Amy Franceschini, San Francisco
www.futurefarmers.com/amy

Amy Franceschini, founder of Futurefarmers, is a new media artist working with notions of community, sustainable environments and the conflicting rituals of humans and nature. Her work manifests "on" and "offline" in the form of net art, installations and public art. Franceschini studied photography at San Francisco State and received an MFA from Stanford University. She has had solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery and Gallery 16, San Francisco and RAMP in New Zealand. Her work has been included in numerous group shows including; "Tirana Biennale: Interactive Art" at Deitch Projects, NY; "Bay Area Now 2", at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Tranmediale, in Berlin.

Amy currently teaches New Media courses at the San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University.

Jocelyn Robert, Canada/California
www.lenomdelachose.org/jrobert/

Jocelyn Robert lives in Quebec, Canada, and Oakland, United-States. Although
trained as an architect, for the last fifteen years he has been working with sound, creating art installations, composing interactive computer pieces, producing performances, videos and writings. In 1993 he founded Avatar, an artist-run centre in Quebec City. He did numerous artist residencies, performed solo, with Diane Landry, Laetitia Sonami and Bruit TTV, published nine solo cds and participated to over 20 from other artists on the Ohm Editions label. He received numerous grants and in 2002 was awarded First Prize, ex aequo, in the New Image category of the Transmediale, in Berlin. He collaborated with ?mile Morin on many projects, notably on La Salle des Noeuds, an installation that has been presented at the Sommet de la Francophonie in Moncton and at the Walter Phillips Gallery, in Alberta. His work has been shown in Canada, the United-States, Mexico, Chile and in Europe. He is interested in banalytics, in the space between nothings, in the thickness of time... He currently teaches Intermedia Arts at Mills College, in Oakland, California.

David Lu, New York
www.david-lu.net

David Lu is a designer, illustrator, and programmer. His projects
are explorative, yet thoughtful, in nature, involving elegantly
designed screen-based and physical interfaces to custom software.
One personal project, for example, is a web browser that uses a
vintage rotary phone dial as a physical input device; one dials an
IP address rather than typing a URL.

In July 2003, he began a six-month stint as a member of Lisa
Strausfeld's team at Pentagram Design, where he wrote software for
dynamic information displays in public spaces. At Pentagram, he
developed a deep appreciation for information visualization and
mapmaking; his current works-in-progress focus on these themes.

David holds BA degrees in Computer Science, Economics, and
Psychology from Rutgers College. Currently, he is rediscovering a
love of drawing and handmade things, hiding from technology
whenever possible.



Jonah Brucker-Cohen, NYC/Dublin
www.coin-operated.com/projects

Jonah Brucker-Cohen works as a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe in Dublin, Ireland and a PhD candidate in the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG) at Trinity College Dublin. He received a Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, NYC and worked there from 1999 to 2001 as an Interval Research Fellow creating interactive digital / networked projects. His focus is on subverting existing relationships to human/networked interfaces by building new real-world inputs to networks, redefining how information is used and disseminated, and shifting virtual processes into physical forms through networked devices and experiences.

Stijn Schiffeleers, Belgium
www.boutiquevizique.com

Stijn Schiffeleers lives in Gent, Belgium and San Francisco. He is a new media
artist working in video and interactive installations. He is the co-founder of
boutiquevisique, a collaborative project with Hendrik Leper. Together they have
created installations for Oorsmeer Festival in Holland, Belgium and France
and participated in Media Knitting at DEAF 02 where they created KONTACT with
Karmen Franinovic. Boutiquevizique is currently working on Happyheartbeats,
an interactive sound installation for Z33 in Belgium.

Michael Swaine, San Francisco

An artist who is dedicated to working in the community, Swaine’s "Reap What You Sew" Generosity Project involved him pushing an old fashioned ice cream style cart on wheels with a treadle-operated sewing machine on it through the streets of San Francisco. For two weeks he stopped to sew for the homeless, for celebrities and for ordinary people - without distinction - fixing, patching and tailoring any clothing or fabric they wanted him to work on. He received a BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY and studied Advanced Ceramics and Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Michael Swaine has worked with Amy Franceschini on numerous projects, most recently, Photosynthesis Robot which was included in the 2003 Artbots, Eyebeam, New York.

Richard Mortimer Humphrey, San Francisco

Richard Mortimer Humphrey refers to himself a “general specialist”. He has worked with Amy Franceschini on many projects including Holding Patterns for BAN II at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Fingerprint Maze and Botanical Gameboy. He curently works at the Center for Computuer Research in Music at Stanford University and is working on several projects of his own including the remote graffiti writer.

Artech, San Francisco
cdm.sfai.edu/artech/

Artech is a student group from San Francisco Art Institute that is engaged in the
development of artwork utilizing technology.

09/18/2003
Artech's fundamental objective is to provide a place for artists to exchange aes-
thetic and/or conceptual ideas and opinions, electronics expertise, programming
proficiencies, et cetera, within diversified artistic and intellectual endeavors.

11/11/2003
Artech formed in order to share resources, knowledge, and ideas while developing a critical discourse around art, technology, and science.



Elmar Trefz, Germany
www.semnon.net

Elmar Trefz hails from Australia as an artist in residence at Futurefarmers where he is working on networked devices and physical computing. He was studying new media at Swinburne, National School of Design in Melbourne.



Suzi Pritchett, San Francisco

Suzi Pritchett hails from New York where she has spent the last eight years designing textiles, clothing and costuming commercially as well as collaborating with individual artists such as Stephen Hendee. Her recent work includes works on paper exploring geometry, and energy pathways . She has recently (re-located) to San Francisco, where she continues to design and collaborate . She earned her BFA at Rhode Island School of Design.