David Webber is an artist who primarily works with time-based media and interactive installations. At the moment he is developing customized audiovisual performance instruments utilizing galvanic skin resistance and capacitance proximity sensors. In his spare time he creates analog synthesizers and makes electro-acoustic music. David Webber co-founded the Berwick Research Institute (BRI) a 501c3 nonprofit arts space in Dudley Square, Massachusetts. He was the Media Director of the BRI, where he curated exhibitions and music. Hailing from the Philadelphia region, he is now transplanted into Alfred NY, where he is finishing his MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts at Alfred University. He will be teaching electronic workshops in a town near you. You can find out more at http://www.davidwebber.net.

J.T. has received his B.M. in Music Composition from East Carolina University where he studied with Mark Taggart and Otto Henry. His continued studies led him to the University of North Texas, studying with Joseph Klein, Jon C. Nelson and Phil Winsor and working at the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (C.E.M.I) In 1999 he received a M.M in Music Composition from North Texas. J.T.recently received his Ph.D. in Music Composition at the University at Buffalo. His teachers include Jeff Stadelman, Cort Lippe and Marc Bohlen.

J.T. is Managing Director of the Center for 21st Century Music at the Unversity at Buffalo and also an adjunct instructor in the Department of Media Study teaching courses in Media Robotics.

A strong supporter of the rich arts community in Buffalo, J.T. volunteers time at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, teaches digital audio workshops at Squeaky Wheel and organizes events at Big Orbit's SoundLab.

J.T. plays trumpet and has performed in several University ensembles including brass choir, contemporary ensemble, UB Orchestra, Baird Wind Octet (BWO) and is an active member of the Open Music Ensemble. He also performs improvised music with other composers from UB as well as local musicians.

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jtrinker/

Monica Duncan
Monica Duncan is an interdisciplinary artist and educator investigating our world through live performance, print and video. Her still and time-based image work has been exhibited at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY; Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Habana Viejo, Cuba; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Little Theatre, Rochester, NY; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; LadyFest Ohio, Columbus OH; Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery; Watertower, Louisville, KY; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; ZKM, Karlshrue, Germany; LACMA, Los Angeles, CA. 

Duncan received her BFA in 2002 from the School of Art and Design, NYSCC at Alfred University with a concentration in printmaking and video.  Since graduating, she has assisted organizations and individual artists at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, the Experimental Print Center, Queens, NY, the Experimental Television Center's International Summer Workshop, Owego NY and Arts Electronic, a digital print and video residency program she co-founded in 2004. (www.artselectronic.com)

In addition to promoting and supporting individual artist projects through Arts Electronic, Duncan has co-curated video work for <init.two>, a multi-media event at the Visual Studies Workshop Galleries, Rochester, NY, "Video Shopping Cart", "Experimental Independent" and the Evolutionary Girls Club Exhibition at Arts Electronic.  Recently, she co-organized Land-Tracking-Land, an exhibition of work that examines artists' interpretations of cityscape, landscape and architecture at the Rochester Contemporary Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (www.land-tracking-land.org). 

Duncan is a former Video Artist-in-Residence at the Atlanta College of Art and presently works at Railroad Earth in Atlanta, GA (www.rre.net).  She is actively involved in RAW (Residency Arts Workshop), a collaborative group based out of Railroad Earth using live performance and real-time image-processing in the creation of narrative forms.  Duncan resides in Atlanta, GA.

For more information, please visit her website at http://www.monicaduncan.net

Steven Pedersen

Steven Mygind Pedersen is an artist and educator whose work transects
and weaves through disparate media and working practices, spilling
between object-orientated production, time-based media, and
interactive installation. Pedersen received his BA(Hons) in Fine Art
and Contemporary Critical Theory, from Goldsmiths College, University
of London, after which he completed a two-year study period in the
School of Media Arts at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,
Copenhagen. Pedersen was awarded his MFA in Electronic Integrated
Arts in 2005 from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred
University, where he now continues to work as the Digital Arts
Research Associate within the university’s Institute for Electronic
Arts. Steven has exhibited works within the US and abroad, including
venues such as Gallerie Asbæk, the Danish National Gallery, and the
Arnolfini.

http://iea.art.alfred.edu/

Pamela Susan Hawkins has shown her time based works in such venues as the Europride, Köln, Germany; European Media Arts Festival, OsnabrÙck, Germany; the WRO Festival in Wroclaw, Poland; Art in General, New York City;Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing,China; and the Tupilak and International Gay and Lesbian Culture Network, Our World Center, Kiev, Ukraine. Her 15 year practice as an artist encompasses video, audio, digital, printmaking, photography, object and installation/events. She documents and enacts rituals that unpack our relationships to our selves and our world. Strong commitments to tolerance, peace and cultural exchange drive her art practices.

She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Masters of Arts and Humanities in Media Study and Fine Art Photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Pamela's employment has taken her from Artistic Director at Pyramid Arts Center in Rochester; to Experimental Video Instructor at Rhode Island School of Design; to Video/Audio Instructor at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, Norway. She has had residencies at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York and NOTAM in Oslo, Norway. Pamela currently teaches Drawing, Contemporary Art History, Experimental Video, and Time Base Issues within the Institute for Electronic Arts at the N.Y.S.C.C., School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, New York.

Many of her works have been made in collaboration with artists Peer Bode and Erica L. Eaton. Media works produced at the Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY; PEP Studios, Rochester, NY; Studio 218, Alfred, NY; 2D and Electronic Arts and the Institute for Electronic Arts School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY.