Their creativity and enthusiasm are helping us develop a new kind of TV series that integrates innovative Web and online game components.
Henry Bean
Henry Bean is a long-time Hollywood screenwriter (Internal Affairs, Deep Cover, Enemy of the State), a one-time novelist ("False Match") and one-time director ("The Believer" – Grand Jury Prize Winner at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival). Bean is currently collaborating with Steven Soderbergh on a 10-part fiction series about political consulting for HBO.
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Marisa Bowe
Marisa Bowe was a teenage user of PLATO, the first networked online social environment, in the mid-1970s; and went on to become the founding editor of the groundbreaking webzine Word.com, and the Executive Producer of the multi-user online game, Sissyfight.com. She has also been a TV producer and co-edited the oral history book GIG: Americans Talk About Their Jobs.
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Alison Cornyn
Alison Cornyn, an interdisciplinary artist, founded Picture Projects studio in 1995 with Sue Johnson to create documentaries about critical social issues using new media technologies. Picture Projects created SonicMemorial.org, an audio archive of sounds and memories from the World Trade Center, which recently won a Peabody award; 360degrees.org, an award-winning interactive documentary about the U.S. prison system; akaKURDISTAN.com, in collaboration with Susan Meiselas; Re: Vietnam - Stories Since the War with Marc Weiss at P.O.V. and Farewell to Bosnia with Gilles Peress.
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Sharon Denning
Sharon Denning is a NYC based artist who has been working in interactive
media since 1992. Her artwork has been shown at various international
venues including The Digital Salon 1998 (Spain and Italy), Ars
Electronica 2000 (Austria - Award of Distinction in the .net category),
RepoHistory 2000 (online) and Remote Lounge 2002 (NYC).
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Esther Drill
Esther Drill is Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of gURL.com. Created in 1996,
gURL's mission is to provide information about all aspects of young
womanhood in an inclusive and engaging way. gURL has grown to be the leading
website for teenage girls, with special expertise in the areas of community
and interactivity and an emphasis on self-expression.
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Jennifer Fox
Jennifer Fox is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and innovative teacher. She produced, directed, and shot the ground breaking PBS television series, "An American Love Story," a chronicle of two years in the lives of an interracial family in New York, and "Beirut: The Last Home Movie," an intimate look at an aristocratic family during the Lebanese War.
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Ze Frank
Hosea (Ze) Frank is a Brooklyn based interactive designer, humorist, and a
co-founder of the design collective - MediaBrand . His clients include Starwood Hotels, Kodak, Nabisco, Motorola, the Bomb Factory, Dakota Jackson,and MTV. Ze's personal web site of animation and humor - zefrank.com has appeared in USA Today, Foxnews.com, Yahoo Internet Life, YM, Forbes.com and On Magazine and has been visited by more than 20 million people. Zefrank.com received the 2002 People's Voice Webby Award for best Personal Website.
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Jacqueline Goss
Jacqueline Goss's projects include videotapes about Typhoid Mary, Helen Keller, Dian Fossey,
and human cloning, as well as an interactive program about a fictional
disease that causes women to grow antlers. Her work has shown at the Rotterdam
Film Festival, New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, Walker Center for the Arts,
Pacific Film Archive, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
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Lisa Heller
Lisa Heller is Vice President of Original Programming at HBO. She develops, programs and promotes non-fiction films, new media activity and outreach strategies for HBO documentaries, the Cinemax Reel Life series and family programming. Before joining HBO, she was Executive Producer of P.O.V.
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Sue Johnson
Sue Johnson is a co-founder of Picture Projects, a documentary production team that has created numerous award-winning projects including 360degrees.org -- Perspectives on the US Criminal Justice System – and SonicMemorial.org.. Sonic Memorial, an oral history of the World Trade Center, is the first website to win a Peabody Award.
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Barry Joseph
Barry Joseph is New Voices Fellow / Human Rights and Internet Specialist at Global Kids. Before joining GK, Joseph was Supervising Producer at Web Lab, where, among many other things, he developed the concept of Small Group Dialogues – a new model for in-depth, high-quality online discussion.
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Laura Kertz
Laura Kertz worked at Web Lab in 1999-2000 during the early stages of Crossover program development. Since then she has been involved in broadband and wireless market research and development of a research library on data privacy. Laura's 2002 masters thesis examined the producer/consumer dynamic in digital media and focused on the issue of copyright infringement. Laura will begin work this fall on a PhD in
computational linguistics.
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Mary Lampson
Mary Lampson is an award-winning independent filmmaker. Her film "Spring
in the Woods" was included in a 25-year retrospective at the Museum
of Modern Art. Her dramatic film, "Until She Talks," aired on
the PBS series American Playhouse. She has also produced over 25 short
live action films for Sesame Street. In addition to making her own films,
Lampson has edited many independent documentary features, including the
academy-award wining, "Harlan County, USA."
