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CODAsummit:

The Intersection of Art, Technology and Place

October 12-14, 2022 McNichols Civic Center

Denver, Colorado

Keynote Speakers

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Jason Bruges

Jason Bruges is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in London. He is internationally renowned  as a pioneer of the hybrid space between art, architecture and technology. His artworks are site-specific,  ‘sculptural barometers’ that tap into the emotional tapestry of a community or place by translating live  feedback into living, breathing, spatial interventions. 

A master of light and kinetic art, Jason combines his architectural knowledge with a high-tech, mixed media palette to explore spectacle, time-based interventions and dynamic immersive experiences. His  artworks are moments of theatre that transform in response to their surroundings and connect people  with their environments. 

Jason Bruges trained as an architect at Oxford Brookes University and the Bartlett School of  Architecture, (UCL). He worked with Foster + Partners for three years before moving to Imagination to  become a Senior Interaction Designer. In 2002 Jason set up his own practice and now works with a  diverse, talented team of people to develop and deliver interactive projects worldwide.

Jason Bruges

Jason Bruges Studio

Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold, founder of Modernist Cuisine and lead author of Modernist Cuisine: The Art and  Science of Cooking, Modernist Cuisine at Home, The Photography of Modernist Cuisine, Modernist  Bread, and his latest release Modernist Pizza, has had a passion for science, cooking, and  photography since he was a boy. Unlike many childhood hobbies, his fascination in food and photography did not fade—it intensified. He consumed cooking books and invested in new cameras and lenses even while doing  postdoctoral cosmology work with Stephen Hawking. While working as the chief technology officer of Microsoft, he took a leave of absence to earn his culinary diploma from École de Cuisine La Varenne in France. 

Nathan retired from Microsoft in 1999 to found Intellectual Ventures and pursue several interests, including his lifelong interest in photography, cooking, and food science. During this time, some of his photographs were published in America 24/7 and Washington 24/7. Inspired by the void in cooking literature about culinary science, history,  and the cutting-edge techniques used in the world’s best restaurants, Myhrvold decided to share the science of cooking and wonders of Modernist cuisine with others through Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, hoping to pass on his own curiosity and passion for the movement.  

Following the publication of Modernist Cuisine in 2011, the book won top honors for visual design from the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and the photography of the book has been exhibited worldwide including the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Science in Boston, and the Museum of Natural History in Le Havre, France. Encouraged by the ongoing positive feedback on the photography, Myhrvold wrote and published The Photography of Modernist Cuisine in 2013.  It received the Gourmand Award for best cookbook photography in the United States, a bronze PubWest Book Design Award for best photography book, and the gold IndieFab Award for  photography. 

In 2014 the Photography of Modernist Cuisine: The Exhibition was created. The traveling  exhibit illuminates the fascinating, accessible science at work every day in kitchens with over 75 photos taken over the last seven years, kitchen equipment cut in half, and high speed video of food  in motion. The exhibit has traveled to the country’s leading science and culinary museums in Seattle, Boston, Silicon Valley, and New Orleans.  

Continued requests to buy the art paved the way for Myhrvold’s next venture: Modernist Cuisine Gallery. With locations in Las Vegas, New Orleans, Seattle, and La Jolla, the gallery features large scale, limited-edition prints of Myhrvold’s art and is the first gallery in the world to focus solely on  food photography by a single artist. 

Nathan Myhrvold

Technology Leader, Photographer, Pizza Enthusiast

Sadiya Akasha

Sadiya Akasha is a product developer and a UX researcher with a background in social psychology and group dynamics. She has leveraged her skills to transform organizational thinking in marketing, investments, genetic research, data analytics, molecular diagnostics, and community-serving nonprofit arts organizations. Today she works closely with artists and cultural institutions to help them refine and communicate their vision at the intersection of art, technology, and human-centered design.

