Stephen W. Boyer is an artist and designer specializing in
electronic entertainment and interactive technologies. He has produced
a diverse body of work ranging from the design of electronic toys
and video games to interactive installations in major museums. Mr.
Boyer, a graduate of Northwestern University's School of Music, is
also on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Paul Catanese has won grants for his multimedia, animation and installation
based artwork through many sources including the GSU Foundation and
The New York State Foundation for the Arts. Currently, he is pursuing
an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He teaches computer
graphics classes at Harold Washington College, in Chicago.
Shawn Decker is a composer and artist who works with interactive computer-based
performance and sound and electronic media installations and also
writes music for live performance, electronic tape, and for film and
video. His work has been frequently performed, seen, and heard in
the US and Europe. Mr. Decker is an Associate Professor in the Art
and Technology and Sound departments at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, where he also recently chaired the 1997 International
Symposium on Electronic Art.
Margaret Dolinsky's work has been featured at SIGGRAPH, Ars
Electronica Center, the Total Museum, ISEA97, VRAIS and ThinkQuest.
Her work is published in the VR Developer's Journal, ACM Computer
Graphics, Leonardo, IEEE Multimedia, and Digital Magic. Dolinsky is
currently a research artist at the University of Illinois at Chicago's
Electronic Visualization Laboratory.
Jim Ferolo is currently finishing an MFA degree in interactive design
in the department of Radio, Television and Film at Northwestern University.
His interest in the interactive genre has lead him to investigate
the connections between early cinema and the development of the new
computer gaming experiences. As a senior developer at the Northwestern
University Multimedia Learning Center Lab he designs educational intranet
and distance learning projects.
Paul Hertz teaches in the Department of Radio, Television and Film
and develops interactive multimedia applications for the Collaboratory
Project at Northwestern University. He is a recent recipient of a
grant from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts,
Northwestern University, for production of a collaborative intermedia
performance.
Silvia Malagrino is best known for her extensive body of work in photography.
There, as in her newer media works and installations, she explores
complex issues of history, memory, personal and political identity.
She is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago,
School of Art and Design.
Kenneth Rinaldo is a transdiciplinary artist and theorist who creates
multimedia works which look to the co-evolution of our natural and
technological cultures. His works have been shown at The Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago; '98, Chicago Cultural Center; '97, Home
Show in Seoul Korea; '96, V2 Dutch Electronica Arts Festival in Holland;
'95, Images Du Future in Canada; '92 & '95. Rinaldo is a Professor
of Art and Technology at The Ohio State University.
Miroslaw Rogala is an internationally recognized media artist whose
work is known for incorporating new interactive media and expressing
a transformed and diverse sense of exstence. He is currently a doctoral
candidate at the Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts
at the University of Wales College, Newport.
