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Segment Curator: Interactive Installation: Gregory Cowley	Gregory Cowley b.1970 Visual Artist Gregory Cowley is a San Francisco based visual artist working in electronic projection media and performance. His tools include a variety of technologies, ranging from traditional arts and photography, to work with electronics and computer technologies. His creations most often exist as performances and time based presentations. He has explored the live performative qualities of the projected image in collaborations with dancers and other performers in theaters, underground venues, and academic gallery settings. In addition to his interests in travel, culture, and photography, Gregory Cowley has been the driving force behind theTEST:project, a collaborative performance project exploring site, sound, environment and alternative uses for multimedia technology. He is also co-curator and director of the Transcinema Electronic Media Festival, and annual digital arts event bringing together artists from around the world. He is a cofounder of 3feetofftheground – a motion graphics production studio and performance venue. He has cultivated long standing working relationships with San Francisco based art organizations: The Lab, 7hz, and 23five. He has a long-standing working relationship with Blasthaus, the San Francisco based art and technology organization whom with he has partnered to open a RX Gallery, venue and studio in downtown San Francisco. Gregory teaches advanced digital media to students at the California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC). While working toward the BFA in Graphic Design, He studied at Lancashire Polytechnic in Preston, England. www.gregorycowley.com www.testsite.org www.gregorycowley.com www.transcinema.com www.blasthaus.com

Ryan Junell	Ryan Junell Biography: RYAN JUNELL is a San Francisco-based media designer. His video work includes artful non-fiction about travel, politics, media, and society. His music videos and music films have appeared in programming on MTV2, MTV Europe, ResDVD "Resistance", Sonar Festival (Spain), The New York Underground Film Festival, and dozens of galleries and clubs in San Francisco and New York. He produced and directed a short documentary about Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry on the campaign trail in Iowa last summer. In 1995, Junell interned at the Texas Governor's Office in Washington D.C. His duties included reporting on committee hearings and creating daily news briefs for then-Governor George W. Bush. Since 2001, Junell has performed live mixes of original non-narrative videos as part of the experimental improv quartet Sagan featuring the audio talent of Prix Ars Electronica recipients J Lesser, Blevin Blectum, and Wobbly. Sagan releases "Unseen Forces" - a 40 minute music film on dvd and audio cd in the this fall of 2004 on Vague Terrain. Junell honed his producing and fundraising skills as a primary organizer of The Webzine Event Series, an annual conference in San Francisco (1998/1999/2000) and New York (2001) about independent publishing on the internet and the power of independent media.

Erik Adigard	Erik Adigard Biography: Erik Adigard, with partner Patricia McShane, is co-founder of M-A-D, a small interdisciplinary design firm based in Sausalito, CA. Activities include graphic and interaction design, imagery, video and art installations. After producing experimental designs for various magazines-most notably Wired magazine during the 90's, Adigard turned his focus to new media, creating a series of experimental interfaces for Wired Digital's "push" channels as well as the original interfaces for Hotbot and WiredNews. Other notable projects include the complete design package for the 1999 International Design Conference in Aspen, the book Architecture Must Burn co-authored with Aaron Betsky, and the branding and visual identity for IBM software. A number of these projects have been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Denver Art Museum and venues in Japan and in Europe. Art projects include Webdreamer, a video that was shown in the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, as well as commissions for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's "Icons: Magnets of Meaning" and "010101, Art in Technological Times" exhibits, commissions for "Villette Numérique" in Paris, for "Muffathalle" in Munich, for Limn Gallery in San Francisco and for Postmasters Gallery in New York. Currently Adigard is co-curating the upcoming Experimentadesign exhibit in Lisbon. Adigard's work has been featured in publications world-wide and he has received numerous awards, including the 1998 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. The monograph "Design & Designer: M.A.D." was recently published by Pyramyd.

Insect Funeral	Insect Funeral Biography: In the first dark underworld nine people lived: six kinds of ants, three kinds of beetles. There were no stones nor any vegetation nor any light, only the soft clicking of beetles and the soundless motion of ants... Insect Funeral casts a spell of sonic rapture weaving mesmerizing webs of sound blendage to create an otherworldly musical experience of mysterious beauty, hypnotic power, and haunting memories. “Insect Funeral scores mightily....worthy of time capsule inclusion as a definitive statement....” THE WIRE Alaric Burns Composer, performer, DJ, and creator of Insect Funeral. Relying on the synchronicity resulting from live improvisation, each Insect Funeralperformance is unique, and no two concerts will be identical. Alaric has shared the stage with Einsturzende Neubauten, Diamanda Galas, The Swans, Negativeland, Survival Research Laboratories (SRL), DJ Spooky, and mythologist Joseph Campbell. He has created soundtracks and live soundscapes for such diverse productionsas Théâtres des Vampyres theatrical performances, Aaron Wolf Baum’s media play “Plastic”, and Slick Fetish Balls. Alaric’s seven screen video art had its debut at ARS Electronica 1999. Alaric, along with visual artist Grant Davis aka JV Culture, comprise Extra Sensory Projection, a live synchronized audio/visual performance. ESP present an immersive environment blended with big beats, sensual sounds, and elegant melodies, visually interpreted with cinematic installations and uniquely unexpected imagery. www.extrasensoryprojection.com In association with Recombinant Media Labs and Asphodel Records, Alaric manages The Compound, a unique 16.6.1 spatialized audio, and surround video facility and performance space in San Francisco. Alaric was a key member of the pioneering Industrial Vaudio group Rhythm & Noise, and Trial. Insect Funeral can be heard on the “Swarm of Drones” compilation CD www.asphodel.com

Anna Geyer	Anna Geyer Biography: Anna Geyer is an award winning experimental filmmaker and writer. Her films have screened in many festivals both domestically and internationally. Cameraless, non-representational work has been the emphasis of her recent efforts, although she frequently describes her work as, “experimental with a narrative bent”. Her written work has appeared in Gargoyle, The Underwood Review, Wasted Space and Centipede. She is presently employed freelance at The Saul Zaentz Film Center, a post-production sound for film facility in Berkeley. She teaches at Solano Community College as well. Her most recent film ARAPADAPTOR (I Feel So) screened at many festivals, toured extensively with the Mad Cat Woman's Festival 2003 touring program and Kinetica 4 (through the IOTA center). It received awards as Best Experimental Film at the Utah Short Film and Video Festival, and an honorable mention at the Humboldt International Short Film Festival. To produce ARAPADAPTOR she applied her flashlight and laser, ala Man Ray to the caterpillars, cicadas and seeds found in Chinese medicinal herb tea. This was only the beginning. Much of the original footage was further manipulated - painted tinted and/or bleached. At present Anna continues her experiments with this style of filmmaking. As source material she utilizes primarily springs, or spring-like scrap metal shavings generated by giant lathes. Much of this work will appear in her upcoming 16mm film.

Saul Stokes	Saul Stokes Biography: Saul Stokes was born in Seattle Washington. After adolescent training on both the violin and trumpet, Stokes discovered the tonal possibilities of the synthesizer and started creating electronic music as a teenager in the mid 1980's. His fascination with the palette of sounds available via synthesizer led him to learn the basics of analog synthesizer construction. While attaining a degree in Industrial Design, Stokes used his knowledge of synth DIY to build highly eccentric music devices, and began to restructure his musical ideas focusing on music created purely from home-made synthesizers and computer technology. In 1997, he signed with Hypnos Recordings and has released four solo albums, Washed in Mercury (97), Zo Pilots(98), Outfolding(2000) and Fields(03), all of which have been praised for their originality and musicianship. In 2002, Stokes teamed up with Vir Unis to release Thermal Transfer. "Released on Hypnos' sub-label, Binary, the electronically hyperactive Thermal Transfer from Chicago based Vir Unis and Berkeley based Stokes sets the standards for a new era in relaxing up tempo electronic music (Outburn Magazine)." In 2004, Stokes signed with Berkeley's own Foundry label, who will release his upcoming album titled Vast. Stokes has performed live across the United States leaving behind his studio composition tools to focus on his hand forged equipment. The results are often a radical departure from his studio compositions as heard on the albums Abstraction (Greenhouse Music) and Radiate (Holland's Databloem label). Stokes lives in Oakland Califonia.

CaroLuna Michelson	CaroLuna Michelson Biography: Award winning vocalist, filmmaker, VJ, composer, and producer CaroLuna Michelson has been performing in the USA and abroad for over twenty years. CaroLuna's passion for both music and film led her to explore and create simultaneously in both the visual and the musical mediums. CaroLuna studied music at the Mozarteum in Salzberg and privately with teachers from the Conservatory of Music in Paris. She studied with Dame Donna Peterson at Mills College and Jane Randolph from the S.F. Conservatory of music. She studied film & video production at CCA and Mills College and holds degrees from Mills College in Vocal Performance, Composition and New Media Technology. She also studied Hindustani vocal music with Ali Akbar Khan and Shweeta Jhaveri at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Raphael. Her video and music compositions have shown at the The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, The Ritzy in London, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Directors Guild in Los Angeles, and the Chelsea West Theater in New York CaroLuna's original music compositions have aired on French, German and Austrian radio and television.

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