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AUTHORS & CONTRIBUTORS
 Geoffrey Baum
Todd Margolis
Helene-Nicole Kostis
Dan St. Clair
HyeYun Park
Ben Chang
Hyunjoo Oh
Jon Greene
Marientina Gotsis
Robb Drinkwater
Mark Baldridge
FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS
Many thanks to our army of volunteers: Dubi Kauffman, Tina Shah, Daria Tsoupikova, Kapil Arora, Javier Girado, Josephine Lipuma, Melissa Golter,
Javid Alimohideen,
Allan Spale, Geoff Holmes, Jennings Hanna, Victoria Scott ,
Flo McGarrell.
SPECIAL THANKS
This project was generously supported by:
Ellen Sandor at (art)n, the
Electronic Visualization Laboratiory (EVL) at UIC,
Dan Sandin &
Tom DeFanti @EVL, the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and VRCO.
GEOFFREY BAUM is a founder of the artists' collaborative Applied
Interactives in Chicago, IL. He is an active researcher in the area of
making virtual reality and other immersive experiences less expensive
and more common for other artists and the general public. His own work
has been exhibited at Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) and Version>02,
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) and examines the idea of the
individual as the center of an array of private universes. He has been
employed as a research assistant at the Electronic Visualization
Laboratory since 1999 where he has pursued research in camera tracking,
spatialized sound and the repurposing of commercial devices for use in
more affordable Virtual Reality systems. Baum received his MFA in
Electronic Visualization from the Electronic Visualization Laborarory at
the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2005.
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TODD MARGOLIS is an artist, educator and technologist. In 2004, he
received his MFA in Electronic Visualization from the Electronic
Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He
is a founding member of the immersive and interactive art and
technology non-profit organization, Applied Interactives, and also a
member of the art collaborative Sine::apsis Experiments. Margolis has
recently been appointed the Technical Director of the Center for
Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at UCSD. Margolis was
previously a Visiting Research Programmer at UIC, developing a new
virtual reality system, The Varrier(tm) Auto-Stereographic display.
Results of this research were presented at SPIE 2001, IEEE VR in 2004
and will be presented at this years SIGGRAPH. Margolis frequently
lectured on new media at UIC, Columbia College, Chicago, and the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as shown his work
nationally and internationally, in such venues as Ars Electronica
(Linz, Austria), Art Chicago, ICC (Tokyo, Japan), ISEA (Paris, France)
and SIGGRAPH (LA and New Orleans). As an artist-in-residence at (art)n
Laboratory, he participated in the creation of a permanent art
installation at Chicago's Midway Airport. He was also awarded the 2000 Christian and Oline Larsen Scholarship for Electronic Visualization and had been the recipient of a UIC Research Assistantship from 1998
till 2003.
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HELEN-NICOLE KOSTIS is a media artist that works with video, animation,
virtual environments, physical and digital sculpture. She is captivated by
the creation of new, synthetic worlds, immersive bodily experiences, the
combination of virtual and physical realities and the discourse that is
generated by their coexistence. Born in 1976, lives and works in Chicago,
USA. She has received a BS in Mathematics (1998) from the University of
Ioannina, Greece, a MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois
at Chicago (UIC), and is currently pursuing a Master's in Fine Arts at the
same institution. She currently works as a Research Assistant at the
Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois at
Chicago (UIC). She has exhibited at the Canariasmediafest International
Video and Multimedia Festival of the Canaries (2002), Version>03 ::
Digital Arts Convergence - Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2003),
IDEAS Festival (2003, 2004), IEEE VR Open House at EVL (2004), Networks
Art and Collaboration Conference (2004), Electronic Visualization Exhibit
(2004), Virtual World.s Festival Sao Paolo - Brazil (2004), Studio 74
Artful Object (2004), in Electronic Imaging Science and Technology,
SPIE (2005) and in "Loose Minds in a Box" AG Art Performance (2005).
Upcoming exhibit at SIGGRAPH (2005) in the Emerging Technologies for the"Loose Minds in a Box" AG Art Performance.