Sadiya Akasha

COO, Director Of Product Development, Sitara Systems

Nathan Lachenmyer

Nathan Lachenmyer is an MIT-trained human-computer interaction researcher whose work investigates the changing relationship between humans and emerging technologies, and how technology can be used as a tool to communicate and inspire people. He is the Director of Technology at Sitara Systems, a technology and design laboratory that works with artists, museums, and brands to communicate their messaging and expertise to the public through interactive experiences.

Nathan Lachenmyer

 Director of Technology, Sitara Systems

Shadow Wall by Jason Bruges Studio

Featured Speakers

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Michael Chavez

Michael Chavez is the Public Art Program Manager for the City & County of Denver. Denver’s 1% for Public Art Program celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2018 and holds more than 410 public artworks in its collection with more than $40 million invested in public art since 1988. Chavez oversees the conservation, care, and maintenance of the collection as well as the selection process for new public art commissions. Currently, the program has more than 30 active public art commissions in progress.  

Chavez also serves on the Public Art Network (PAN) Advisory Council through Americans for the Arts. PAN is a professional network dedicated to advancing public art programs and projects in the United States through advocacy, policy, and information resources to further art and design in our built environment.

Michael Chavez

Public Art Program Manager, City & County of Denver

Ricardo Rivera

Ricardo Rivera, founder of Klip Collective, is a self-taught, site-specific media artist and pioneer of projection mapping. Rivera uses a unique synthesis of projection mapping, lighting, and sound design to create captivating, immersive sensory explorations of perception and imagination. By interpreting and transforming architecture, landscape and objects into active canvases framed by the dark of night, Rivera aims to re-shape the reality of a space.

Ricardo Rivera

Video Artist and Creative Director, Klip Collective

Joseph Conover

Strategic Manager, Live Events Group, Panasonic System Solutions Company

Joe Conover has over 25 years of emerging technology and visual solutions leadership. He has vast experience with Immersive Entertainment and Media.

Mr. Conover currently leads Panasonic’s Strategic Development and Partnership efforts in North America with a primary focus on large venue projection solutions. Mr. Conover previously owned his own company providing technical equipment, service and solutions. After the sale of this company to Sharp Electronics he held various leadership positions at Sharp. In his five years at Panasonic he has held various management positions before taking his current role at Panasonic North America.

Mr. Conover is also now currently engaged with the upcoming 2028 Olympics efforts in Los Angeles where he resides. The Themed Entertainment Solutions Group provides technical consultation for many clients whom with to deliver world class projection mapping and immersive experiences through innovative solutions.

Joseph Conover

Strategic Manager, Themed Entertainment Solutions, Panasonic Connect

Anne Strainchamps

Anne Strainchamps is an award-winning public radio host and producer who has worked in public broadcasting for more than 30 years, beginning at National Public Radio. She was a founding producer of The Diane Rehm Show at WAMU in Washington, DC -- one of public radio’s most successful live daily call-in shows.  She is the host and co-founder of To the Best of Our Knowledge, a Peabody Award-winning interview show and public radio institution.  She also created the Emmy Award-winning essay series, Wisconsin Life.  

Anne Strainchamps

Host and Co-founder, To the Best of Our Knowledge on PRX

Gavin Downey

Gavin Downey is responsible for large venue projector product management at Epson, the global market share leader in projection. He works with a team of dedicated industry experts and is particularly interested in the role public art plays in pushing technical and cultural boundaries while redefining what’s possible with visual display systems. Prior to Epson, Gavin’s career included commercial sales in the structured cabling industry, product marketing for a nascent mobile computing category at Dell Computer, and product innovation and development at Belkin International. Gavin is a graduate of The Ohio State University, lives in Los Angeles, California with his family, and enjoys going to galleries, mountain biking, photography, camping, and seeing live music.

Gavin Downey

Group Product Manager, Epson America Inc.

