bios
Alison Sant
Alison Sant is a media artist, with a background in digital media and architecture.
Her work explores the city as both a site for investigation and intervention
and has often focused on the hidden dynamics of the urban landscape. Her most
recent work, including TRACE, uses media
technologies to both capture the temporal events of the city as well as to
examine the ways in which these technologies reform our notions of the urban
landscape.
Sant teaches classes in new media at the San Francisco Art Institute,
Mills College, and the California College of the Arts. She has been awarded
artist residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in 2001, Headlands
Center for the Arts in 2000, and the Tryon Center for Visual Art in 1999. Sant
is also a recipient of a 2003 Creative Work Fund Grant and is currently an
artist in residence at UCSF Mount Zion.She received her BFA from New York University
in 1993 in the Departments of Photography and Interactive Telecommunications
and received her Masters in Design at the College of Environmental Design,
University of California Berkeley in 2004.
Elizabeth Goodman
Elizabeth Goodman's design, writing, and research focuses on
critical thinking and creative exploration at the intersections of new digital
technologies, social life and urban spaces. Her work has been shown at Paris'
la Cite des sciences et de l'industrie, as well as at a number of international
academic conferences such as CHI, DIS and Ubicomp. She was a visiting lecturer
at the San Francisco Art Institute in fall 2004.