Perry Bard is an artist who works with electronic media and lives in New York. She has done temporary Public Art projects including a mobile billboard in New York City, large screen public video installations at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal Building in New York, at the Hotel Cristal in Bialystok, Poland, at the JVC Video Store in Sofia, Bulgaria and Market Square in Middlesbrough, UK, public sculptures at Petrosino Park, Snug Harbor,NY. She has exhibited video and installations internationally. Her work has been reviewed in several international Art magazines and is in the collections of the Canada Arts Council, the Frac des Pays de la Loire, the Southeast Museum of Photography and is featured in Digital Currents: Art in The Electronic Age by Margot Lovejoy and in Die Anthologie der Kunst by Jochen Gerz.

Karla is storyteller. Sometimes her storytelling follows conventional forms of dramatic and non-fiction production, and other times the storytelling experiments with imagery and interactivity. Her experimental, documentary and interactive media projects have been exhibited internationally. Recent festival and gallery screenings include France, Brazil, Austria and the UK.

She currently serves as President of UFVA, an international organization of over 800 professionals and institutions involved in the production, research, and education of film, video, and newer media arts. She is actively developing several projects through new partnerships between Hollywood and South Carolina, between professionals and students, and among USC departments and other South Carolina campuses.

LeAnn Erickson is an associate professor of film and video production and an independent video/filmmaker. She received an MA in film and video production (1988) and an MFA in Intermedia (1992) from the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared on public television, in galleries, and has won national recognition in video/film festivals. Titles include: "hours, minutes, seconds, frame", "essential things", and "From One Place to Another: Emma Goldman Clinic Stories".   Her recent animation work has screened internationally including the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, the Auburn International Film Festival in Sydney, and the 11th Feminale in Cologne, Germany. She is a recipient of regional and national production grants for her work and, most recently, was awarded the 2003 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for Media Arts.

Conrad Gleber has had a long and distinguished career in art and design for communication. He exhibits digital artwork, sound and video installations and recently collaborated on an exhibition of outdoor urban screen projections in Chicago. Gleber and New York artist, Duff Schweninger, have recently produced "Dialogues with Artists in Cuba," a video documentary of their research in Cuba. His sculpture, photography and artists' books have been exhibited widely including at the Art Institute and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and at The Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
He has earned a doctorate in educational research and teaches theory and the critical issues of media art and design at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. During the summer he directs the European graphic and new media design program at the FSU Study Centre in London.

Michael is an assistant professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia where he also directs the Digital Media Program. Michael's films are a unique combination of his interests in biology, engineering and design. His works have the feel of scientific experiments exploring the potential poetic relationships between visual elements. In the past Michael has been a sculptor for Disney, a carpenter for televisions commercials, and he has worked as a vehicle designer for BMW. He was also the set supervisor for the Superbowl XXXVI half-time show. His video "Cosmic Microwave Background" toured London, Manchester and Chicago this summer in a group exhibit "VIBE summer05." This work is part of an associative collection of ideas dealing with cause / effect relationships, coincidental discoveries, hierarchy, and concepts about meditation.