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DAN ST. CLAIR makes installations and performances focused on our daily
experiences of mediated sound. Recent projects include an outdoor audio
installation of synthesized birds singing popular melodies, and a muzak map of
State Street Chicago. As a pianist/instrumentalist he has performed with
Phill Niblock, Grand Mal, White Blue Yellow and Clouds, and Anthony Braxton.
He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2004 after studying media art with
Ron Kuivila and composition with Anthony Braxton. He is now in the MFA
program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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HYEYUN PARK is an MFA candidate in Electronic Visualization Laboratory,
UIC. She received a Diploma in Fine Art in Oriental Painting from Ewha
Womans University in Seoul, Korea in 2000. She had work experiences as
Assistant of Public Relations at SBS (Seoul Broadcasting System)
Broadcasting Company and Developer of Children's education departments at
Dacom I-Elite in Korea. She currently works as a Research Assistant at EVL,
assisting Audio/Video support. Her interests include real-time interactive
media art, computer graphics, painting, interactive installation and VR art.
Currently, she has developed a variety of other subjects, such as digital
abstracts which open up entirely new vistas for the imagination. Her
background combining fine arts and media production gives her a unique
perspective on using all media for artistic expression.
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BEN CHANG is a Chicago-based new media artist whose work explores interactivity,
collaboration, immersive worlds, and the creative subversion of technology. His
installation, online, and performance work has been shown across the US and
internationally, including the International Electronic Language Festival in
Brazil, Boston CyberArts, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, SIGGRAPH,
and the New Forms Festival in Vancouver. He teaches courses in interactive art
and virtual reality at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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HYUNJOO OH is a new media artist, sound designer and developer of
educational software. She is currently co-founding and co-directing a
NY based Art & Technology organization, 'dottedquad.org' . She joined
the post-production team of the Chicago Millennium Park Fountain
Project (a permanent public art installation) and has been working at
the Chicago based non-profit art organization, 'Applied Interactives
(AI)' as a board member. Her work involves Emergent Social Software,
Ambient Intelligence, Mixed-Reality, improvisational network sound,
cartography and archival art. She is presently working on several
Virtual Reality projects, such as 'Nodule Resonance' and 'Synbidium'
that explore the resonant characteristics and architectural acoustics
of virtual space by using a permutation process through Internet. Her
kinetic sculpture, 'Crystal Data Visualization Machine', collects data
from virtual sources that operate in conjunction with physical/web
based visualization. Her works has been shown at the Chicago Tourist
Center(2005), VersionFest>04:: Invisible Network (2004), (art)n Lab
(2005), IMMEDIA in Ann Arbor, MI (2003), OpenEnd Art, Heaven, Betty
Rymer and 1926 gallery in Chicago, IL. Her upcoming solo exhibit will
take place at the Chicago alternative gallery, POLVO (2005). She holds
a M.F.A (2005) in Art and Technology studies from the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago(SAIC) and B.F.A (2002) in Philosophy and Art
Education from the SungKyunKwan University in Seoul, Korea.
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JON GREENE Jonathan created the Flash interface for Synthecology. He recently graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Photography. Aside from photographing, he spends a lot of time programming. As of late, Jonathan has been focusing on the internet as a medium for creating collaborative art. He is always looking for new ways to create art on the web. This summer, he will be turning his personal web endeavor into a web design firm located in Chicago.
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MARIENTINA GOTSIS is a new media artist and uber geek interested in gestural interfaces, dance, introspective narratives and precolombian art. She manages several facilities and assists with research at the Interactive Media Division of the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. In the past ten years she has run her own consulting business catering to small and medium business and not-for-profit organizations with service offerings ranging from design to technical writing and information architecture to server and network deployment and administration. She moved to Los Angeles from Chicago in 2003 where she received an MFA in Electronic Visualization in 2003 and a BFA in Photo/Film/Electronic Media in 1999 from the Electronic
Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1995 to 1996. She has taught many art and technology courses at Harold Washington College (Chicago), Columbia College Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University and at the University of Southern California. She is affiliated with the oXymoros Dance Theatre in New York and The Free School Project in Athens, Greece.
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