multidisciplinary design teams in the 2007 and 2009 Open Architecture Challenge competitions, which were awarded Fifth Place Finalist and Semi-Finalist respectively from hundreds of international entries. He has a depth of experience in written, audio, and visual journalism and has worked on personal audio recording and editing projects for 10 years. Jake holds a BA in Environmental Studies and Economics from Washington University in St. Louis. Jake co-leads the TenderVoice project.
Mayra Madriz (A) (S)
TenderVoice/TenderNoise
Mayra Madriz is an urban planner and sustainability consultant at Arup San Francisco. She has expertise in community-based planning practice, and health impacts of the built environment. Past work has focused on bottom-up economic development strategies, including community-oriented eco-tourism and sustainable agriculture. Mayra has addressed community health and other environmental issues in various redevelopment efforts in the Bay Area including the Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard, and the Oakland Estuary. She is currently developing policies regarding parks and public facilities for the Concord Inland Area Plan. Mayra is a co-founder of Encuentamiento: a story-telling collective, and an artist-in-residence at the Red Poppy Art House. Mayra co-leads the TenderVoice project.
Dan Maynez-Aminzade (A)
tendersecrets
Dan Maynez-Aminzade (or Monzy) received his PhD from Stanford Computer Science department in 2008 and his masters from the MIT Media Lab in 2003 where he was a member of the Tangible Media Group. His earned his undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer Interaction Institute. He has worked and interned at Walt Disney Imagineering, ABC, Go.com, Adobe, Microsoft, and Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab. Monzy is also a well known (in certain circles) nerdcore hip hop artist, most well known for Drama in the PhD.
Elle Mehrmand (A) (S)
City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Elle Mehrmand [elleelleelle.org] is a performance/new media artist and musician who uses the body, electronics, video, sound and installation within her work. She is the singer and trombone player of Assembly of Mazes, a music collective who create dark, electronic, middle eastern, rhythmic jazz rock. Elle is currently an MFA candidate at UCSD, and received her BFA in art photography with a minor in music at CSULB. Elle has received grants from UCIRA, the Russell Foundation and Fine Arts Affiliates. She is a researcher at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at UCSD. Her performances have been shown in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Tijuana, Montreal, Dublin, San Diego and Bogotá, Colombia. Her work has been discussed in Art21, the LA Times, Furtherfield.org, Reno News and Review and the OC Weekly.
Josette Melchor (organizer) (S)
Setting the Tenderloin Stage - Grey Area
Josette Melchor is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Gray Area Foundation For The Arts (GAFFTA), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization dedicated to building social consciousness through digital culture. She is a social entrepreneur, curator, and community organizer. Currently her efforts are focused on making digital culture accessible, substantive, and inspiring, she aims to help realize the greatest power of technology: to bring us closer, faster.
By funding and curating projects that offer insightful perspective on the information of our age, using the technologies of our time, GAFFTA provides a means to decode and humanize the evolving global database. GAFFTA’s direction is influenced by Melchor’s previous projects Gray Area Gallery (2005–2008) and Gray Area Beacon, a new media arts program that she founded in 2008 with Silicon Valley Executive Peter Hirshberg. She has facilitated many large and small-scale events up and down the West Coast including notable pioneering media artists, Aaron Koblin, Camille Utterback, and C.E.B. Reas.
Melchor’s professional experience in technology undoubtedly feeds her business-savvy, but it’s the use of technology to comment on and enable our society that drives her creative leadership of this organization. Her professional philosophy of a full-hearted commitment to the arts is apparent in the community she’s developed thus far. Her personal connection with clients, artists, and patrons reverberates throughout the organization and provides an unshakable strength in foundation.
Shane Myrbeck (A) (S)
TenderVoice/TenderNoise
Shane Myrbeck is an acoustics consultant with Arup in San Francisco. While at Arup, he has worked on a wide variety of projects addressing sound in both the built and natural environments. Such projects could involve qualitative room acoustics, noise/vibration control, audiovisual systems design, and design of soundscapes and sound art installations. Before joining Arup, he worked as a freelance recording engineer in Boston, where he was a co-founder/artist with the Whitehaus Family Record, a performing arts collaborative there. Shane has an MS in acoustics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Shane co-leads the TenderNoise project.
Jay Nath (S)
DataSF
"Jay Nath began as the Director of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for the City & County of San Francisco in 2006 where he instituted the City's first Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment which served as a real-time bi-directional communication hub managing millions of messages. In his current role as Director of Innovation, he led an effort to make San Francisco the first large city in the nation to use Twitter as a new channel for taking public requests, and more recently, he established the nation’s first open source software policy for city government -- DataSF Logo2009. Mr. Nath authored an Open Data Executive Directive requiring City departments to make all non-confidential datasets under their authority available on DataSF.org, the city’s one stop web site for government data. Mr. Nath launched DataSF in August 2009 with 150 datasets from a range of city departments, including Police, Public Works, and the Municipal Transportation Agency. More than 30 software applications have already been created from the City’s data and are featured in the DataSF App Showcase. This includes San Francisco Crimespotting, an interactive crime map, EcoFinder, an iPhone app that helps residents recycle, and Routesy, an app that helps people find their way around the Bay Area’s transit systems. The Open Source and Open Data policy are part of a larger Open Gov Initiative being led by Jay Nath for the City and County of San Francisco to engage constituents, focused on open data, open participation and open source."