Vince Kadlubek

Co-Founder and Former CEO, Meow Wolf

Vince Kadlubek is a Founder of Meow Wolf, an art collective that has transformed into an award winning Art and Entertainment Production Company that specializes in immersive, open-world walk through experiences. Vince acted as leader and CEO for Meow Wolf though its formidable years, having created the business plan for Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return and leading the team towards the project's completion in March of 2016. In January of 2017 Kadlubek formed Meow Wolf, Inc as a full fledged arts production company and creative studio positioned to create the largest, most innovative and audacious monumental art exhibits in the world. After raising series A funding he announced two new Meow Wolf exhibits in Las Vegas and Denver,  opening in 2021. Kadlubek has been a force of vision in the realm of experiential art, and in 2020 launched a creative consulting agency called Spatial Activations as a platform to usher in a new era of experiential art in modern developments and everyday life. Vince is most passionate about co-creating fully-realized alternative realities that bring paradigm-shifting transformation and inspiration to the world.

Vince Kadlubek

Co-Founder and Former CEO, Meow Wolf

Tam Gryn

Chief Curator & Head of NFT Strategy, Yes We Are Mad

Tam Gryn is an Art Curator originally from Venezuela. She is the former Director of Fine Arts at Rally.io, where she helped artistic communities create their own autonomous crypto economies. She is also Head Curator at SHOWFIELDS, contributor to the BanklessDAO and Friends With Benefits and has lectured at Harvard Business School and The New York Academy of The Arts. She is the former Head of the Curatorial Department of the Artist Pension Trust as well as Head Curator for RAW POP UP. Tam has curated multiple art exhibitions as well as charity fundraisers. Clients and collaborators include The Brooklyn Museum, The Whitney Museum, UTA, Glossier, Heineken, Evian, Mastercard, and SVA School of Visual Arts NYC. Tam studied Art History at the Sorbonne University, Politics at Reichman University and Negotiation at Tel Aviv University.

Tam Gryn

Art Curator and Author

Kris Collins

Kris Collins, AIA, LEED AP serves as a Managing Director of Cultural projects for MGAC, an Owner’s Representative and Project Management firm with offices in Washington, DC, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto.

Since 2006, Kris has been working as a project coordinator for commissioned public artworks, working directly for artists to advocate for their business interests. He uses his experience in the design and construction industry to make a bridge between project developers and the artists they wish to engage.  Clients include Hank Willis Thomas, Nekisha Durrett, Kendall Buster, Mia Pearlman, Brian Tolle, Odili Donald Odita, Michael Jones McKean and others.  Kris has over 29 years of professional experience leading the management and delivery of complex building projects. His portfolio includes a mix of complicated commissioned sculptures, museum/entertainment projects, TV network broadcast projects, historic preservation work, build-to-suit projects and base building construction. Kris is a registered architect, a member of the American Institute of Architects, American Alliance of Museums and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Kris Collins

Managing Director of Cultural Projects, MGAC

Forest Stearns

Forest Stearns fearlessly loves to draw. From the walls of Earth to the reaches of Space, there is nothing he will not draw upon. 

As founder and Principal Artist of award-winning DRAWEVERYWHERE STUDIOS, Stearns and a team of collaborators turn a prolific drawing-based practice into vastly unique artistic productions. The studios' dynamic mark-making styles have left international imprints that span media and substrates. Laser-etched drawings have covered hundreds of that Earth-orbiting satellites, large illustrations wrap the cryostats of future-facing Quantum Computers, and giant murals span the surfaces of many buildings, radomes, and rocket ships. In 2018 Forest Stearns and Dr. Lucero founded the Quantum AI Artist in Residence to celebrate nature, and build an inclusive and beautiful future through art and science. Sketchbook drawings transform into epic productions, which in turn, become the architecture of AiR programs that inspire cultures.  

Stearns received a B.F.A: Fine Art (Distinguished Alumni) from Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata, and an M.F.A: (Honors) from the Academy of Art, SF. in 2010. Stearns joined Google as a Creative Innovation Consultant contractor in 2018. 

