SIGGRAPH 2019 Art Gallery

John Wong Art, Hong Kong, www.johnwong.asia

John Wong is a multimedia artist. His work is always questioning the ideas of trust, self-identity, modern superstition over the relationship of Chinese traditional cultures and new technology. Algorithmic installation art RuShi just exhibited at Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2018. His debut feature, The Tourist, was screened at the 27th Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2002. From 1998 to 1999, he was invited by Australia’s ARX5 (Artists’ Regional Exchange) cultural exchange program for art exchange in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. His digital installation art Siren exhibited at the Osage Gallery in Hong Kong in 2007.

University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A., www.rodgerluo.com

Jieliang Luo is a researcher and media artist working with reinforcement learning, robotics and visualization. Currently, he is a PhD candidate and lecturer in media arts and technology at UC Santa Barbara. His research focuses on bridging reinforcement learning and creativity by exploring potential simulated and physical platforms for artists, designers and architects to have easy access to reinforcement learning. His works have been featured at SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, IEEE VIS, CURRENTS NEW MEDIA and Beijing Times Arts Museum, among others. He also has worked for Autodesk’s Robotics Lab as a robotic and machine learning researcher since June 2018.

University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A., www.zhangweidi.com

Weidi Zhang is a digital artist and visual designer. Her media arts practices synthesize both the artistic and computational to arrive at a new hybridity that pushes the boundaries of space, interactivity and abstraction into new areas of visual and sonic complexity. Her research and practice interest is spatial narrative development and experimental visualization in virtual reality environments. Currently she is a second-year PhD student in the media arts and technology program at University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds her MFA in art and technology from CalArts (California Institute of the Arts).

UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London, U.K., brigittazics.com

Brigitta Zics is an award-winning artist who creates works with visual and material sensitivity that seeks to fashion new experiences. She works on the convergence of art and science and explores mixed-media forms combining various techniques and emerging technologies. Her recent interests embrace experiential art, human perception and art, and the aesthetics of data and algorithms. She is an associate professor at UCL Knowledge Lab, London, and a Royal Academy of Arts Fellow.

Northwestern University, U.S.A., www.ozgesamanci.com

Özge Samanci, a media artist and graphic novelist, is an associate professor at Northwestern University’s School of Communication. Her interactive installations have been exhibited internationally.

Electronic Arts, U.S.A., www.armsnyder.com

Adam Snyder works as a software engineer for Electronic Arts. He has a BS from Northwestern University in radio/TV/film and computer science, with a minor in sound design. He builds software tools that demonstrably improve people’s lives.

Northwestern University, U.S.A., www.gcan.co

Gabriel Caniglia studies cognitive science and computer science at Northwestern University. His interests lie broadly in humancomputer interaction and immersive technologies.

UCLA Art | Sci Center, U.S.A., www.victoriavesna.com, noiseaquarium.com

Lead artist: Victoria Vesna, PhD, is an artist and professor at UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and director of the Art|Sci Center at the School of the Arts and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). With her installations she investigates how communication technologies affect collective behavior and perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Her work involves long-term collaborations with composers, nano-scientists, neuroscientists and evolutionary biologists.

University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, www.alfredvendl.com

Director of Science Visualization Lab: Dr. Alfred Vendl is a director and writer with a background in chemistry. He is currently head of the Science Visualization Lab in the Digital Arts department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and has around 80 scientific publications about materials science, archaeometry and art technology. He is the writer, director and/or producer of more than 200 prime-time documentaries for ORF, ARD, ZDF, WDR, BR, ARTE, BBC, Discovery, Smithsonian and WNET, among others.

University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, www.martinafroeschl.com

Computer animation: Martina R. Fröschl, MSc, is a digital designer focusing on computer animation and scientific visualizations. She studied media technique in St. Pölten and media design in Hagenberg, Austria, and graduated in 2009. Currently, she is a doctoral researcher in scientific visualization projects at the Science Visualization Lab in the Digital Arts department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

United Motion Labs, Austria, www.glenneroo.com

Programming: Glenn Bristol is a computer programmer, photographer and digital artist based in Vienna. He is one of the founding members of United Motion Labs, established in 2005. UML is an experimental lab dedicated to creating immersive audiovisual installations and Glenn is involved in every step of production—from filming, content creation, pre/postproduction, VJing, DJing, creating software tools, IT administration and handling photo, video and time-lapse documentation.

Steinhardt, NYU, U.S.A., www.steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Paul_Geluso

Paul Geluso’s work focuses on the theoretical, practical and artistic aspects of sound recording and reproduction. He is the coeditor of Immersive Sound: The Art and Science of Binaural and Multi-channel Audio, published by Focal Press-Routledge, and currently serves as an assistant professor of music and the associate director of music technology at New York University, as well as the studio director at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in NYC.

University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, stephan.handschuh@vetmeduni.ac.at

Stephan Handschuh is a biologist with a technical focus on microscopic imaging and 3D visualization. He became a staff scientist in the imaging facility at University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in 2012. He is also a member of the Science Visualization group of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he works on creating scientifically meaningful 3D models of microscopic animal samples.

University of Vienna, Austria, thomas.schwaha@univie.ac.at

Thomas Schwaha is a zoologist with particular focus on animal morphology and evolution as well as imaging techniques. He studied biology at the University of Vienna and recieved a doctoral degree in the soft-body morphological aspects of bryozoans. Since 2011, he has held a postdoctoral position at the Department of Integrative Zoology at University of Vienna.

