Research Collaborator

Aaron Tate

This Esports Player Development project launched by the University of Texas at Dallas’ ArtSciLab aims to contribute to design one of the first new sports of the 21 st century by promoting cognitive longevity and positive psychosocial behaviors of cyber-athletes and gaming communities through qualitative research.

Esport Player Development

Esports

This E-Sport Cyberathlete Development project launched by the University of Texas at Dallas’ ArtSciLab aims to contribute to design one of the first new sports of the 21 st  century.

Researcher

Aditi Chakravarthi

Akash Singh

Deputy Co-Director of Transdisciplinary Strategy & Innovation

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ARTECA is a digital space that supports scholarly materials that explore the intersection of arts, humanities, science, and technology. The portal serves as a virtual art-science community resource and critical content provider for scholarly and experimental publications, including gray literature.

The project is a collaboration of The MIT Press, Leonardo/ISAST, and the ArtSciLab at UT Dallas.

ARTECA acts as a valuable hub for academic librarians and researchers, and aids in raising the art, humanities, science, and technology community’s visibility when other monodisciplines have already established such services.

ARTECA

ARTECA is a digital space that supports scholarly materials that explore the intersection of arts, humanities, science, and technology. The portal serves as a virtual art-science community resource and critical content provider for scholarly and experimental publications, including gray literature.

ExPuCu

Culture and AI

Experimental Publishing and Curation (ExPuCu) is the initiative of ArtSciLab to promote the idea of easy and fast publication

Project HERMES looks at how researchers and expert practitioners work together in interdisciplinary (across institutional departments) and transdisciplinary (across stakeholder communities) contexts through the framework of Transdisciplinary Intelligence. The framework includes knowledge and aptitude metrics, good practices, and transdisciplinary training modules to improve collaboration among artists, designers, engineers, scientists, and other experts in order to boost innovation through tool sharing and idea exchange. Project HERMES is currently underway internally at the University of Texas at Dallas among its 100+ research groups and will expand to industry partners in 2020. 

HERMES

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Researching how researchers and expert practitioners work together in inter- and trans-disciplinary contexts in order to tackle complex problems with creative solutions, ranging from the environment, to new ways of learning, to technology and society.

A collection of multidisciplinary exemplars of science, engineering, art, design, and humanities.

The SEAD Exemplars exhibit will comprises a collection of exemplar works demonstrating effective intersections among the sciences and engineering with art, design, and the humanities. The works represent international diversity as well as diversity of practices and disciplines. The sections of the exhibit reflect the different purposes and impact of the exemplars:
<ul>
 	<li>Pioneering: Individuals and groups whose careers have transcended disciplines and paradigms.</li>
 	<li>Exploring: Projects that have pushed the boundaries of both arts and sciences.</li>
 	<li>Bridging: Projects that seamlessly connect and merge the arts and the sciences.</li>
 	<li>Engaging: Projects that seek to express and communicate to the public at large.</li>
 	<li>Questioning: Projects that ponder about the implications of arts and sciences themselves.</li>
 	<li>Educating: Projects meant to both teach and encourage learning.</li>
 	<li>Innovating: Projects that led to discoveries and inventions.</li>
</ul>

SEAD Exemplars

A collection of multidisciplinary exemplars of science, engineering, art, design, and humanities.

Angelica Martinez

Physics-Art Coordinator

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<p>The ArtSci Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas is
conducting web based research: <em>Integrating
Domestic, Physical, and Virtual Spaces through Design(DPV.SI). </em>This study
examines the interaction between <em>domestic
architecture, technology, and human behavior. </em></p>



<p>How can we intentionally redesign physical spaces and online
spaces to more seamlessly interact? These intentional design decisions redesign
human culture and behaviors. This re-evaluation tackles design theory in
relation to an increasingly digital world.</p>



