INSTALLATION CONCEPT & DEVELOPMENT
Creative Directors:
Victoria Vesna - Media artist, Professor and Chair, department of Design | Media Arts.
James Gimzewski - Nano scientist, Professor, department of Chemistry.
NANO
UCLA SINAPSE production team
MEDIA ARTS, NANO Science & LITERATURE
UCLA SINAPSE production team
MEDIA ARTS, NANO Science & LITERATURE
MEDIA ARTS & DESIGN
Victoria Vesna
Media artist, Chair, department of Design | Media Arts. Her work explores the effects of communication technologies on collective behavior, and shifts in the perception of identity in relation to scientific innovation.
Steve Boyer - Artist, inventor, engineer, producer and educator with over 20 years of experience working with interactive media. Currently pursuing a Master of Architecture degree at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Katherine Hargeaves - Performance/visual artist, computer programmer/system administrator. MFA in Painting/Sculpture (UCLA), MSC in Computer Science (Umass, Boston). Expertise in digital typography, letterform, TeX typesetting language, movement, alternative healing and kundalini yoga.
Ashok Sukumaran - Background in architecture, exhibition design. Current interests and MFA research in synthetic spaces, video and sunlight.
Daniel Sauter - Studied at the Center for Art and Media at Kalsruhe, Germany. Currently MFA student in Design | Media Arts.
Osman Khan - Graduated from Columbia University with a major in Mechanical Engineering. Currently MFA graduate student at Design | Media Arts.
Anne Niemetz - Studied at the Center for Art and Media at Kalsruhe, Germany. Currently MFA student in Design | Media Arts.
Tenzin Wangchuk - Student of UCLA Design | Media Arts School. Artist, Musician, and Designer for revolutionary action.
Li Xu - UCLA Design Media Arts graduate. Designer and artist currently working at Pentagram Design, Inc.
Ted Chung - Undergraduate student in the department of Art, UCLA. Interested in the intersection of civil engineering, design and sculpture.
Michael Chu - Graduated from the University of Illinois, Champagne / Urbana, specializing in graphic design. MFA graduate student at Design | Media Arts.
Michael Chang - Website and interactive online content design. Third year undergraduate DMA student with interest in character modeling, animation, and interactive programming.
Andrew Yoon - Website design circa Sept 2004+. UCLA Design|Media Arts alumnus with interest in social design, photography, web, and drumming. www.andrewyoon.com
Adriana de Souza e Silva - Visiting scholar at UCLA, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is writing her PhD. Dissertation on the influence of nomadic technology devices on the perception of space.
Maroon Tabbal - Director of Advanced Research Computing for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His interest span from architectural assembly to IT, science & technology to Tibetan Buddhism.
Charles Harvey - Technology specialist with a background in digital printing and cross platform interoperability. Manages the D|MA Computer Labs. Graduated UCLA in English Literature. Runs the consulting group Three Moons Network.
Maroun Harb - IT Director, UCLA department of Design | Media Arts. Over 20 years of experience exploring new technologies related to arts/design. Studied Art and architecture at University of Louisiana at Lafayette BFA in media arts/computer graphics.
Consultants:
Ruth West - Media artist with a background as a molecular genetics researcher exploring the intersection of genetics and culture within a broader framework of artistic and scientific practice.
Sean Crowe is a mathematician and software engineer, and currently a technologist for The Culture Industry, a design research consultancy based in Los Angeles.
NANO SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
James Gimzewski
Professor of Chemistry. For 18 years was a group leader at the IBM research laboratories in Switzerland, today one of the best known nanoscientists worldwide.
Jeffrey Chongsathien - Studied engineering at the University of Cambridge, England. Recently, came to UCLA to join Prof Gimzewski's group and work towards his PhD in Chemistry.
Adam Braunschweig - Studied chemistry at Cornell, now works on constructing molecular machines, in both the physical chemistry and organic chemistry departments.
Adam Stieg - Adam Stieg - Ph.D. student in physical inorganic chemistry currently researching the interface between an array of electrochemical systems and their inherent electronic properties at the molecular scale.
Andrew E. Pelling - Studied at the University of Toronto and now a Ph.D. Student at UCLA in Nanoscience. Currently investigating the nanomechanics and sonic properties of cells. Also a photographer and musician.
Jason Lindgren - Undergraduate student at Yale interested at the intersection of applied physics and literature.
CALTECH 3D INTERFACES PROJECT TEAM:
Steven Schkolne - Interface researcher, internationally exhibited artist. Received a PhD from Caltech in October 2003 for demonstrating a new paradigm for 3d computer interface which is demonstrated in the NANO show.
Peter Schröer - Caltech Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Director of the Caltech Multi-Res Modeling Group. His research focuses on multiresolution methods for modeling, simulation, and visualization.
LITERATURE & CRITICAL THEORY
Katherine Hayles
Author. Her fields of interest are the relations between literature and science in the twentieth century, electronic textuality, twentieth-century, American fiction, science fiction, and literary theory.
Susan Lewak - Doctoral student in the department of English, Sue is currently exploring the intersections of fairy tales, fantasy, and digital media.
Nathan Brown - Graduated from Queen's University, Canada and is currently a PhD student in the department of English at UCLA. His fields of interest are 20th century American poetry, the modernist avant-gardes, critical theory, science and literature.
Kate Marshall - Doctoral student in the department of English. Her research interests include technology, communication and risk in the twentieth-century literature.
Jessica Pressman. - Doctoral student in the department of English. Co-ordinator for the Electronic Literature Organization, based at UCLA.
Carol Ann Wald - Doctoral student in the UCLA Department of English. Her area of specialization is science, technology, and literature. She is writing a dissertation on evolutionary narratives in science fiction about robots and AI.
Project manager:
Yun-Joo "JuJu" Kim - Interactive/New Media professional with a background in web development, video production, and streaming media technologies. Expertise and knowledge in project development and account management relating to entertainment and the arts. Graduated from SFSU with a B.A. in Radio and Television.