LORIE NOVAK (Artist/Project Developer)

Lorie Novak is Chair of Photography and Imaging at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She is an artist whose photographs, installations, and Web project have been in numerous exhibitions including solo exhibitions at The International Center for Photography, NY; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Houston Center for Photography; Breda Fotografica, the Netherlands; Jayne Baum Gallery, NY; University Art Museum, Cal. State Univ. Long Beach; Addison Gallery, Andover, MA; Stanford University Art Museum. Her work has been in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.; Art Institute of Chicago; and The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; among others. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Mac Dowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Djerassi Foundation. Her photographs are in numerous permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In additon to being Chair of Photography and Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she is also co-director of Urban Ensemble through which Tisch students engage in community-based arts projects, and she has also initiated a community collaboration program in the Photography and Imaging Department. In addition, she is Affiliated Faculty at the NYU Center for Advanced Technology. Born in Los Angeles, Lorie Novak received a B.A. in Art from Stanford University and a MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She resides in Brooklyn, New York.

CLILLY CASTIGLIA (Sound Designer/Technical Director)

Clilly Castiglia is a sound designer and is also Director of Operations at the NYU Center for Advanced Technology. In addition to working on Collected Visions, she is engaged in research on the "Improv Jazz" and "Aria Project" which incorporate musical interfaces as communication devices, performing in real time between human participants and three dimensional "virtual" actors and musicians. Her technical and musical background includes an extensive list of production credits as a commercial Sound Designer in music, multimedia and film. Some of her recent sound design projects include "Sayonara Diorama" by Adrianne Wortzel, the Gershwin Tribute at the Library of Congress, "Patience My Blood," a multimedia performance by Eliza Schwarz, and "Mother Son", a play by Jeff Solomon. Her interest is to develop musical scenarios and environments that engage the participant in both an educational and entertaining interactive experience. She holds a Masters degree from the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program. She was born in Long Island and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

BETSEY KERSHAW (Creative Director)

Betsey Kershaw is a Senior Art Director at StarMedia.com. Formerly, she was a Senior Art Director for www.tvguide.com where she was responsible for the creative direction of the movies site. Kershaw has an extensive background in graphic design ranging from work for Nickelodeon and Children's Television Workshop to her most recent portfolio of on-line work.

KERRY O'NEILL (Database/Web Director)

Kerry O'Neill is currently at CUC International as Director, Interactive Services, where she is responsible for Shoppers Advantage, an online shopping site on the Web, America Online, Compuserve, and Prodigy. Before CUC, Kerry was the Director of Internet Projects at @radical.media, where she founded the Web department and launched five commercial Web sites in six months. Prior to @radical, Kerry was at the NYU Center for Advanced Technology where she managed the production group and made use of cutting edge Web technology and research from the NYU Media Research Laboratory. She also initiated a program to get local businesses and organizations onto the Web. Prior to working at NYU, Kerry was the lead programmer for a home shopping title in the AT&T/Viacom interactive television field trial. Kerry has over eight years of hands-on management experience, managing software projects for a variety of applications and target platforms, including five years in the financial industry.

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