<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected human lives
and behaviors and presents an interesting case study of the relationship
between domestic spaces and technology. Government-issued shelter-in-place
orders, self-quarantine, self-isolation, and social-distancing measures force
individuals and institutions to move social and professional interactions
online while remaining at home for extended periods. </p>



<p>As so much time is spent at home, domestic architectural
design elements increasingly affect daily routines and social interactions, at
home and online. The method of this study is to survey a variety of subjects
from different backgrounds. Analyzing their daily experiences and knowledge can
provide insight into better design.</p>



<p>Data gathered from how architectural and design decisions
influence human behaviors can reveal methods to more effectively design future
physical and virtual spaces. The results of this study can additionally be
applied to technological design to better facilitate communication, especially
video/audio.</p>

DPV.SI

Integrating Domestic, Physical, and Virtual Spaces through Design

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Griot
 Sayansi&nbsp; is a gateway&nbsp; for interdisciplinary, intercultural and 
interpersonal exchange using the Spoken Word Poetic expression .&nbsp;&nbsp;<br></p>



<p> Its aims include: <br></p>



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To bridge gaps, and explore&nbsp; connections&nbsp; between science, culture,art,and the human experience&nbsp; .
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To provide a&nbsp; creative outlet for the community to explore new and meaningful networks&nbsp;
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&nbsp;To promote collaborations&nbsp; between peoples of different cultures, backgrounds and disciplines&nbsp;&nbsp;
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emphasize the&nbsp; value of life at the center of all&nbsp; discussion.
</li></ul>

Griot Sayansi

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Griot Sayansi  is a gateway for interdisciplinary, intercultural and interpersonal exchange using the Spoken Word Poetic expression .

Student Intern

Azal Amer

Student

Benjamin Evans

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Managing Editor

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Student Collaborator

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<p>The Constellation Mapping Project is a proposed social network study wherein subjects are said to be connected if they have had communication regarding “abstract” ideas. In the context of this project, the term, “abstract”, refers to concepts that are apart from the basis of everyday report/request communication that could be thought of as the necessary background communication to live in society as it is. In other words, the aim of the project is to try to get a sense of the dynamics and structure at the boundary of the space of communicated human thought. </p>



<p>The thesis at the core of this project is that emergent ideas in society are the offspring of former ideas and that the social network of people that acts as the substrate upon which these ideas grow and compete, are symbiotically related. People communicate abstract concepts and thereby connect with other people based on a perceived shared interest that goes beyond the established transactional, social necessities of status quo existence. Similarly, these ideas become associated with one another based on how often they are jointly discussed.</p>



<p>For example, the subjects of “quantum mechanics” and “relativity” are often discussed together. Arguably, these subjects qualify as being on the boundary of human communication in terms of day-to-day living. They are edge cases in this way, but their co-discussion points to an active and emergent area of ideas relating to quantum gravity, which is based on a relation(the unification of physics) that obviously has deeper roots than the mere correlation of joint-discussion, but nevertheless serves as an illuminating example. </p>



<p>So, the goal of this project is to establish a trial framework for a network model and suite of useful metrics, with which, these dual networks of people and ideas can be analyzed. </p>

Constellation Mapper

Social network study OF "People" and "Abstract Ideas"

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Technology and Culture Consultant

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Student Assistant

Daniel Martinez Murillo

Entrepreneur & Graduate Student

Danna Blumenau

Dante Jaramillo

Research Scholar

Elen Nas

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IanChen

UX Designer

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Biology Instructor, Science Chair, Lynx Director

Jason Brogden

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Associate Member

Judd Bradbury

<p>Originated in 2021 by Lauren Bernal in conjunction with Sairam Venkataraman and UTD Clinical Assistant Professor of Information Systems at UTD’s JSOM, Dr. Judd Bradbury.</p>



