The
Great Park Project Field Guide to Surveying
Open Space in Urban Areas invites artists,
inventors, architects, urban planners, gardeners
and citizens of this plant to contribute.
Amy Franceschini
Amy is a new media
artist and educator. Her work is pervaded with images
of growth-reminding us that both nature and our
own creative natures are precious commodities that
must be nurtured and sustained whether it is on
the web or in our own backyards. Amy founded Futurefarmers
in 1995, as a means to bring together multidisciplinary
artists to create new work. She is currently teaching
Media Theory and Practice courses at Stanford University
and the San Francisco Art Institute. {www.futurefarmers.com}
{www.communiculture.org}
{www.atlasmagazine.com}
Great
Park Contribution: Great Park Website/Concept, Solar
Music Box/sundial, Ad-hoc Ecosystem, Great Park
Fairytale: An Epic, Satellite Parks,
Seism-a-sketch.
Fiona
Jack
Fiona hails from
New Zealand. She makes art and books and is currently
working towards an MFA at Cal Arts in Valencia,
California. In 2003/4 Fiona ran a gallery in her
studio at CalArts called The Small Gallery which
showed artists from New Zealand and Australia. Her
most recent work: Missing Peoples- A supplement
to Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh
Edition was previewed at Gallery 727 in Los Angeles
. This first edition of 188 copies of the book ‘Missing
Peoples’ names the 139 nationalities of the
world that are not included in the eleventh edition
of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.
Great Park Contribution:
Proposals for El Toro Abstract Landscape Paintings
in Warmington Homes
Color Schemes 3, 4 and 7 from Somerset at Creekside,
Valencia.
Ryan
Griffis
Ryan
Griffis is a volunteer with the Temporary Travel
Office in Los Angeles. The Temporary Travel Office
is a non-existent organization that serves those
interested in technological tourism and the politics
of place. Ryan is also the organizer of YOUgenics,
a multimedia platform for interrogating the social
implications of genetic technologies.Collegiate
Dictionary.
{Temporary
Travel Office}
Great Park Contribution:
Bioremediation
Plot Networks
Myriel
Milicevic
Myriel is an artist/designer
working across many media. She is currently finishing
her masters at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
in Italy. Her Quantum Browser project, which she
developed together with Axel Ebert, received a special
award at the Third International Browserday. In
2001, she contributed to the "Paris" edition
of the fashion album Visionaire, which was curated
by Hedi Slimane, Design Director of Dior Homme.
In 2002, she initiated together with Kevin Haywood
theFetafarm Thinktank for Experiments in Berlin,
exploring fields such as the overlap between the
physical and virtual gaming environments.
{visit
her website}
Great
Park Contribution: Ad-hoc
Ecosystem, Great Park Fairytale: An Epic, Satellite
Parks, research
Richard
Mortimer Humphrey
Richard is an engineer,
inventor, and electronics specialist. His work embraces
the demystification of technology and electrical
engineering in a wide range of interactive sculptures,
workshops and consultation. Rich is currently working
at Center
for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
CCRMA lab at Stanford University.
Great
Park Contribution: Engineering
Consultant
Stijn
Schiffeleers
Working in many media
Stijn reveals the subtleties of life via film, video
and interactive installations. Stijn's work embodies
a sense of play and sensitivity that reminds us
to take a closer look at what surrounds us. Stijn
lives and works between Gent, Belgium and San Francisco.
Great
Park Contribution: Solar
Music Box/sundial
Juan
Ospina
Colombian
graphic designer, currently working at Fabrica,
After graduating
and doing jobs for OgilvyInteractive,Bogota. Not
very good at writing about
himself. Interested in any way of communication
he can get his hands on.
Currently interested in DVD authoring, illustration
and programming.
{www.piterwilson.com}
Great
Park Contribution: Ad
hoc Ecosystem
Enrique
R. Grullon
Enrique
was born in the Dominican Republic, and moved to
Orange County, California where he attended high
school and university very close to the El Toro
base. Enrique is an interactive designer and developer
focusing on web applications and communication.
He is currently living in Treviso, Italy where he
is a consultant for the Interactive arm of FABRICA,
Benetton's communication research center.
{www.co8.com}
Great
Park Contribution: Ad
hoc Ecosystem
Miki
Yoshimoto
A nomadic artist
and writer Miki Yoshimoto, who recently earned her
MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, often engages
in multiple projects ranging from her own artistic
practice and curatorial pursuits to creative writing.
Her interests emerge out of a curiosity about the
way in which civilizations evolve and the utopian
ideals that fuel them. She is currently working
towards publishing her first limited edition artist
book titled An Impractical Guide to the Hoover
Dam. Her recent essay on the Spiral Jetty is
due to appear in the December issue of Sculpture
Magazine. Miki splits her time between San Francisco
and Los Angeles.
Great Park Contribution: Research
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