Dennis Anderson is Chair and Professor of Management and Information Technology at St. Francis College. Prior to this appointment he was a Professor of Information Systems & Computer Science and served as Associate Dean at Pace University. He is a strong advocate of technology-enhanced learning, emerging technologies, sustainable technologies, and knowledge entrepreneurship. He also has taught at NYU, City University of New York, and Pace University. Dennis received his Ph.D., M.Phil. and Ed.M. from Columbia University. In addition, he holds an M.S. in Computer Science from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Keith Armstrong has specialized for 18 years in collaborative, hybrid, new media works with an emphasis on innovative performance forms, site-specific electronic arts, networked interactive installations, alternative interfaces, public arts practices and art-science collaborations. His ongoing research focuses on how scientific and philosophical ecologies can both influence and direct the design and conception of networked, interactive media artworks. Keith's artworks have been shown and profiled extensively both in Australia and overseas and he has been the recipient of numerous grants from the public and private sectors. He was formerly an Australia Council New Media Arts Fellow, a doctoral and Postdoctoral New Media Fellow at QUT's Creative Industries Faculty and a lead researcher at the ACID Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design. He is currently a part-time Senior Research Fellow (2 days pw.) at QUT and an actively practicing freelance new media artist.
Stephen Barrass is a researcher and academic at the University of Canberra where he lectures in Digital Design and Media Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Design. He holds a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales (1986) and a Ph.D. titled Auditory Information Design from the Australian National University (1997). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Kommunication in Bonn (1998) and Guest Researcher in Sound Design and Perception at IRCAM in Paris (2009).
Nathan Cohen is a professional artist exhibiting internationally for over 25 years, including solo shows at Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Museum Mondriaanhuis, Holland; Tokyo Gallery, Japan and many other venues worldwide. His interdisciplinary research in art and science embraces neuroscience, optics and augmented reality technologies resulting in recent interactive art installations exhibited at Ars Electronica, Austria (Hybrid Ego 2008), the Aisho Miura gallery (Intangible Spaces 2010), Japan and University College London (Another Way of Seeing 2013). In collaboration with Tachi Lab (Tokyo) and researchers in Japan and the UK he creates artworks that challenge spatial perception, incorporating motion sensing and real-time projection into 2 and 3-dimensional constructions created to give the impression of multi-layered spaces. In 2011 Nathan Cohen established the first Masters program in Art and Science (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London) and is currently Director. His professional activities also embrace publishing, directing an archive, curating exhibitions internationally and writing. He was a recipient of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Award in 1994 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (BA Hons.) and Chelsea School of Art (MA), London.
Benjamin Cowley received his Bachelors degree on Information and Communications Technology from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, in 2003, and subsequently defended his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, in 2009. Initial post-doctoral projects focused on investigating the psycho-physiological correlates of learning in the domain of serious games, in the Centre for Knowledge Innovation and Research at Aalto University, Helsinki. Presently he studies neurofeedback games for attentional disorder therapy at the University of Helsinki. Research interests are in games for learning, cognitive science, and attention as a component of positive psychology.
Roman Danylak is an interactive artist. He completed a Ph.D. at the Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology, Sydney in 2008, specializing in design for gesture and emotions using semiotics. His work, To be or not to be, was featured at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. He has presented at numerous international academic conferences in Sweden, Japan, USA, Italy, UAE, France and Germany. He has lectured and designed online curriculum for Stockholm University in Interactive Art. His work began with Metamorph (1996), a prototype of interactive performance, and was the one of the first Australian works to be featured on the World Wide Web. He has also worked for the Australian National Playwrig