Michael Nitsche (A)
Urban Remix
Michael Nitsche teaches digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is most interested in the various forms of space in video games and forms of digital performance. He heads the Digital World and Image Group and is Associate Director of the Experimental Game Lab at Georgia Tech. In the course of his research he has worked with game developers such as SCEE, EA, Bluebyte, and Turner Broadcasting and has presented at GDC as well as numerous other game conferences including SIGGRAPH and E3. His book Video Game Spaces was published at MIT Press early 2009. Michael's most current research focuses on social media on cell phones and the new social and data spaces that are created by these applications. In a former life, Michael was a professional improv actor, studied architecture, and badly played guitar in a hardcore bluesband. He is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Matt Roberts (A)
EveryStep
Matthew (Matt) Roberts is a new media artist specializing in real-time video performance and new media applications. His work has been featured internationally and nationally, including shows in Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, and Italy and in the following cities of the United States, New York, Miami, and Chicago. He was awarded the Transitio Award during theTransitiomx_02: International Festival of Electronic Art and Video 2007 and his work has been featured in several large circulation news media such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wired. He is the founder of MPG: Mobile Performance Group (http://www.mobileperformancegroup.com), an Associate Professor of Art and Program Director of Digital Arts at Stetson University (http://digart.stetson.edu). He received his M.F.A. from The University of Illinois at Chicago and lives in Florida, USA.
Karl Robillard (S)
Karl Robillard is the Manager and one of the co-founders of the Tenderloin Tech Lab, a collaborative program between St. Anthony Foundation and partner organization, San Francisco Network Ministries.
St. Anthony Foundation is a nonprofit organization that offers programs providing education, advocacy and basic services to homeless and low-income adults in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. Along with the many services provided by St Anthony's Foundation, The Tenderloin Tech lab provides technology skills and other computing resources to residents in the Tenderloin with 38 state-of-the-art computers and instruction, access, and community resources to over 100+ students a day.
Originally from Ithaca, NY, Karl has been living in San Francisco for the past 9 years, and working for St. Anthony Foundation for eight of those 9 years. According to Karl, “The same way there’s this whole food network around feeding people who are hungry, technology is now almost as basic a human right as food.”
In addition to his work at St. Anthony’s, Karl has served on the Board of Directors for the Community Technology Network and on the Advisory Board at the Tenderloin Boys and Girls Club. He continues to be involved in a number of collaborative projects in the Tenderloin Neighborhood focusing on digital inclusion within the nonprofit community.
When he’s not at work, you can find Karl running through Golden Gate Park, swimming in the Bay, or cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge,...enjoying ...
Eric Rodenbeck (A)
TenderVoice/TenderNoise
Eric Rodenbeck the founder and creative director of Stamen Design,a leading design and technology studio in San Francisco specializing in interactive design and data visualization. Their work for a variety of public and private clients has been highly acclaimed since their inception in 2001. Eric has worked in the field of interactive design for over 14 years, and has spent this time "working to extend the boundaries of online media and live information visualization. Eric led the interactive storytelling and data-driven narrative effort at Quokka Sports, illustrated and designed at Wired Magazine and Wired Books, and was a co-founder of the design collective Umwow. Eric was born in New York City, where he studied architecture at Cooper Union, put himself through school by managing markets at numerous New York farmers’ markets, drafting architectural ornaments in the stoneyard of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and working summers for Kenneth Snelson. He received a B.A. in the History and Philosophy of Technology from The New School for Social Research in 1994. In 2008 he was called one of Esquire Magazine’s “Best and Brightest” new designers and thinkers, and one of ID Magazine’s top 40 designers to watch. Eric is the principal collaborator for TenderNoise project."
Leslie Rule (organizer) (S)
Leslie Rule runs KQED’s Center for Digital Media in San Francisco, working in the fields Education and Community Outreach. She is also co-director of the Center for Locative Media. Over the last 10 years, Ms. Rule developed a nationally recognized digital media teacher-training program for the American Film Institute, taught multimedia storytelling at colleges and universities, and served as Technology Director and Educational Technologist in middle and high schools. She is the author of “The Art, Skill, Craft and Magic of Digital Storytelling—a how-come, how-to guide.”
Recent educational and community-based locative media projects using digital storytelling and mobile devices include “Tagging the Blues Trail” in the Mississippi Delta, “‘Scape the Hood” a gps-enabled soundscape located in San Francisco, and a social justice/environmental racism project with at-risk students in Oakland. Her practice is a hands-on exploration into new media and place-based digital storytelling for engagement, empowerment and impact.
Ms. Rule has degrees in Rhetoric and Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Education with an emphasis on Instructional Technology
SENSEable City Lab (A) (S)
SENSEable City: Exploring Urban Futures
"The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
Brooke Singer (S)
Locative Media is Local Knowledge
Brooke Singer is a media artist who lives in New York City. Her work blurs the borders between science, technology, politics and arts practices. She works across media to provide entry into important social issues that are often characterized as specialized to a general public. She has exhibited at the Warhol Museum of Art, The Banff Centre, Neuberger Museum of Art, Diverseworks, Exit Art, FILE Electronic Festival, Sonar Music and Multimedia Festival, The Whitney Artport, among others. Recent awards and commissions include a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artist award, a Headlands Center for Arts residency, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) award, a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship and an Eyebeam and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Social Sculpture commission. She is currently Associate Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technology and activist group Preemptive Media.
