Artists

Haru (Hyunkyung) Ji

Haru Ji is a 3D sculptor, media & trans-artist researching the conjunction between biology and art, including evo-devo, growth rules, creativity in nature and culture, and computational sculpture. She is currently a Ph.D. student of Media Arts and Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Haru attained an Master of Fine Arts and a Bachelors in Sculpture from Seoul National University and studied Image Engineering, computer graphics and 3D animation at Chung-Ang University, both in Seoul, Korea. Including her solo virtual exhibition of script art works at the UCSB art gallery in Second Life, of which she was also the architect, she has shown multiple video installations, digital paintings, sculptural objects and installations with performance at many exhibitions and art festivals over the last ten years. Recently, she is working on the project “Artificial Nature as an Infinite Game,” to explore novel cross-disciplinary terrain through a realization of 3D “world-making.”

For more information: www.haru.name

Graham Wakefield

Graham Wakefield is currently exploring the creation of digital music and art through the computational embodiment of complexity, systems biology and bio-inspired philosophy. He is currently a Ph.D. student of Media Arts and Technology at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he previously attained an Master of Science. He graduated with a Master in Composition from Goldsmiths College, University of London and with a Bachelors in Philosophy from the University of Warwick. His is currently employed by Cycling ’74 as a software developer for Max/MSP and also currently works as a graduate researcher for the Allosphere (a spherical immersive environment in the California NanoSystems Institute) where he is codeveloping the cross-platform, open-source multimedia framework LuaAV and also producing interactive immersive environments of art/science research. Graham’s many compositions and installations have been performed, presented or exhibited at international events including ICMC and ISEA, and he has a number of publications in journals of computer science and international conference proceedings.

For more information: www.grahamwakefield.net