STEVE GIBSON
is
a Canadian media artist and composer. Simultaneously deeply involved
with technology and deeply suspicious of it’s effects, Gibson’s
musical, multimedia and virtual reality work celebrates both the liberation
and paranoia of techno-fetishism. He is presently developing new applications
which allow musicians to play and improvise visual environments in real-time
and in synch with a musical performance. This experimental work reached
practical realization in the interactive pieces Cut to the Chase,
Telebody, and Virtual DJ. His
works have been performed in such venues as Ars Electronica, the Whitney
Museum of American Art, Banff Centre for the Arts, Festival International
Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, International Computer Music Conference,
European Media Arts Festival, San Francisco Art Institute, 4 & 6CyberConf.
[Steve
Gibson] is revolutionizing the accepted idea of performance, art and
musicianship - a sort of improvisational conductor of our times.
Darren Stewart, Victoria Times-Colonist
WILL BAUER
is
an artist and engineer working with "integrated" (as opposed
to "multi") media. He is the inventor of the Gesture and Media
System - a wireless 3D virtual media control and integration tool used
by artists and corporations around the world. He is currently President
of Acoustic Positioning Research in Edmonton, Alberta. His work in immersive
environments has been presented widely in North America and Europe including
presentations at the ARCO Fair 95 in Madrid and Ars Electronica in Linz,
Austria (1992, 1995, 1998). Will's work with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer generated
a prestigious Golden Nica Prize from Ars Electronica for the piece Vectorial
Elevation. Will
is also the author of various publications on Art and Technology, and
holds a number of patents in diverse areas of technology.