Scott Arford is one of the leading figures of new media arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has produced numerous works for sound and video including multichannel installations, live performances, CD and DVD projects. He was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica. Arford has shown his in numerous venues including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dissonanze 7 in Rome, Italy; LUFF Festival in Lausanne, Switzerland; Observatori Festival in Valencia, Spain; the Sounding Festivals in Guangzhou, China and Taipei, Taiwan; the LEM festival in Barcelona, Spain; Liquid Architecture in Melbourne, Australia; the Festival de Video/Arte/Eolectronica in Lima, Peru; Sonic Light in Amsterdam; and the Center for Contemporary Arts in Kitakyushu, Japan.

Arford received a Bachelor of Architecture from the College of Architecture and Design at Kansas State University in 1991. He is currently an instructor at the California College of Arts in Oakland, CA.

Dirk Paesmans was born in Brussels in 1965. Together with Joan Heemskerk he forms the artist collective JODI. Before they decided to "specialize" in the Internet, they worked together to create videos.

Joan Heemskerk was born in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands in 1968. She studied photography, before she formed together with Dirk Paesmans, the artist collective Jodi.

Recognized internationally as one of the most important artists of his generation, Hill has been working with video and sound since 1973. His intermedia use of text, speech and image explore the physicality of language and our thought processes. Hill creates complex installations which often solicit the viewer's active involvement to the point of "completing" the work. 

Gary Hill has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the prestigious Leone díOro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 1998. His work has been included in six Whitney Biennial exhibitions since 1983 and in Documenta IX where one of his most ambitious works, Tall Ships, was premiered.  His video, sound and performance work has been presented at museums and institutions throughout the world. 

Nam June Paik

Paik studied music, history, art history and philosophy from 1953-56 at the University of Tokyo, where he writes a dissertation on Arnold Schönberg. Continues studies in Munich and Freiburg. In 1958 meets John Cage in Darmstadt and works with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the electronic music studio of Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne. Becomes a member of the Fluxus movement. 1963 shows the first manipulated TV sets, in Wuppertal. 1964 moves to New York and becomes the first artist to make videotapes. During the 1970s and 1980s his work is widely exhibited all over the world. 1978 appointed professor at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf. 1987 elected to membership of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Lives in New York and Florida.

Yud Yalkut

Jud Yalkut has had a distinguished career as both a film/video artist and visual graphic artist. Born in New York City in 1938, he attended the High School of Music and Art, the City College of New York and McGill University. Resident in Ohio since 1973, he was Assistant Professor of Art at Wright State University, and taught film from 1968-1973 at the School of Visual Arts, as well as other institutions in New York City. He had retrospectives, “Dream Reels” at the Whitney Museum (2000) and “Videoscapes” at the Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio (2002), and received the 2005 Ohioana Citation in Visual Arts from the Ohioana Library, as well as six fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council since 1882, and a Writing-in-Media grant from the New York State Council o the Arts. Hr has had many video residencies at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York, and his films and videos have been featured in international festivals.