Sharon Daniel, is an Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at UCSC where she teaches classes in digital media theory and practice. Her research involves collaborations with local and on-line communities which exploit information and communications technologies as new sites for "public art."
Her net-based Collaborative System, NARRATIVE CONTINGENCIES, is an interactive, non-linear narrative, which allows participants to contribute texts and images to a continuously evolving story. An installation or "community site" for Narrative Contingencies was open to the public as part of the CORCORAN 46th BIENNIAL - Media and Metaphor, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Dec. 2000-March 2001. Narrative Contingencies website is currently on exhibition via the Mediateca of the Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona and was presented in the Korean Biennial exhibition "2000 Kwangju Biennial Media Art Project." The Portugese version, has been exhibited in in the South American Biennial 1999 - Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Daniel's current project, "Subtract the Sky," (a collaboration with Mark Bartlett) is conceived as public art that engages technology and scientific research projects through interactive interfaces on the internet. These interfaces give the public access to The Keck Observatory, the Landsat satellite system, and the Human Genome Project and their databases. "Subtract the Sky" extends the context of public art by allowing individuals and communities to evolve an aesthetically, intellectually, and politically expressive, collaborative environment on-line. Daniel's current research also includes,
"Need_X_Change," a project designed to help the staff and clients of Casa Segura, an HIV prevention and needle exchange clinic in Oakland, California attain social and political "voice", through communication with their local community and participation in the global information culture. This project is a collaboration with the staff and clients of Casa Segura supported by the Creative Work Fund. Through these works Daniel provides opportunities for self-representation, communication, and education that effect direct and substantive change in the attitudes and circumstances of individuals and communities.
Contact Information
Assistant Professor
Department of Film and Digital Media
Division of the Arts
University of California, Santa Cruz
4701 San Leandro Blvd. #35
Oakland, CA 94601
phone:(510) 534-3858
email: sdaniel@cats.ucsc.edu
http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel
Ken Goldberg, is an artist and Associate Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley. Goldberg's art installations have appeared in the Interactive Media Festival, Ars Electronica, the Walker Art Center, ICC Biennale in Tokyo, Berkeley Art Museum, and the Whitney Biennial 2000. Goldberg received his PhD in 1990 from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is editor of _The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet_ (MIT Press, 2000) and co-editor of _Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots_ (MIT Press, 2002). For more information:www.ken.golberg.net.
Contact Information
Assoc. Prof of IEOR and EECS, UC Berkeley
4189 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1777
phone:(510) 643-9565
email:
goldberg@ieor.berkeley.edu
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg
685 Carolina St.
San Francisco, CA
94107
phone: (415) 64-ROBOT
Jim Gasperini
616 Plateau Drive Kensington, CA 94708
phone:(510) 559-1897
email: jimg@well.com
http://www.well.com/user/jimg
Marco Molinaro, PhD in Bio-Physical Chemistry, is the Director of the ScienceVIEW educational multimedia design, research, and development group specializing in creating multimedia materials aimed at teaching and learning science in formal and informal settings. He has over seven years experience in the field, and has developed more than 15 major CD-ROM and Internet-based products for teachers, students and informal science center visitors. He is currently leading various research efforts related to educational technology effectiveness including: learning-optimized use of simulations in the classroom, understanding the potential of computer-based data collection for formative assessment in formal and informal learning environments, and understanding the impact of technology on social learning behaviors of groups. Since 1992, he has been a prime example of a researcher that has combined research interests with educational technology and practical tools.
Contact Information
ScienceVIEW - Director of Multimedia Development
Lawrence Hall of Science,
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Ca. 94720-5200
VOX:(510) 643-7770
Fax:(510) 642-7387
email:molinaro@scienceview.LHS.berkeley.edu
Steven dos Remedios
IT Manager
Chabot Space & Science Center
10000 Skyline Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94619
email:SdosRemedios@ChabotSpace.org
http://www.ChabotSpace.org
Susan Schwartzenberg/Senior Artist, My professional life has had two parallel paths, a staff member of the Exploratorium and as an independent artist. At the Exploratorium I have worked as a photographer, graphic designer, and exhibition curator. In 1992 I became Director of Media, a newly formed department combining photography, video, and interactive media. Our task was to experiment with and find creative educational uses for new telecommunications technologies. In 1998-99 I took a leave of absence from the Exploratorium and spent a year in a fellowship program at the School of Design at Harvard University. I studied the urban design process and the potential of narrative approaches to design in multiple public contexts. I returned to the Exploratorium in a new position as Senior Artist.
My professional artwork has been realized in many forms from books and installations to curated exhibitions and larger scale public works. My themes include biography, memory, urban life and history. My most recent projects include the co-design of the Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Richmond California, and Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism, a book published by Verso 2001, with author Rebecca Solnit.
I have taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Academy of Arts College.
Contact Information
Exploratorium * 3601 Lyon *
phone:(415) 561-0381
fax:(415) 561-0307
email:susans@exploratorium.edu
Brett Stalbaum, is a C5 research theorist specializing in theory, database, and software development. He was also a co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater in 1998, for which he co-developed software called FloodNet, which has been used on behalf of the Zapatista movement against the websites of the Presidents of Mexico and the United States, as well as the Pentagon. As Forbes Magazine put it "Perhaps the first electronic attack against a target on American soil was the result of an art project." For EDT, this was all learned behavior taught by the example the Zapatistas.
In 2001, Stalbaum was a guest in Lisa Jevbratt's Mapping the Web Infome project, and in 1997, he participated in "Landscape Painting as Counter-Surveillance of Area 51", a site-specific performance at the border of the well known secret air base. As part of that performance, he instigated an investigation of his activities by the department of defense and the FBI after he spammed a large number of unpublished email addresses at Nellis Air Force Base. In the interstice, he has done many other individual and collaborative projects, written on net art and its context/aesthetics, and is a past editor of Switch. (switch.sjsu.edu)
His contribution to the legacy of C5 projects include16 Sessions (Walker Art Center), RCSP (Siggraph), YDSTYDS (ASU), and others. Current projects include GIS software development focused on the creation of a database, related libraries, and utilities for use with GPS, digital elevation modeling, and other applications. The platform is designed for use by artists and endurance athletes, as well as consumer applications for hikers, campers, naturalists, OHV enthusiasts, survivalists, hunters and fishers.
Stalbaum holds an MFA in fine art from CADRE at San Jose State University, and a BA in Film Studies from San Francisco State University. Currently, he teaches programming at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose.
Contact Information
2114 25th Street
Sacramento CA 95818
phone:(916) 452-4996
email: beestal@cadre.sjsu.edu,
brett.stalbaum@sjeccd.cc.ca.us
http://cadre.sjsu.edu/beestal
Beau Takahara, is the Director and CEO of the non-profit organization ZeroOne – The Art and Technology Network located in Palo Alto, California. She comes to the Network after five years at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose where she worked as a fundraiser on the Capital Campaign and the Annual Fund. While at The Tech, Beau curated an art and technology lecture series and arranged for two art and technology exhibits, one from Interval Research and one from Xerox PARC, to each be installed for a six month period in the new Tech. Prior to her time at The Tech, Beau worked with a number of not-for-profit art organizations including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and George Coates Performance Works, San Francisco, where she was executive director for three years and involved in large-scale, leading-edge productions of new music theater utilizing state-of-the-art technologies. While at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for nine years, she curated video and media exhibits, produced a large computer graphics festival in conjunction with SIGGRAPH, and organized the first museum screening of HDTV, as part of a large seven week festival: Tokyo Form and Spirit which she conceived of and produced. Beau is past Board Chair of The Lab, an alternative arts organization in San Francisco that presents experimental work by visual and performance artists. She received a BFA in art and art history from The University of Utah and did graduate studies in art history at the University of Iowa.
Contact Information
Director and CEO
ZeroOne -- The Art of Technology Network
1510 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
email: beau@groundzero.org
Stephen Wilson, is a San Francisco author, artist and professor who explores the cultural implications of new technologies. His interactive installations & performances have been shown internationally in galleries and SIGGRAPH, CHI, NCGA, Ars Electronica, and V2 art shows. His computer mediated art works probe issues such as World Wide Web & telecommunications; artificial intelligence and robotics; hypermedia and the structure of information; GPS and the sense of place; synthetic voice; and biological & environmental sensing. He won the Prize of Distinction in Ars Electronica's international competitions for interactive art and several honorary mentions. He is Head of the Conceptual/Information Arts program at San Francisco State University. He was selected as artist in residence at Xerox PARC and NTT Research labs. He has been a developer for Apple, Articulate Systems and other companies and principal investigator in National Science Foundation research projects to investigate the relationship of new technologies to education.
