Romy Achituv Jorge Aguirre Rachel Baker Henry Bean Alan Berliner Caroll Parrott Blue Linda Goode Bryant Liz Canner Adam Chapman Pratap Chaterjee Brian Clark Brad deGraf Sharon Denning DJ Spooky

Toni Dove Sidney Fels Franz Fischnaller Adam Frank Ze Frank Ryan Gibson Jacqueline Goss Sarah Gray Chris Hackett David Kaplan Andruid Kerne Victoria Mapplebeck Paul Marino John Cameron Mitchell

Hajoe Moderegger Scott Paterson Lynn Phillips Julia Reichert Zack Simpson Jeff Stark Peter Stein Sachiyo Takahashi Daniel Torop Tara Veneruso Peggy Weil Virgil Wong Adrianne Wortzel

Romy Achituv

Romy Achituv is an Israeli artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Trained as a sculptor, his projects increasingly encompass a wide range of media, from Photography and Video to Performance and New Media. Romy's work lies along the axis connecting formal experimentation with personal expression. Through his work he seeks to create symbolic structures reflecting upon the medium and beyond. His videos, installations and experimental applications have been exhibited world wide, from Ars Electronica to MOCA Taipei.
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Jorge Aguirre

Jorge Aguirre is a New York based filmmaker. He wrote and directed the film  "Pancho's Revenge," which was broadcast on WNET/Thirteen and featured at the Guggenheim, the Smithsonian Institute, and Havana Film Festival, among other venues. He produced the film "A More Perfect Union" and most recently directed the short "The Absentee Father." In 2002, Aguirre will direct the interstitial, "Is My Neighbor Latino?"  funded by the Latino Public Broadcasting Project (LPB). LPB has also awarded him development funds for his feature-length project "Santiago Was Framed." In 2001, Aguirre was a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow and attended the PBS/CPB Producers Academy Workshop at WGBH/Boston.
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Rachel Baker

Recent projects have been concerned with providing specific groups or communities with tech gateways which can potentially reaarrange
the political dynamics of those groups. Example groups include pirate radio audiences, football fans and temping office workers.

Currently working at the BBC as a developer on a teen website and producing a commisioned art work on the use of the train as public space for Proboscis.

I continue to work on Irational.org, independent artserver and its project
of social radicalism in conjunction with technological opportunity.
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Henry Bean

Lives in NYC with wife and two children. Henry Bean is a novelist, a screenwriter, and has recently directed a film.
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Alan Berliner

Alan Berliner's uncanny ability to combine experimental cinema, artistic purpose and popular appeal into compelling film essays has made him one of America’s most acclaimed independent filmmakers. His award-winning films, THE SWEETEST SOUND, NOBODY'S BUSINESS, INTIMATE STRANGER and THE FAMILY ALBUM have been broadcast all over the world and honored at top international film festivals.

He has won three Emmy Awards, and received Fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Jerome Foundation as well as multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Retrospectives of his films have been staged at both the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography in New York City. Berliner received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association in 1993, and was the recipient of the Storyteller Award from the 2001 Taos Talking Picture Film Festival.

In addition to his work in film, Berliner has produced a large body of photographic, audio and video installation works. He is currently an artist in residence at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where his one-person multi-media installation, "The Language of Names" will open in February 2002. He has also been commissioned to create a large-scale interactive sculpture titled "Gathering Stones" for the Holocaust Museum Houston, set to open in March 2002.
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Caroll Parrott Blue

Carroll Parrott Blue is a writer, still photographer, documentary filmmaker, media activist, and a film studies professor. For several years she's combined media practice, theory, and activism. Her work in the arts, humanities, education, and communication fields explores a variety of realms including storytelling, oral history, the still and moving image, as well as writing and community media development. back to the top


Linda Goode Bryant

Linda Goode Bryant is a producer/writer/director of documentaries, short narratives, and video art. She is currently in post-production on Flag Wars, a cinema verite documentary about conflicting issues that arise in a working class black neighborhood when white gays move into the area. She is also creating a multi-channel video installation and web work entitled Neighbors.  She co-created Direct Link Stakeholders Network, an Internet program that would allow multiple users to conceive, develop, implement, and evaluate products and services, collaboratively. She is a recipient of grants and awards including an Artists Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Liz Canner

