Seismic activity can be viewed online at:
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Ken Goldberg
Original Concept and Direction
b. 1961, Nigeria
lives in USA

Ken Goldberg is an artist and Associate Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, where he founded the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. In 1994, Goldberg led the team that developed the first robot on the Internet. His net art installations have since appeared in the Interactive Media Festival, the Festival for Interactive Arts, New Voices/New Visions, Ars Electronica Center, and the Walker Art Center. Goldberg co-founded the Net Work program at New Langton Arts and initiated a grad seminar on net art at the SF Art Institute. His "Ouija 2000" telerobotic installation was shown at the Berkeley Art Museum and the 2000 Whitney Biennial.

Goldberg received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His primary research area is geometric algorithms for feeding, sorting, and fixturing industrial parts. Goldberg serves on the Advisory Board of the IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation and has lectured on telerobotic art at MIT Media Lab, Stanford, CMU, New York University, New York School of Visual Arts, IBM, Interval, and Xerox. Goldberg was named a National Science Foundation Young Investigator in 1994 and NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1995. In 2000 he won the Engelberger Award for Robotics Education. He is the editor of The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, published by MIT Press.

www.ken.goldberg.net
www.tnr.com/online/balkin062000.html

Randall Packer
Sound Composition and Design
b. 1953, USA
lives in USA

Randall Packer's work as a composer, media artist, and producer/curator has focused on the integration of live performance, technology and the interdisciplinary arts. From the revival of avant-garde music theater to the creation of new interactive media work, he has bridged current issues in art and technology with seminal interdisciplinary ideologies from throughout the 20th century.

In 1988 Packer founded Zakros InterArts (formerly New Music Theatre) in San Francisco, and produced, directed, and created critically acclaimed multimedia theater works including "Sur Scene" by Mauricio Kagel (1988), "Theater Piece" by John Cage (1989), "Originale" by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1990) and "Arches" by Randall Packer (1991). He produced the "Deep Listening" new music series (1991-93) as well as organized and directed the annual John Cage Memorial MusiCircus (1992-94). "Knossos," a work for piano, percussion, and live electronics, was commissioned by Radio France and performed in Paris (1993).

He has co-produced and composed music for CD-ROM under the Chronic Art series, computer films that were premiered at the 1996 San Francisco International Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival. In 1997, he completed the collaborative sound-text work, "Through Invisible Cities," performed at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and released on CD (1998). "Pleasure Island," an online multi-user virtual community was presented at the USC School of Cinema's Interactive Frictions conference (1999). His collaborative installation "Mori" was selected for the 1999 Biennial Exhibition at the InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, and his net project, the "Telematic Manifesto," was included in ZKM's (Center for Art and Media) "Net_Condition" exhibition.

As a leading authority on the history of multimedia, Packer has recently completed the first phase of a multi-part hybrid project entitled Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality. The website component was sponsored by Intel's Artmuseum.net and the forthcoming book (spring, 2001) is being published by W.W. Norton.

Former Director of the San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program and Director of Multimedia for the San Jose Museum of Art, he has served on the faculty of the Department of Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley and the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, where he currently teaches courses in the history, theory and production of digital art.

www.zakros.com/projects/mementomori1.html

Gregory Kuhn
Physical and Acoustical Designer
b. 1965, USA
lives in USA

Wojciech Matusik
Internet and Display Software