Greg Niemeyer - Data Artist and Producer
Mark Barger Elliott - Producer and Director
Mark Barger Elliott - Producer and Director
Greg Niemeyer is a data artist and Professor of Media Innovation in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. He's the former director and co-founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He started out with studies in Classics and Photography in Switzerland and switched to new media when he moved to the Bay Area in 1992.
He receive
Greg Niemeyer is a data artist and Professor of Media Innovation in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. He's the former director and co-founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He started out with studies in Classics and Photography in Switzerland and switched to new media when he moved to the Bay Area in 1992.
He received his MFA from Stanford University in New Genres in 1997.
Niemeyer has exhibited around the world at ZKM, SFMOMA, San Jose, Amsterdam, Cairo, Zurich, New York and received grants from the MacArthur Foundation, NEA, Intel, Pro Helvetia and many others. Notable works include icecorwalk.org, Tsar Bell, Oxygen Flute, Network Paradox, Quantopia and the most recent Water Panoramas.
Niemeyer's work is data-driven: Large datasets and data streams are raw materials for visual and sonic experiences. They act as mirrors, reflecting to us what we don't see about our essential resources (air, water, care) from novel points of view. These patterns hold the hope that we can learn something new about what is to come and that we can evolve from the impossible present to more possible futures.
Mark Barger Elliott - Producer and Director
Mark Barger Elliott - Producer and Director
Mark Barger Elliott - Producer and Director
Mark Barger Elliott is an idea architect, award-winning documentary filmmaker, faith leader and co-founder.
His film Lost Boy Home renders the story of a Sudanese “Lost Boy” who returns to South Sudan to search for his parents. The Last Songwriter relays the story of streaming’s dire impact on songwriters and stars Emmylou Harris and Jaso
Mark Barger Elliott is an idea architect, award-winning documentary filmmaker, faith leader and co-founder.
His film Lost Boy Home renders the story of a Sudanese “Lost Boy” who returns to South Sudan to search for his parents. The Last Songwriter relays the story of streaming’s dire impact on songwriters and stars Emmylou Harris and Jason Isbell.
Mark co-founded Emotect ai and Blue Lobsters Creative and serves a faith community with his wife in Marin Country, California .
In 2026 Mark will publish, Life Equations: Formulas for a Life that Adds Up and Life Architecture: How to Design Our Emotions, Decisions and Purpose.
Darren Zhu - Composer
Mark Barger Elliott - Producer and Director
Darren Zhu - Composer
Darren Zhu is a synthetic biologist and carillonneur based in San Francisco.
Darren studied carillon at Yale University and joined the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA) in 2016 at the 74th GCNA Congress. He has performed at carillons throughout North America and Europe.
In his creative work, Darren explores the epistemic and a
Darren Zhu is a synthetic biologist and carillonneur based in San Francisco.
Darren studied carillon at Yale University and joined the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA) in 2016 at the 74th GCNA Congress. He has performed at carillons throughout North America and Europe.
In his creative work, Darren explores the epistemic and aesthetic implications of emerging technologies, particularly as they pertain to scientific discovery and creativity. Through a mix of video essay, interactive installation, and experimental documentary, his creative work plays at the boundary of the natural versus artificial and scientific versus speculative.
Darren was a member of the Antikythera Studio at the Berggruen Institute, a Creative Science member of NEW INC at the New Museum in New York, and resident at MESH Studio in the Digital Architectures Lab in Tokyo. His work has been supported by the Thiel Foundation, Gates Foundation, Ethereum Foundation, and Protocol Labs. Currently, he is the founder of a new consumer biotech startup, Culture.