Liz Canner, an award-winning media artist, has created multiple video art installations and produced six documentaries. Her latest project, "Symphony of a City", a public cyber documentary, premiered at the 2001 Boston Cyberarts Festival. Her work has been broadcast on television on PBS stations, Worldlink TV, Free Speech TV and in nine countries. It has screened at numerous museums, galleries and film festivals such as the New York Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. She has been the recipient of over 20 grants for her work from foundations and is a member of the board of AIVF. Recently, she founded Astrea Media, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating digital media projects on human rights issues.
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Adam Chapman

Originally from Hawaii, a.c.chapman currently makes his home in Brooklyn, New York. As an undergraduate, chapman trained as a printmaker and letterpress typographer. His interest in computers stemmed from a desire to tell stories in a non-linear fashion. From there, the inquiry, experimentation, and development grew into an interactive and print design company and a computer-mediated art/writing practice.

He is currently working on several things: interactive installations, reactive objects, single-track video, and web projects. Some current web projects include work with City University of New York Graduate Research Center to increase literacy rates in minority and low income middle school students and a data visualization project for Human Rights Watch. He has worked with HBO Documentaries, PBS, the Discovery Channel, and radio documentarians. He is Art Editor for the magazine, CROWD, and the Art Gallery Papers Coordinator for SIGGRAPH 2002.

Chapman’s collaborative project, The Impermanence Agent,  was recently short-listed for the Electronic Book Awards. His work has been presented at the Guggenheim and shown at The New Museum’s Z-Media Lounge, the DUMBO Film and Video Festival, SVA's Digital Salon, SIGGRAPH, and other points about the globe. Various projects of his have been written about in The New York Times, Newsweek, Communication Arts, MIT's New Technology Review and Leonardo. chapman was recently nominated for a Rockefeller grant in New Media.

He has taught at The New School University, NYU, and City University of New York. Chapman received an MFA in fiction from The New School, where he studied closely with Mary Gaitskill.

Current and past projects may be viewed at http://www.theadm.com and http://www.theadm.com/art.

He has been called freakishly tall by more than one person.
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Pratap Chaterjee

Pratap Chaterjee is an environmental writer and producer based in Berkeley, California, who has won multiple awards for his investigative journalism. He is the co-producer and host of Terra Verde, a weekly environmental radio show, on KPFA 94.1 FM (http://www.kpfa.org) and a co-founder of the Whirled Bank (http://www.whirledbank.org), a multilateral institution dedicated to impoverishing the world. He recently completed his first documentary titled “Gold, Greed & Genocide” about the impact of the 1849 Gold Rush on the California Native American population (http://www.1849.org) and is actively involved in the Asian Pacific-Islander spoken word scene in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Brian Clark

Brian Clark is a media producer and President of GMD Studios (http://www.gmdstudios.com), a media and venture production company based in  Orlando, Florida. His online productions range from the functional (indieWIRE, http://www.indiewire.com) to the bizarre (Czar of Bizarre,  http://www.czarofbizarre.com) with a heavy emphasis on the intersection of new media and traditional entertainment. He produced the online component of Fox Television's series Freakylinks (with Haxan Films producer Gregg Hale), web-based documentaries for PBS, and co-developed the "Small Group Dialogue” technology with Web Lab. GMD Studios first feature film, "Nothing So Strange," (http://www.nothingsostrange.com) debuts at Slamdance 2002 Film Festival in January 2002, which includes an extensive online narrative.
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Brad deGraf

Called by Wired "an icon of 3D Animation," and sited by Animation Magazine as one of the "people to watch in 2001," Brad deGraf, has been a leader in computer animation in the entertainment industry since 1982, particularly in the areas of realtime characters, ride films, and the Web. From 1992 through 1994 he was director of digital media at Colossal Pictures, from which he and his partners spun off to create Protozoa (aka Dotcomix), where he served as Chairman, CEO, and Chief Creative Officer.

After five years of building custom furniture, he began his computer career in 1979 as a Fortran programmer for Science Applications International (SAIC), engineering interactive training systems and digital mapping applications for the US Army National Training Center. He was Head of Production at Digital Productions from 1983-87. He has a BA in Math from UC San Diego, and studied sculpture and architecture at Princeton University.

