- Ben Rubin People
Ben Rubin is a New York City–based media artist whose exhibitions have appeared at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, and the Skirball Center in Los Angeles (in a show organized by the Getty Museum); he has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Diller+Scofidio, Ann Hamilton, Arto Lindsay, Steve Reich, and Beryl Korot. Rubin's Listening Post (2002), produced with statistician Mark Hansen, won the 2004 Golden Nica Prize from Ars Electronica. He received a B.A. from Brown University in 1987 and an M.S. in visual studies from the MIT Media Lab in 1989; he was appointed critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art in 2004; website www.earstudio.com.
- Don Bernier People
Don Bernier has worked in experimental and documentary media since the early 1990s; he earned a BFA at Kansas City Art Institute and a graduate degree in Media Study from SUNY-Buffalo (1994). From 1994 to 2001 he taught media production and theory in western New York, the San Francisco Bay Area and Boston and produced work exhibited across North America; in late 2001 he relocated to New York City to focus on documentary production, worked with PBS filmmakers Stephen Ives and David Grubin and completed projects screened at film and video festivals nationwide.
- Ann Bennett People
Ann Bennett is an award winning filmmaker, journalist, and educator who studied American History and Documentary Production at Harvard College and began her film career at Blackside Productions in Boston; she has worked on historical documentaries for public television, cable networks, museums, and non-profit organizations. Her production credits include WGBH, HBO, WNET, History Channel, National Civil Rights Museum, and the Apollo Theater Foundation; she has received fellowships from CPB/PBS Producers Academy, America Film Institute Digital-Content Lab, Independent Feature Project Documentary Lab, and the Institute for Justice and Journalism at University of Southern California. She recently received a Master of Arts degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and now focuses on the nexus of history, culture, and technology within multi-cultural communities.
- Tony Weathers People
Tony Weathers holds an MFA from Cornish College of Arts and served as Technical Assistant to video artist Gary Hill; his exhibitions include Commencement Art Gallery (WA), Schnitt Ausstellungstraum (Germany), Bank of America (WA), SF DRS Television (Germany) and ARTE Television (Germany, France and Switzerland). His awards include an Artist Trust Fellowship and a nomination for Internationaler Medien Kunst Pries at ZKM, Germany.
- Aaron Davidson People
Aaron Davidson holds a BFA from the University of New Mexico; he is a visiting instructor at Pratt and received a residency from Smack Mellon Studios. With Melissa Dubbin he has exhibited internationally including the Bronx Museum of the Arts (Rhizome Remix) and Espace Paul Richard (Paris); they have produced interactive media, video and telecommunications projects with LOT/EKarchitecture, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Morton Subotnick and Joan LaBarbara. Dubbin and Davidson held an artists residency at the Experimental TV Center, Owego, and received a New York State Council on the Arts award in 2003.
- Thomas Allen Harris People
Thomas Allen Harris (born 1962) was raised in the Bronx and Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania; he earned a BA from Harvard and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. His performance-based video works were exhibited internationally, including FESPACO (1997), Kunsthalle Basel, the Whitney Biennial (1995) and the 1997 Performance Art Festival in Cleveland. After work as a public television staff producer and two Emmy nominations he completed the feature VINTAGE * Families of Value and the 1992 installation BLACK BODY. He co-created ALCHEMY (1998) and AFRO (1999), is Associate Professor of Media Arts at UC San Diego, has received awards from foundations and arts councils, and is completing the feature E Minha Cara.