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Heather McDonald
Heather McDonald is a co-founder of gURL.com and a co-author of DEAL WITH
IT! and THE LOOKS BOOKS. She is currently the Vice-President of Marketing
for the Primedia Teen Internet Group which includes: gURL.com, seventeen.com
and Teenmag.com.
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Dan O’Sullivan
Dan O’Sullivan is an associate professor at ITP, the interactive media program in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His interests include building more evocative online public spaces and generally richer human computer interfaces. Prior to becoming full time at ITP, Dan was president of his own new media company, O'Sullivision for seven years with clients including HBO, Microsoft, Oxygen, USA Networks and Viacom.
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Ken Perlin
Ken Perlin is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Director of the New York University Media Research Laboratory and Center for Advanced Technology. Perlin's research interests include graphics, animation, and multimedia. In 1997 he won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for his noise and turbulence procedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in 3D animation in feature films and television.
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Lynn Phillips
Lynn Phillips is a media tramp who has written and edited for film, television, print and interactive media. She was an assistant editor on the landmark films, "Salesman" and "Monterey Pop," and a staff writer for the late-night syndicated ground-breaker, "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." She was editor-in-chief of the award-winning infotainment experiment, VAGUEpolitix.com, a project of Web Lab, and she has written for a wide variety of magazines from "Glamour" to "The Nation."
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Thom Powers
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Theresa Riley
Theresa Riley is the director for Web projects at P.O.V. She is an award winning Web producer whose work has been featured on PBS Online, onmagazine.com and time.com.
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Katie Salen
Katie Salen is a game designer at GameLab and has recently completed "Rules of Play," a textbook on game design co-authored with Eric Zimmerman (MIT Press, Fall 2003). She has taught at NYU, University of Texas, RISD, Parsons School of Design, and N.C. State University.
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Sandra Schulberg
Sandra Schulberg is President, CEO and co-founder of Phobos Entertainment,
which produces quality science fiction books, movies and videogames. Founder
of the Independent Feature Project and former Senior Vice President of
American Playhouse, Sandra is an accomplished movie financier whose credits
include the Oscar-nominated Quills.
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Ellen Scott
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Vivian Selbo
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Karen Sideman
Karen Sideman is a freelance interaction designer who conceives, creates, shapes and oversees any - or all - creative aspects of digital projects ranging from web sites to location-based entertainment. For several years she was Online Creative Director at Sesame Workshop. Before that, she was Senior Interactive Designer at R/GA Digital Studios (R/Greenberg and Associates).
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Calvin Skaggs
Calvin Skaggs has produced or directed over two dozen documentaries and dramas for PBS, HBO, and other outlets. With David Van Taylor, he conceived and completed the landmark PBS series "With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America" Skaggs's 1993 theatrical feature, "Fly by Night," won the Sundance Filmmakers' Trophy for Best Dramatic Film.
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Dewey Thompson
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Wade Tinney
Wade Tinney has worked in interactive media since 1995 as a programmer, graphic designer, sound designer, creative director and producer. Wade founded Large Animal Games with partner Josh Welber in January of 2001. Their games for the web, cell phones, PCs and handheld devices have been played by millions and received numerous awards, including the Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual. Large Animal has developed games for clients such as LEGO, the New York Philharmonic, and Mattel.
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David Van Taylor
David Van Taylor has written, directed and edited documentaries
for PBS, HBO, Discovery, Court TV, MTV, and TV Nation with Michael Moore.
His first film, DREAM DECEIVERS: THE STORY BEHIND JAMES VANCE VS. JUDAS
PRIEST, won an International Documentary Association Award. His feature
documentary A PERFECT CANDIDATE, about Oliver North's
Virginia Senate campaign in 1994, screened theatrically in over 70 cities
and GHOSTS OF ATTICA, won the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton.
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Jane Wagner
Jane C. Wagner (along with her partner Tina DiFeliciantonio ) is a director/producer
whose critically acclaimed films have garnered a number of top honors,
including an Emmy and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Her work has been
seen on PBS, HBO, Sundance Channel, TLC, SciFi Channel, USA Networks and
in countries throughout the world.
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Virgil Wong
Virgil Wong, a 2001 NEA grant recipient, has exhibited his net art, installations, films, and paintings worldwide. He is a graduate faculty member at The New School University and the head of Web development at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College. Virgil's solo exhibition at The PaperVeins Museum of Art is currently online at http://www.virgilwong.com
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Eric Zimmerman
Eric Zimmerman is Co-founder and CEO of GameLab, an independent and innovative game development company. Eric also collaborated with Word.com on the underground online hit, SiSSYFiGHT 2000 (www.sissyfight.com) and he has taught game design at MIT, NYU, Parsons School of Design, and School of Visual Arts.
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