Credits include; Moxy, emcee for the Cartoon Network, the first virtual character for television; Floops, the first Web episodic cartoon; Peter Gabriel's Grammy award- winning video, Steam; Duke2000.com, a attempt with Garry Trudeau to get his Ambassador Duke character elected president; "The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera", the first computer-generated ride film; feature films "The Last Starfighter", "2010", "Jetsons: the Movie", "Robocop 2", and numerous television shows.
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Sharon Denning

Sharon Denning has a BA from Rutgers University, on a Presidential Scholarship, and an MFA from SVA in Multimedia and Interactivity. She has been an Art Director for The Wall Street Journal, Senior Technical Producer for Fox.com and Director of Interactivity at Ernst & Young. She co-authored a chapter entitled "The Wall Street Journal" for the book Mastering Web Design (Sybex Publishing 1996) As an artist she won an Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica (2000, .Net category) and continues to pursue independent projects. She's co-founder of Dandelion Creative Group, and teaches at Parson's Design & Technology graduate department.
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Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in NYC. A writer for numerous publications, Miller is Co-Publisher of the magazine "A Gathering of the Tribes," and was the first Editor-At-Large of Artbyte. His artwork has appeared the Whitney Biennial; Venice Biennial for Architecture (2000); Ludwig Museum, Köln; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Andy Warhol Museum and other important venues. But Miller is most well known under the moniker of his "constructed persona" as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. He has performed throughout the US, Europe and Australasia, and has recorded and collaborated with a wide variety of pre-eminent musicians and composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kool Keith, Killa Priest, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore. Miller has remixed records by artists ranging from Metallica to Steve Reich. His own records include Riddim Warfare (Geffen); Songs of a Dead Dreamer, The Viral Sonata, and Synthetic Fury (Asphodel); and Necropolis (Knitting Factory), and the newly released dj mix record Under the Influence.
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Toni Dove

Toni Dove is an artist/independent producer who works primarily with electronic media, including virtual reality and interactive video installations, performance and DVD ROMs that engage viewers in responsive and immersive narrative environments. Her work has been presented in the United States, Europe and Canada as well as in print and on radio and television.  Her most recent interactive movie installation, Artificial Changelings, uses motion sensing to allow a viewer standing in front of a screen to move a video characters' body and generate speech and music. Her current feature length project under development, Spectropia, is an interactive supernatural thriller about the infinite deferrals of desire. Her website can be found at www.tonidove.com.
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Sidney Fels

He currently leads the Human Communications Technology (HCT) Laboratory and is the Acting Director of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) at the University of British Columbia. Sidney received his Ph. D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 1994 and 1990 respectively. He received his B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 1988. He was a visiting researcher at ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan from 1996 to 1997. He also worked at Virtual Technologies Inc. in Palo Alto, CA developing the GesturePlus™ system and the CyberServer™ in 1995.
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Franz Fischnaller

Franz Fischnaller carries out productions and research activities in the artistic and technological fields. He creates revolutionary works on an artistic-conceptual level, in which the emerging technology plays an active role. Author of the VR pieces: Multi Mega Book, Kali, Tracking the Net, Pinocchio Interactive and Medusa.

For two years F.F. had been the Director of "Virtuality and Interactivity.. Digital Renaissance", Florence, Italy. He is Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; Professor at the University of Florence, Italy; Art Director of F.A.B.R.I.CATORS (Architects of Culture/Fabricators of Ideas).
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Adam Frank

Adam Frank is an artist, inventor and software designer.  In 1991 he began work at GCPW, a high-technology theater company in San Francisco. There he created and performed groundbreaking 3D digital environments and effects which, when projected, interact with live actors on stage.

Adam created Dogz and Catz, Your Computer Petz. For this work he is widely credited for defining a new category of computer software. More than 4.5 million Petz have been sold worldwide.

