Art Gallery

De Montfort University, U.K., www.ernestedmonds.com

Ernest Edmonds is a pioneer computer artist and HCI innovator for whom combing creative arts practice with creative technologies has been a life-long pursuit. In 2017 he won both the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award for Practice in Human-Computer Interaction and the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. He is Chairman of the Board of ISEA International, whose main activity is the annual International Symposium on Electronic Art that began in 1988. He is an Honorary Editor of Leonardo.

Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A., dcardoso@andrew.cmu.edu

Daniel Cardoso Llach is an architecture and computational design scholar and the author of Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design (Routledge, 2015), an intellectual history of Computer-Aided Design that traces critically its repercussions in architecture and other design fields. He is a Graham Foundation grantee and the curator of a recent exhibition on the history and contemporary practice of computational design at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon entitled “Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design.” He is Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon, lectures frequently and internationally, and his writings have been published in several journals and edited collections. Cardoso Llach holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, and a PhD and an MS (with honors) in Design and Computation from MIT. He has also been a research fellow at Leuphana (MECS), Germany, and a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, U.K.

Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, Canada, skawennati@gmail.com, www.skawennati.com

Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from an Indigenous perspective. She is best known for her machinimas but also produces still images and sculpture. Her pioneering new media projects include the online gallery/chat-space and mixed-reality event CyberPowWow (1997–2004); a paper doll/time-travel journal, Imagining Indians in the 25th Century (2001); and the machinimas TimeTraveller™ (2007–2013), She Falls For Ages (2017) and The Peacemaker Returns (2017). These have been widely presented in major exhibitions across the globe, including “Uchronia | What If ?,” in the HyperPavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale; B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany; “Now? Now!” at the Biennale of the Americas; and “Looking Forward (L’Avenir)” at the Montreal Biennale. Her award-winning work is included in both public and private collections. Born in Kahnawè:ke Mohawk Territory, Skawennati holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she resides. She is Co-Director, with Jason Edward Lewis, of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), a research network of artists, academics and technologists investigating, creating and critiquing Indigenous virtual environments. She also codirects their Skins workshops for youth in Aboriginal Storytelling and Digital Media. In 2014, AbTeC launched IIF, the Initiative for Indigenous Futures.

Canada and Hawaii, http://abtec.org/iif/

Nā ‘Anae Mahiki is a collective of 16 young adults from Oahu who participated in the Skins 5.0 Workshop in Honolulu in July 2017. Skins 5.0 was hosted by the Kanaeokana Network, Kamehameha Schools and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. The Skins Workshops in Aboriginal Storytelling and Digital Media aim to empower Indigenous youth to be producers—not just consumers—of new media. The program is one of four major components of the Initiative for Indigenous Future (IIF), a partnership of universities and community organizations led by AbTeC and dedicated to developing multiple visions of Indigenous peoples in the future.

Cook Inlet Tribal Council; E-Line Media, U.S.A., afredeen@citci.org

Amy Fredeen is of shared Inupiaq and German descent. Most recently through CEI, Fredeen helped form a partnership with E-line Media, an industry leader educational games, that created the first video game made with an indigenous community called Never Alone. For this game Fredeen served as the lead cultural ambassador ensuring an inclusive development process that resulted in the sharing, celebrating of the Inupiaq culture and stories. With 26 mini-documentaries embedded in the game, Never Alone won a 2015 British Academy Award for Best Debut and has had 3 million downloads to date.

Oculus VR; E-Line Media, U.S.A., dveryovka@gmail.com

Dima Veryovka is an award-winning Art Director, Concept Artist and Creative Lead with extensive experience in the development of video games. He built and led high-performing creative teams for various projects, including the BAFTA winning game Never Alone. Currently, Veryovka is an Art Director at Oculus, where he oversees visual concepts, design and implementation, and provides strategic leadership and artistic direction to creative teams. Prior to starting at Oculus, he served as an Art Director at ArenaNet, Colabee Studio, and E-Line Media, and was a key member of the design and art teams at Sony Computer Entertainment America.

Vancouver, Canada, anklei@microsoft.com

Microsoft Vancouver and our in-house makerspace, The Garage, worked together on this creative collaboration with Heiltsuk artist Shawn Hunt. Transformation Mask is a shared work created by a team of artists, designers and engineers at Microsoft. Hunt led the team through a fluid creative process from idea to installed museum exhibit in just under 2 months, with everyone empowered to add their expertise and enthusiasm at every step of the way. Concept by Shawn Hunt. Mechatronics and physical component programming by Robert Butterworth. Display programming by Jonathon Cobb. 3D modeling and 3D printing by Jeremy Kersey. Holographic effects and experience design by Andy Klein. Project management by Stacey Mulcahy. Additional 3D printing by Brendan O’Rourke. Project facilitated by Pam Saunders. Audio by Brent Silk. Holographic application programming by Julia Taylor-Hell.

Vancouver, Canada, anklei@microsoft.com

Microsoft Vancouver and our in-house makerspace, The Garage, worked together on this creative collaboration with Heiltsuk artist Shawn Hunt. Transformation Mask is a shared work created by a team of artists, designers and engineers at Microsoft. Hunt led the team through a fluid creative process from idea to installed museum exhibit in just under 2 months, with everyone empowered to add their expertise and enthusiasm at every step of the way. Concept by Shawn Hunt. Mechatronics and physical component programming by Robert Butterworth. Display programming by Jonathon Cobb. 3D modeling and 3D printing by Jeremy Kersey. Holographic effects and experience design by Andy Klein. Project management by Stacey Mulcahy. Additional 3D printing by Brendan O’Rourke. Project facilitated by Pam Saunders. Audio by Brent Silk. Holographic application programming by Julia Taylor-Hell.

Independent Artist, Canada, shawn_b_hunt@yahoo.com, http://www.shawnhunt.net/

Microsoft Vancouver and our in-house makerspace, The Garage, worked together on this creative collaboration with Heiltsuk artist Shawn Hunt. Transformation Mask is a shared work created by a team of artists, designers and engineers at Microsoft. Hunt led the team through a fluid creative process from idea to installed museum exhibit in just under 2 months, with everyone empowered to add their expertise and enthusiasm at every step of the way. Concept by Shawn Hunt. Mechatronics and physical component programming by Robert Butterworth. Display programming by Jonathon Cobb. 3D modeling and 3D printing by Jeremy Kersey. Holographic effects and experience design by Andy Klein. Project management by Stacey Mulcahy. Additional 3D printing by Brendan O’Rourke. Project facilitated by Pam Saunders. Audio by Brent Silk. Holographic application programming by Julia Taylor-Hell.

Meow Wolf, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A., dannybazo@gmail.com

The artist team of Danny Bazo, Marko Peljhan and Karl Yerkes, from the Systemics Lab in the Media Arts and Technology Program at UC Santa Barbara, collaborated with NASA and SETI Institute scientist Jon Jenkins on Somnium from 2013–2016.

University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A., Projekt Atol Institute, Slovenia and U.S.A., systemics.mp@gmail.com

The artist team of Danny Bazo, Marko Peljhan and Karl Yerkes, from the Systemics Lab in the Media Arts and Technology Program at UC Santa Barbara, collaborated with NASA and SETI Institute scientist Jon Jenkins on Somnium from 2013–2016.

