Andrew Bucksbarg
N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg) creates audio-visual/VJ performances and interactive works, exploring organic and abstract forms, live A/V processes and participatory technoculture, enthralling audiences with images, beats, ambient sounds and pixilated atmospheres.
N_DREW is a media artist, experimental interaction designer, audio-visual performer and a professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. N_DREW ’s work and interests reverberate in the space of new interactive technology/media practices and theory. As an experimental interaction artist, N_DREW concerns himself with technologies and social systems that support tactics of ambiguous, autonomous social creativity and exchange.
N_DREW ’s work appears in museums, galleries and festivals internationally, including recent installations or performances in HollyWould LA Freewaves; MOVE>SOUND in San Francisco; Piksel Festival in Bergen, Norway; Sea and Space Gallery in Los Angeles; SoundWalk in Long Beach; Around the Coyote Gallery in Chicago; Come Out & Play Festival in New York; Sonorities Festival in Belfast; and the Signal To Noise Festival in Vancouver, Canada.
http://organicode.net
Andrew Young
Andrew is a Canadian puppeteer, filmmaker and occasional graphic designer. He blogs about puppetry online. Over the years he has built, performed and/or directed puppets right across Canada as well as exotic places like Chile, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan and South Bend, Indiana.
http://machin-x.blogspot.com/
Annie Ok
Annie Ok is a multimedia artist based in NYC. She was a Senior Artist of RUN Collection, an experimental art collaborative that exhibited at Alleged Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Creative Time’s The Anchorage, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Purple Institute, and Pitti Imagine. She collaborated with video artist Doug Aitken for his “loaded 5x” ada’web project for the 1997 Whitney Biennial at The Whitney Museum and “New Sexual City” installation for the 2006 Guangzhou Triennial at the Guangdong Museum of Art in China. She directed machinima promos for MTV and Iron Man, co-directed the documentary for Eyebeam’s Invisible Threads project, and conceptualized and assistant directed videos for Nokia. She is a Metaverse Consultant to MTV, Picture Production Company, Beeing, and blueair.tv. She is also co-founder of Art Center in SL and Co-Organizer of Metaverse Meetup.
http://annieok.com
Carl Goodman
Carl Goodman is Deputy Director and Director of Digital Media at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. Among the exhibitions Carl has organized are Expanded Entertainment, a history of arcade and home video games, and DigitalMedia, a gallery of software-based art.
Carl also served as producer of the interactive exhibits in both the local and traveling versions of the Museum’s core exhibition Behind the Screen. Online projects produced by Carl include the video-based websites Sloan Science Cinémathèque and The Living Room Candidate. Carl is currently leading the Museum’s Collections Digitization and Access Initiative, the goal of which is to make the Museum’s entire collection of over 150,000 items accessible online. Carl sits on the Board of Directors of the arts organizations Creative Time, a producer of public art installations in New York City, and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, which cultivates artistic talent through electronic and digital technologies.
http://www.movingimage.us/site/site.php
Chee Yue Ho
Managing Director, Honor Games International
Chee Yue holds a Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore and has more than 18 years of business, advertising, digital entertainment and online games experience.
For the last three years, Chee Yue has been evangelising machinima in Asia, convinced that the potential of this powerful platform will nurture a whole generation of aspiring animators, filmmakers and game makers.
In 2006, Chee Yue is instrumental to the formation and launch of Machinimasia, a community project supported by Creative Community of Singapore(CCS), an initiative by the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts(MICA), the Media Development Authority(MDA) of Singapore, and the New York based Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences.
In May 2008, Chee Yue and Wuhan’s Animation and Comics Society jointly organised the inaugural Machinima China Festival in conjunction with the Wuhan’s Animation Festival.
This December, Chee Yue will be organizing the Machinima Syposium and Master Classes, a co-located event with SIGGRAPH ASIA in Singapore.
http://www.hgigames.com
Dee Dee Halleck
DeeDee Halleck is a media activist, founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass roots community television network. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.
Errol Kolosine
Errol Kolosine was born in Hackney, England, where his love of music first began. By age 9, however, Kolosine’s family had relocated to the cultural desert of Florida, USA.
After surviving by playing in bands and obsessing over music throughout his youth, Kolosine began his career in the “business” in college radio, where he was music director, as well as local music producer and engineer, for WVFS in Tallahassee, FL. He also earned degrees in Political Science and English at Florida State University, and served a stint in Florida state government working as a Press and Communication Officer.
Leaving behind government work and finishing school in 1994, Kolosine took a job in Promotion at New York-based (Virgin and eventually EMI owned) independent record label Caroline/Astralwerks. Over the subsequent 14 plus years, Kolosine rose to General Manager in 1999 and oversaw all elements of the label’s promotion, identity and A & R. Kolosine’s Astralwerks’ successes boasts a long list of innovative, top selling, Grammy winning and international artists, including Air, The Beta Band, Beth Orton, The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Ben Folds Five (on Caroline) and many others.
He has worked closely with some of the most critically acclaimed and popular artists in today’s music scene and worked extensively in the areas of soundtracks, licensing, branding, sponsorships and new media initiatives. Kolosine also received an Executive Producer Grammy Nomination for the critically acclaimed soundtrack “Six Feet Under”.
Since leaving Astralwerks in April of 2007, Kolosine has been acting as Futurist for The Chemical Brothers, managing Beth Orton, producing the soundtrack to popular NBC show “Heroes” and consulting an array of artists and labels.
Friedrich Kirschner
Friedrich Kirschner is a filmmaker, visual artist and software developer. He re-purposes computer games and realtime animation technology to create animated narratives and interactive performances.
His work has been shown at various international animation festivals and exhibitions, including the Laboral Gameworld exhibit in Gijon, the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York, the Ottawa international Animation festival and the Seoul Media Art Biennale. He is currently a production fellow with the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York. He is also this year’s Lead Festival Organizer.
http://www.zeitbrand.de/
Geraldine Juarez
After 7 years of creating visual effects, Geraldine Juárez (obviously) dropped out and changed the Flame and the After Effects for scissors, paper and sewing machines. She is currently investigating the exciting possibilities of the end of the world, via low-tech, waste and interventions.
http://www.chocolaterobot.com/
Heather Beth Henson
Henson is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and attended The California Institute of the Arts to broaden her expertise in visual spectacles for theatre. Most recently she designed animation in collaboration with Project Firefly Animation Studios to be incorporated on stage with choreographed indoor kites. Henson continues to produce in a myriad of venues including film, television and stage. Her years with The Jim Henson Foundation and participation in The Eugene O’Neill National Puppetry Conference has given her a deep appreciation for the raw creative process as well as making her the consummate puppet advocate.
http://handmadepuppetdreams.com/
Joseph DeLappe
Joseph DeLappe is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada where he runs the Digital Media Studio. Working since 1983, his work in digital imaging, sculptural desktop reconfigurations, interactive art, electromechanical installation and real-time web-based video transmission have been shown throughout the United States and abroad. DeLappe¹s online performative interventions in first person shooters and MMPORG¹s (Massively-Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games) have been recognized as some of the first experiments in the nascent medium of game art. In 2006 he enacted a project dead-in-iraq, to type consecutively, all names of America¹s military casualties from the war in Iraq into the America¹s Army FPS online recruiting game. In 2008, he created a new work, Reenactment: The Salt Satyagraha Online using a specially customized treadmill to walk the entire 240 miles in 26 days to control his avatar, MGandhi, as he journeys throughout Second Life.
http://www.delappe.net
http://saltmarchsecondlife.wordpress.com/
http://www.youtube.com/delappe
Cathy Cook
Cathy Cook is an Associate Professor of Film/Video in Visual Arts at University of Maryland @ Baltimore County (UMBC.) She teaches Film/Video production, writing and aesthetics. She holds a MFA in Film/Video and Women Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as well as BFA’s in both Inter-Arts and Art. Prior to coming to UMBC, Cook worked in New York City for eleven years as an Art Director and Production Designer in the Film/TV industry. She has taught film/video production and animation at various New York area colleges.
Cook has exhibited her award-winning work extensively in both solo and group shows including screenings at MOMA and the Whitney Museum. In 2001, Cook was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She has also received fellowships and grants from the New York State Council of the Arts, The Experimental Television Center, The Jerome Foundation (Film in the Cities) and the Wisconsin Arts Board. Cook’s media works are in the permanent collections of the Donnell Library (NYC), Princeton University, National Library of Australia (Canberra) and the NYU Film Library, among others.
In pursuing her personal research, Cook works in Film, Video, Poetry Films and Installation and is currently editing a thirty minute experimental documentary film that explores her responses to the poetry and life of Lorine Niedecker.
KBS Productions
Bertrand Le Cabec, Frédéric Servant and Sébastien Savine. Winners of four Mackies for 2006 with The Adventures of Bill & John: Danger Attacks at Dawn, including the Best Machinima award. Sébastien Savine is a movie sound engineer, Frédéric Servant is an engineer in research & development (R&D) for a digital visual effects company and Bertrand Le Cabec is a video editor.
Ken Parker
As an independent Producer, Director, Editor, and Technical Director based in the San Francisco area since 1983, I have had the privilege of working on many interesting projects with some exceptionally talented people, as well as the great pleasure of winning a National Emmy Award.
Along the way I have also had many opportunities to teach editors and technical directors all over the world, to work with software and hardware designers and engineers to develop new products and tools for the film and video production industry, and to improve existing ones.
I have developed and conducted technical demonstrations and seminars in more than 22 countries on 5 continents.
And I have taught television production to seventh, eighth, and ninth graders, as well as graduate students, although not at the same time.
And through it all, I have never lost my passion to take a good story and, using pictures and sound, tell it well.
http://www.parkerfilms.net/
Ken Perlin
Ken Perlin is a professor in and was the founding director of the Media Research Laboratory, within the Department of Computer Science at New York University. He directed the NYU Center for Advanced Technology from 1994-2004. His research interests include graphics, animation, and multimedia. In January 2004 he was the featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2002 he received the NYC Mayor’s award for excellence in Science and Technology and the Sokol award for outstanding Science faculty at NYU. In 1997 he won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his noise and turbulence procedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in feature films and television. In 1991 he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Perlin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University in 1986, and a B.A. in theoretical mathematics from Harvard University in 1979. He was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY from 1984 through 1987. Prior to that, from 1979 to 1984, he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at Mathematical Applications Group, Inc., Elmsford, NY, where the first feature film he worked on was TRON. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of ACM/SIGGRAPH, and currentlyserves on the Board of Directors of the New York Software Industry Association.
Kim I Morgan
Web media producer, previously with SpikeTV.com and MTV, also an early machinima supporter.
http://www.kimimorgan.com
Klaus Neumann
Klaus is a documentary filmmaker, journalist and founder of machinima deutschland - the german machinima portal.
http://machinimadeutschland.de
Lars Fuchs
Lars is a film and television editor with eighteen years’ experience on three continents. He has also produced and directed several short films. He is currently developing several projects, in both traditional media and machinima. He is also one of this year’s Festival Organizers.
Lenny Correa
Lenny Correa is a New Jersey based multimedia artist and concept illustrator. Having recently graduated from Rutgers University and resided in New Brunswick’s Courtlandt-land.com: Home for Wayward Artists; he now focuses on researching the effects, positive and negative, that the advent of video game space and virtual experience have had on his generation. He is also one of this year’s Festival Organizers.
http://www.lnylnylny.com/
Liz Slagus
Since 1999, Liz Slagus has developed and managed various Eyebeam Education programs, from school, youth, & family-related courses and workshops to broader issues of new and digital literacies and learning and teaching practices. Liz has organized and spoken on several panels regarding art and technology education programming, including AAM and NYCMER. She has taught new media art courses for the University of Connecticut and the University of Rochester via Eyebeam and has consulted for many organizations and schools within New York City regarding art and technology education and programming. Liz holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History and Anthropology from Bucknell University and a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.
http://www.eyebeam.org/
McKenzie Wark
McKenzie Wark is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Eugene Lang College and of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. His best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory.
http://www.ludiccrew.org/wark/
Michael Nitsche
Michael Nitsche is an Assistant Professor at the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he teaches courses on virtual environments and digital moving images. Michael heads the Digital World and Image Group and is member of the Experimental Game Lab. His research interests focus on the design, use, and production of virtual spaces, Machinima, and the borderlines between games and film. Michael Nitsche holds a Ph.D. of the University of Cambridge, an MPhil from Cambridge, and a MA from the Freie Universität Berlin. Michael has published on the use of cinematic language, performance, and spatial design of virtual worlds and related issues of games research. In a former life he was co-author for a commercial videogame, professional Improv actor, and dramaturgist.
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~nitsche/info.html
http://gtmachinimablog.lcc.gatech.edu/
http://dwig.lcc.gatech.edu/
Rooster Teeth Productions
Matt Hullum
Matt Hullum is an independent filmmaker in Austin, Texas. Along with Burnie Burns, he is a co-founder of Rooster Teeth Productions,
Michael Burnie Burns
Michael “Burnie” Burns is an independent filmmaker living in Texas. His most notable contributions have been in machinima, although he has also worked with live-action. In April 2003, Burns, along with several of his friends, created the Internet machinima series Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, filmed using the Xbox video games Halo and Halo 2. Red vs. Blue was quickly acclaimed for its humor and originality, eventually elevating Burns to the status of an Internet celebrity, visibility that allowed him to create one of the few successful machinima film-houses in the industry, Rooster Teeth Productions.
Mike Rosenthal
Mike Rosenthal is an electroacoustic composer working primarily in the realm of soundscape recording and urban acoustic ecology. He holds a BA in History and a BMus in Electroacoustic Composition from Oberlin College and Music Conservatory and is working towards a Masters Degree at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Mike curates the electronic music and mixed media programming at The Tank and produces the annual Bent and Blip Festivals.
http://www.thetanknyc.org/
Ricard Gras
Ricard Gras is founding member and director at Inter-Activa, where he generates cross-media projects and works as consultant with digital arts & media companies. Ricard is actively involved in initiatives that advocate the inclusion of audiences in the production/distribution processes and is known for promoting the value of Machinima as an artistic and educational tool.
After completing studies in his natal Spain in 1996, Ricard continued his education in the UK and conducted a research period at Gallery of The Future, where in 2001 he became one of Europe’s earliest adopters of Machinima techniques. In 2004 Ricard studied a Masters in Digital Television Production & Interactive Media and then became Director of Arts & Technology Partnerships.
Ricard’s work aims at investigating the creative uses of technology and examine in which ways new platforms also open up new ways of producing and distributing content. As speaker Ricard has been invited to take part in several festivals, conferences and seminars worldwide. His work at INTER-ACTIVA has also won awards and nominations in festivals.
Ricard is member of the Bradford Animation Festival’s Advisory Board, content committee member of the Edinburgh Interactive Festival and co-Director of the Machinima Europe Board.
http://www.inter-activa.org/Inter-Activa/Homepage.html
Rod Maher
Rod is technical director at Beepa in Australia. While working hard on Fraps all day he still keeps a keen eye on the latest movements in Machinima. With the newest productions continuing to impress he is very much looking forward to seeing all that this year’s festival brings.
http://www.fraps.com/
Sean Uyehara
Programming Associate at the San Francisco Film Society.
http://www.sffs.org/
Steve Horrowitz
At the California Institute of the Arts, Steve studied composition with Morton Subotnik, Mel Powell, Steven Mosko, and Mike Fink. He has received performance underwriting as well as commissions from; Meet the Composer Fund, The Lab, The American Music Center, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, The Utrecht Conservatory of Music, The Amsterdam Conservatory of Music, Gravy Train Dance Company, Kate Weare Dance Company, Ensemble Electra, The Living Room Fund, Alternate Currents, The Bim Huis, Dutch National Radio, KPFA Radio, The String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC), and Music at the Anthology (MATA), just to name a few.
In addition to his work in chamber and concert music, Mr. Horowitz spends a lot of time writing music for interactive media. He has written music for film, television, cartoons, and video games. His work spans a wide range. In addition to his groundbreaking work as the current audio director for Nickelodeon online , he penned the original score to the hit indie-film sensation Super Size Me , served as the music supervisor and lead composer for the television show I Bet You Will, and composed and produced the music for SPIKE TV’s Casino Cinema. In addition, Steve won a Grammy award for his engineering work on the compact disc “True Life Blues, the Songs of Bill Monroe” Winner best Bluegrass album 1996.
Steve also plays the bass and frequently collaborates with other musicians. Over the years, he has joined forces with an eclectic variety of musicians such as electric guitar wizards Elliott Sharp and Henry Kaiser, Dutch jazz saxophone greats Peter Van Bergen and Michael Moore, The Clubfoot Orchestra, Glen Spearman, acoustic bassist Tatsu Aoki, and the Balkan music ensemble Zhaba.
Year in and year out, Steve can be found working and touring with his own group The Code Ensemble. The group performs frequently and has released ten compact discs to date.
http://www.thecodeinternational.com/
Suzan Eraslan
Suzan Eraslan is the General Manager & Assistant Curator of Electronic Music and Mixed Media at The Tank. As a pop musicologist, hardware hacker, and wearable technology designer, she is dedicated to the integration of multi-media, music, and social interaction. She is a former music editor and fashion shoot designer for JIVE Magazine and co-founder of bleeding edge music blog Resonator Magazine. She holds a master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University where she researched with media theory icons Douglas Rushkoff and Clay Shirky.
http://www.thetanknyc.org/
Thom Gillespie
Thom is the creator and director of the MIME program in newMedia design at Indiana University where he teaches classes with names such as Intro to 3D Modeling & Animation, Art, Entertainment & and Information, and Interactive Storytelling and Computer Game Design.
When he is not teaching, he writes for a couple of magazines. His favorite column is for Technos where he is the cafeTechnos maitre d’Igital.
He is also the Prime Minister of mediajazz. A while back Dory and him designed the VINES project, a state wide information literacy project for Ivy Tech State College in Indiana.
He loves to travel and has worked north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska and slightly south of the Equator in Central Java for the United Nations. In the summer he has often taught at the Canadian Film Center’s newMedia habit@t in Toronto. Lately, he has taught at the 21st Century Project in Juneau Alaska and has gotten involved with a very interesting organization in Brazil called the Museum of the Person. This has lead to a storytelling project in Bloomington called pickUp. This site goes live in mid March of 2002.
http://www.indiana.edu/~slizzard/resume/page.html
Xavier Lardy
Xavier Lardy is the founder of www.machinima.fr, the first french community website dedicated to machinima. He studied cinema at Louis Lumière film school in the 90s, and worked as storyboarder in advertising, animation, film production and videogames. He also directed ingame cinematics and his track record features the adventure game Jack The Ripper, New York 1901. He’s actually working on a machinima-related project, called Moviepad (www.moviepad.fr), a filmmaking tool for virtual and pervasive worlds.
http://www.machinima.fr
http://www.xavier.machinima.fr