Joel Slayton (S)
The Nature of Path/Minimal Dislocation
Joel Slayton is an internationally recognized artist, author and researcher. Considered a pioneer in the field of art and technology Slayton’s artworks engage a wide range of media and information technology focused on illuminating the possibilities of social software, navigation systems, cooperation models and networks. His artworks have been featured in over 100 exhibitions internationally. Joel Slayton was an original member of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT in the mid 1970’s, is a National Endowment for the Arts award recepient, and was selected for the Xerox Parc Pair Artists in Residence Program. In 1999 he founded C5 Corporation, a hybrid artwork in the form of a Silicon Valley start up company. C5 research focused on information visualization involving large data sets and social networks. C5 projects have been featured at the SF Camerawork, Walker Art Center, the Cantor Center for the Arts, Transmediale, Ars Electronica, The Tate, The New Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, ACM Siggraph, ASU Center for Creative Inquiry and at AUT in New Zealand. His most recent work explores interaction with the physical landscape using location based media involving mapping expeditions to high altitude volcanoes of the Pacific Rim. In 2008 Joel Slayton completed the first coast-to-coast drive across the United States using Google Earth, commissioned by the University of North Carolina. Joel Slayton’s conceptual art projects and performances include DoWhatDo, Conduits, The Chemistry of Fear, Landscape Painting as Counter Surveillance of Area 51, Rocket Launch at Panamint Wash and The Wedding Game. His tele-present robotic machines have been exhibited at the Krannert Museum of Art and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Joel Slayton is Executive Director of ZER01: The Art and Technology Network. As a catalyst and platform for presenting some of the world’s most innovative artists, ZER01 is transforming San Jose/Silicon Valley into a global epicenter for the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture. ZER01’s commitment to the culture of creativity and innovation that fuels Silicon Valley, the life-blood of the region, is represented through robust collaborations with Silicon Valley corporations and regional academic and cultural institutions. Joel Slayton is a professor at San Jose State University where is Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic program in the School of Art and Design. He was the Chair of ISEA 2006 (International Symposium of Electronic Art and was Editor-In-Chief of the Leonardo-MIT Press Book Series from 1999-2008.
Brett Stalbaum (A) (S)
City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
"Brett Stalbaum is a C5 research theorist specializing in information theory, database, and software development. A serial collaborator, he was a co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater and has been part of many other individual and collaborative projects. Brett has published widely on digital art, its context and aesthetics, and location aware media. Brett has taught art at San Jose State University, and Computers and Information Technology at Evergreen Valley College, where he specialized in teaching programming languages through web-based distance education. Currently, he is full-time lecturer and coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts Major (ICAM) at UCSD with research interests in Big Data, Geographic Information Systems in the Arts, and "Locative Media" (defined broadly)."
The Transborder Immigrant Tool, one of a series of projects under the title, Walkingtools, is currently showing in "Here Not There: San Diego Art Now" at the Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla and will be in the upcoming Orange County Museum of Art 2010 California Biennial in October, 2010.
J. Lee Stickles and Wright Yang (A) (S)
Beyond Boundaries
J. Lee Stickles founder of Topographical Shifts, is an urban designer and artist in San Francisco, CA. Wright Yang, a local artist and designer is collaborating with her on this event.
Topographical shifts is a non-profit design and research organization implementing urban design and landscape architecture within public space. Our belief is in the integrity of place and environment, this integrity is shaped by the culture that lives there and the ecological habitat of the urban system. Through research and understanding of the urban environment, design interventions and strategies will be implemented that allow the system to adapt and change.
Parul Vora (A)
tendersecrets
Parul Vora is a Designer, Researcher, Technologist, User Experience Specialist, Hacker, and Interactive Artist. She has studied at UC Berkeley, Columbia, the MIT Media Lab, the Stanford d.school, at home, in the shop, and out of doors. She is currently and Re- searcher and Designer at the Wikimedia Foundation and has recently worked at yhaus (the Design Innovation Team at Yahoo!), Y!RB (Yahoo Research Berkeley), and Urban Atmospheres (Intel Research Berkeley). She has a particular disposition for robots, bicycles, polaroid cameras, absurdist humor, halloween, lo-fi music, and Michel Gondry movies. She begins most conversations with “Wouldn’t it be cool if......?” and ends them with “Why not?”Parul is a co-creator of Wishing Wall and will be the project lead on tendersecrets.
Steve Woollard (S)
A Locative Legacy
Steve Woollard is the Co-production coordinator at the Banff New Media Institute, a world-renowned technology hub located at The Banff Centre in the heart of the Rockie Mountains. Steve works alongside artists such as Blast Theory, Jon Cohrs, Nina Czegledy and Germaine Koh, among many others, to help facilitate the creation of new media artworks. Steve also coordinates the thematic residencies Almost Perfect and Liminal Screen. Steve's personal art practice is concerned with the cultural impacts of new technology and its responsible use in society. He has developed numerous works in both Europe and North America and has exhibited in both continents. Steve was the 2006 Cardiff School of Art and Design Student of the Year. He holds a First Class honors degree in Design for Interactive Media, where he studied under Simon Pope.
Julie Andreyev (S)
Drifting the City: Participatory Engagement to Mobilize the Artists' Studio
Julie Andreyev is an artist involved in two areas of practice: “Four Wheel Drift” examines the social and spatial character of the city using mobility, performance and participatory engagement; “Animal Lover” explores animal consciousness through interactive installation and video. Her work has been shown across Canada, in the US, Europe and Japan in galleries and in media arts festivals. Andreyev’s work is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The British Columbia Arts Council, Foreign Affairs Canada, and The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. Andreyev is Artistic Director of Interactive Futures, www.interactivefutures.ca.
Engin Ayaz (A) (S)
TenderVoice/TenderNoise
Engin Ayaz is an energy and informatics consultant at Arup San Francisco. With an interdisciplinary background in architecture and engineering, Engin is passionate about bridging disciplines and seeking synergies across traditionally divided design cultures, spanning from interface to products, buildings to planning. Within Arup, Engin focuses on sustainability analysis, resource mapping, LEED coordination and data visualization for multidisciplinary projects. Engin has also been involved in a variety of Arup-funded research efforts regarding global sustainability innovation, visual search-engine, energy dashboard manufacturer research and urban informatics. Engin has a engineering degree from Stanford University and is a Merage Fellow. Engin co-leads the TenderNoise project.
