UCLA SINAPSE project team

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.

CREATIVE TEAM

Project Direction:
Ashok Sukumaran - Media artist, architect. MFA, Design | Media Arts
Daniel Sauter - MFA student, Design | Media Arts

Project Team:
Jeffrey Chongsathien - PhD student in Chemistry, UCLA
Osman Khan - MFA student, Design | Media Arts
Michael Chu - MFA student Design | Media Arts
Adam Stieg - Ph.D. student in physical inorganic chemistry, UCLA
Ted Chung - Undergraduate student, department of Art, UCLA
Adam Braunschweig - PhD student in Chemistry, UCLA

Soundscapes:
Anne Niemetz - MFA student, Design | Media Arts
Andrew E. Pelling - Ph.D. Student at UCLA in Nanoscience
Tenzin Wangchuk - BFA, UCLA Design | Media Arts School.

Model Assembly, Tensile Structures:
Maroon Tabbal - Former Director of Advanced Research Computing, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Technology:
Charles Harvey - Technology specialist Design | Media Arts Department

Contributors:
Steven Boyer - Artist, inventor, engineer
Katherine Hargreaves - Performance/visual artist, programmer
Maroun Harb - IT Director, UCLA department of Design | Media Arts
Sean Crowe - Mathematician and software engineer
Luke Lee - Graduate student in Electrical Engineering, UCLA
Michael Chang - Undergraduate student, Design | Media Arts
Josh Nimoy - Software programmer, BFA, Design | Media Arts
Li Xu - Designer and artist, BFA, Design | Media Arts
Peter Conolly - Designer and programmer, BFA, Design | Media Arts
Jason Lindgren - Undergraduate student, applied physics and literature, Yale
Gabe Dunne - Designer and programmer, BFA, Design | Media Arts
Karl Haendel - an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles
Andrew Yoon - Designer/Artist/Musician - BFA, Design | Media Arts

CALTECH 3D INTERFACES PROJECT TEAM:
Steven Schkolne - Digital Artist, Caltech Ph.D. in Computer Science
Peter Schröder - Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Caltech

LITERATURE & CRITICAL THEORY
Katherine Hayles - Associate Vice Chancellor of Research in the Humanities, department of English and Design | Media Arts, UCLA
Susan Lewak - PhD student department of English, UCLA
Nathan Brown - PhD student in the department of English, UCLA
Kate Marshall - PhD student in the department of English, UCLA
Jessica Pressman. - PhD student in the department of English, UCLA. Co-ordinator for the Electronic Literature Organization, based at UCLA.
Carol Ann Wald - PhD student in the UCLA Department of English
Adriana de Souza e Silva - Visiting scholar at UCLA, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Architecture
by: Johnston Marklee & Associates
Sharon Johnston, principal
Mark Lee, principal
Anne Rosenberg, project architect

Project Manager:
Yun-Joo "JuJu" Kim - UCLA, Design | Media Arts