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Dave Ryan graduated with a MFA in Film from Ohio University in 1987. Recent video works have gained recognition at some of the most important venues for experimental film and video including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Video Festival and the Locarno Video Art festival, in Switzerland. A review of his video “Haptic Nerve” appears in Laura U.  Marks’ book Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media. He has been honored with  numerous fellowship awards, most recently the 2003 Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship and the Cal Arts Alpert/ MacDowell Fellowship Award.

Steve Ryan, after studying some obscure details of synaptic transmission in the rat hippocampus (PhD University of Michigan, Physiology, 1989), teaching biology in a few obscure places that, to protect the innocent, shall remain nameless, and raising a family, is currently working on a novel. He brings obscure technical knowledge (3d animation, elecctronics, programming) and creative energy to this collaborative enterprise.

jon

Jon Christopher Nelson's electro-acoustic music has been performed widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America and has been honored with numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Commission. He is the recipient of Luigi Russolo and Bourges Prizes and was recently awarded a Bourges Euphonies D'Or prize. He has composed in residence both at Sweden's national Electronic Music Studios and at the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges.  His works can be heard on the Bourges, Russolo Pratella, CDCM, NEUMA, ICMC, and SEAMUS labels. Nelson is currently a Full Professor at the University of North Texas where he is an associate of the Center for
Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) and serves as the Associate Dean for Operations.