Micha Cárdenas/Azdel Slade (A) (S)
City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Micha Cárdenas / Azdel Slade is an artist/theorist whose work spans from erotic mixed reality performance in motion capture studios to dislocative border disturbance art in remote desert areas, always striving to find limits and challenge them. Her transreal work mixes physical and networked spaces in order to explore emerging forms of queer relationality, biopolitics and DIY horizontal knowledge production. She is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She is an Artist/Researcher in the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at Calit2. Micha holds an MFA from UCSD, an MA in Media and Communications with distinction from the European Graduate School and a BS in Computer Science from FIU. She has exhibited and performed in Los Angeles, Tijuana, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland and many other places. Micha's work has been written about in publications including the LA Times, CNN, BBC World, Associated Press and Rolling Stone Italy.
Amy Sara Carroll (A) (S)
City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Amy Sara Carroll is Assistant Professor of American Culture / Latino / a Studies and English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (2004), and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University (1995). Her research, teaching, and writing interests include Latino/a American contemporary cultural production (performance, art, video, and literature), feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, visual culture, cultural studies, inter-American studies, border studies, and critical creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies such as Talisman, Carolina Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Mandorla, Chain, Bombay Gin, Seneca Review, Borderlands, Faultline, This Bridge We Call Home, and Not For Mothers Only: Contemporary Poets on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing. She has exhibited poem-prints at the Audre Lorde Project (Brooklyn, New York), Duke University Museum of Art, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center (Auburn, New York), and State-of-the-Art Gallery (Ithaca, New York).
Ben Cerveny (A) (S)
TenderVoice / TenderNoise
Ben Cerveny is a strategic and conceptual adviser to Stamen, helping to articulate an approach toward creative visualization and to evaluate and develop potential partners and engagements relative to that vision. Ben is a highly regarded experience designer and conceptual strategist, guiding the creative direction and vision of multiple successful endeavors, both public and private. His clients include Nokia , Sony , and Philips, as well as the cities of Amsterdam and Barcelona.
Previously, he was founder of the Experience Design Lab at frogdesign , an international product design company, and a lead designer and platform development strategist at Ludicorp. makers of Flickr.
Ben is a twelve-year veteran of the interaction design field. His past accomplishments include the design of network media sharing applications at Be Inc. and Silicon Graphics , and the management of the Research and Development group at web services agency Organic. He is the author of a forthcoming book on games as system models, and is a Director of a research foundation focused on investigating the intersection of play, interaction, and urban space.
Krissy Clark (S)
Block of Time: O'Farrell Street
Krissy Clark is an award-winning public radio journalist, documentary-maker and fifth generation San Franciscan. Clark has spent more than a decade covering San Francisco and the Western U.S. Her stories air on NPR, the BBC, and American Public Media, where she was a staff reporter and editor for the show Weekend America, and a frequent contributor to Marketplace. Clark spent the last year on a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford, where she worked with the d.school, the Computer Science and History Departments to explore location-aware media. Clark has a B.A. in The Humanities from from Yale University. She has received numerous awards for her stories, and was a finalist for a Third Coast International Audio Festival Award, one of the highest honors in public radio.
Kevin Collins (A)
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Kevin Collins, CoFounder of Sutro Media. Kevin Collins recently founded Sutro Media, which creates guides and iPhone ap- plications to help make it easier and more fun to explore towns, cities, and places by publishing real world guides on mobile phones. He received his Masters in Human Computer Interaction and Design at Stanford where he taught and worked with Terry Winograd and Scott Klemmer. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego. Prior to starting Sutro Media, he has worked at Genentech, Oracle, CNET, Or- ganic, Brodia, UCSF, and Bank of America. More importantly, he is always the first one on and the last one off the dance floor. Kevin is a co-creator of Wishing Wall
Stefano Corazza (A)
[no where now here]
Stefano has a degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Master in Design, a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Bioengineering and Computer Vision. He is very active in the domain of Visual Interactive Arts and New Media. Since his first large scale art project in 2006 he put together a community of high tech artists which are focusing on highly interactive forms of art. Previous art installations are “A Field of Sunflowerrobots” (2006), [timelovememory] 2009 and significant contributions to SWARM (2007). The current artistic focus is to develop techniques to have the audience become the center of the art installation. Stefano is also involved with binaural sounds and music research and is a guest at the CCRMA department for computer music at Stanford. Formerly researcher at Stanford University he founded Mixamo Inc. in 2008, a company active in 3D animation and motion capture, where he serves as CTO.
Robert Damphousse (A) (S)
Visualizing the invisible: Findings from wireless landscape
Robert Damphousse is a conceptual artist, computer programmer and a builder of electronics. His work studies technology for what it is: the new natural environment. His projects make this new nature accessible in a way that engenders the viewer with a better understanding of the technological landscapes that surround us.
Carl DiSalvo (A)
Urban Remix
Carl DiSalvo is an assistant professor of Digital Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he runs the Public Design Workshop. DiSalvo’s work centers on using design and art to prompt new forms of creative and critical public engagement with technology. He has lead participatory design and art workshops in Pittsburgh, PA and Atlanta GA, and has worked extensively with community organizations and youth groups. From 2007-2009 he lead the Neighborhood Networks project, working with residents in Pittsburgh neighborhoods to explore how sensing and robotics technologies could be used for community expression and intervention into local issues of concern. He is currently working with urban framing and sustainable agriculture groups and the Boys and Girls Club Youth Art Connect in Atlanta GA as part of the City as Learning Lab project, to explore how art and design can contribute to developing community technological fluency.
