Project Participants
Bio's
Raveevarn Choksombatchai is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley and is co-Principal of LOOM, a collaborative practice of art, architecture and environmental design. Her work has been exhibited widely including the Weismann Art Museum in Minneapolis, the Nexus Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta and an upcoming show at the Cooper-Hewitt in New York.

Margaret Crane is a prominent San Francisco artist who, along with her collaborator Jon Winet, is an artist in residence at Xerox PARC, a technology think tank in Palo Alto.  Crane/Winet have produced numerous exhibitions and projects.  Margaret also has an extensive teaching experience on the university and public school levels.

Erika Olsen Hannes is an artist and former engineer.  She is currently exploring consumption and the bulimic logic that results from it. Erika's teaching experience includes:  Technical English Instructor/Assistant Job Developer to Russian Jewish engineering emigrants;  Electronic Intern at the Exploratorium.

Scott MacLeod is a visual and performance artist and writer who has published and exhibited in San Francisco and internationally since 1982.  The first section of his novel Anne Frank In Jerusalem won a New Langton Bay Area Literary Award in 1996.   Recent installations have been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Prague) and Dominic Centrum (Plzen) in the Czech Republic.

Anita Margrill is a licensed architect and practicing sculptor, whose work explores environmental events such as water, wind and solar. She has received grants from the New York Foundation, the American Iron and Steel Institute and the Copper Development Association.  Her many large scale public artworks including work installed in  Washington, California, New York and Texas.

Julio Morales works in audio, video, and installation work.  Originally from the volatile Tijuana/San Diego area, he is immersed in the cultural politics of displacement.  Morales has exhibited at Franklin Furnace in New York, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, and the California College of Arts and Crafts.  He has taught in Southern Exposure's "Race, Representation and Youth" media project.

Natasha Ogunji is a multi-media visual artist working in photography, installation and film.  She has exhibited at the Richmond Art Center and The Mission Cultural Center. She has taught art at Proyecto Contra SIDA Por Vida, M.H. de Young Museum and the Friends of Photography. She is a recipient of the New Directions in Photography Award and an Irvine Foundation Research Fellowship.

Harrell Fletcher and Jon Rubin have collaboratively produced site-specific installations at the San Francisco Art Institute Project Space, New Langton Arts in San Francisco, The Richmond Art Center and Gallery Here in Oakland, as well as public art projects for the Washington State Arts Commission, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the City of Fairfield, CA..

Kevin Radley, Director of Worth Ryder Gallery, is a local artist, educator, curator, and performer.  He is on faculty at UC Berkeley, teaching New Genre, Graduate Seminar and Mixed Media Sculpture.  His extensive exhibition background includes shows at Capp Street Project, Diverseworks in Houston, the LAB, and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Alison Sant is a media artist who has worked extensively with the Exploratorium in San Francisco. She served as the Assistant Producer for Eden Interactive in San Francisco, and has worked as a photography instructor at the East Harlem Washington Houses Community Center in New York.  Her current project, The Office, explores the dichotomy between working and private/creative life.

Jacques Servin is a fiction writer and digital artist.  His two story collections, Aviary Slag (1996) and Mermaids for Attila (1991), were published by the Fiction Collective Two;  he has been a visiting writer at Brown University and is an editor of the Black Ice Books series.  His digital art pieces have been featured in several festivals in the U.S. and abroad, and have been extensively written about.

Valerie Soe is an accomplished video and installation artist who explores cultural stereotyping and issues of cultural assimilation.  She has taught extensively including stints at San Francisco State University and the University of Santa Cruz.  Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Center for the Arts and in the Asian American International Film Festival.

Richard Sommer is scholar-in-residence and associate professor of design and theory at California College of Arts and Crafts School of Architectural Studies.   He is a founding partner of the office BORFAX whose work includes private architectural commissions and several award-winning competition entries.  In 1993 was awarded Harvard University’s Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship.

Zane Vella is an artist and developer of interactive media specializing in network communications, visualization and installation design. He has developed installations and programs for The Capital Children's Museum, The Computer Museum in Boston, and The Exploratorium.  He developed CitySpace, an educational arts and technology project for young people from across the internet.

Fan Warren is a sculptor with an extensive background in teaching and community work.  A former WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellow for the Visual Arts and California Arts Council artist in residence, she has exhibited her work in Colombia, North Carolina and Chicago. Currently, she teaches art in conjunction with Street Smart, a program of the Mexican Museum.
 

Advisors:
Andrea Feeser is an art historian who works on the relationships between art and politics, and theory and practice.  She teaches modern and contemporary Western art history, theory, and criticism at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her publications examine modern and contemporary art and culture in their social and political contexts within a feminist framework.

David Lawrence has been working with digital media as a designer, producer, researcher and artist for over 12 years. He has worked with Lucasfilm Ltd. where he collaborated on groundbreaking  research and title development  and with Convivial Design, Inc.,  where he spent two years helping create a start-up publishing company and its high-profile technology products for girls.

Anthony Mickens is Associate Center Director for the EcoCenter, a program of the San Francisco Conservation Corps that develops urban middle school youth through academic enrichment and community conservation projects. He has been involved in youth development since his freshman year in high school when he served as a member of San Francisco's Summer Bridge faculty.
 

Curators:
Mike Blockstein is a visual artist and educator working in installation and community-based public art.  He has done public art projects with the San Francisco Art Commission, The Luggage Store and the Community Housing Partnership.  He has exhibited extensively throughout the Bay Area and  also serves on the Board of the National Association of Artists' Organizations.

Michael Brown is a sculptor, designer and installation artist. His  work has been shown in many  Bay Area galleries, including Center for the Arts, New Langton Arts, and The Lab. Internationally his work has been exhibited at NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo and Technorama in Winterthur, Switzerland.  Mr. Brown was a recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant.
 

Project Coordinator

Megan Wilson  is a visual artist and educator working in sculpture and installation.  Wilson has exhibited in the Bay Area at Southern Exposure, Refusalon, and Villa Montalvo.  Her teaching experience includes two summer residencies with a pre-college program at Amherst College, Co-director of The Meridian Interns Program, and guest instructor at the Oakland Museum.