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<p>D.A.T.A.(Data Analytics Team for the ArtSciLab) is an alliance of analytic-driven ASL members. Its goal is to maintain sustainability in ASL as we learn from our history to make the best judgments for the future. With Lauren’s B.S. in psychology, she is utilizing knowledge of emotional intelligence and research design as a lens to start the Data Analytics Team of the ArtSciLab (coincidentally acronymic for "D.A.T.A.") to turn our qualitative measures into quantitative data visualizations. In the rationale for D.A.T.A., she expresses how the information we have on our ArtSciLab members can be used with understanding how to better our systems with increasing heterogeneity, seeing our strong points and weaknesses from an introspective point of view. Lauren nominated our new Lab Coordinator, Sairam Venkataraman, to be the lead of D.A.T.A. as he is earning his master’s degree in business analytics and can scaffold others on learning data analytics.</p>

D.A.T.A

Karen Doore

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The CDASH (Curriculum Development in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities) website was established in 2012 by Kathryn Evans and Roger Malina as both a resource for faculty who engaged in or were interested in engaging in art-science-humanities curriculum; and as a data collection point where these types of curriculum could be surveyed for innovation and sustainability. Our new site will include graduate, undergraduate, primary/secondary and informal curriculum.

Our new website allows you to easily enter your course and all the relevant details. Please log in or register before you submit your course. You may also access the other areas of the site. Those who submit syllabi will be admitted to the Cloud Curriculum, where you can download other syllabi and resources.

For more information, contact <a href="mailto:cdash@utdallas.edu">cdash@utdallas.edu</a>.

CDASH

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Curriculum Development in the Arts, Science, and Humanities

Data Analyst & Web Developer

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International Collaborator

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UX Researcher

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Creative Disturbance is an international and multilingual podcast platform that facilitates collaboration between individuals in art, science, and technology communities. It was created in 2014 by the ArtSciLab of the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication of UT Dallas, with the support of The MIT Press and Leonardo/ISAST. It is primarily run by UT Dallas students, with oversight and assistance from faculty.

Creative Disturbance has been made possible thanks to the success of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and the generous contribution of donors. On December 8, 2014,133 backers pledged $21,511 to keep Creative Disturbance running. The podcasts are since then recorded and produced by individuals who have an interest in art, science, design, education or technology. As promised during the campaign, the funding generated through this initiative has served to award international grants to students and young professionals across the world (Canada, China, Columbia, Egypt, Kenya, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, and Turkey so far). In return, the students have created a series of podcasts of their interests.

After four years of activity, Creative Disturbance has covered a wide range of topics such as the advancements of generative art and virtual reality, the ethics and aesthetics of artificial life art, the field of sonification, the meaning of Persian sculpture and mythology, the aesthetics of Chinese contemporary new media art, the dynamics of African diasporas and the Afrofuturist movement, the evolution of digital art in Latin America, the emergence of interactive architecture and synthetic biology, the impact of climate change in environmental art, the story of women engineering, the relationships between gender and economics, technology, race, and sexuality, etc. Today, more than 40 channels have been created by a network of local and international collaborators in the fields of art, science and technology. Creative Disturbance is 480 podcasts published in 16 languages listened in more than 145 countries for a total of 94,408 downloads. We intend to continue this effort by promoting multilinguism, transdisciplinarity and experimentation in the next phases of our development.

Creative Disturbance

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Creative Disturbance is an international and multilingual podcast platform that facilitates collaboration between individuals in art, science, and technology communities. It was created in 2014 by the ArtSciLab of the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication of UT Dallas, with the support of The MIT Press and Leonardo/ISAST. It is primarily run by UT Dallas students, with oversight and assistance from faculty.

<h2>1. Listening to Data</h2>
LISTENING TO DATA (Sonification) is the new tool needed for analyzing the ever growing data cloud. Our work is perfecting the many ways to make better decisions by not just visualizing, but simply <strong>LISTENING TO DATA</strong>. The existing data tools rely almost exclusively on flawed elaborate interactive visualization of data. Data Science, AI and Big Data industries are only developing a wide variety of data visualization tools to allow rapid and accurate decision making. The time to bring in at least one more, our richest sense in many ways, <strong>LISTENING TO DATA</strong> into the mainstream!
<h2>2. The weakness of the visual</h2>
Although the human eye is a sophisticated tool, it can also be easily tricked. Consider some of these weaknesses associated with visual inspection:
<ul>
 	<li>Unreliability - Browse through a set of optical illusions to get a sense of just how unreliable the human eye can be.</li>
 	<li>Imprecision - The human eye is not capable of making precise measurements, especially on a very small scale.</li>
</ul>
<h2>3. Breakthroughs: The Data Stethoscope Project</h2>
The Data Stethoscope Project at the UTD ArtSciLab has:
<ul>
 	<li>Developed a comprehensive set of audio tools for turning data to sound.</li>
 	<li>Developed a data sonification apprenticeship program (HERMES)</li>
 	<li>Developed training modules to learn to listen and interpret data as information</li>
 	<li>Cognitive Testing and providing certificates of completion to 100s individuals</li>
</ul>
Traditional Sonifications have been limited to a “proof of concept” or “artistic expression” context of the 25+ year history. We prefer the term LISTENING TO DATA. We have moved beyond Sonification and are prepared to scale up the distribution of our research findings.
<ul>
 	<li>LEARN (to LISTEN TO DATA )</li>
 	<li>EXPLORE (new sound adventures)</li>
 	<li>TEST (to find and improve on the best techniques)</li>
</ul>
<h3>3.1 Some tested USE CASES:</h3>
<ul>
 	<li>DATA LISTENING Graduate Business Students have complemented and augmented visualization work with proven access to more dimensions of data at once.</li>
 	<li>LISTEN TO DATA observing visually demanding experimental processes in real time, data listening has been proven effective.</li>
 	<li>LISTEN TO DATA using the new techniques we have pioneered for signalling weather and traffic conditions (and more) while driving, cooking in the kitchen etc.</li>
</ul>
<strong>We have created ways to standardize sounds of various types of audio representation of data!</strong>
<h2>4. Key Partners</h2>
Our research has determined that we have Key Partners that we will be targeting in Business Analytics, Data Science and Smart Speaker Market We plan to work in these areas with these resources:
<ul>
 	<li> Web based general distribution (Tableau, Javascript)</li>
 	<li>Professional Users via dynamic notebooks (Jupyter, Custom Apps)</li>
 	<li>Consumer Informatics via Sonic Alerts (Smart Speakers in Home and Car)</li>
</ul>
<h2>5. LET (Learning Exploring Testing)</h2>
<strong>LET</strong> us move forward with this approach which is designed and tested to assure success as the use of these new tools becomes a part of the workflow at the enterprise scale in the key industries of Business analytics, Research sector, Educational sector, and the growing Consumer “INFO sounds” market.

By focusing on <strong>LISTENING TO DATA</strong> We create the value proposition that will develop auditory interfaces to complement, augment and in some cases, replace visualization for increased efficiency, productivity in business and science workflows and beyond.

Data Stethoscope

Data-Stethoscope

A collaboration of artists, designers, and neuroscientists, Data Stethoscope is a multimodal data sonification and visualization of function MRI brain scans of individuals 20 to 80 years old. The desktop application allows this brain data to be explored sonically. This project, funded by DARPA, gives neuroscientists a way to “hear” how connections change in the aging brain.