Ricardo Dominguez (A) (S)
City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is co-Director of Thing (thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum, Micha Cardenas and Amy Sara Carroll the *Transborder Immigrant Tool* (a GPS cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border was the winner of "Transnational Communities Award", this award was funded by *Cultural Contact*, Endowment for Culture Mexico - U.S. and handed out by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico), also funded by CALIT2 and two Transborder Awards from the UCSD Center for the Humanities. Ricardo is an Assistant Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department, a Hellman Fellow, and Principal/Principle Investigator at CALIT2 (http://bang.calit2.net). He also co-founder of *particle group* with artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll a gesture about nanotechnology entitled *Particles of Interest: Tales of the Matter Market* (http://pitmm.net) that was presented in Berlin (2007), the San Diego Museum of Art (2008), Oi Futuro, and FILE festivals in Brazil (2008).
Scott Doorley (A)
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Scott Doorley, Director of the Environments Lab at the d.school at Stanford. Scott Doorley hails from Boston and makes his way to the d.school after a brief return to the cold and snow of the east coast, where he taught film production at Boston University. Unlike most Northern California residents, Scott loves Los Angeles, where, among other things, he attended film school, met his wife, and performed almost every job imaginable in the film industry -- from early days in music videos running cases of Crystal to rap stars, to later years shooting footage for CBS reality shows in undisclosed locations overseas (and plenty in between). As a Masters Student in Learning, Design & Technology at Stanford, Scott explored what it means to design for thinking. He joins the d.school with an interest in applying design to domains, such as writing, filmmaking, and informal learning, that don’t always take advantage of design methods. Like many mammals, Scott loves to eat, but he also loves to cook, a habit he developed while working as a “chef” on a dive boat around Catalina Island in Southern California. Scott is a co-creator of Wishing Wall
Jason Freeman (A)
Urban RemixJason Freeman’s works break down conventional barriers between composers, performers, and listeners, using cutting-edge technology and unconventional notation to turn audiences and musicians into compositional collaborators. His music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Speculum Musicae, the So Percussion Group, the Rova Saxophone Quartet, the Nieuw Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and Evan Ziporyn; and his works have been featured at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Boston CyberArt Festival, 01SJ, and the Transmediale Festival and featured in the New York Times and on National Public Radio. N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella) (2003), a commission from Turbulence.org, was described by Billboard as “…an example of the web’s mind-expanding possibilities.” Freeman received his B.A. in music from Yale University and his M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Music at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
Elizabeth Goodman (Organizer)
Elizabeth Goodman is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information. Her writing, design and research focus on the production of pervasive computing in everyday urban spaces. Elizabeth has taught on site-specific art practice, tangible interaction design, and design research at the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited her multimedia design work in New York, Paris, and San Francisco. Elizabeth speaks widely on the design of mobile and pervasive computing systems at conferences, schools, and businesses, including ACM CHI and CSCW, Where 2.0, the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference, Yahoo! Research, and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She has a masters degree in interaction design from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University as well as a BA in Art from Yale University. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and has received an Intel PhD Fellowship.
www.confectious.net
Kari Gray (organizer)
Kari Gray has more than 30 years experience organizing environmental, arts, and community events; educational festivals, conferences, and workshops. She currently works with service providers in the Tenderloin and other low-income communities to organize Computer Help Days, where volunteers and certified technicians increase broadband Internet access in just one day with training, tech support and one-on-one tutoring. Other projects and clients include Access Now, Community Technology Network Bay Area
SF Connect, Independent Arts & Media, Common Assets Defense Fund, Zerodivide, Spitfire Agency, Parents for Public Schools - San Francisco, and Earth Day
Network.
Molly Hankwitz(Organizer)
Molly Hankwitz is a contributing editor to the Newmediafix blog on networked art, a resident of San Francisco, a media artist, designer and co-founder with Kari Gray of the Wireless Art Group/SF. She presented at Mobile Media 2007, UTS, Sydney and her curatorial/editorial experience in the media arts includes exhibitions at Artists Television Access (SF), Ars Electronica, ISEA, Fibreculture, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Metro Arts/Video Space (Brisbane), Multimedia Arts/Asia Pacific (MAAP), and Other Cinema. She was Artist in Residency with David Cox, at Artspace, Sydney, 2004 and her research practice defines interdisciplinary overlaps between architecture, planning and mobile media with a focus upon cities, networked communication, activism, and gender. She is currently a completing PhD candidate in Media and communications discipline at the Institute for Innovation and Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology.
Bjoern Hartmann (A)
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Bjoern Hartmann, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Bjoern Hartmann’s research in Human-Computer Interaction investigates authoring tools for professional designers and end-user programmers. He is affiliated with the Berkeley Institute of Design and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Bjoern received his PhD from the Stanford Computer Science department in 2009 and his MSE in Com- puter and Information Science as well as Undergraduate Degrees in Digital Media De- sign and Communication from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Bjoern is a co-creator of Wishing Wall
Catherine Herdlick (S)
Play the city
For more than six years, Catherine Herdlick has worked in productive and creative leads for successful locative media, casual games and cross-media projects "managing fun products that people love." She was the 2008 nominee for the Diana Jones Awaryd for Excellence in Gaming, worked with Gamelab in New York, and was the co-Founder and Director of New York City's Come out and play festival, a festival that draws thousands of players annually to play locative and pervasive games in the streets of New York.