He has published extensively including articles such as "Dark & Light Visions", Artist as Researcher", "The Aesthetics and Practice of Designing Interactive Events", "Interactive Art and Cultural Change", and "Noise on the Line: Emerging Issues in Telecommunications Art". He has published three books, Using Computers to Create Art (Prentice Hall, 1986), Multimedia Design with HyperCard (Prentice Hall, 1991), and World Wide Design Guide (Hayden, 1995), which promotes an experimental, culturally aware approach to Web design. His new book called "Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology" published by MIT Press in November, 2001 surveys artists, theorists, and researchers working in advanced inquiries in fields such as biology, medicine, physics, artificial life, telepresence, body sensors, vr, artificial intelligence, and information systems.
Contact Information
Conceptual/Information Arts (CIA)
Art Dept, 1600 Holloway,
San Francisco State University, SF, CA 94132
phone:
(415) 338-2291
email: swilson@sfsu.edu
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson
UC Berkeley Team
Nahide Craig, Dr. Nahide Craig is the Director of the Science Education Gateway program (SEGway), funded by NASA's SR&T and the UC Berkeley Interactive University Project. SEGway is a national collaboration of science museums, school districts, and NASA space science missions to bring current science research results into classrooms through the Internet. Through SEGway, she collaborates with other UC campus departments (UC Museum of Paleontology, Center for Particle Astrophysics, Seismological Laboratory, and Lawrence Hall of Science) and neighboring school districts and she leads the development of K-12 curriculum materials in support of the HESSI, CHIPS, STEREO/IMPACT and FAST space science missions’ education and public outreach efforts. Dr. Craig is the lead education scientist for the education and public outreach components of these missions, serving as liaison between the mission PIs and NASA program officers at the Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA Headquarters.
A research astronomer with 10 years’ involvement in the EUVE mission and the SSL Experimental Astrophysics Group, Dr. Craig has provided science support for both the EUVE and the ORFEUS missions, obtaining ground-based observations of interstellar Na I, Ca II, and Ti II. She has published more than a dozen refereed papers on topics in optical and EUV astrophysics, including the identification of EUVE sources and studies of late-type stars, cataclysmic variables, white dwarfs, and the local interstellar medium.
Dr. Craig’s expertise includes dissemination of Education and Outreach programs, resources, and methods to scientists and educators through their professional societies (NSTA, AGU, AAS). She has participated in training workshops for AAAS Benchmarks and National Standards and has been involved in the design, articulation, and management of K-12 initiatives through the Non-Profit Education Program. SEGway program serves as an infrastructure for education and outreach materials for NASA’s HESSI, FAST, CHIPS and STEREO/IMPACT space science satellite missions
Contact Information
Grizzly Peak @ Centennial, MC 7450
Berkeley, CA 94720
phone: (510) 643-7273
fax: (510) 643-5660
email: ncraig@ssl.berkeley.edu
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu
Michael Gomez, Senior Artist
Grizzly Peak @ Centennial, MC 7450
Berkeley, CA 94720
phone: (510) 643-2432
fax: (510) 643-5660
email: michael@ssl.berkeley.edu
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu
Isabel Hawkins, As Senior Fellow in Science Education, Dr. Isabel Hawkins conducts research in astronomy/space science education, and is Director of the Center for Science Education at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL). SSL is an organized research unit that builds and operates NASA space science satellite missions. Dr. Hawkins' primary area of astrophysics expertise is in chemical abundances of the interstellar medium. As Director of SSL's Center for Science Education, Dr. Hawkins is principal investigator of several national education initiatives, including NASA Office of Space Science's Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (in collaboration with Goddard Space Flight Center), and Project FIRST (Fostering Reading Through Science and Technology) funded through the University of California School-University Partnerships program.
Dr. Hawkins has more than 60 astrophysics and science education research publications. As part of SSL's teacher professional development program, Dr. Hawkins developed a Satellite Mission Operations Course for science teachers. Dr. Hawkins received her B.S. in physics with High Honors from the University of California, Riverside, where she also became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986. She is a member of NASA's Office of Space Science Education Council and a former member of NASA's Space Science Advisory Committee.
Contact Information
Grizzly Peak @ Centennial, MC 7450
Berkeley, CA 94720
phone: (510) 643-5662
fax: (510) 643-5660
email:isabelh@ssl.berkeley.edu
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu
Roger Malina
Grizzly Peak @ Centennial, MC 7450
Berkeley, CA 94720
phone:
fax: (510) 643-5660
email:roger.malina@astrsp-mrs.fr
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu
Dr Greg Schutlz, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in science education, working at UC Berkeley’s Center for Science Education at the Space Sciences Laboratory (CSE@SSL; http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/), with fellowship funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its PFSMETE program (http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/dge/programs/pfsmete/). As such, I’m working full-time in education & public outreach (EPO), and I broadly consider my work to be “science education R&D (research & development)”. The primary focus of my R&D efforts is on teacher education and professional development, and part of my work is to effectively integrate astronomy & space science in these domains. Before coming to UC Berkeley, I received a PhD in Astronomy from UC Los Angeles (as well as an M.S. in Physics from Purdue Univ.). As an astronomer and science educator, I have a keen interest in the National Virtual Observatory, and see promising opportunities for it in EPO.
Contact Information
Grizzly Peak @ Centennial, MC 7450
Berkeley, CA 94720
phone:(510) 643-0012
fax: (510) 643-5660
email:schultz@ssl.berkeley.edu
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu
Rejane Spitz, Is an Associate Professor at the Department of Art & Design at Rio de Janeiro Catholic University, in Brazil, where she teaches courses on "Electronic Art", “Computer Graphics” and "Interactivity", at both graduate and undergraduate levels. She also coordinates the Electronic Arts Unit, an experimental research laboratory working with art and technology, at PUC-Rio (since 1992). She was the Coordinator for Postgraduate Studies (1996-1998), the Coordinator for Computer Graphics (1987-1999), and the Coordinator for Visual Communication (1985-1987) at the Department of Arts & Design at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.
Rejane has a Ph.D. in Education from PUC-RIO (1993), a MA in Graphic Design (1983) from the Central School of Art & Design (London, UK), a Certificate in Advanced Typographic Design (1982) from the London College of Printing (London, UK), a BA in Industrial Design (1979) and a BA in Visual Communication (1979) from PUC-RIO;
Since 1991 she has been the South American Representative on the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee, and from 1992 -1997 she represented the ISEA (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) in South America. In 1998 she was appointed as a member of the ISEA International Advisory Committee. She has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal LEONARDO (MIT Press) since 1993, as well as of a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Estudos em Design (AEND-Rio). She is also a member of the Executive Committee of SiGradi (Ibero-American Sociey for Computer Graphics).
As a multimedia artist, she has been awarded the Golden and Platinum Records from WEA Music for the creation of the interactive track of the CD "ÁLBUM" (Barão Vermelho rock band). Among her main works are: - the Ecumenical Digital Bible CD-ROM for Loyola Publishers; " Brazilian Beats: Expressive Culture and Arts in Contemporary Brazil", a CD-ROM project, in collaboration with the University of Florida, and the creation of "PRIVATE DOMAIN: please, keep off!", done for the virtual Web exposition "THE HOMESTEAD / LA FINCA," at the invitation of curator Paul Hertz (Chicago, USA);
Rejane also coordinates a series of research projects on social issues raised by this emerging Net society. Sponsored by research and development agencies and other public sector organizations, these projects are concerned with the interrelationship between web design and economic, social and cultural diversity, and with new media illiteracy in developing countries. Her project proposal “Internet, illiteracy and social exclusion” – which has recently been awarded the very special government grant “Cientistas do Nosso Estado” (Scientists of our State) - focuses on the emerging actors inside, at the fringe or outside the Net society. This research project has originated the work “Netizens, net-fringers and outsiders”, which has been exhibited In the form of a website at ISEA 2000, Paris, France (December 2000), at the Stanley Picker Gallery (May-June 2001) and at Colville Place Gallery (July-August 2001) In England, UK, as part of the Silent Motion exhibition, curated by James Faure Walker. This work was also presented at the N-Space Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, EUA (August 2001), as an interactive installation.
Contact Information
Grizzly Peak @ Centennial, MC 7450
Berkeley, CA 94720
phone:(510) 643-7273
fax:(510) 643-5660
email:rejane@rdc.puc-rio.br
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu