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CASEY REAS

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After twenty-eight years of drawing, playing video games, drumming, and designing information systems, Reas' nascent talent for writing software forged these disparate interests into a new direction while a graduate student and researcher at MIT.

Reas currently teaches in the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA. His classes provide a foundation for thinking about computers as a medium for artistic exploration and set a structure for advanced inquiry into culture, technology, and aesthetics.

As an artist, Reas employs ideas explored in conceptual and minimal artworks as focused through the contemporary lens of software. With Ben Fry, Reas creates Processing, a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound.

http://reas.com
http://processing.org
http://users.dma.ucla.edu/~reas
http://dma.ucla.edu

PETER BENTLEY

Dr. Peter J. Bentley is a Senior Research Fellow and College Teacher at the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL), Collaborating Professor at the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) and Visiting Research Fellow of the University of Kent.

Peter runs the Digital Biology Interest Group at UCL and is known for his prolific research covering all aspects of Evolutionary Computation and Digital Biology. His research investigates evolutionary algorithms, computational development, artificial immune systems, swarming systems and other complex systems, applied to diverse applications including design, control, novel robotics, nanotechnology, fraud detection, security, art, and music composition.

Peter regularly gives plenary speeches at international conferences and is a consultant, convenor, chair and reviewer for workshops, conferences, journals and books in the field of evolutionary computation. He is editor of the books "Evolutionary Design by Computers", "Creative Evolutionary Systems" and "On Growth, Form and Computers", and author of the popular science book "Digital Biology".

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.Bentley/index.html
http://www.peterjbentley.com
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.Bentley/igdigitalbiology/

MACHIKO KUSAHARA, PhD

Professor, School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University
Visiting Professor, Dept. Design|Media Arts, UCLA
(Photo by Bill Seaman)


Machiko Kusahara is a scholar in media art and theory, who has been publishing and curating in the interdisciplinary field connecting art, science, technology, culture, and history. Since her involvement in the field of computer graphics in early 1980s she published many texts internationally on digital media and culture, co-authoring books such as The Robot in the Garden (MIT Pres), Art&Science (Springer) among many others.

Kusahara curated many exhibitions and helped launching venues such as Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and NTT/Intercommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo. She has served as a jury for major media art competitions including LIFE, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and ISEA. She has been the chief jury for the Art Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival since 2003. Her recent research focuses on analyzing notion of life and reality in digital era in relation to Japanese cultural background, to make a creative use of media technology in the society.

http://www.f.waseda.jp/kusahara/
http://www.f.waseda.jp/kusahara/media