1st-Mile Institute SARC: Selected Artists and *Advisory Group (2012)
Todd Ingalls, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor, Chair of Graduate Studies, School of Arts, Media & Engineering, ASU., Tempe, AZ. Todd Ingalls is a composer, working with interactive performance and experiential media systems. His sonification works have led to creation of novel mediated environments for stroke and Parkinson's disease rehabilitation.
Francesca Samsel, Austin, TX. Artist. Francesca is involved with Texas Advanced Computing Center’s (TACC) Department of Data and Information Analysis, at UT Austin, where she worked with datasets of H1N1 pandemic predictive models and enviro-climate scientific imaging, while testing a range of tools and means for artist/scientist collaboration.
Adrianne Wortzel, MFA, Professor, Entertainment Technologies and Emerging Media Technologies, NYC College of Technology, CUNY. Adrianne creates innovative interactive web works, telerobotic installations, performances, video and writings. Her current creative works explore dynamic ‘memory’ structures consisting of chunks of computational data.
*Ruth West, Professor, Initiative for Advance Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA), North Texas U., Denton, TX (formerly at UC San Diego). Her creative involvements span the arts, molecular genetics, information aesthetics, scientific visualization and immersive environs, augmented reality, psychology, neuroscience, and participatory mobile and social technologies.
William Ray Wilson, MFA, Instructor, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Will is a native Navajo (Diné) artist and photographer, creatively exploring the potential of mining living food systems based on indigenous designs, and developing a cross-cultural, linguistic, scientific and generational understanding of the importance of native food species.
*David D. Dunn, MFA, Santa Fe based composer, media artist, performer, theorist, educator, sound designer/engineer and bioacoustic researcher. He is on UNM’s Electronic Arts faculty, is the founding Board President of the Art and Science Laboratory, and is a 2013 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.
*Roger Malina, Ph.D., physicist, astronomer. Roger is editor-in-chief of Leonardo magazine (MIT Press), distinguished professor of physics at UT Dallas and Associate Director of Arts and Technology. He is a founding member of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study, and is former director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence (OAMP), Marseille.
*Laura Monroe, Ph.D., mathematics, computer science; Team Leader: Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) visualization computation, infrastructure, visualization support and large visualization facilities; and R&D Manager: HPC Special Projects Team, LANL. Laura has worked in graphics, photography, film and electronic media, virtual reality.
*Andrea Polli, Ph.D., Mesa Del Sol Chair of Digital Media; Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Engineering, UNM. Andrea was Artistic Director of ISEA2012. She works at the inter-section of art, science and technology, creating media installation, public interventions, curating, directing community art projects and writing, largely in relation to environmental science issues.
*Edward A. Shanken, Ph.D., Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History at University of Memphis; Media Art History faculty at Donau University in Krems, Austria, and core visiting tutor, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. He writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media.
Francesca Samsel, Austin, TX. Artist. Francesca is involved with Texas Advanced Computing Center’s (TACC) Department of Data and Information Analysis, at UT Austin, where she worked with datasets of H1N1 pandemic predictive models and enviro-climate scientific imaging, while testing a range of tools and means for artist/scientist collaboration.
Adrianne Wortzel, MFA, Professor, Entertainment Technologies and Emerging Media Technologies, NYC College of Technology, CUNY. Adrianne creates innovative interactive web works, telerobotic installations, performances, video and writings. Her current creative works explore dynamic ‘memory’ structures consisting of chunks of computational data.
*Ruth West, Professor, Initiative for Advance Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA), North Texas U., Denton, TX (formerly at UC San Diego). Her creative involvements span the arts, molecular genetics, information aesthetics, scientific visualization and immersive environs, augmented reality, psychology, neuroscience, and participatory mobile and social technologies.
William Ray Wilson, MFA, Instructor, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Will is a native Navajo (Diné) artist and photographer, creatively exploring the potential of mining living food systems based on indigenous designs, and developing a cross-cultural, linguistic, scientific and generational understanding of the importance of native food species.
*David D. Dunn, MFA, Santa Fe based composer, media artist, performer, theorist, educator, sound designer/engineer and bioacoustic researcher. He is on UNM’s Electronic Arts faculty, is the founding Board President of the Art and Science Laboratory, and is a 2013 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.
*Roger Malina, Ph.D., physicist, astronomer. Roger is editor-in-chief of Leonardo magazine (MIT Press), distinguished professor of physics at UT Dallas and Associate Director of Arts and Technology. He is a founding member of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study, and is former director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence (OAMP), Marseille.
*Laura Monroe, Ph.D., mathematics, computer science; Team Leader: Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) visualization computation, infrastructure, visualization support and large visualization facilities; and R&D Manager: HPC Special Projects Team, LANL. Laura has worked in graphics, photography, film and electronic media, virtual reality.
*Andrea Polli, Ph.D., Mesa Del Sol Chair of Digital Media; Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Engineering, UNM. Andrea was Artistic Director of ISEA2012. She works at the inter-section of art, science and technology, creating media installation, public interventions, curating, directing community art projects and writing, largely in relation to environmental science issues.
*Edward A. Shanken, Ph.D., Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History at University of Memphis; Media Art History faculty at Donau University in Krems, Austria, and core visiting tutor, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. He writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media.