Forest Stearns

Principal Artist, DRAWEVERYWHERE STUDIOS

Erik Lucero

Dr. Lucero designed, built, and operates the Google Quantum AI campus  -- with the mission to build an error-corrected quantum computer for the world to enable humankind to solve problems that would otherwise be impossible. He is one of the scientists on the Google Quantum AI team who demonstrated humanity’s first beyond-classical computation (Nature 2019), recognized as one of the Breakthroughs of the year.  He has two decades of experience in quantum architectures and a portfolio of photographs documenting the evolution of quantum processors from single qubit devices to Google’s Sycamore quantum computer. Dr. Lucero engineers quantum systems from the qubit-scale to the campus-scale, and is building a community for all quantum mechanics. In 2018 Dr. Lucero and Forest Stearns founded the Quantum AI Artist in Residence to celebrate nature and build an inclusive and beautiful future through art and science.   

Dr. Lucero received two B.S.: Electrical Engineering (Honors) and Applied Physics (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Colorado, Denver, and a PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Lucero joined Google in 2015.

Dr. Erik Lucero

Lead Scientist, Google Quantum AI

Electric Desert by Klip Collective

Commissioner's Track

Ilene Shaw

Ilene Shaw has devoted her career to the advocacy of good design. A design marketing consultant who conceived of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Shaw worked closely with its show management in its development, and that of Accent on Design. She leads NY NOW’s green initiative, Sustainability: Design for a Better World.  Shaw serves as a founding member of the NYCxDESIGN Steering Committee, New York City’s official design week, during which Shaw produces Design Pavilion, a 9-day cultural public event intended to increase awareness of the power of design, and NYC Design Talks, offering inspired topics by today’s most insightful design thinkers. Shaw serves on the board of trustees for DIFFA: The Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS and co-founded Operation Design, creating mentorships and creative programs between architects, designers, artists and NYC public schools.

Ilene Shaw

Founding Producer, Design Pavilion; CEO, Shaw & Co. Productions; Presenter, America By Design: Architecture TV on CBS

Debra Simon

Debra most recently served as Director of Times Square Arts where she was responsible for the curation and production of the public art initiative.  Among the programs she oversaw was Midnight Moment which is the world’s largest digital art exhibition, synchronized on electron billboards throughout Times Square. As Vice President and Artistic Director of Arts Brookfield, Debra Simon oversaw public programming at over thirty sites in New York, Houston, Los Angeles and Denver. She is involved in the presentation of more than 500 free cultural events each year with a combined attendance of over 1 million. She also led marketing, social media, public relations and partnership for all programming. 

Debra Simon

Founder & President, Debra Simon Art Consulting

Neil Ramsay

Since 2007 Neil Ramsay has been transposing business acumen, finance, operations, and entrepreneurial management experience as a service. He is active in art and design advocacy and mentoring creatives, raising awareness of local creative communities. He works to foster growth opportunities for individuals/organizations seeking support with their practice/programs.

Neil has served profit/non-profit community-based art organizations over several years as an independent with a passion for positive social outcomes. These include Creative City Collaborative/Arts Garage, Pineapple Grove Arts District, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Legal Art Miami, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Primary Projects, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Locust Projects, Girls Club Collection, FATVillage Arts District, New World School of The Arts, and Miami Dade County.

As the Consulting Director of the Food, Art & Technology (FATVillage) District, FATVillage Arts District, Inc., Neil worked directly with the two founding principals on the strategic and creative development of the city-designated arts district concept since 2017. In 2021 FATVillage property and concept were purchased byInternational Real Estate firm HINES, which resulted in the initiation of CUUE.

Neil is Principal at CUUE, Inc. Creative Unique Urban Experiences, a real-estate development design theory repository. He is responsible for strategy, research, collaborations with human-centered design specialists, and integrating forward-thinking design practices in built-environment projects. He was the founder and operational director of ArtsUP! A not-for-profit organization that operated from 2016 - to 2021. A 5,800 Sg.ft warehouse gallery space in Downtown Ft. Lauderdale. Exhibiting large-scale aerial installation art and architectural activation by artists wishing to experiment in this genre. ArtsUP! Concepts served as a hybrid showcase of the conceptual, gallery, and public space art exhibits, capitalizing on the architecturally unique characteristics of an otherwise sparse and under-utilized warehouse. ArtsUP! Concepts hosted community gatherings (Opera, Dance, Print Press and Book Fairs, Music, and Corporate Events) and educational programs for various local schools as part of exhibition programming.

Neil Ramsay

Creative Economist Principal, CUUE (Creative Unique Urban Experiences)

Doug McCraw

Doug is the founder and developer of FATVillage, an arts district located in a city designated four block area in the Ft Lauderdale city center.  The area was developed out of a warehouse district in 1999, and has some of the oldest buildings in the city.  It has developed into a community of artists, galleries, theatres, studios (photography, film, graphics design, media management, arts technology incubation), and other arts centric businesses.  Prior to FATVillage, Doug was the founder of DAS Records and Data Storage, a South Florida company acquired by Iron Mountain Group in 1996.  He is active in the venture capital community and has founded a new company, Art + Light + Space Studios with partners Peter Symons, Leah Brown, and Lutz Hofbauer.  Doug is a graduate in Marketing (1972) from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and remains active with board work on the campus.

Doug McCraw

Founder, FATVillage Arts District

I AM A MAN Plaza by Cliff Garten

Panel: The Emergence of the Collective

Kerry Adams-Hapner

Assistant Director of the Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs 

As the Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Jose since 2008, Kerry Adams Hapner leads the Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA), and serves as Assistant Director of the Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs. In 2021, she championed the rebranding of the Office of Economic Development to the Office of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs in recognition of the critical importance of the arts and culture sector in our community and economic recovery from the COVID19 pandemic; Cultural equity is central to her team’s work, contributing to their policy and strategies. Her portfolio includes public art, creative placemaking, special events, cultural funding, creative entrepreneurship, convention and cultural facility operations and maintenance, conventions and visitor bureau, and the creative economy. Her office promotes and supports all aspects of the creative community: nonprofit art organizations, artists, event organizers, creative entrepreneurs, for profit arts-based businesses, and collectives. 

Prior to her entering working for the City of San Jose, Kerry served as Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Ventura for over eight years. Prior to her public art agency career, she worked at a Beverly Hills art gallery, an ethnographic art appraisal firm, the Getty Trust, and owned an art appraisal practice.

Kerry regularly writes and speaks internationally on a range of topics from placemaking to art and technology to fashion. She is frequently quoted in local, national, international and industry publications. From 2013-2016, she served as the Chair of the United States Urban Arts Federation and has served on its executive committee since 2010. She serves on the boards of Californians for the Arts and California Arts Advocates. Since 2020, she has served on Americans for the Arts Getting Creative Workers Working Coalition. She is the former Chair of the Public Art Coalition of Southern California. She is a member of ArtTable. She regularly serves as an art juror and grant panelist for all levels of government including the National Endowment for the Arts’ Our Town Program. 

She earned a master in liberal arts degree from Stanford University. A case study on the power of public art, her thesis is titled “Plumed Serpent: Politics of Place, Art, and Cultural Inclusion.” Kerry earned her bachelor of art degree in art history with a specialization in business administration at the University of California at Los Angeles. She has a certificate in Fine Art Appraisal Studies from the University of California at Irvine.

Kerry Adams Hapner

Cultural Affairs Director for the City of San Jose

Cliff Garten

Working with sculpture that is integrated into landscape, engineering, architecture, and their illumination, Los Angeles based sculptor, Cliff Garten is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard Graduate School of Design where he studied sculpture and landscape. For twenty years he has been an important voice in public art, advocating for what he calls, the expressive potential of infrastructure. As Director of Cliff Garten Studio, he has created award winning work that transmits strong social and aesthetic identities for civic places and large civic infrastructure systems. His sculptures are built with careful attention to regional character, social history, and an intimate reading of how the infrastructures that run our cities can also function as art in our everyday experience.

Cliff Garten

Artist and Director, Cliff Garten Studio

Liza Quiñonez

Liza Quiñonez is a curator, cultural producer, creative entrepreneur, and founder of the award-winning public art and design agency, Street Theory. She has worked in large-scale public art and event production, arts administration, experiential marketing, cultural place’keeping’ and within the art and design industry for 15+ years – gaining a blend of experiences and skill sets that give her business acumen and a unique point of view when working with both artists and clients. She is passionate about artist rights, social justice, art activism, and multiculturalism and prides herself in amplifying authentic experiences, diversity, and street culture within all aspects of work, life and community-- from curating and producing events to empowering communities and working with some of today's most talented and influential artists.

Liza Quiñonez

Founder, Curator & Producer, Street Theory

Cheryl Catterall

Drawing from her early professional years as an architect, Cheryl rekindled her former passion and loops her unique skills into the projects that she delivers by enriching experiences through harmonious integration of digital and architectural design.

 Her 28-year career has led her down a focused path, exploring the impact of digital storytelling on the experiential identity of a space, through a multidisciplinary approach that employs new technologies that elevate the narrative. Her post-graduate training in design at the National Theatre School of Canada led her to work in the performing arts, where her practice focussed on set and costume design for contemporary dance, placing special emphasis on the integration of digital media into the performance environment. She has created interactive experiences for permanent and temporary installations, institutional and corporate mandates, as well as privately owned and commissioned art pieces. The heart of the matter tor Cheryl is the integration of digital media as responsive architecture to express the evolving nature of a given space, while the users are the pulse whose collective energy bridge the physical-digital divide.

Cheryl has been invited to speak and share her ideas and practices on Digital Placemaking in conferences and panels such as the New Cities Foundation, the Annual American Association of Architects (AIA) conference, and the Society for Environment Graphic Design (SEGD). 

Cheryl Catterall

Creative Director, Moment Factory

Michael Chavez

Michael Chavez is the Public Art Program Manager for the City & County of Denver. Denver’s 1% for Public Art Program celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2018 and holds more than 410 public artworks in its collection with more than $40 million invested in public art since 1988. Chavez oversees the conservation, care, and maintenance of the collection as well as the selection process for new public art commissions. Currently, the program has more than 30 active public art commissions in progress.  

Chavez also serves on the Public Art Network (PAN) Advisory Council through Americans for the Arts. PAN is a professional network dedicated to advancing public art programs and projects in the United States through advocacy, policy, and information resources to further art and design in our built environment.

Michael Chavez

Public Art Program Manager, City & County of Denver

Magical Mystery Tour: Art and Science

Dr. Julian Thayer

Dr. Julian F. Thayer received his Ph.D. from New York University in psychophysiology with a minor in quantitative methods. Dr. Thayer has held faculty positions at Penn State University and the University of Missouri. Before moving to the Ohio State University in 2006 as the Ohio Eminent Scholar Professor in Health Psychology Dr. Thayer was Chief of the Emotions and Quantitative Psychophysiology Section in the Laboratory of Personality and Cognition at the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Thayer is currently Distinguished University Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine and the Ohio Eminent Scholar Professor in Health Psychology Emeritus and Academy Professor at The Ohio State University. He has also been a visiting professor at Sapienza University in Rome, the University of Bergen in Norway and the Free University of Amsterdam and a Research Fellow in Residence at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. He has published over 400 research papers and book chapters covering a wide range of topics including behavioral medicine, cardiology, emotion, psychopathology, bioengineering, research design and multivariate statistical techniques. Dr. Thayer has received numerous research awards including the Sigma Xi Research Recognition Award, the Early Career Award for Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine from the American Psychosomatic Society, and distinguished scientist awards from the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, The Society for Psychophysiological Research, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. In 2020 he was identified by the Web of Science as a “Highly Cited Researcher”, a designation given to the top 0.1% of researchers. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He has also received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research on emotion in Norway and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award to conduct research in Germany. He is an Associate Editor of Psychosomatic Medicine, former Associate Editor of Psychophysiology, and Bio-Psycho-Social Medicine, is on the editorial board of Music and Medicine. He has also served as the program chair for the Society for Behavioral Medicine, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium. Dr. Thayer is the Past-President of the Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium and Past-President of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. Dr. Thayer is also a critically acclaimed musician with numerous recordings and international performances including with Charlie Mariano, Geri Allen, Scott Robinson, and Pheeroan ak Laff.

