Emily Martinez is a Cuban-born artist working with digital and networked media. Her recent practice and research interests examine the relationship between media, memory, and catastrophe; temporality and the digital archive; and nonrepresentational forms of subjectivity as they arise from within the multiplicities of narratives inherent to globally networked societies. She received her M.F.A. in Digital Arts and New Media from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2012. Currently lives and works in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit somethingnothing.me.

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Peter Foucault creates works on paper, videos, and installations that are fueled by his love of drawing and mark making. He has created a series of Drawing-Projects, which utilize systems developed by the artist that produce complex abstract compositions. At the root of these projects is a constant tension between control and the loss of control. Viewer interactivity plays an integral part in his drawing installations, large-scale artworks in which participants influence the outcome of a drawing that is created by a small robot over the duration of an event or exhibition. His work is concept driven, and often utilizes objects that reference printmaking and multiplicities. Foucault has participated in numerous exhibitions nationwide, with recent solo shows at K. Imperial Fine Art, Room Gallery, the SFMOMA Café and the Richmond Art Center (Richmond, CA). His work has been included in group shows at Room Gallery, the Torrance Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Marine Contemporary (Santa Monica, CA), the Smithsonian Institutes' Freer and Sackler Gallery, Kit Schulte Contemporary (Berlin, Germany), The University of Salford (Manchester, England), and The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA). Between 2007-2011 his artwork was included in the Art Now Fair Miami Beach, the Bridge Art Fair New York and Miami Beach, the AAF in New York, and the Scope Art Fair Miami Beach. His interactive robotic drawing installations have been presented at The NASA Aimes Research Center, The Lab (San Francisco), Robert Berman E6 Gallery (San Francisco, CA), the Seattle Next50 (Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Seattle Worlds Fair), and the Zero1 Art and Technology Fair (San Jose, CA). In 2010 Foucault received funding from the Creative Work Fund, and a grant from the City of San Jose Public Art Program, and in 2012 he was awarded grants from the City of Oakland's Cultural Funding Program, US Bank, and the Seattle Center Foundation. In 2013 he received a grant from the Zellerbach Family Foundation. Foucault has recently presented lectures at Stanford University, City College, San Francisco University and the SETI Institute (Mountain View, CA). In addition to his own practice, Foucault is the Co-Founder of the Mobile Arts Platform (MAP), a Bay Area based artmaking and curatorial team that creates interactive "pop-up" mobile exhibitions. Foucault's work has been reviewed in The San Francisco Chronicle, The SF Weekly (Pick of the Week), ArtWeek, Wired Magazine, Stretcher Magazine, and Artnet Magazine. In April 2009 his drawing Four Square was featured on the Cover of California Home and Design Magazine. Foucault's work is represented by K. Imperial Fine Art (San Francisco, CA) and Room Gallery (Mill Valley, CA). Selected works are available through the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Micaela Gallery (Alamo, CA), Chandler Fine Art in San Francisco and Kit Schulte Contemporary in Berlin. He lives and works in Oakland, CA. For more information, please visit peterfoucault.wordpress.com.

OpenLab is a new research initiative at the University of California Santa Cruz. The OpenLab Network targets a complex education issue of national significance regarding the ability of art and science researchers to collaborate on research endeavors. The goal of the OpenLab Network is to help change the current status by providing shared research facilities and create a network for collaborative discourse fueled by academic communities, arts and science communities, and industry. The OpenLab Network project is currently pursuing the physical development of new collaborative laboratories on campus as spaces to foster this research and establish an on-line social networking system for faculty and students to create projects. Laboratories and studios in both the arts and the sciences will be accessible to users in the OpenLab Network. Within this immersive environment, we will conduct research to acquire skills and knowledge that crosses disciplinary boundaries between science, education, and the arts while sharing expertise in collaborative research methodologies. For more information, please visit artsresearch.ucsc.edu/openlab/.

OpenLab is a new research initiative at the University of California Santa Cruz. The OpenLab Network targets a complex education issue of national significance regarding the ability of art and science researchers to collaborate on research endeavors. The goal of the OpenLab Network is to help change the current status by providing shared research facilities and create a network for collaborative discourse fueled by academic communities, arts and science communities, and industry. The OpenLab Network project is currently pursuing the physical development of new collaborative laboratories on campus as spaces to foster this research and establish an on-line social networking system for faculty and students to create projects. Laboratories and studios in both the arts and the sciences will be accessible to users in the OpenLab Network. Within this immersive environment, we will conduct research to acquire skills and knowledge that crosses disciplinary boundaries between science, education, and the arts while sharing expertise in collaborative research methodologies. For more information, please visit artsresearch.ucsc.edu/openlab/.

