Elliot Anderson's work incorporates a wide range of media including video, sound, interaction with the computer, installation and computer generated text and image. The focus of his art making is an examination of human and biological systems as means to create an ongoing negotiation and interaction with the computer and its software. He is currently developing a project entitled Networked Nomadic Artforms for which he received funding from the University of California’s Inter-Campus Arts grant. The project uses artificial life algorithms and the Internet to create artworks that evolve through interaction on the Internet. Anderson created interactive sets for an opera by composer Daniel Rothman that premiered in Graz Austria in 1996 and was preformed at the LA County Museum of Art in April 1998. He developed in collaboration with the artist Jim Campbell the first computer based interactive public art installation owned by the City of San Francisco for the San Francisco State University MUNI station. His work is exhibited locally, in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

 

Victoria Bloedau explores the relationships between the body and the natural through traditional media, focusing on the physical manifestations of toxicity in the personal and global environments. Recently, she is especially interested in humanity's intimacy with plant cycles through agriculture, and is currently researching the possible connections between seed germination and the lunar cycle as recognized in various folk traditions.

 

Rupa Dhillon researches new methods and approaches to sound generation, manipulation, and experience via computer programming and electronics.  She is especially concerned with the relationship between different modes of listening and composition. Currently, Rupa is researching genres of electronic music found in India.

 

 

 

 

Miki Foster is (in no particular order): Hapa, Japanese-American, Queer, a multi-media artist, a videomaker, a haphazard blogger, an activist, an occasionally excellent cook. Miki says:

"I lived most of my life in Seattle apart of the only mainland-based section of my family. The rest of my family lives in Hawaii. From very early in my life I saw how tourism and capitalism affected my life; these industries impacted when and how much I got to see my family. The tourist industry is often framed as a big boon to the people in Hawaii and I began to see the industry was also a very destructive and disabling force. As a consequence of my experience in/not in Hawaii I’m very critical of utopic constructions. At the current moment I’m interested in creating interactive pieces that discuss the politics of violence, issues of embodiment, and technology and globalization. Much of my past work focuses on complex intersections of identity and the politics of identity from the borders and on the margins."

 

 Lindsay Kelley researches fringe foods, experimental ingestion, and representations of people and plants in conquistador narratives. She recently completed a dissertation about food, biotechnology and contemporary art, focusing on artists who use biological processes or "wet ware."

 

Nada Miljkovic investigates how empathy operates within art works particularly in time-based media and gaming technologies.  Within her art practice, Nada works in a wide range of forms from web-art, gaming, video, and electronic interactive art. Her projects are united under the idea that art can be used as a social practice. Currently, she is writing about the jouissance of Trubaci, contemporary Serbian-Romi brass band music.

 

Nichole Smith researches new methods for envisioning, collecting, and represent narrations of group experiences through non-linear web constructions. Her art is centered around the boundaries between individuals and communities, experience and recollection, and external and internal. Currently, she is working on an oral history collection with members of the Hip Santa Cruz History Project—a group whose members were part of the counter culture movement in Santa Cruz, CA during the late 60s early 70s.

 

Transnationally made and Bay Area born, Elizabeth Travelslight is a writer, experimental philosopher, and artist. She enjoys orchestrating beautiful collisions between digital and material media, refining the explorations of her philosophy through conceptual art, curious objects, craft, and conversations. She is an M.A. candidate with the Media and Communications division of the European Graduate School and a first year graduate student with the Digital Arts/New Media M.F.A program at the University of California Santa Cruz.