Adam was an artist-in-residence at the LMCC World Views program in The WTC and is working on a large-scale installation in co-production with The Banff Centre for the Arts. He has recently received a grant from NYFA in the Computer Arts category. His first solo exhibition will be held at Postmasters in NYC at the end of 2002.
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Ze Frank

Ze Frank is a Brooklyn based interactive designer and humorist. His clients include Kodak, Nabisco, Motorola, the Bomb Factory, Dakota Jackson, and MTV.  Ze's freelance web design and animation has been featured in numerous on and off-line publications including the Macromedia Gallery, Print Magazine, Communication Arts, and in the book "Now Loading". As an art director with Dennis Interactive where he was awarded an Interactive Clio Award, a One Show Gold and a One Show Honorable Mention for his web design work for Lexus, Margeotes and Fertita Partners, and the movie HolySmoke. He has taught at the SUNY Purchase School of Design and frequently gives lectures on participatory design. Ze's personal web site of animation and humor - www.zefrank.com -- has appeared in USA Today, Foxnews.com, Yahoo Internet Life and On Magazine and has been visited by more than 20 million people.
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Ryan Gibson

Ryan Gibson creates interactive projection installations, designs web interfaces, and performs as a video artist. He is the co-curator of the tech-art web site killthepresident.org, recently nominated for a SXSW Interactive web award in the weird-extreme category. He has worked for IBM as a pioneer in broadband research, and at frogdesign as the lead technologist for Dell.com.

His recent projects include: digital?confusion - an ongoing video performance group; the Public Genitals Project - a wearable technology performance art piece with artist Allucquére Rosanne Stone; and the Time Projector - an interactive video installation for SXSW Interactive ’01.
In ‘98, he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to live and work in Dublin where he exhibited a solo show of paintings and was artist in residence at Arthouse Multimedia Center for the Arts in Temple Bar.
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Jacqueline Goss

Jacqueline Goss began making films and videotapes as a student at Brown University and earned her M.F.A. in Electronic Arts from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in 1997.
Projects include videotapes about Typhoid Mary, Helen Keller, Dian Fossey, and human cloning, as well as an interactive program about a fictional disease that causes women to grow antlers. Her work has shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival,
New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, Walker Center for the Arts, Pacific Film Archive, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Goss currently lives in the Hudson Valley and teaches at Bard College in Annandale, New York.
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Sarah Gray

Sarah Gray is an interactive media designer with a background in theater direction and performance installation. Her work is cross-disciplinary and highly influenced by everyday performance and cultural ritual.  She's made video, multimedia, book and theater projects; graduated from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU; and ended up at Crossover.  In between, she’s received funding for her work from the MRAC and ArtsLink foundations; worked in Minnesota, London and Macedonia; and crawled around the East Coast in a dress.  She will be teaching Foundations of Media Design at the New School in the Spring.
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Chris Hackett

Hackett is the founder and director of the Madagascar Institute. He has no formal art training of any kind and tends to distrust those who do. The Madagascar Institute is a Brooklyn-based collective of artstars, dedicated to making art that is interesting, fills you with a sense of wonder, and occasionally scares the living shit out of you. Hackett was born and bred in New York City, the best place on earth, and with the Madagascar Institute is trying to force the birth of what will someday be remembered as a golden age.
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David Kaplan

David Kaplan is a director and screenwriter. His award-winning short films include 'Little Red Riding Hood,' starring Christina Ricci and narrated by Quentin Crisp, and 'Little Suck-a-Thumb.' 'Little Red Riding Hood' has played at over fifty international film festivals and at venues such as the American Cinematheque, Film Forum and Anthology Film Archives. It appears on The Sundance Channel, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, and on television in Sweden, Spain, Brazil, Australia and the UK. An NYU film school graduate, Kaplan was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's 1995 Director's lab and the 2000 Sundance Screenwriters lab. He has also worked as a freelance illustrator.
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Andruid Kerne

Andruid Kerne opens the range of social processes embodied by computational artifacts, for instance substantiating play as a mode of activity. He is the initiator of the interface ecology metadiscipline, an integrated structural approach to the development and study of the dynamic interactions of media, disciplines, and cultures.