Wes Modes is an arts researcher and artist focused on technology and design based in Santa Cruz, CA. He is an MFA candidate at the University of California Santa Cruz Digital Art and New Media program. He has exhibited his sculpture regionally since 1996. Wes worked in the tech industry for 25 years as a software engineer, systems administrator, and systems architect. His computer systems work includes Silicon Graphics, Adobe, and UCSC, serving as the primary systems architect of the Grateful Dead Archive Online. He is also a performer and community organizer. For more information, please visit modes.io.

Brent Townshend is an artist and inventor based in Menlo Park, CA and Montréal, Quebec. He has a diverse background combining Engineering, Computer Science, Art & Photography, and Biology. Brent received his Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, while studying photography as a side pursuit. After doing research at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he started a sequence of hightech companies focussed on signal processing—how to manipulate and process digital data to extract information or improve its visualization. Meanwhile, he continued his photographic explorations. He studied darkroom techniques under Georges Févre, who was the personal printer for Cartier–Bresson and printed for Koudelka, Doisneau, and Lartigue. With John Schults of Reuters he learned the realities of photojournalism. He worked on fashion photography with Atelier Chardon Savard in Paris and explored commercial and studio photography with Hélène Vedrenne at the Paris Photographic Institute. Brent has also taught in Engineering and in Computer Science as a Adjunct Professor at McGill University and at Stanford University. He currently holds a post as Visiting Researcher in the Bioengineering department at Stanford where he is doing research in Synthetic Biology. As an inventor with over 40 patents, his combination of science and an artistic purpose was a natural progression. In 2005, he began working on ultrawide angle, high dynamic range digital photography. Using sets of highresolution digital photos to cover a scene both in viewpoint and light intensity, he developed novel processes and software for capturing and displaying images. With representation by Modernbook Gallery in San Francisco, he has exhibited his work in New York, Chicago, Miami, Toronto, and Basel. In 2012, he expanded his repertoire into interactive installations featuring computer vision for motion tracking and generative sound and video. For more information, please visit tc.com.

Lanier Sammons is a composer, guitarist, recordist, and educator based in Santa Cruz, CA. As a composer, Lanier's music often explores ideas like audience interactivity, improvisation, the intersection of popular and classical musics, and the pairing of electronic and acoustic sound. His works have been featured at SEAMUS, the Spark Festival, the Jubilus Festival, and on EcoSono's Agents Against Agency DVD release. Recently, he served as a Participatory Performing Artist in Residence at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Lanier holds a Ph.D. in Composition and Computer Technologies from the University of Virginia, where his dissertation focused on audience interactivity within the concert hall. He currently serves as lecturer at California State University, Monterey Bay teaching courses on recording technology, composition, and a variety of other topics. For more information, please visit laniersammons.com.

David Glowacki is a Royal Society Research Fellow presently based in San Francisco. He holds joint appointments at Stanford University and the University of Bristol (UK). With a Master of Arts in cultural theory and a PhD in chemical physics, he has a reputation spanning both computational nano-physics and interactive digital art. David is also the creator of danceroom Spectroscopy (dS), an interactive digital framework that fuses his multi-disciplinary interests, which has been used to create a dance piece entitled Hidden Fields. dS has been displayed at leading European cultural institutions, including Germany's ZKM Centre for Art and Media, London's Barbican Arts Centre, and the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. For more information, see glow-wacky.com.

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Nathan Ober is a new media artist whose work crosses disciplines from installation and performance to video and sound. His interdisciplinary works examine concepts of human perception and natural phenomena, sound as vibration, time and space, and the finite versus the infinite. Working with multiple facets of technology, he creates immersive installations that intend to pervade the viewers senses. His current research is focused on astronomy and astrophysics, which deal with techniques of sonification and processes that attempt to expose our innate connection to the universe.

His latest project entitled the "Transfluent Orchestra" is a sound installation composed of traditional Hindu and Buddhist instruments mechanized to perform with or without human interaction. The piece has been exhibited as a stand-alone installation, used in live performance and even adapted to create music compositions automated by forces of the natural world.

