Krzysztof Wodiczko is an artist currently living in Boston and teaching at MIT. The son of Polish conductor Bohdan Wodiczko, he was born in 1943 in Warsaw, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw in 1968 with a degree in industrial design, and taught at the Warsaw Polytechnic until 1977. He emigrated that year to Canada to teach at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

Matthew Monahan (b.1972, Eureka, California) is an United States artist based in Los Angeles. He is represented by Anton Kern Gallery in New York, and Fons Welters in Amsterdam. Monahan studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York and the Gerit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Holland. Monahan has shown his sculptures at various galleries, collections, and museums, including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen, …

Prabda Yoon (born in 1973 in Bangkok) is a Thai writer, novelist, artist, graphic designer, magazine editor and screenwriter. He is the son of Nation Multimedia Group executive and editor Suthichai Yoon. Prabda graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City in 1997. He worked as a graphic designer briefly in Manhattan before returning to Thailand for his required military service.

Paul Kirchner is an American writer and illustrator. Paul Kirchner attended New York’s Cooper Union School of Art but left in his third year when, with the help of Larry Hama and Neal Adams, he began to get work in the comic book industry. He penciled stories for DC’s horror line and assisting on the “Little Orphan Annie” newspaper strip for Tex Blaisdell, who took it over after the death of Harold Gray.

Seymour Chwast is an illustrator and graphic designer. He, along with Milton Glaser and Edward Sorel founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. Along with Glaser, Chwast created "The Push Pin Graphic", an award-winning bi-monthly publication from the Push Pin Studios which achieved a worldwide reputation. He has since done many posters, food packaging, magazine covers and publicity art.

Christopher Fahey has been making computer games and graphics since childhood, and he continues to experiment with new ideas in computer art and design. He is the creative force behind the online laboratories http://www.graphpaper.com and http://www.askrom.com. Christopher is a founding partner of Behavior, a New York-based interaction design firm, where he serves as the Information Architecture practice lead.

Perry Hoberman is an installation and media artist who works with a wide variety of materials and technologies, ranging from the utterly obsolete to the state-of-the-art, from low-tech to high-tech and nearly everything in between. His work has variously taken the form of installations, sculptures, multimedia, performances, concerts, plays and uncategorizable spectacles. Hoberman has exhibited internationally, with major shows throughout the USA and Europe.

Sarah first collaborated with YAF in 1998, when she was Manger of the Cultural and Education Exchanges Unit of the British Council in Hong Kong. In 2000, she moved to Scotland to set up a national arts education network for the Scottish Arts Council. Since returning to Hong Kong in 2003 Sarah has worked for YAF as Manager of the Art Angels programme.

Sandra Kelch Lecturer, Graphic Design Sandra Kelch is a lecturer, currently teaching in the Visual Communication emphasis at San Francisco State University. She previously taught classes in design and typography at CCAC and CCSF and has lectured nationally. Sandra received her two design degrees from the Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Phillip Sage printmaker and artist, was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. His interest in art became apparent at a very young age, as did his talent. After high school, Phillip remained in Manchester and attended St. Anselm's College where he received a degree in Economics and Business Administration. In 1964, Mr. Sage enrolled at Cooper Union School of Art in New York where he studied graphic art.

Timothy Horn is a gifted artist who captures on his canvases a lovely clarity of air, light and mood in the often humble scenes he paints. Almost all his work is done on location, in the outdoors or “plein air”. He finds painting on location to be endlessly challenging, yet the only way to really get a strong sense of energy and freshness into a painting. He generally spends anywhere from 1 to 3 sessions on a painting, sometimes doing small touch-ups back in the studio.

Rebecca Bird graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2000, after which she was awarded a Fulbright to study traditional painting techniques in Kanazawa, Japan. She has shown her paintings New York, Seattle, San

Ciao! I'm the Associate Creative Director for AOL Video product development. On a daily basis, I work alongside many talented & bright team members delivering amazing experiences. Over the years, I've had the pleasure of working on diverse projects covering many channels & brands, including AOL, Netscape, CompuServe, Entertainment Weekly, In Style, Time & People. Below are projects which I have worked on: Year Project; 2006 AOL Video w/Brightcove & Microsoft Vista Integ. . . .

Elizabeth Diller Elizabeth Diller is an architect and a professor of architectural design at Princeton University. She is a cofounder of the New York firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, known for its collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to architecture, and her creations are seen in dance performances and museum shows as well as buildings such as the international arrivals terminal at Kennedy International Airport.

Jenna Park , Art Director Jenna Park is an artist and designer with more than ten years of experience in interaction design, video, graphic design, physical computing and sound design for theater, websites and screen-based interactions. Previously, she served as Art Director at Muse Networks, an international online arts and culture news bureau.

Brian Wu Director of Design & User Experience Brian Wu is responsible for the design and user experience of SiteAcuity’s user interface, dashboards, and tools in addition to the company website. Mr. Wu comes to SiteAcuity from Inside Out Design, a design company he founded in 1993, that has served clients such as Xerox, Union Pacific, Zagat Survey and many small and start-up companies.

KATHARINE GATES is the founder/publisher of Gates of Heck press, through which she has collaborated with sex and fringe culture luminaries Annie Sprinkle and Joe Coleman, among others . She is the author of Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex and is the sole creator of this website. Ms. Gates graduated from Yale University in 1985 with a self-designed degree in Mythology, which combined Anthropology, Literature, Linguistics and Art History.

Carolyn Strauss, Project Director Carolyn Strauss has over a decade of experience producing projects of various scales and media. Trained as an architect, Strauss has worked mostly at the intersection of design, technology and cultural research. Beginning in the early 1990's, she commissioned public art to encourage discourse about the social implications of emerging technologies, the creative opportunities they afford, and the new forms of cultural expression they might engender.

Lisa Moran is Combined Arts Officer with the Arts Council with responsibility for Community Arts and Festivals. She studied fine art painting at the Cooper Union School of Art, in New York, and much of her work to date has been concerned with the development of arts practice in community contexts.

Norman Sanders is an internationally exhibited photographer whose work ranges from social commentary to surrealist imagery. He is also the former president and technical director of a color lithography firm in New York City that served museums, art book publishers and major corporations. This experience and practical background leads Sanders to concentrate as a teacher on the foundations of art.

Edward Heins . Brooklyn, New York. 4th SFOA year. Ed received his BFA from Cooper Union School of Art and his MFA from the NY Academy Graduate School of Figurative Art. Ed is a painter, illustrator, stained glass artist, calligrapher and illuminator. He has exhibited extensively in New York and Maine, and teaches as an adjunct professor at St. John's University.

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Richard Lytle studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and at the Yale University School of Art , where he received a B.F.A. in 1957 and an M.F.A. in 1960. He was an assistant in instruction to Josef Albers in 1956 for color and in 1957 for basic drawing. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Florence, Italy, in 1958 and was included in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Sixteen Americans in 1959.

Chris Fahey is a founding partner of Behavior , a user experience and interaction design consultancy in New York City. Before launching Behavior in 2001, Chris wore many hats in the new media industry, as an interface designer, information architect, art director, game designer, and project manager.