Kerne is a research artist scientist who specializes in information visualization, agents, databases, audio, video, distributed real time systems, and public installation. He holds a B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard, an M.A. in music composition (Wesleyan), and a Ph.D. in computer science (NYU). His output has been presented by the Guggenheim, SIGGRAPH, SIGGCHI, Digital Salon (New York, Spain, London, Beijing), ISEA (Paris), Milia (Cannes), the Ars Electronica Center (Linz), and PANFEST (Ghana).
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Victoria Mapplebeck

She writes media criticism for The Guardian and is currently contributing to Reality TV: How Real is Real? She is a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art, where she is completing a PhD in contemporary documentary and digital media.
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Paul Marino

Paul Marino is the Emmy award-winning director/artist & co-founder of The ILL Clan, a machinima studio based in New York. He directed and produced the machinima short, “Hardly Workin’”, the winner of the Best of SHO award at last year’s alt.SHO.com Alternative Media Festival Awards. He also serves as a spokesperson for the new medium known as Machinima, using real-time 3D engine technology to create films, television segments and online entertainment. Leading the ILL Clan forward as one of the most respected and accomplished Machinima “bands”, Paul’s vision and contribution to this new medium has led to interviews on BBC Television, ARTE, Time Out NY, Entertainment Weekly and many other publications. Paul’s past work has been featured on ABC, NBC, PBS, and numerous other acronyms.
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John Cameron Mitchell

John’s film adaptation of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) received directing and acting awards at festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Deauville, Seattle Int’l, San Francisco Int’l and San Francisco Gay & Lesbian,. The film was also honored by the National Board of Review, The LA Film Critics Association, the IFP Gotham Awards, Premiere Magazine and the Golden Globes. For his Off-Broadway stage version of Hedwig (1998), he won an Obie Award, a New York Magazine Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award. Broadway acting credits include THE SECRET GARDEN, SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION and BIG RIVER. Off Broadway: THE DESTINY OF ME by Larry Kramer (Obie Award), HELLO AGAIN, MISSING PERSONS. He is a member of the Drama Department Theater Company for which he adapted and directed Tennessee Williams’ KINGDOM OF EARTH.
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Hajoe Moderegger

Moderegger's work has been shown at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf, the Morat Institute Freiburg, the 4th Medien Symposium of Thüringen, and at Ostranenie, the  Werkleitz Bienale Dessau. Current shows by the E-Team a three-artist collaboration, happened at the Bronx Museum, The Meat Market Art fair, NY, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY and the Palm Beach Institute of contemporary art.  Awards and honors include Presentation Grant for "VideoClub" Experimental Television Center, EAF01 Socrates Sculpture Park, WorldViews Artist-In-Residence Program of the LMCC at the World Trade Center, NY and Baunetz, award for "the lite-mates". He studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, Fine Arts.
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Urls: http://b.parsons.edu/~scott
        http://www.plumbdesign.com
        http://www.thinkmap.com
        http://www.sgp-7.net
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Lynn Phillips

Lynn Phillips has worked in a variety of innovative pop and alternative media.  She was an assistant editor on the historic films, "Salesmen" and "Monterey Pop," and a staff writer for the late-night syndicated ground-breaker, "Mary  Hartman, Mary Hartman." She edited the op-ed page of the first (and only) daily tabloid for women, "HER NY," was editor-in-chief of the award-winning  infotainment experiment, VAGUEpolitix.com, a project of Web Lab. She has written for a wide variety of magazines from "Glamour" to "The Nation." As "Maggie Cutler," she writes "The Secret Life of Kitty Lyons," a sex-positive, satirical political column for millennial Webby-winner, nerve.com.
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Julia Reichert

Julia Reichert has been a maker of documentary and fiction films for thirty years and counting. She has been a strong advocate for social issue, activist media and for the empowerment of independent filmmakers. She was a founder of the distribution co-operative NEW DAY FILMS and of the FILM FUND, and has written for THE INDEPENDENT.

Her films include GROWING UP FEMALE, UNION MAIDS and SEEING RED (with Jim Klein), EMMA AND ELVIS and THE DREAM CATCHER (as producer). Her work has received awards internationally, including two Academy Award nominations. She works in Yellow Springs, Ohio where she lives with her daughter Lela, three cats and filmmaker Steven Bognar.
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Zack Simpson