Paula Levine (organizer) (S)
Transposing Spaces
Paula Levine is a media artist and educator who comes from deep roots in experimental narrative, spatial theory and practice. Her current work uses cartography and locative media to bridge between local and global by collapsing the safety of distance and spatially translating the impact of distant crises and traumatic geo-political events in local terms, on local ground. Works from her series "Shadows from another place," which include "San Francisco<->Baghdad" and "TheWalll," have shown in the HTMllES Festival, IMAGE FESTIVAL's Transposing Geographies: Mapping on the internet, and ISEA. She has given talks at San Jose's Zer01 Festival, MIT's Media in Transition conferences and the University of Wisconsin's Conney Conference for Jewish Studies and she was a recent keynote speaker at the 2009 Interactive Futures Conference in Vancouver, BC. Her videos have shown in festivals and galleries in the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan including Lincoln Center, the Mill Valley Film and Video Festival and in "HotBed" at the J.Paul Getty Museum. She is an Associate Professor of Art in Conceptual Information Arts at San Francisco State University.
Jake Levitas (A) (S)
TenderVoice/TenderNoise
Jake Levitas is a freelance consultant working at the Hub Bay Area. He has worked on a wide variety of sustainability and planning projects at Arup until April 2010, with an emphasis on GIS mapping, spatial analysis, and visualization components of this work. He helped lead multidisciplinary design teams in the 2007 and 2009 Open Architecture Challenge competitions, which were awarded Fifth Place Finalist and Semi-Finalist respectively from hundreds of international entries. He has a depth of experience in written, audio, and visual journalism and has worked on personal audio recording and editing projects for 10 years. Jake holds a BA in Environmental Studies and Economics from Washington University in St. Louis. Jake co-leads the TenderVoice project.
Mayra Madriz (A) (S)
TenderVoice/TenderNoise
Mayra Madriz is an urban planner and sustainability consultant at Arup San Francisco. She has expertise in community-based planning practice, and health impacts of the built environment. Past work has focused on bottom-up economic development strategies, including community-oriented eco-tourism and sustainable agriculture. Mayra has addressed community health and other environmental issues in various redevelopment efforts in the Bay Area including the Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard, and the Oakland Estuary. She is currently developing policies regarding parks and public facilities for the Concord Inland Area Plan. Mayra is a co-founder of Encuentamiento: a story-telling collective, and an artist-in-residence at the Red Poppy Art House. Mayra co-leads the TenderVoice project.
Dan Maynez-Aminzade (A)
tendersecrets
Dan Maynez-Aminzade (or Monzy) received his PhD from Stanford Computer Science department in 2008 and his masters from the MIT Media Lab in 2003 where he was a member of the Tangible Media Group. His earned his undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer Interaction Institute. He has worked and interned at Walt Disney Imagineering, ABC, Go.com, Adobe, Microsoft, and Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab. Monzy is also a well known (in certain circles) nerdcore hip hop artist, most well known for Drama in the PhD.
Elle Mehrmand (A) (S)
City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Elle Mehrmand [elleelleelle.org] is a performance/new media artist and musician who uses the body, electronics, video, sound and installation within her work. She is the singer and trombone player of Assembly of Mazes, a music collective who create dark, electronic, middle eastern, rhythmic jazz rock. Elle is currently an MFA candidate at UCSD, and received her BFA in art photography with a minor in music at CSULB. Elle has received grants from UCIRA, the Russell Foundation and Fine Arts Affiliates. She is a researcher at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at UCSD. Her performances have been shown in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Tijuana, Montreal, Dublin, San Diego and Bogotá, Colombia. Her work has been discussed in Art21, the LA Times, Furtherfield.org, Reno News and Review and the OC Weekly.
Josette Melchor (organizer) (S)
Setting the Tenderloin Stage - Grey Area
Josette Melchor is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Gray Area Foundation For The Arts (GAFFTA), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization dedicated to building social consciousness through digital culture. She is a social entrepreneur, curator, and community organizer. Currently her efforts are focused on making digital culture accessible, substantive, and inspiring, she aims to help realize the greatest power of technology: to bring us closer, faster.
By funding and curating projects that offer insightful perspective on the information of our age, using the technologies of our time, GAFFTA provides a means to decode and humanize the evolving global database. GAFFTA’s direction is influenced by Melchor’s previous projects Gray Area Gallery (2005–2008) and Gray Area Beacon, a new media arts program that she founded in 2008 with Silicon Valley Executive Peter Hirshberg. She has facilitated many large and small-scale events up and down the West Coast including notable pioneering media artists, Aaron Koblin, Camille Utterback, and C.E.B. Reas.
Melchor’s professional experience in technology undoubtedly feeds her business-savvy, but it’s the use of technology to comment on and enable our society that drives her creative leadership of this organization. Her professional philosophy of a full-hearted commitment to the arts is apparent in the community she’s developed thus far. Her personal connection with clients, artists, and patrons reverberates throughout the organization and provides an unshakable strength in foundation.
Shane Myrbeck (A) (S)
TenderVoice/TenderNoise
Shane Myrbeck is an acoustics consultant with Arup in San Francisco. While at Arup, he has worked on a wide variety of projects addressing sound in both the built and natural environments. Such projects could involve qualitative room acoustics, noise/vibration control, audiovisual systems design, and design of soundscapes and sound art installations. Before joining Arup, he worked as a freelance recording engineer in Boston, where he was a co-founder/artist with the Whitehaus Family Record, a performing arts collaborative there. Shane has an MS in acoustics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Shane co-leads the TenderNoise project.
