Open(Art) Fellow Forrest Oliphant is a media designer based in Helsinki and North Carolina working on Meemoo hackable creative web apps.  The main design goal of this project is to extend creative open-source software hackability to a wider audience. Meemoo apps can be built, shared, forked, and hacked all in the browser. Forrest graduated from the MA in New Media program at Media Lab Helsinki in 2012.

Open(Art) Fellow Toby Schachman is an artist and programmer with a background in mathematics. He has worked in the contexts of internet startup culture, Hollywood 3D animation, exploring perception through interactive art, and teaching computers to understand stories.

Toby's current focus is creating alternative interfaces for programming computers. These interfaces are targeted at alternative programmers, artists and creative explorers with non-technical backgrounds. Toby graduated in 2006 from MIT with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics with Computer Science, and received a master's degree in 2012 from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.

Open(Art) Fellow Nortd Labs is an international research and development studio founded in New York City by Addie Wagenknecht and Stefan Hechenberger in 2006. Nortd generates work in the area of art, architecture, and system design. Nortd is defined as a collaboration based studio of creative thought that engages science, art and design. Their open source hardware has been built and used by thousands of people, labs, hacker-spaces and universities worldwide. We believe that people should collaborate globally and build locally.