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Ed Angel,Director
Ed Angel is Director of the ARTS Lab and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at UNM. Until July, 2007, he was Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Media Arts. He is the first UNM Presidential Teaching Fellow. The fiifth edition of his graphics textbook "Interactive Computer Graphics," (Addison-Wesley) will be released in 2008.

He received a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Southern California, and the University of Rochester. Professor Angel came to UNM in 1978. He was Associate Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1982-85) and Chair of the Computer Science Department (1985-88). He has held visiting positions at the Lund Institute of Technology (Sweden), the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore India (Senior Fulbright Lecturer), University College London, Imperial College (London), Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela), and the Universidad Tecnologica Equinoccial (Ecuador). He has also held a variety of joint appointments ranging from Biomathematics (USC) to Obstetrics and Gynecology (Rochester) to Electrical and Computer Engineering and Media Arts (UNM). Ed serves on the Governor's Council on Film and Media Industries and the Mayor's Film, Digital Media and Theatre Advisory Board (Albuquerque).
:: angel@cs.unm.edu
:: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel

Claudia X. Valdes,Associate Director
Claudia X. Valdes is Assistant Professor of Electronic Arts and Associate Director of the Art, Research, Technology & Science Laboratory [ARTS Lab]. Valdes received an MFA from UC Berkeley. She is an intermedia artist concerned primarily with issues of trauma, time, memory, perception, and embodiment. Her research focuses on nuclear arms history, investigating scientific, previously classified military documents and media related material. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally including at venues such as: the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland; the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; the UCR/California Museum of Photography; Art in General, New York; Centro Multimedia/Centro National de las Artes, Mexico; and the Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, Austria. Recent awards include an Honorable Mention at the 2006 Transmediale festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, Germany and a 2007 Artist award from the Puffin Foundation.
:: artslab@unm.edu
:: http://www.claudiaxvaldes.com/

Eric Renz-Whitmore,Program Coordinator
Eric Renz-Whitmore is Program Coordinator for UNM’s ARTS Lab. A playwright and screenwriter, he has been deeply involved in building New Mexico’s creative media community through work with local theater groups, economic development organizations, and the movie and game production communities. He has organized and/or produced events and activities including New Mexico’s annual Media Industries Conference, High Desert Venture Camp entrepreneurial workshops, and performance readings for UNM screenwriters. He currently serves as a board member for the Digital Filmmaking Institute (where he oversees post-production for their annual Duke City Shootout filmmaking competition), an organizer with the International Game Developers Association Albuquerque Chapter, and new board member for the New Mexico Information Technology and Software Association.
:: whitmore@unm.edu
:: http://artslab.unm.edu

David Beining,Associate Director of Immersive Media
:: dbeining@unm.edu
:: http://domefest.org/

Hue Walker Bumgarner-Kirby,Multimedia Development Specialist
BFA, U.N.M. 1971, with Honors. Lifelong Albuquerque artist, co-owner Birdsong Used Books 1976-1997, author of "Journeys Through Inner Space," Pomegranate Art Books, 1996. UNM animation instructor, specializing in full dome research and production for UNM (ATC, DPP, ARTS Lab) 1997 to present.
:: huewalker@gmail.com
:: http://huewalker.com

Joe Abraham Dean,Multimedia Development Specialist
Joe Abraham Dean is founder of a company called Lumenscapes which has produced award winning video content for fulldome immersive spaces, and 3D visualizations since 2000. Lighting and Visual Design for film, theater, dance, touring shows, art installation, as well as commercial and residential architecture have been central to the work accomplished since 1998. "The ARTS Lab is a logical fit due to the variety of work I have involved myself in. I feel like having a hand on the throttle of what is next is a driving component of my work, and ARTS Lab definitely creates what is next."
:: lumenscape@gmail.com
:: http://www.lumenscapes.com

William Fowler Collins,Web Designer
ARTS Lab's Web Designer since late 2007, William Fowler Collins has been working with the web since 1995 and has held positions at Wired Magazine (Wired Digital), WebMD, and E*Trade Financial. Primarily a musician, Collins has performed throughout the United States as a solo performer and has also shared bills with artists such as Ikue Mori, Matmos, and The Brightblack Morning Light. He holds a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute (1995, Interdisciplinary Studies) and an M.F.A. from Mills College (2004, Electronic Music and Recording Media).
:: wfc@unm.edu
:: http://www.williamfowlercollins.com

Jack Ox,Artist-in-Residence and Research Associate
Jack Ox, internationally exhibited artist, is Artist-in-Residence and Research Associate at the ARTS Lab, working on her major collaboration called the Gridjam, which will be produced over the National Lambda-Rail, http://www.nlr.net/, in partnership with CALIT2 at the University of California at San Diego, the University of Alberta, and the University of Amsterdam in partnership with the WAAG Soceity, and others. She has been on the editorial board of LEONARDO, Journal for the Society of Art, Science, and Technology for 20 years, and has been engaged in the visualization of music for more than 30 years. She has an MFA from UCSD, and has studied music theory, and phonetics during her work with visualization. Ox recently became a Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. You can see her work, past and present, at her website: http://www.jackox.net. Ox also brought to publication on WERGO an orginal and unknown performance of the Ursonate spoken by the creator of this piece, Kurt Schwitters. (http://www.schott-music.com/shop/show,93601.html)
:: jackox@hpc.unm.edu
:: http://www.jackox.net