Jay Nath (S)
DataSF
"Jay Nath began as the Director of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for the City & County of San Francisco in 2006 where he instituted the City's first Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment which served as a real-time bi-directional communication hub managing millions of messages. In his current role as Director of Innovation, he led an effort to make San Francisco the first large city in the nation to use Twitter as a new channel for taking public requests, and more recently, he established the nation’s first open source software policy for city government -- DataSF Logo2009. Mr. Nath authored an Open Data Executive Directive requiring City departments to make all non-confidential datasets under their authority available on DataSF.org, the city’s one stop web site for government data. Mr. Nath launched DataSF in August 2009 with 150 datasets from a range of city departments, including Police, Public Works, and the Municipal Transportation Agency. More than 30 software applications have already been created from the City’s data and are featured in the DataSF App Showcase. This includes San Francisco Crimespotting, an interactive crime map, EcoFinder, an iPhone app that helps residents recycle, and Routesy, an app that helps people find their way around the Bay Area’s transit systems. The Open Source and Open Data policy are part of a larger Open Gov Initiative being led by Jay Nath for the City and County of San Francisco to engage constituents, focused on open data, open participation and open source."
Michael Nitsche (A)
Urban Remix
Michael Nitsche teaches digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is most interested in the various forms of space in video games and forms of digital performance. He heads the Digital World and Image Group and is Associate Director of the Experimental Game Lab at Georgia Tech. In the course of his research he has worked with game developers such as SCEE, EA, Bluebyte, and Turner Broadcasting and has presented at GDC as well as numerous other game conferences including SIGGRAPH and E3. His book Video Game Spaces was published at MIT Press early 2009. Michael's most current research focuses on social media on cell phones and the new social and data spaces that are created by these applications. In a former life, Michael was a professional improv actor, studied architecture, and badly played guitar in a hardcore bluesband. He is an Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Matt Roberts (A)
EveryStep
Matthew (Matt) Roberts is a new media artist specializing in real-time video performance and new media applications. His work has been featured internationally and nationally, including shows in Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, and Italy and in the following cities of the United States, New York, Miami, and Chicago. He was awarded the Transitio Award during theTransitiomx_02: International Festival of Electronic Art and Video 2007 and his work has been featured in several large circulation news media such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wired. He is the founder of MPG: Mobile Performance Group (http://www.mobileperformancegroup.com), an Associate Professor of Art and Program Director of Digital Arts at Stetson University (http://digart.stetson.edu). He received his M.F.A. from The University of Illinois at Chicago and lives in Florida, USA.
Karl Robillard (S)
Karl Robillard is the Manager and one of the co-founders of the Tenderloin Tech Lab, a collaborative program between St. Anthony Foundation and partner organization, San Francisco Network Ministries.
St. Anthony Foundation is a nonprofit organization that offers programs providing education, advocacy and basic services to homeless and low-income adults in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. Along with the many services provided by St Anthony's Foundation, The Tenderloin Tech lab provides technology skills and other computing resources to residents in the Tenderloin with 38 state-of-the-art computers and instruction, access, and community resources to over 100+ students a day.
Originally from Ithaca, NY, Karl has been living in San Francisco for the past 9 years, and working for St. Anthony Foundation for eight of those 9 years. According to Karl, “The same way there’s this whole food network around feeding people who are hungry, technology is now almost as basic a human right as food.”
In addition to his work at St. Anthony’s, Karl has served on the Board of Directors for the Community Technology Network and on the Advisory Board at the Tenderloin Boys and Girls Club. He continues to be involved in a number of collaborative projects in the Tenderloin Neighborhood focusing on digital inclusion within the nonprofit community.
When he’s not at work, you can find Karl running through Golden Gate Park, swimming in the Bay, or cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge,...enjoying ...
Eric Rodenbeck (A)
TenderVoice/TenderNoise
Eric Rodenbeck the founder and creative director of Stamen Design,a leading design and technology studio in San Francisco specializing in interactive design and data visualization. Their work for a variety of public and private clients has been highly acclaimed since their inception in 2001. Eric has worked in the field of interactive design for over 14 years, and has spent this time "working to extend the boundaries of online media and live information visualization. Eric led the interactive storytelling and data-driven narrative effort at Quokka Sports, illustrated and designed at Wired Magazine and Wired Books, and was a co-founder of the design collective Umwow. Eric was born in New York City, where he studied architecture at Cooper Union, put himself through school by managing markets at numerous New York farmers’ markets, drafting architectural ornaments in the stoneyard of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and working summers for Kenneth Snelson. He received a B.A. in the History and Philosophy of Technology from The New School for Social Research in 1994. In 2008 he was called one of Esquire Magazine’s “Best and Brightest” new designers and thinkers, and one of ID Magazine’s top 40 designers to watch. Eric is the principal collaborator for TenderNoise project."
Leslie Rule (organizer) (S)
Leslie Rule runs KQED’s Center for Digital Media in San Francisco, working in the fields Education and Community Outreach. She is also co-director of the Center for Locative Media. Over the last 10 years, Ms. Rule developed a nationally recognized digital media teacher-training program for the American Film Institute, taught multimedia storytelling at colleges and universities, and served as Technology Director and Educational Technologist in middle and high schools. She is the author of “The Art, Skill, Craft and Magic of Digital Storytelling—a how-come, how-to guide.”
Recent educational and community-based locative media projects using digital storytelling and mobile devices include “Tagging the Blues Trail” in the Mississippi Delta, “‘Scape the Hood” a gps-enabled soundscape located in San Francisco, and a social justice/environmental racism project with at-risk students in Oakland. Her practice is a hands-on exploration into new media and place-based digital storytelling for engagement, empowerment and impact.
Ms. Rule has degrees in Rhetoric and Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Education with an emphasis on Instructional Technology
SENSEable City Lab (A) (S)
SENSEable City: Exploring Urban Futures
"The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
Brooke Singer (S)
Locative Media is Local Knowledge
Brooke Singer is a media artist who lives in New York City. Her work blurs the borders between science, technology, politics and arts practices. She works across media to provide entry into important social issues that are often characterized as specialized to a general public. She has exhibited at the Warhol Museum of Art, The Banff Centre, Neuberger Museum of Art, Diverseworks, Exit Art, FILE Electronic Festival, Sonar Music and Multimedia Festival, The Whitney Artport, among others. Recent awards and commissions include a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artist award, a Headlands Center for Arts residency, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) award, a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship and an Eyebeam and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Social Sculpture commission. She is currently Associate Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technology and activist group Preemptive Media.
Joel Slayton (S)
The Nature of Path/Minimal Dislocation
Joel Slayton is an internationally recognized artist, author and researcher. Considered a pioneer in the field of art and technology Slayton’s artworks engage a wide range of media and information technology focused on illuminating the possibilities of social software, navigation systems, cooperation models and networks. His artworks have been featured in over 100 exhibitions internationally. Joel Slayton was an original member of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT in the mid 1970’s, is a National Endowment for the Arts award recepient, and was selected for the Xerox Parc Pair Artists in Residence Program. In 1999 he founded C5 Corporation, a hybrid artwork in the form of a Silicon Valley start up company. C5 research focused on information visualization involving large data sets and social networks. C5 projects have been featured at the SF Camerawork, Walker Art Center, the Cantor Center for the Arts, Transmediale, Ars Electronica, The Tate, The New Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, ACM Siggraph, ASU Center for Creative Inquiry and at AUT in New Zealand. His most recent work explores interaction with the physical landscape using location based media involving mapping expeditions to high altitude volcanoes of the Pacific Rim. In 2008 Joel Slayton completed the first coast-to-coast drive across the United States using Google Earth, commissioned by the University of North Carolina. Joel Slayton’s conceptual art projects and performances include DoWhatDo, Conduits, The Chemistry of Fear, Landscape Painting as Counter Surveillance of Area 51, Rocket Launch at Panamint Wash and The Wedding Game. His tele-present robotic machines have been exhibited at the Krannert Museum of Art and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Joel Slayton is Executive Director of ZER01: The Art and Technology Network. As a catalyst and platform for presenting some of the world’s most innovative artists, ZER01 is transforming San Jose/Silicon Valley into a global epicenter for the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture. ZER01’s commitment to the culture of creativity and innovation that fuels Silicon Valley, the life-blood of the region, is represented through robust collaborations with Silicon Valley corporations and regional academic and cultural institutions. Joel Slayton is a professor at San Jose State University where is Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic program in the School of Art and Design. He was the Chair of ISEA 2006 (International Symposium of Electronic Art and was Editor-In-Chief of the Leonardo-MIT Press Book Series from 1999-2008.
Brett Stalbaum (A) (S)
City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
"Brett Stalbaum is a C5 research theorist specializing in information theory, database, and software development. A serial collaborator, he was a co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater and has been part of many other individual and collaborative projects. Brett has published widely on digital art, its context and aesthetics, and location aware media. Brett has taught art at San Jose State University, and Computers and Information Technology at Evergreen Valley College, where he specialized in teaching programming languages through web-based distance education. Currently, he is full-time lecturer and coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts Major (ICAM) at UCSD with research interests in Big Data, Geographic Information Systems in the Arts, and "Locative Media" (defined broadly)."
The Transborder Immigrant Tool, one of a series of projects under the title, Walkingtools, is currently showing in "Here Not There: San Diego Art Now" at the Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla and will be in the upcoming Orange County Museum of Art 2010 California Biennial in October, 2010.
J. Lee Stickles and Wright Yang (A) (S)
Beyond Boundaries
J. Lee Stickles founder of Topographical Shifts, is an urban designer and artist in San Francisco, CA. Wright Yang, a local artist and designer is collaborating with her on this event.
Topographical shifts is a non-profit design and research organization implementing urban design and landscape architecture within public space. Our belief is in the integrity of place and environment, this integrity is shaped by the culture that lives there and the ecological habitat of the urban system. Through research and understanding of the urban environment, design interventions and strategies will be implemented that allow the system to adapt and change.
Parul Vora (A)
tendersecrets
Parul Vora is a Designer, Researcher, Technologist, User Experience Specialist, Hacker, and Interactive Artist. She has studied at UC Berkeley, Columbia, the MIT Media Lab, the Stanford d.school, at home, in the shop, and out of doors. She is currently and Re- searcher and Designer at the Wikimedia Foundation and has recently worked at yhaus (the Design Innovation Team at Yahoo!), Y!RB (Yahoo Research Berkeley), and Urban Atmospheres (Intel Research Berkeley). She has a particular disposition for robots, bicycles, polaroid cameras, absurdist humor, halloween, lo-fi music, and Michel Gondry movies. She begins most conversations with “Wouldn’t it be cool if......?” and ends them with “Why not?”Parul is a co-creator of Wishing Wall and will be the project lead on tendersecrets.
Steve Woollard (S)
A Locative Legacy
Steve Woollard is the Co-production coordinator at the Banff New Media Institute, a world-renowned technology hub located at The Banff Centre in the heart of the Rockie Mountains. Steve works alongside artists such as Blast Theory, Jon Cohrs, Nina Czegledy and Germaine Koh, among many others, to help facilitate the creation of new media artworks. Steve also coordinates the thematic residencies Almost Perfect and Liminal Screen. Steve's personal art practice is concerned with the cultural impacts of new technology and its responsible use in society. He has developed numerous works in both Europe and North America and has exhibited in both continents. Steve was the 2006 Cardiff School of Art and Design Student of the Year. He holds a First Class honors degree in Design for Interactive Media, where he studied under Simon Pope.