Dr. Julian F. Thayer

Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science at the University of California Irvine

Jacob Van der Beugel

Jacob received a history of Art degree from York University in 2001. His tutor was Michael White, a leading authority on Mondrian and De Stijl. He has trained alongside ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal.

 In 2014 he completed a major permanent installation at Chatsworth House called the North Sketch Sequence, an immersive work in handmade ceramic panels that depicts the DNA of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. More recently Jacob has completed a significant ceramic installation called The DNA Room for The Dutch Royal family and Dutch State. Alain de Botton has said of his work “A beautiful poetic work which is exemplary in the way it manages to turn information (of which we have so much, and which usually leaves us so cold) into art (which touches our hearts)”. Jacob’s art tackles our contemporary understanding of inheritance, ancestry, legacy and the self. Through his unique combination of contemporary science and materials we are intuitively familiar with, Jacob humanises the multiplicity of forces that create “us”.

Jacob has been artist in residence at The Wallace Collection and The Wellcome Sanger Institute, a renowned world leading genomics centre. His work is held in numerous Museum Collections and collected internationally.

Jacob van der Beugel

Artist

Chris Klapper

Chris Klapper is a multidisciplinary, multimedia installation artist, based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work with collaborating partner, Patrick Gallagher, is driven by specific projects, environments and experiences. Overall, they look to explore new technologies and to use them to express immense ideas on a human scale; employing sculpture, video, sound, projection mapping, and digital new media.

During their recent artist residency at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, their focus was the development of compelling and meaningful visual interpretations of particle physics and the expression of the infinitesimal universe of atomic structures and subatomic particles.

Their current series, Dataatadata (a play on Dadaism), concentrates on science, mathematics and the conceptual theme of the beauty of raw information and the poetry of numbers.

Chris Klapper

Installation Artist / Artist Residence at Fermilab 2020 / 2021

Susan Narduli

Susan Narduli imagines a future based on the synergistic evolution of physical and virtual environments, creating projects that make visible a new typology of public space. Trained as both an artist and an architect, she founded her Los Angeles studio as a means to bridge traditional professional disciplines. The studio’s work is research-driven, exploring the boundaries of technology, aesthetics and expression. At the creative core is a belief in the promise of a built environment in which the individual becomes the catalyst in an evolving language of engagement. Narduli’s award-winning commissions position narrative, generative media and interactive experience within the formal and social context of public space. Narduli holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Masters of Architecture and is a licensed architect. As Principal and Creative Director of Narduli STUDIO, she guides the conceptual evolution of the work. Prior to starting her own firm, Narduli was Project Designer for Frank Gehry.

Susan Narduli

Artist and Architect, Narduli Studio

SuperReal Submitted by Les Studios Moment Factory Inc.

How We Did It

Paul England

Paul England is the director of design solutions at SNA Displays. He has been in the LED display industry for 10 years and worked for Canon and Hewlett-Packard in previous careers. In his role at SNA Displays, Paul works with architects, designers, content creators, consultants, and others on various applications and display technology solutions. He also supports the company’s sales teams and Channel Partner program.

Paul England

Director, Design Solutions, SNA Displays

Chris Conte

Vice President, Executive Consultant, New Business Development, Electrosonic

Celebrating 20 years with Electrosonic, Chris has been an integral part of the company’s involvement and success on some the most prestigious projects worldwide. Today, Chris serves as Executive Consultant working in concert with both the Design Consulting Division and Systems Integration engineering teams. His extensive experience in technology design, production, and construction brings real value to any project team allowing him to help guide projects to success.

Chris also works closely with the New Business Development team to not only seek and pursue new and unique opportunities that are a perfect fit for our company, but he is highly skilled at building and maintaining trusted relationships with new and existing clients alike.

Audiovisual technology design is Chris’s forte, and throughout his career he has work on projects around the world in theme parks, museums, World Expos, theater, spectacles, and hospitality. His background as a Technical Director for numerous themed entertainment projects gives him great credibility with his peers and clients alike.