Lead Project Manager

Lauren-Bernal

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Lab Manager

Linson Miranda

Lab Coordinator

Mahmoud Elkarmalawy

Michael Warner

Naznin Sultana

Lab Administrator

Nirmala Rani Pinnamaneni

Omkar Ajnadkar

Researcher/ Alumnus

Ritwik Kaikini

<p>Sound can be used in innovative ways in data analytics and interpretation. Micro Lux Chants is a multi-disciplinary art-science project where we seek to understand the life cycle of bioluminescent bacterium - Aliivibrio Fischeri through the medium of sound. The bacterial life cycle consists of four phases, namely: lag phase, log phase, stationary phase and the death phase. The team at the ArtSciLab and the Gassensmith Lab, has conducted significant studies through time-lapse photography of these bacteria over two years, to understand the growth and decay of these bacteria through visualization. We now traverse into a new form of data interpretation called sonification. The ability to detect what phase the bacteria is in during its life cycle, by listening, instead of seeing the growth and decay of these bacteria. </p>



<p>To achieve this goal, principles of Frequency Modulation and multiple blob tracking have been used in PureData and Max/msp, an open source visual programming language for multimedia. The process of translating data to sound is termed sonification.  </p>



<p>When there is a large number of batches of bioluminescent bacteria being grown, the researcher has to diagnose the stage of the life cycle of these bacteria through visual observation, which can be a time-consuming process as it requires constant supervision of these batches. This project proposes to solve this problem by using a software-based visual code to track the areas of growth in the bacterial colonies and obtain a sound output to detect which phase of the life cycle the bacteria is in. </p>



<p>The significance of these findings is twofold. Firstly, the biotechnological applications of bioluminescent bacteria extend to cell tracking in cancer research, gene control using quorum sensing and to test the effectiveness of antibiotics. Secondly, this research has applications in art-science communication, phenomenological studies of bioluminescence and data translation. </p>



<p>The project was presented as a poetic sound-art installation with a screen showing the process of making bioluminescent bacteria, two posters speaking about the concepts and phases of the project and a listening activity where people are invited to listen to bacteria singing or "Chanting''.  I(Ritwik) treated each colony of bacteria as a poet of a different language and the bacteria recite poetry as they light up. As the bacteria populate inside the petri dishes, the poetry gets chaotic to listen to, due to the simultaneous confluence of languages. As the bacteria begin to decay, the voices and the poetry fade out and the human voice lingers in the end.  </p>



<h3>Keywords</h3>



<p>Bioluminescence, Sonification, Quorum Sensing, Listening, Art-Science Communication, Visual Programming, Bio-art, Data Translation, Pure Data, Computer art, Phenomenology </p>



<h3>Graduate Student Team</h3>



<ul><li>Ritwik Kaikini (MA Arts and Technology ’18) (2016-present) </li><li>Brian Merlo (BS Bioengineering ‘19) (2018- present)       </li></ul>



<h3>Undergraduate Student Team</h3>



<ul><li>Victoria Nguyen (BS Biochemistry ‘17) </li><li>Nhan T Khuu (Health Studies Major) </li><li>Anna Lynn Edwards (Biology Major) </li><li>Ashton Brillante (BA Arts and Technology ’17)  </li></ul>



<h3>Faculty Team</h3>



<ul><li>Jeremiah J Gassensmith (Gassensmith Lab) </li><li>Roger Malina (ArtSciLab) </li><li>Frank Dufour (LabSynthE)  </li></ul>



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<ul><li><strong>Written, Edited and Directed by:</strong> Ritwik Kaikini</li><li><strong>Background Score by:</strong> Ritwik Kaikini</li><li><strong>Videography by</strong>:  Aahlad Madireddy, Oskar Olsson, Brian Merlo, Ritwik Kaikini  </li></ul>

Micro Lux Chants

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Micro Lux Chants is a multi-disciplinary art-science project where we seek to understand the life cycle of bioluminescent bacterium - Aliivibrio Fischeri through the medium of sound.

Director

Roger Malina

<p> In the home page, the photos of the food are instant, and the photos disappear from the home page after an hour of display. The reason for this setting is mainly because the food eaten at different times is different (breakfast, lunch, dinner).  However, if we click on the personal page, we can see all the meals posted by that person before. </p>

Foodar

Inspire people’s ideas about what to eat when they are hungry!