Nathan's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with over 30 group and solo shows. In 2009 he moved to New Delhi, India to become program director of Visual Communication and Interactive Media Design at Raffles Millennium International, later moving on to Colombo, Sri Lanka where he helped start up a second new design campus. Nathaniel is currently pursuing his MFA in the Digital Art and New Media program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. For more information, please visit nathanielober.com.

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Eve Warnock is a multimedia artist who melds ancient techniques of art-making with modern technologies. She is a costume and set designer as well as a director for live performances and films. eve earned a BA in Arts and Humanities from The Ohio State University, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California Santa Cruz's Digital Arts and New Media program. eve is co-creator of Queen Mae and the Bells, a modern opera troupe that integrates electronics and projection in costume and engineered instruments. She is the director of Seekago, a series of five experimental films that incorporates tactics of live performance with film techniques and new medias. She is also director of multiple interactive public performance pieces. Speakers, Denizen, and Seek, are a few examples. Her current project is HERD an interdisciplinary, multi-platform, multi-media extravaganza researching animal and human herding behaviors. Her work explores the boundaries of human and animal relationships, studying primitive natures as a way to reconnect humans with each other and to the animal kingdom. Her work has been shown all over the United States in diverse venues: from the street to the museum, from the gallery to the guerilla. For more information, please visit evewarnock.com.

Kate Harrington is Creative Director at LUDIKA, where she designs unique collaborative art and game experiences that connect, educate, and inspire action. She combines 15 years in business operations, project management, and event production with passion-based proficiencies in personal development, creativity, and group facilitation to do what she loves - collaborate with global change-makers to address social challenges in a playful yet purposeful way. Kate leverages the innately human qualities of art, play, and spontaneous co-creation to spark "social change projects." Kate recently spent ten months in Indonesia, where she co-produced the third annual, highly-acclaimed TEDxUbud. Now back in the States, she is reveling in the fertile and innovative world that is the San Francisco Bay Area. Current projects include HERD (a public performance series rooted in an interactive education curricula and community events), and the Zero1 American Arts Incubator (an international creative arts exchange program funded by the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs). For more information, please visit whatisludika.com.

Nathan Ober is a new media artist whose work crosses disciplines from installation and performance to video and sound. His interdisciplinary works examine concepts of human perception and natural phenomena, sound as vibration, time and space, and the finite versus the infinite. Working with multiple facets of technology, he creates immersive installations that intend to pervade the viewers senses. His current research is focused on astronomy and astrophysics, which deal with techniques of sonification and processes that attempt to expose our innate connection to the universe.

His latest project entitled the "Transfluent Orchestra" is a sound installation composed of traditional Hindu and Buddhist instruments mechanized to perform with or without human interaction. The piece has been exhibited as a stand-alone installation, used in live performance and even adapted to create music compositions automated by forces of the natural world.

Nathan's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with over 30 group and solo shows. In 2009 he moved to New Delhi, India to become program director of Visual Communication and Interactive Media Design at Raffles Millennium International, later moving on to Colombo, Sri Lanka where he helped start up a second new design campus. Nathaniel is currently pursuing his MFA in the Digital Art and New Media program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. For more information, please visit nathanielober.com.

Ian Winters is a video/media artist working at the intersections of performance, architectural form, and technology and time-based media to explore the complex relations between physicality, technology, and place, often in collaborations with composers and choreographers to create both staged and open-ended media environments through performance, visual and acoustic media. Winters trained in photography, video/film and performance at SMFA-Boston and Tufts University, and post-graduate training in architecture. For more information, please visit ianwinters.com.

Robert Edgar is a digital media producer presently living in the Bay area. Robert creates and employs software engines to examine mediated artifacts forged at his zone of proximal development. His engines include Memory Theatre One (1985), Living Cinema (1988), Sand, or How Computers Dream of Truth in Cinema (1992), Memory Theatre Two (2003), and Simultaneous Opposites (presently under development). He holds an MFA from Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, presently works at Stanford University, and teaches at the Art Institute of Sunnyvale. For more information, please visit robertedgar.com.