Chris Conte

Executive Consultant, Electrosonic

David Glicksman

David Glicksman takes a holistic approach to his work, combining art and technology in the built environment. As a creative technologist since long before it was profitable, his path to architecture traversed a broad range of industries, disciplines, and roles. His work at Gensler draws on a portfolio including interactive experience design, game development, kinetic sculpture, system engineering, public art, live events, visual effects, and animation for global studios and brands.

David Glicksman

Director of Creative Technology, Gensler Digital Experience Design

Gabby Shawcross

Design Director, Gensler Digital Experience Design

Gabby Shawcross

Design Director, Gensler Digital Experience Design

Jill Anholt

Jill is an award-winning artist based in Vancouver, Canada whose practice includes commissioned environmental and sculptural installations, as well as collaborative design team projects for public spaces across North America. Jill has been invited as a speaker at educational institutions and creative conferences in cities across Canada and the US, often lecturing on how art can be successfully integrated with built form at multiple scales. 

Exploring hidden stories, systems, and qualities of a particular place, Jill searches for a unique spark of magic in every project she undertakes, which she weaves into dynamic spatial artworks that create connections between people and between people and place through surprising moments of discovery, revelation and/or transformation. Jill’s process, rooted in the rigours of both her sculptural and architectural education, embraces a wide variety of scales and materials, often incorporating dynamic illumination at night and utilizing elements that alter with viewer perspective or transform through interaction with natural phenomena during the day.

Jill Anholt

Artist and Owner, Jill Anholt Studio Inc.

Dorka Keehn

An award-winning artist and filmmaker, Dorka Keehn is the Principal of Keehn On Art, an art advisory that specializes in public art.  She is experienced at managing complex percent-for-art and other art programs that often require the participation of multiple parties with diverse agendas engaging with developers, city planners, and architects on art master plans, and art selection and management with the objective of enhancing development projects, fostering community redevelopment, or as an aid to marketing commercial and residential real estate. Dorka has been instrumental in the success of some of the most innovative and visible art projects in the Bay Area including The Bay Lights, the 25,000 LED light installation by Leo Villareal for the Bay Bridge and Seeing Spheres, the iconic artwork by Olafur Eliasson for Chase Center. From 2010  to 2021, she served on the San Francisco Arts Commission where she chaired the Visual Arts Committee that commission’s all artwork pertaining to the city’s Public Art Program. Additionally, she founded Sites Unseen, a project that brings arts programming to neglected alleys in downtown San Francisco.

Dorka Keehn

Principal, Keehn On Art

Matthew Geller

In his public art practice, Matthew uses materials from the everyday outdoor environment—anything from swings to canopies to pipes to water. He creates a level of connection to the familiar while highlighting elements of awe and beguilement to make a micro public square or landmark that encourages social interaction.

Incorporating behavioral design and dynamic elements activated by people and changes in the weather, the resulting work is in constant flux. The idea is to surprise while fostering a sense of community around an unlikely object or site. 

He has received fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and grants from Creative Capital, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Art, and Greenwall Foundation, among others.

Matthew Geller

Artist, Hutabut LLC

John Grant

John Grant is a Creative Design & Project Manager for the production and installation of monumental works of art.  During his tenure as the Director of Denver’s Public Art Program John oversaw the installation of 147 permanent artworks for the City’s collection, re-vamped the collection maintenance procedures, normalized the public art contracting processes, and brought the City’s collection to national attention for excellence.  In 2000 John founded Public Art Services, a unique creative consultancy that works with artists from ideation to installation to help realize monumental projects that engage communities, define spaces, and encourage dialogue.  In addition, Public Art Services offers public art master planning services, creating site-specific art integration strategies and long-term visions for municipalities and developers to serve as a roadmap to the future.  Over the course of his career John has aided in the creation of over 200 works of public art with a strong belief that public art is the common language that defines a community.

John Grant

Creative Design & Project Manager, Public Art Services

Moving Spaces by Jill Anholt Studio

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