Student Assitant

Sairam Venkataraman

Emerging Technology , AI and Policy Advisor

Sharath-Chandra-Ram

Experimental Publisher

Swati  Anwesha

<p>The ArtSciLab Crier began in early 2021 when the new Lab Coordinator Mahmoud Elkarmalawy wanted to answer the popular question of “What is going on at the ArtSciLab?”. He later invited Daniel Martinez-Murillo onto the Crier team to help him answer that question.</p>



<p>The ArtSciLab Crier is a weekly newsletter website designed to inform ArtSciLab members and other interested parties about the lab’s events and news related to the lab. The name is based on town criers, who would make public announcements in town halls, and the logo is inspired by newspaper boys, who in a similar fashion would exclaim news headlines in the streets. In the same way, the Crier intends to point interested people’s attention towards the ArtSciLab and their projects by spotlighting them and relevant news, interacting with readers through activities, and providing readers with the latest events, research results, and inquiries. More than just a blog, the Crier hopes that its team’s accuracy, creativity, and efforts shine through and provide an enjoyable insight into the world of the ArtSciLab.&nbsp;</p>



<p>In this way, the Crier’s use of experimental publishing and curating methods aids in its mission to create a deeper level of engagement within the ArtSciLab family and its external network of collaborators, leading to a more connected community of hybrid professionals from various disciplines, cultures, and backgrounds.&nbsp;</p>

The ArtSciLab Crier

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Weekly newsletter with upcoming events, call for volunteers and much more!

ArtSciLab Ethics and Legal Advisor

The Honorable don John McClellan Marshall

Tina Chen

Uttamasha Monjoree

Deputy Co-Director of Performative Research

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This web site is the web companion of the Leonardo e-book&nbsp;Meta-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts&nbsp;(MIT Press, 2014). It aims at documenting and promoting the key works and concepts of the arts of artificial life. Each section has been conceived to provide the reader with a maximum resources about the topics discussed in the book.&nbsp;Feel free to propose new material and email Yvan Tina at&nbsp;yvantina@gmail.com.

With biotechnologies, synthetic biology and Artificial Life, artists have opened new avenues in the artworld, going from still to autonomous objects to living creatures, exploring the thin border between animate and inanimate, confronting the grown, the evolved, the born and the built, raising aesthetic but also social, political and ethical issues. In this ground breaking collection, the editors have commission new original essays by key figures in these fields and collected document the ideas and practice of artists involved in these areas as well as theoreticians and historians.

Chapters include: Between Bio, Silico and Synthetic: Of Life and Arts; Artificial Life and the Arts; Bioart; Bio-Fiction, Design, Architecture; DIY Biology-Biohacking (see below for full Table of Contents). An exo-life may not come from outer space hitting the Earth riding a meteorite but very well from the lab, designed by a scientist — unless it is an artist— weaving biology and computing in a petri dish or a bioreactor as a vessel.

Meta Life Web Companion

Meta-Life

The web companion of the Leonardo e-book Meta-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts (MIT Press, 2014)

Lab Members

Aaron Tate

Aditi Chakravarthi

Akash Singh

Alex Garcia Topete

Angelica Martinez

Ayen Kuol

Azal Amer

Benjamin Michael Evans

Chandramallika Basak

Chaz Lilly

Chi-Peng (Charlie) Tsui

Christopher Lee

Chukwuemeka Ikebude

Cris Kubli

Daniel Martinez-Murillo

Danna Blumenau

Dante Jaramillo

Elen Nas

Frank Dufour

Franklin Osuagwu

Ian Chen

Jacob Hunwick

Jason Brogden

Joao Silveira

Judd Bradbury

Karen Doore

Kathryn Evans

Kirtan Pathak

Kofi S. Latzoo

Kristen Deupree

Lauren Ashley Bernal

Linda Anderson