Zack's interest in interactivity was inherited from his mother who was a children's playground designer.  He started playing video games as soon as there were such things and began programming at the age of 10.  He dropped out of high-school at 17 to become a full-time software engineer.  In 1991 he joined Origin/Electronic Arts and left there in 1995 as the Director of Technology and later returned as a Research Fellow.  In 1995 he co-founded Titanic Entertainment which hit an iceberg after its first game.  In 1997 he abandoned the game industry and now creates interactive installation artwork, travels the world, and teaches math. His home page is http://www.totempole.net.
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Jeff Stark

Jeff Stark is a journalist in New York City. He also publishes Nonsense NYC, a weekly email list about participatory events and weird parties. He is a member of the Madagascar Institute, a pseudo arts collective, and has worked on interactive games with Dark Passage.
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Peter Stein

Peter L. Stein's producing career spans theater, television, documentary film and museums. For 11 years he was executive producer at KQED (PBS/San Francisco), where he wrote, directed and produced a wide range of national public television series, garnering the prestigious Peabody Award (for his documentary The Castro) and numerous accolades for historical, cultural, culinary and environmental programs. In 1999 he became Director of Exhibitions at the Jewish Museum San Francisco (now The Magnes Museum), where he is developing interdisciplinary exhibitions, programs and online experiences exploring key Jewish themes. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University.
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Sachiyo Takahashi

Daniel Torop

Dan Torop used to travel and have intense experiences. He made photographs of landscapes he felt were emotional, and later on in the decadent stages, lay in the mud photographing swans. The last few years have been a bit more sedate: he's made some work, done a couple gallery shows, and even taught a bit. This is highly unsatisfactory, and he hopes things will get better. Some of his recent work has been electronic: an ocean simulation, for example, and before that a poetry simulation. He lives in Brooklyn and tries to keep up a shack in the country.
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Tara Veneruso

A graduate of NYU, Veneruso began her directing career with the award-winning documentary Janis Joplin Slept Here (1994). Many films and Internet series have followed, screening at film festivals worldwide. Tara has also edited several MTV/VH-1 top-ten music videos. Veneruso has directed projects specifically designed for the Internet since 1997 including webseries such as Chemical Generation, Austin, and 9 Boyfriends. Tara is a consultant for Next Wave Films, a company of The Independent Film Channel and has written articles for Filmmaker, IndieWire, and contributed to Scientific American.
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Peggy Weil

Peggy Weil entered the digital world animating light bulbs for a Times Square billboard in 1978. She has been involved with interactive multimedia almost since its inception (early eighties) as a member of the Architecture Machine Group, now the Media Lab, at M.I.T. In 1990 she created and produced the award winning children's CD-ROM title for Voyager, A SILLY NOISY HOUSE. She created and produced the MOVING PUZZLE series of  CD-ROMS for Ravensburger Interactive, winner of a MILIA D'OR in 1998. Ms. Weil was creative producer for The Roden Crater Project website for James Turrell (www.rodencrater.org). She is the mind behind MRMIND  (www.mrmind.com), a chatterbot who administers The Blurring Test: “Can You Convince Your Computer You Are Human".
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Virgil Wong

Virgil Wong is an NEA grant recipient, an award-winning filmmaker, and an artist who received the JGS Foundation's $20,000 grant in 2001. His multidisciplinary work about medicine, technology, and the human body has been shown around the world -- most recently at the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art and the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Mr. Wong also works as head of web design/development at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College, and he is a graduate faculty member in media studies at the New School University. Please visit his current solo exhibition at The PaperVeins Museum of Art at http://www.virgilwong.com.
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Adrianne Wortzel

Adrianne Wortzel is a new media artist creating web works, robotic installations, video and performance productions. Her telerobotic installation Camouflage Town was exhibited in Data Dynamics at The Whitney Museum of American Art in the Spring of 2001. She is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Award for creating “robotic theater." Sayonara Diorama, her performance production with robots, live performers and responsive remote performances via videoconferencing, was made possible by an Artist-in-Residence Grant at Lehman College Art Gallery funded by the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

She has produced international performative webcasts, and was co-host and content provider for Art Dirt, a weekly live video-streamed interview format webcast, originating from Pseudo TV and now in the collection of the Walker Art Center. Her works are documented at http://artnetweb.com/wortzel/. She is an Associate Professor of Advertising Design and Graphic Arts at New York City Technical College where she teaches and develops curriculum in New Media, and an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where she is developing a telerobotic theater with robots and humans.
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