Kobe Design University, Japan, www.nakayasu.com

Akira Nakayasu is an artist, researcher and educator based in Kobe, Japan. He works across digital media art and robotics, and often collaborates with the theatrical world, contemporary music and dance. His recent focus is on a lifelike kinetic expression inspired by a wiggling tentacle of a sea anemone or by grass blowing in the wind.

U.S.A., www.zivschneider.com

Ziv Schneider is an artist, designer and creative technologist whose work is at the intersection of documentary, video games and volumetric photography. She is the cofounder of Raycaster Studio and holds a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she was also a research fellow. Other fellowships include the Economist Media Lab, the New York Film Academy fellowship for digital/electronic arts and the Knight Foundation Museum Technology track at the New Museum’s NEW INC incubator.

South Africa, www.caitlingracerobinson.com

Caitlin Robinson is a creative and cultural producer from Pretoria, South Africa. With a background in journalism and documentary film, she portrays compelling human stories through collaboration with multidisciplinary artists and creative technologists in new immersive media. In addition, she designs strategies to connect stories to their audiences.

Harvard University, U.S.A., www.jiabaoli.org

Jiabao Li works at the intersection of emerging technology, art and design. Her work raises questions about technology’s influence on human perception, identity and emotion. Her research-based projects range from wearables, projections, drones and installations to scientific experiments. She holds a master of design in technology degree with distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design. Jiabao’s work has been featured in Domus, TechCrunch, Yahoo!, CCTV and Yanko Design. Her work has been shown in Milan and at Dubai Design Week, ISEA, CHI, AR in Action and PRIMER. She received an award from Fast Company World Changing Ideas and is the winner of the iF Design Award, the Future Cities Contest and the ISWC Design Award.

Harvard University, U.S.A., www.honghao.gallery

Honghao Deng is a computational designer. He holds a master of design in technology with distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design and was a researcher at City Science Group, MIT Media Lab.

Harvard University, U.S.A., www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/panagiotis-michalatos

Panagiotis Michalatos is an architect, assistant professor in architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design and a principal research engineer at Autodesk.

San José State University, U.S.A., yoonchung.han@sjsu.edu, www.yoonchunghan.com

Yoon Chung Han is an interactive media artist, award-winning interaction designer and currently an assistant professor in the department of design at San José State University. Over the past 10 years, she has created a wide range of interactive 2D/3D audiovisual art installations including biologic art, data visualization and sonification, generative art and audiovisual interface design. She earned her BFA and MFA at Seoul National University, her second MFA in Design | Media Arts at University of California, Los Angeles, and holds a PhD in media arts and technology from University of California, Santa Barbara.

California State University, Fullerton, U.S.A., survepraful@live.com

Praful Surve has experience in architecting and developing full-stack software development for Web application projects. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from California State University, Fullerton and a bachelor’s degree from University of Mumbai. Currently, he is a software consultant at Accutive where he works on multiple back-end systems conducting research and development to fulfill core business process in the financial domain.

Product Design, Google, U.S.A., alexrothera@google.com, www.alexrothera.com

Alex Rothera is a designer, artist and inventor focusing on the intersection of future technologies and social impact. His work looks to first understand people and contexts to then design elegant and responsible products and technologies. Alex is currently a cofounder of Humane Engineering and is also a designer for Google.

U.K., www.cgthompson.com

Christopher G. Thompson is an independent and collaborative designer based in London. He has worked for a diverse range of companies, brands and partners across multiple platforms, specializing in brand identity, creative direction, digital design and interactive technologies. During 2010 he completed an MSc in modernity, space and place within the Urban Lab at University College London and is also a visiting lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts and University of the West of England, Bristol.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A., www.christopherbaker.net

Christopher Baker is an artist whose work engages the rich collection of social, technological and ideological networks present in the urban landscape. He creates artifacts and situations that reveal and generate relationships within and between these networks. Baker’s award-winning work has been featured extensively online, in print and internationally in festivals, galleries and museums.

Hong Kong, www.shekpointcharlie.tumblr.com

Shekpoint Charlie is an independent photographer currently working in Hong Kong. He previously worked at Join Art HK, following a three-year residency as a researcher and consultant at Fabrica, Benetton Group’s Communication Research Centre in Italy.

Graduate School of Journalism, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Columbia University, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A., hy2514@columbia.edu

Rosalie Yu is an artist who uses alternative capturing techniques to explore the limits of perception and memory, to reflect upon archiving practices, to transfigure everyday experience through rituals and to interrogate the process of capturing depth in photography. Her projects have framed these concerns within broader narratives like the dynamics of physical intimacy in East Asian culture and the history of colonial sugar production. She is a creative technologist and artistic fellow at Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Her work has been supported by fellowships and residencies at Pioneer Works, EdLab at Teachers College and NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

School of Journalism, University of British Columbia, Canada, charles.berret@gmail.com, www.charlesberret.net

Charles Berret recently joined the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor after completing his Ph.D. in Communications at Columbia University. Charles’s research has been funded by grants and fellowships from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, the Knight Foundation and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. His scholarly work has been published in the Journal of Visual Culture and the Journal of Communication Inquiry.

Neil Mendoza Studio, U.S.A., www.neilmendoza.com

Neil Mendoza’s work combines sculpture, electronics and software to bring inanimate objects and spaces to life. By decontextualizing objects with technology and vice versa, the constituent parts of his work can be looked at in a new way. Using this medium, he explores themes of the absurd, the humorous, the futile and the surreal. He has exhibited work and talked at conferences around the world, taught classes on art and technology at UCLA and Stanford and cofounded the art collective "is this good?"