KEYNOTES LIGHTNING TALKS JAKE BARTON is founder and principal of BANG-GEUL HAN specializes in Algorith- SOPHIE KAHN’s TRISTAN PERICH is inspired by the MARK SHEPARD is an artist, architect PHIL STEARNS (AKA Pixel Form) is a Local Projects, an award-winning media design mic Interactive Art Installation, Interaction process combines inputs from 3d laser and aesthetics of math and physics, and works and researcher whose post-disciplinary practitioner of sonic and visual arts; music firm for museums and public spaces. Jake is Design, Non-Linear Narrative Systems, New LIDAR scanning, and outputs ranging from with simple forms and complex systems. The practice addresses new social spaces and composer and performer; electronics sculptor recognized as a leader in the field of interac- Media Art and Visual Culture. She recieved a rapid prototyped sculpture, with laser etching, challenge of elegance provokes his composi- signifying structures of contemporary and installation artist. Central to his practice tion design for physical spaces, and in the MacDowell Fellowship, A.I.R Fellowship and beading, digital printing and animation. She is tions for solo instruments, small ensemble and network cultures. His current research as a visual artist and a performer are the use creation of collaborative storytelling projects Social Media Artists Fellowship from VCCA. a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt. orchestra. As a visual artist, he works investigates the implications of mobile and of custom electronics, handcraft, hardware where participants generate content. She teaches algorithmic and interactive art at sophiekahn.net primarily with machines to explore the limits pervasive media, communication and hacking, media technologies and iterative LAURIELAURIELAURIE ANDERSON ANDERSONANDERSON SCOTTSCOTTSCOTT SNIBBE SNIBBESNIBBE localprojects.net Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY. of traditional drawing. tristanperich.com information technologies for architecture and processes. art-rash.com/pixelform whatbunny.org urbanism. andinc.org Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned—and Scott Snibbe is a media artist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. daring—creative pioneers. She is best known for her Whether on mobile devices or in public spaces, his work multimedia presentations and innovative use of technology. spurs people to participate socially, emotionally, and As writer, director, visual artist and vocalist she has created physically. His creations are strongly influenced by cinema: groundbreaking works that span the worlds of art, theater, particularly animation and surrealist film; and often mix live and experimental music. and filmed performances with real-time interaction. Snibbe’s Her recording career, launched by “O Superman” in 1981, artwork is in the permanent collections of the Whitney includes the soundtrack to her feature film “Home of the Museum of American Art (New York) and The Museum of Brave” and “Life on a String” (2001). Anderson’s live shows Modern Art (New York) and has been shown in a solo range from simple spoken word to elaborate multi-media retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in URSULA ENDLICHER’s work resides on CLAUDIA HART teaches in the depart- YAEL KANAREK’s creative practice KURT RALSKE’s video installations and KAROLINA SOBECKA works with MARK J. STOCK focuses on works that performances are created exclusively with his animation, design, interactivity, computer can be created only with scientifically- stage performances. Anderson has published seven books London. His large-scale interactive projects have been the intersection of Internet, performance and ment of Film, Video, New Media and Anima- centers on the fundamental hypothesis that multi-media installation. Her focus lies in tion at the School of the Art Institute of language and numerals render reality, and that own custom software. His work has been games and other media and formats. Her accurate research software and methods. He and her visual work has been presented in major museums incorporated into concert tours, Olympics, science muse- translating the social and structural compo- Chicago. She is represented by bitforms gallery, this reality is an entirely subjective singular exhibited internationally, including at the work has been shown internationally, explores the tension between the natural around the world. ums, airports, and other major public spaces and events. nents of the Web into choreography for NY. Her new works are part of The Sandor field. She looks at how language and numbers Guggenheim Bilbao, Los Angeles Museum of including at the Victoria & Albert Museum, world and its simulated counterpart. He has Snibbe has received grants and awards from the National In 2002, Anderson was