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Music Composition

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist making works for voice, electronics, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), and the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She has composed scores for dance, film, and chamber ensembles (including Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird). Her awards include the Rome Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Dorothea Tanning Award, the Guggenheim, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Data Analysis & Programming

Weidong Yang, Ph.D. is founder and CEO of Kineviz. Supporting world-class businesses, agencies, and nonprofits, Kineviz’ revenue-funded team of scientists, computer engineers, and artists connects humans with data and provides visualizations of complex data to gain insights for better outcomes. After conducting theoretical and experimental research on quantum dots, Weidong spent 10 years as a product manager and R&D scientist in the semiconductor industry, where he invented Diffraction-based Overlay technology to improve the manufacturing precision of silicon wafers. He also co-founded Kinetech Arts, a non-profit organization bringing dancers and engineers together to explore the creative potential of making art via new technologies. Weidong has been awarded 11 US patents; contributed to 20+ peer review publications; and holds a doctorate in Physics and a Masters in Computer and Information Science from the University of Oregon.

Sensor Programming

John MacCallum is a Berlin-based composer. Often practicing in collaboration with choreographer Teoma Naccarato, their work together draws on their backgrounds in music composition, choreography, computer science, creative writing, performance art, and philosophy. They have presented at venues in Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, Phoenix, London, Hamburg, and Berlin. They have been awarded artist residencies at research centres such as IRCAM (Paris), Djerassi (California), CLOUD/Danslab (The Hague), and Lake Studios (Berlin), and their published articles have appeared in journals across a broad range of disciplines. MacCallum studied music composition at UC Berkeley (PhD), McGill University (MM, Montreal), and the University of the Pacific (BM, California).

Communications Coordinator

Fernando is a multidisciplinary artist and storyteller based in Baja California (Mexico). His work focuses on the field of expanded arts and performative literature, generally based on research processes in natural and maritime areas. He has also developed a professional career as a cultural manager and science communicator, producing several theatre plays, documentary films, and TV programs.

He has written for cultural publications in Mexico such as Gandhi Lee Más and Punto en Línea; as well as for the US arbitrated magazines Media N-Journal and Leonardo. Also, he has participated in artist residency programs in Mexico, Austria, Saudi Arabia, and the United States, including the Djerassi Foundation program. He recently published Viajera del Noroeste (The Northwest Traveler), a transmedia about the cultural history of gray whales in the Baja California peninsula, on the digital platform Noro.mx.