Jessica recently left the 24th grade at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab where she tried to (unsuccessfully) omni-task a robotics Ph.D. into her teaching, writing, art exhibition and nap schedule. Before attending graduate school, Jessica spent 4 years in the entertainment industry working for Comedy Central, managing comedians and assisting political pundit and comedian Al Franken. She now joins Eyebeam as an R&D OpenLab fellow to make robotic furniture, lighting, architecture and wearables with particular emphasis on reactive work/live environments and alternative energy sources.

Jessica wants to make new connections in your brain (non-invasively).

Zachary has a simple goal: he wants you surprised. He creates artwork that uses technology in a playful and seamless way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He makes performances, installations, and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body, kinetic response and magic. Zachary’s projects and talks have delighted audiences world-wide and garnered multiple awards and recognition. Currently he is developing a suite of software for disabled students that transforms their movement into an audio-visual response as a means for performance and self-expression and, together with collaborator Theo Watson, openFrameworks, an open source toolkit for creative coding in c++.

Jeff is an artist and technologist who uses Web technologies to create software, generative works, happenings, and installations. Past projects include YouThreebe, a YouTube triptych maker, Dirt Party, an installation and performance where salacious information about each attendee is gathered from the web and presented back to the audience, and Switchboard, a Processing (Java) library that allows artists and designers to easily use a variety of live data sources for digital art. He received his M.S. in Information Design and Technology from Georgia Tech in 2005.

Despite never graduating from high school, Steve Lambert went on to study sociology, film, and music before receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000 and a Master of Fine Arts degree at UC Davis in 2006. He founded the outdoor, guerilla art gallery, the Budget Gallery, in 1999 and the Anti-Advertising Agency in 2004. His projects have won awards from the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Belle Foundation, and others. His work has been shown in nationally in cities like Detroit, New York, throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as internationally in Havana and Rotterdam. Writings about his work have appeared in multiple publications such as Punk Planet, Artweek, and Newsweek. Recent projects include WhyTheyHate.Us a participatory web photo project using images submitted to Flickr, the popular photo hosting site, and Simmer Down Sprinter, a two player, sit-down, arcade style video game controlled by player's bio-feedback.