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Amy M. Ho builds video and spatial installations that bring attention to our existence as both physical and psychological beings. She received her undergraduate degree in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Mills College. Amy was selected for the ProArts Gallery 2x2 Solos series in 2012, and is a recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artists Grant for 2013. Amy is currently doing a fellowship residency at Kala Art Institute and will be doing residencies at the Lucid Foundation, Studio Kura and Youkobo Art Space later in 2014. She currently works and lives in the Bay Area and is represented by Chandra Cerrito Contemporary. For more information, please visit amymho.com.

Yuan-Yi Fan is currently a PhD Candidate in Media Arts and Technology, University of California Santa Barbara, USA. His current research focuses on interactive techniques for audience participation. During his doctoral studies, he worked as a research intern at Nokia Research Center, a g-speak engineer intern at Oblong Industries Inc., and a design intern at Nokia Advanced Design Studio. Before UCSB, He worked at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Ultrasound Imaging Lab in Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University. He received MS in Biomedical Engineering at National Yang Ming University and BS in Mechanical and Electro-mechanical Engineering at National Sun Yat-Sen University, both from Taiwan. As a multimedia artist, his work was commissioned by ZERO1 with gracious support from the James Irvine Foundation. His works were also introduced in various international publications and venues, including Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press), ISEA, IEEE VIS Arts Program, Mindshare LA, KCRW's Design and Architecture, and NIMEs. For more information, please visit yuanyifan.com.

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Leona Hu is an Interactive and Product Designer currently working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She specializes in Interaction and Visual design in realms of mobile applications, software, web, architecture, installations, lighting, and data visualization. Her architectural design background gives her a strong sensibility and particular interest in designing products that convey user interaction between human, technology and space. From paper to pixel, Leona challenges the limits of interaction design to humanize technologies for people's everyday lives. For more information, please visit whoisleona.com.

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Blake Hudelson is a designer based in San Francisco. With an interest in new formulations of social space, Blake has spent time studying and traveling to six continents, and working in the disciplines of architecture, technology, and urbanism. Blake trained in architecture and urban planning at CCA and Cal Poly-SLO. His design work can be found at BlakeHud.com.

Jennifer Parker is an Associate Professor of Art and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research is rooted in sculpture, interactive and kinetic art, and cross-disciplinary and collaborative research. Current and past projects explore new methodologies for art making that engage art and science thinking. She is co-founder and director of The OpenLab Network at UCSC and has been working with Barney Hyanes since 2008 developing the SonicSENSE interactive art platform. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Local venues include Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF Camerawork; The Lab; Gray Area Foundation for the Arts; Kala Art Institute; and ZER01:10SJ Biennial. For more information, please visit artsresearch.ucsc.edu/openlab.

Barney Haynes has been working in the fields of video art, performance, reactive installation, and interactive media for 30 years. In his art he has adopted an iterative approach to media making, recombining themes and industrial surplus into media machines that evolve and mutate.He is a Professor at the California College of Art in Interdisciplinary Studies, Sculpture, and Fine Art. He has received numerous grants, awards and honors, including but not limited to the California Arts Council Fellowship; University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), The Arts Research Institute, and the Gerbode Foundation Grant, CCA. His work has been exhibited throughout the Bay Area and internationally in the Czech Republic, Spain, the Netherlands, and throughout Germany. For more information, please visit ultrafuzz.net.

Kristen Gillette For more information, please visit thegreenapartment.org.

Kine-tech Arts is a collective of artists and scientists exploring possibility in live performance through collaborative creativity, founded and directed by Weidong Yang and Daiane Lopes da Silva in January 2013 in San Francisco. Aside from creating shows and installations, Kinetech arts holds a weekly lab at KUNST-STOFF arts open to all interested participants to explore technology, dance, and visual art. For more information, please visit kine-tech.org.

Ian Winters is a video/media artist working at the intersections of performance, architectural form, and technology and time-based media to explore the complex relations between physicality, technology, and place, often in collaborations with composers and choreographers to create both staged and open-ended media environments through performance, visual and acoustic media. Winters trained in photography, video/film and performance at SMFA-Boston and Tufts University, and post-graduate training in architecture. For more information, please visit ianwinters.com.

Cultural Historian and L.A.S.E.R. Founder

Piero Scaruffi is a cognitive scientist who has lectured in three continents and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, the latest one being "The Nature of Consciousness" (2006). He pioneered Internet applications in the early 1980s and the use of the World-Wide Web for cultural purposes in the mid 1990s. His poetry has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA. His latest book of poems and meditations is "Synthesis" (2009). As a music historian, he has published ten books, the latest ones being "A History of Rock and Dance Music" (2009) and "A History of Jazz Music" (2007). His latest book of history is "A History of Silicon Valley" (2011). The first volume of his free ebook "A Visual History of the Visual Arts" appeared in 2012. His latest book is "Demystifying Machine Intelligence" (2013). He has also written extensively about cinema and literature.

Director of Research at Google

Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Google's core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames's Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA's senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He was co-teacher of an Artificial Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. He has over fifty publications in Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering, including the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world's longest palindromic sentence. He is a AAAI Fellow, ACM Fellow, and American Academy of Arts & Sciences Member.

Director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA

Mr. Dan Kaufman is the director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) where he determines I2O’s investment strategy and develops programs to exploit promising new information technologies. He was instrumental in formulating and implementing I2O’s current R&D thrusts in cybersecurity and big data analytics. Previously, Mr. Kaufman worked for Auratio Consulting, Kalisto Entertainment, Dreamworks Interactive (a joint venture between Microsoft and Dreamworks SKG), and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Mr. Kaufman has co-authored an 800-page textbook entitled: Corporate Partnering: Structuring and Negotiating Domestic and International Strategic Alliances, and has lectured at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and U.C. Berkeley.

DARPA was created to prevent technological surprise. The surprise was due to the fact that our awareness was driven by our expectations. We saw what we expected to see—not necessarily what was really there. But how do you change what is possible without recognizing what is around us? Where do you invest? DARPA has had a major impact in military and civilian technological advances for over 55 years. The agency has demonstrated a unique ability to transform the world around us by changing our view of what is possible. This talk explores the current perception of cyber and information today, offers a glimpse into what its reality is and what six impossible things we can believe before breakfast.

Founding Director of the Stanford Nanotech Lab

Jennifer Dionne is an assistant professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering. Her research investigates metamaterials—engineered materials with optical and electrical properties not found in nature—for applications ranging from high-efficiency solar energy conversion to bioimaging. Jen received her Ph. D. in Applied Physics in 2009 at the California Institute of Technology and B.S. degrees in Physics and Systems & Electrical Engineering from Washington University in 2003. Prior to joining Stanford, she served as a postdoctoral research fellow in Chemistry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her work has been recognized with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the inaugural Kavli Nanoscience Early Career Lectureship, an NSF CAREER Award, and an AFOSR Young Investigator Award. In 2011, she was named one of Technology Review's TR35—35 international innovators under 35 tackling important problems in transformative ways.

Chief Planetary Scientist at NASA Ames

Chris McKay is a Planetary Scientist with the Space Science Division of NASA Ames. His current research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. He is also actively involved in planning for future Mars missions including human exploration. Chris been involved in research in Mars-like environments on Earth, traveling to the Antarctic dry valleys, Siberia, the Canadian Arctic, and the Atacama desert to study life in these Mars-like environments. His was a co-I on the Titan Huygen's probe in 2005, the Mars Phoenix lander mission in 2008, and the Mars Science Lander mission for 2011. He is the deputy program scientist for Constellation - the NASA program for future human exploration of the Moon and Mars.

Co-founder of Pixar

Alvy Ray Smith is the cofounder of Pixar and a pioneer of computer graphics. He was present at Xerox PARC for the invention of the personal computer, then at the New York Institute of Technology where the vision of the first digital movie was conceived, then Lucasfilm, where he was its first director of computer graphics. HIs second startup company was sold to Microsoft, where he was the first Graphics Fellow. He has received two technical Academy Awards, and holds four patents. He created and directed the Genesis Demo in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The made a short piece with artist Ed Emshwiller, Sunstone, part of MOMA's collection. He hired Pixar's star animator, John Lasseter, and directed him at Lucasfilm in The Adventures of Andre & Wally B. He was responsible at Lucasfilm/Pixar for the Academy-Award winning Disney animation production system CAPS. As a regent of the National Library of Medicine, he helped initiate the Visible Human Project. He helped argue the progressive scan format into the national HDTV standard. He has a PhD from Stanford in computer science and an honorary doctorate from New Mexico State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has published widely in theoretical computer science and computer graphics, and is currently writing a book about the pixel and modern media. Smith is a fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science).