University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A., karl.yerkes@gmail.com

The artist team of Danny Bazo, Marko Peljhan and Karl Yerkes, from the Systemics Lab in the Media Arts and Technology Program at UC Santa Barbara, collaborated with NASA and SETI Institute scientist Jon Jenkins on Somnium from 2013–2016.

xREZ Art + Science Lab, University of North Texas, U.S.A., ruth.west@unt.edu

INSTRUMENT | One Antarctic Night is being developed by an art + science collaboration bringing together interactive artists, composers, computer scientists and astrophysicists. Our team includes collaborators from University of North Texas, Mount Holyoke College, University of Texas at Dallas and Texas AM: Ruth West, Violet Johnson, I Chen Yeh, Zach Thomas, Eitan Mendelowitz and Lars Berg.

xREZ Art + Science Lab, University of North Texas, U.S.A., violetijohnson89@gmail.com

INSTRUMENT | One Antarctic Night is being developed by an art + science collaboration bringing together interactive artists, composers, computer scientists and astrophysicists. Our team includes collaborators from University of North Texas, Mount Holyoke College, University of Texas at Dallas and Texas AM: Ruth West, Violet Johnson, I Chen Yeh, Zach Thomas, Eitan Mendelowitz and Lars Berg.

xREZ Art + Science Lab, University of North Texas, U.S.A., yeherics@gmail.com

INSTRUMENT | One Antarctic Night is being developed by an art + science collaboration bringing together interactive artists, composers, computer scientists and astrophysicists. Our team includes collaborators from University of North Texas, Mount Holyoke College, University of Texas at Dallas and Texas AM: Ruth West, Violet Johnson, I Chen Yeh, Zach Thomas, Eitan Mendelowitz and Lars Berg.

xREZ Art + Science Lab, University of North Texas, U.S.A., zthomas.music@gmail.com

INSTRUMENT | One Antarctic Night is being developed by an art + science collaboration bringing together interactive artists, composers, computer scientists and astrophysicists. Our team includes collaborators from University of North Texas, Mount Holyoke College, University of Texas at Dallas and Texas AM: Ruth West, Violet Johnson, I Chen Yeh, Zach Thomas, Eitan Mendelowitz and Lars Berg.

Mount Holyoke College, U.S.A., emendelo@mtholyoke.edu

INSTRUMENT | One Antarctic Night is being developed by an art + science collaboration bringing together interactive artists, composers, computer scientists and astrophysicists. Our team includes collaborators from University of North Texas, Mount Holyoke College, University of Texas at Dallas and Texas AM: Ruth West, Violet Johnson, I Chen Yeh, Zach Thomas, Eitan Mendelowitz and Lars Berg.

Independent Artist, lars@larsberg.net

INSTRUMENT | One Antarctic Night is being developed by an art + science collaboration bringing together interactive artists, composers, computer scientists and astrophysicists. Our team includes collaborators from University of North Texas, Mount Holyoke College, University of Texas at Dallas and Texas AM: Ruth West, Violet Johnson, I Chen Yeh, Zach Thomas, Eitan Mendelowitz and Lars Berg.

The author of these works is cAt (science/Art/technology), a research group of the Art Institute, at São Paulo State University, accredited by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The group consists of Prof. Dr. Milton Sogabe (UNESP) and Prof. Dr. Fernando Fogliano (SENAC) as leaders, Dr. Fabio Fon (UNESP), doctoral student Carolina Peres (UNESP), Masters Cleber Gazana (UNESP) and Sorya Braz (UNESP), and Masters students Rodrigo Dorta Marques (UNESP), Mirian Steinberg (UNESP), Melina Furquim (UNESP) and Daniel Malva (UNESP).

The author of these works is cAt (science/Art/technology), a research group of the Art Institute, at São Paulo State University, accredited by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The group consists of Prof. Dr. Milton Sogabe (UNESP) and Prof. Dr. Fernando Fogliano (SENAC) as leaders, Dr. Fabio Fon (UNESP), doctoral student Carolina Peres (UNESP), Masters Cleber Gazana (UNESP) and Sorya Braz (UNESP), and Masters students Rodrigo Dorta Marques (UNESP), Mirian Steinberg (UNESP), Melina Furquim (UNESP) and Daniel Malva (UNESP).

The author of these works is cAt (science/Art/technology), a research group of the Art Institute, at São Paulo State University, accredited by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The group consists of Prof. Dr. Milton Sogabe (UNESP) and Prof. Dr. Fernando Fogliano (SENAC) as leaders, Dr. Fabio Fon (UNESP), doctoral student Carolina Peres (UNESP), Masters Cleber Gazana (UNESP) and Sorya Braz (UNESP), and Masters students Rodrigo Dorta Marques (UNESP), Mirian Steinberg (UNESP), Melina Furquim (UNESP) and Daniel Malva (UNESP).

São Paulo State University, Brazil, sorayabraz@gmail.com

The author of these works is cAt (science/Art/technology), a research group of the Art Institute, at São Paulo State University, accredited by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The group consists of Prof. Dr. Milton Sogabe (UNESP) and Prof. Dr. Fernando Fogliano (SENAC) as leaders, Dr. Fabio Fon (UNESP), doctoral student Carolina Peres (UNESP), Masters Cleber Gazana (UNESP) and Sorya Braz (UNESP), and Masters students Rodrigo Dorta Marques (UNESP), Mirian Steinberg (UNESP), Melina Furquim (UNESP) and Daniel Malva (UNESP).

São Paulo State University, Brazil, rodrigodorta@gmail.com

The author of these works is cAt (science/Art/technology), a research group of the Art Institute, at São Paulo State University, accredited by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The group consists of Prof. Dr. Milton Sogabe (UNESP) and Prof. Dr. Fernando Fogliano (SENAC) as leaders, Dr. Fabio Fon (UNESP), doctoral student Carolina Peres (UNESP), Masters Cleber Gazana (UNESP) and Sorya Braz (UNESP), and Masters students Rodrigo Dorta Marques (UNESP), Mirian Steinberg (UNESP), Melina Furquim (UNESP) and Daniel Malva (UNESP).

The author of these works is cAt (science/Art/technology), a research group of the Art Institute, at São Paulo State University, accredited by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The group consists of Prof. Dr. Milton Sogabe (UNESP) and Prof. Dr. Fernando Fogliano (SENAC) as leaders, Dr. Fabio Fon (UNESP), doctoral student Carolina Peres (UNESP), Masters Cleber Gazana (UNESP) and Sorya Braz (UNESP), and Masters students Rodrigo Dorta Marques (UNESP), Mirian Steinberg (UNESP), Melina Furquim (UNESP) and Daniel Malva (UNESP).

The author of these works is cAt (science/Art/technology), a research group of the Art Institute, at São Paulo State University, accredited by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The group consists of Prof. Dr. Milton Sogabe (UNESP) and Prof. Dr. Fernando Fogliano (SENAC) as leaders, Dr. Fabio Fon (UNESP), doctoral student Carolina Peres (UNESP), Masters Cleber Gazana (UNESP) and Sorya Braz (UNESP), and Masters students Rodrigo Dorta Marques (UNESP), Mirian Steinberg (UNESP), Melina Furquim (UNESP) and Daniel Malva (UNESP).

The author of these works is cAt (science/Art/technology), a research group of the Art Institute, at São Paulo State University, accredited by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The group consists of Prof. Dr. Milton Sogabe (UNESP) and Prof. Dr. Fernando Fogliano (SENAC) as leaders, Dr. Fabio Fon (UNESP), doctoral student Carolina Peres (UNESP), Masters Cleber Gazana (UNESP) and Sorya Braz (UNESP), and Masters students Rodrigo Dorta Marques (UNESP), Mirian Steinberg (UNESP), Melina Furquim (UNESP) and Daniel Malva (UNESP).

São Paulo State University, Brazil, malva77@gmail.com

The author of these works is cAt (science/Art/technology), a research group of the Art Institute, at São Paulo State University, accredited by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The group consists of Prof. Dr. Milton Sogabe (UNESP) and Prof. Dr. Fernando Fogliano (SENAC) as leaders, Dr. Fabio Fon (UNESP), doctoral student Carolina Peres (UNESP), Masters Cleber Gazana (UNESP) and Sorya Braz (UNESP), and Masters students Rodrigo Dorta Marques (UNESP), Mirian Steinberg (UNESP), Melina Furquim (UNESP) and Daniel Malva (UNESP).

SENAC, Brazil, fernandofogliano@gmail.com

The author of these works is cAt (science/Art/technology), a research group of the Art Institute, at São Paulo State University, accredited by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). The group consists of Prof. Dr. Milton Sogabe (UNESP) and Prof. Dr. Fernando Fogliano (SENAC) as leaders, Dr. Fabio Fon (UNESP), doctoral student Carolina Peres (UNESP), Masters Cleber Gazana (UNESP) and Sorya Braz (UNESP), and Masters students Rodrigo Dorta Marques (UNESP), Mirian Steinberg (UNESP), Melina Furquim (UNESP) and Daniel Malva (UNESP).

Northwestern University, U.S.A., ozge@northwestern.edu

Özge Samanci, a media artist and graphic novelist, is an associate professor in Northwestern University’s School of Communication. Her interactive installations have been exhibited internationally, including FILE festival, The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, WRO Media Art Biennial, Athens International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, ISEA. Samanci’s installation You Are the Ocean will be exhibited at Currents New Media, FILE festival, and SIGGRAPH 2018 Art Gallery.

Northwestern University, U.S.A., gcan@u.northwestern.edu

Gabriel Caniglia studies cognitive science and computer science at Northwestern University. His interests lie broadly in humancomputer interaction and immersive technologies. He is the programming and implementation lead for You Are the Ocean.

Tangible Interaction Design, Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, alex@tangibleinteraction.com

Alex Beim is CEO, Lead Artist, Creative Director at Tangible Interaction Design Inc. From graphic designer to digital creative to interactive artist, Alex Beim’s career has been a diverse journey. His interest in moving interactivity away from the screen and into the physical world led to the launch of Tangible Interaction Design Inc. in 2006 in the Strathcona neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. Since then, he has focused on developing interactive experiences that engage people in public and commercial spaces. His artworks have been seen by millions worldwide and include installations for CODE Live (2010 Winter Olympic Games), City of Richmond, City of Vancouver, City of Turin, the Vancouver Aquarium, Vancouver Public Library, SIGGRAPH, Toronto International Film Festival’s digiPlaySpace, Cine Kid and Illuminate Yaletown.

MIT Media Lab, U.S.A., nicolelh@media.mit.edu

Nicole L’Huillier (Chile), Thomas Sanchez Lengeling (Mexico) and Yasushi Sakai (Japan) are researchers, artists, students, architects, musicians, technologists and scientists. They are currently based at the MIT Media Lab, Boston, MA, where their work scales from creating micro-chip universes to sentient megastructures, converting tangible artifacts to intangible experiences, and creating synthesized reality tools to speculative futuring actions.

MIT Media Lab, U.S.A., thomassl@mit.edu

Nicole L’Huillier (Chile), Thomas Sanchez Lengeling (Mexico) and Yasushi Sakai (Japan) are researchers, artists, students, architects, musicians, technologists and scientists. They are currently based at the MIT Media Lab, Boston, MA, where their work scales from creating micro-chip universes to sentient megastructures, converting tangible artifacts to intangible experiences, and creating synthesized reality tools to speculative futuring actions.

MIT Media Lab, U.S.A., yasushis@media.mit.edu

Nicole L’Huillier (Chile), Thomas Sanchez Lengeling (Mexico) and Yasushi Sakai (Japan) are researchers, artists, students, architects, musicians, technologists and scientists. They are currently based at the MIT Media Lab, Boston, MA, where their work scales from creating micro-chip universes to sentient megastructures, converting tangible artifacts to intangible experiences, and creating synthesized reality tools to speculative futuring actions.