appointed the first artist-in-residence performances, into installations and objects. Family Collection, Chicago, the Theres Rohan operate an emotional landscape by shuffling Contemporary Art, and the Montreal MOMA, Beall Center for Art + Technology, exhibited at Ars Electronica and SIGGRAPH Science Foundation, Renew Media, the Rockefeller Founda- of NASA which culminated in her 2004 touring solo perfor- She has exhibited and performed at Postmas- Collection, San Francisco, the Leutz Teutloff their physical properties: material, shape, and Museum of Contemporary Art. retnull.com ISEA and Medialab Prado. gravitytrap.com Art Galleries. Mark completed his PhD in mance “The End of the Moon”. Recent projects include a tion, the Ford Foundation, Prix Ars Electronica, and the ters, Transmediale, Siggraph, and more. Collection, Cologne, and the Borosan Collec- sound. worldofawe.net Aerospace Engineering at the University of series of audio-visual installations and a high definition film, National Endowment for the Arts. He is the founder of three ursenal.net tion, Istanbul. claudiahart.com Michigan. markjstock.com “Hidden Inside Mountains”, created for World Expo 2005 in organizations: Snibbe Interactive (interactive exhibits and Aichi, Japan. In 2007 she received the prestigious Dorothy events); Scott Snibbe Studio, (apps for mobile devices); and and Lillian Gish Prize for her outstanding contribution to the Sona Research (educational and cultural research). arts. In 2008 she completed a two-year worldwide tour of He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Fine her performance piece, “Homeland”. Anderson’s solo Art, and a Master’s in Computer Science from Brown performance “Delusion” debuted at the Vancouver Cultural University. Snibbe studied experimental animation at the Olympiad in February, 2010. Rhode Island School of Design. He has taught media art and In 2011 her exhibition of all new work titled “Forty-Nine experimental film at Brown University, The San Francisco Art Days In the Bardo” opened at the Fabric Workshop and Institute, the California Institute of the Arts, the Rhode LESLEY FLANIGAN is a vocalist, artist, MARY HUANG works with code and form GOLAN LEVIN is a new media artist, ERIK SANNER integrates traditional and ANNE SPALTER’s works explore the KENJI WILLIAMS is an award winning Museum in Philadelphia. That same year she was awarded Island School of Design, and U.C. Berkeley. Snibbe began composer and performer. Led by the tangible to design interactions, fashion and the future of composer, performer and engineer interested contemporary methods to create dynamic concept of the “modern landscape” through filmmaker, music producer, theatrical show with the Pratt Institute’s Honorary Legends Award. In his career at Adobe Systems, where he helped to create the elements of electronic sound, she builds her stuff. Mary makes dresses out of algorithmic in developing artifacts and events which installations he calls “paintings that move.” both subject matter and digital creation director, and violinist. A world bridger of own instruments using minimal electronics, Original software constantly recomposes processes. Anne created and taught the first music, visual arts, science and unique January of -2012 Anderson was the artist-in-residence at the special effects software After Effects. Snibbe also worked at triangles, bikinis out of plastic, just founded explore supple new modes of reactive expres- microphones and speakers. Her performances Continuum design company, and has studied sion. His work has been shown in the Whitney, video; the resulting imagery is projected onto fine art digital media courses at both RISD storytelling, Williams explores the nexus of High Performance Rodeo in Calgary, Alberta where she Interval Research, performing basic research in haptics, create physical electronic music that embraces design/media arts at UCLA and interaction the New Museum, Ars Electronica, The oil paintings, providing the viewer with a and Brown University. Her book, The art and science through collaborations as developed her latest solo performance titled “Another Day in computer vision, and interactive cinema. As a researcher, both the transparency and residue of process. design at CIID. She’s into reinventing infrastuc- Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, and unique experience every time it is viewed. Computer in the Visual Arts, has become a diverse as NASA scientists, consciousness America.” Her exhibition “Boat” curated by Vito Schnabel Snibbe has published numerous articles and academic lesleyflanigan.com ture through software. ZKM. Levin directs the Studio for Creative eriksanner.com standard reference text. annespalter.com researcher Deepak Chopra, and top world- opened in May of 2012. Anderson lives in New York City