Eli Wirtschafter was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was selected in the Undergraduate Fellow category.
Eli Wirtschafter is the Program Director for KALW's project in state prisons. We teach incarcerated people how to record and edit audio stories, and air them as part of the series Uncuffed.
Eli graduated from KALW's Audio Academy in 2016. He became KALW's transportation reporter, and also interned with KQED News and The California Report. He's been working in KALW's training...
ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington
Cesar Armando Torres was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 - he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.
Dr. Cesar Armando Torres is the director of The Hybrid Atelier and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. As a design researcher, he synthesizes new media and craft theory into the software and hardware design of creative, tangible user interfaces. He has received multiple best paper awards at top-tier venues within HCI and is the recipient of the NSF CRII Grant, NSF REU Site Grant, and MSR Accelerate...
Anicka Yi gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on January 25, 2018.
Informed by scientific research, biology, and perfumers, Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Her practice questions the increasingly hazy taxonomic distinctions between what is human, animal, plant and machine, and is the result of an alchemical process of experimentation that explores often incompatible materials. She collaborates with researchers to create media that are often inherently political,...
Ioanna Sotiriou was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 - she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.
Ioanna Sotiriou studies the impact of global information systems on architectural thinking and production. Her work spans from strictly technical to purely absurd and speculative, including projects related to provoking errors in LiDAR scans, a digital cemetery for cold data, and an advanced interferometer for detecting gravitational waves in space. Her projects have been exhibited, published, and awarded in the US, Europe, and Australia. She holds an M.Arch. from UC...
Mario Santamaría was a Visiting Artist of the Internet Tour at the Arts Research Center on October, 2023 and 2024.
The artistic practice of Mario Santamaría (Burgos, Spain, 1985) studies the phenomenon of the contemporary observer, paying attention to two processes, the representational practices and the machines vision or mediation. Using different tactics such as appropiation, remake or assembly, his work involves different fields like the conflict, the memory, the virtuality or the surveillance. He has been a resident artist at Hangar (Barcelona, 2015),...
Media Theorist, Software Designer, Artist, Chair and Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
Warren Sack gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center and Berkeley Center for New Media on Mar 14, 2018.
Warren Sack is a media theorist, software designer, and artist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. He is Professor of the Software Arts in the Film + Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he teaches digital arts and digital studies. He has been a visiting professor in France at Sciences Po, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, and Télécom ParisTech....
Ilya Y. Rostovtsev was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.
Ilya Y. Rostovtsev is a membrane shaker, wind maker, sound lover, pixel pusher, geometry enthusiast. He is an undergrad in math, has a PhD in music, and now a job in software engineering. Rostovtsev is Russian-Texan-Californian-Washingtonian, and still a quarter Lithuenian. He works to help you make art things, tunes, flashing lights, bleeps and bloops, pixel dances, and other things boring grownups claim is a waste of time.
Julian Oliver gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 2, 2015.
Julian Oliver is a Critical Engineer, educator, artist, and activist. His work has been exhibited at numerous museums, festivals and galleries worldwide, among them Transmediale, Ars Electronica, the Vienna Biennale, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Lectures related to his work and ideas have been presented at many conferences and universites internationally, including The Chaos Communication Congress, Tate Modern, Princeton University, and the ZKM...
ARC Fellow, Data Artist, Co-Founder of BCNM, Professor of Media Innovation, an Director of the Art Practice Graduate Program at UC Berkeley
Greg Niemeyer was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 and 2018 – he was chosen in the Faculty category.
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. Since childhood, Niemeyer was fascinated with making mirrors, and he still...
