Albert Chao addresses the intersection of technology and architecture. With a foundation in physical computing, interaction design and parametric modeling, his work explores the mapping of ephemeral experiences through fabricated objects and speculative design proposals. Albert is a recent graduate of a Media, Architecture and Computing MArch + MFA dual degree program at the University at Buffalo.
Recent Persons
Amelia is a designer, a marketer, and one hell of a Scrabble player. Raised in Louisiana and Tennessee, Amelia earned a BFA in Communication Design at Louisiana Tech University before moving to Chicago to pursue a Masters in Integrated Marketing Communications from Loyola University. Her last (but not least) educational endeavor has brought her to New York to study in the graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. Her recent work explores her interests in collective storytelling, interpersonal interactions, and user behavior.
Amelia is currently interning under Matt Parker and Albert Hwang.
I work in design, sound and technology with training in interaction design, sound design and teaching. After graduating in Computer Science with Music Technology in Milan, I collaborated with different Italian and international realities such as Interaction Design Lab, NABA and Domus Academy (Laureate International Universities), Nokia Italy, Politecnico di Milano and for clients such as Olivetti, Telecom Italia, Fiorucci, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar etc. In the past few years I have focused on user experience and complex systems analysis through physical prototyping and investigation on how things work behind the surface.
Jonathan is a media studies student at Bennington College, focusing in digital arts, computer science and the social sciences. With interests in both the social and anti-social aspects of the net, he does mostly web-based pieces informed by sculptural forms. He is from Connecticut and likes it.
He's working with Matt Parker on a very big lumarca right now~
Ben Light is a New York City based maker/designer. Ben's work has appeared in the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) and the Cameron Art Museum. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University and is currently enrolled in the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Ben is a member of the Gowanus Studio Space and may love his lathe, just a little too much.
Pat Jones is serving as Eyebeam’s Interim Director while the Board conducts a national search for a new permanent Executive Director. She has served as a consultant and as an Interim ED for a wide range of arts and other nonprofit organizations and has worked in the nonprofit field for over 30 years. For 12 years she served as the Executive Vice President of the Alliance for the Arts, an information, research and policy organization serving arts organizations in New York City and the region, where she was responsible for the first city-wide study of the economic importance of the arts as well as programs in arts and education, cultural tourism, and guidesbooks, including A Guide to NYC Museums and the Kids Culture Catalog. Pat was also the Executive Director of the South Florida Art Center, which offered studio and exhibition space to over 90 artists on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, and of Nontraditional Employment for Women, a New York City-based organization training women for jobs in the construction trades. Following a career in print and television journalism, her first nonprofit position was as the Associate Director of the Municipal Art Society.
As a consultant, Pat has worked with organizations ranging from the Miami City Ballet and the North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art to Abraham House and The Resource Training Center, social service organizations in the Bronx and Brooklyn respectively. She currently serves on the boards of the Maysles Documentary Center and The Theater at Monmouth (ME), and has been a board member of the Alliance for the Arts, Jennifer Muller/The Works, and the Architectural League.
Pat has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia School of Architecture and Planning.
My fascination with machines and industry has influenced me to createmechanical devices through the use of clay. These sculptures arecreated using a combination of ready-made objects, molded objects,wheel thrown parts, and slab constructed supports. The main goal is togive the viewer hands on interaction and participation, which I feelhas been absent in past ceramic sculpture.
Gregory Witt grew up in Indiana, where he completed a BFA in Sculpture at Indiana University in 2005. Since 2006, he has been living and making art in Pittsburgh, where he earned his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. He has exhibited in various places in the U.S., most recently in Brooklyn, NY, with fellow artists from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where he attended in 2009, and in Pittsburgh as the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts' Emerging Artist of the Year. He currently spends his days developing exhibits at The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh and teaching art at Carnegie Mellon University.
Ramzi Abdoch is a computer science undergraduate at Columbia University. He hails from Memphis, TN where his love for music, people, and computers drew him to New York to find some way for each to interact. He is currently working with Kaho Abe and Fran Ilich on the project Spacebank and hopes to explore software and hardware solutions to various human interaction design problems. He also manages a band (Ace of Cake) and volunteers as a DJ at WBAR.
Ramzi Abdoch is a computer science undergraduate at Columbia University. He hails from Memphis, TN where his love for music, people, and computers drew him to New York to find some way for each to interact. He is currently working with Kaho Abe and Fran Ilich on the project Spacebank and hopes to explore software and hardware solutions to various human interaction design problems. He also manages a band (Ace of Cake) and volunteers as a DJ at WBAR.
