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Ken Jordan is one of the pioneers of Web-based multimedia. In 1995 he led the development and served as founding editorial director of SonicNet.com,
the first multimedia music zine. SonicNet was named best website of 1995 by Entertainment Weekly, it won the first Webby Award for best music site, and
became a property of MTV. In mid-1996 Mr. Jordan became creative director of Icon New Media, publisher of two seminal, award-winning online
magazines: the general interest zine Word.com, and the action sports site Charged.com. In 1999, he co-founded the public interest portal
MediaChannel.org, in partnership with Globalvision and the international online network OneWorld.net; it was OneWorld's first U.S. based project. He
collaborated with the playwright and director Richard Foreman on the book Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater (Pantheon, 1992), and is
co-editor of Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (W.W. Norton, 2001), an anthology of seminal articles that trace the history of digital
multimedia; Norton will release the book in paperback in December, 2002. His essays about digital media and the arts can be found at
www.kenjordan.tv.
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Marc Stein has been managing Internet technology projects since 1995, when he joined Time Inc. New Media/Pathfinder to lead the design of one of the
first Web-based advertising networks. After more than four years with Time Inc. New Media, he joined iVillage.com as Director of Operations, before
becoming the Director of Community Services; the iVillage community has 2.5 million members and is among the largest on the Net. He was the co-founder
and technical director of BobDylan.com, the official Dylan website, and is the founder and proprietor of Literary Kicks (LitKicks.com), a critically
acclaimed literary community website. Prior to entering the new media business in the mid-90's, Mr. Stein was a Principal Consultant at Sybase
Professional Services, New York, where he managed projects and trained development teams for JP Morgan, Paine Webber, AT&T and Citibank.
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Vivian Selbo is a web site developer, information architect, designer, and visual artist based in New York City. Selbo has designed web projects for
PBS/P.O.V., the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and the
Museum of Modern Art, NY, among others. From 1995 to 1998, Selbo was part of the team behind the multi-award winning site adaweb, now part of the
Walker Art Center's Digital Arts Study Collection. Her online art work is included in the collections of SFMOMA, the Institute for Contemporary Art,
London, and The Walker Art Center, and it is featured in publications such as "Graphis Web Design Now" and "The Internet Design Project: The Best of
Graphic Art on the Web." Selbo also teaches Information Systems for the Visual Arts at New York University.
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Leslie Harpold is a designer, artist and teacher. She founded and led the design firm Fearless Media from 1996-2001, where she created interactive
projects for the Museum of the Moving Image, Habitat for Humanity NYC, the American Museum of Natural History and several commercial clients. For her
work with Jones Soda's she won a silver medal in identity design from Print Magazine. She lectures frequently at interactive industry conferences and
seminars on the subject of design and fine art in the digital medium. She teaches in Marywood University's "Masters with the Masters" MFA program,
and has taught Web design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the School of Visual Arts. Her outside projects include a documentary on scars
as autobiographical narrative, and she has written for publications including Hermenaut, the New York Press, Spin, and the Village Voice. She
lives in New York.
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Rebecca Carroll is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction, including Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America (1997),
which received an ALA Award for outstanding nonfiction, and I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like: The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers (1994),
lauded by Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates as "a stunning achievement." A former segment producer for the "Charlie Rose" show, and
senior editor of Africana.com and Contentville.com, she has written two screenplays, as well as nonfiction articles and personal essays for
publications such as Mother Jones, Time Out New York, Elle, and USA Weekend. Rebecca recently made her acting debut in poet/novelist Sherman
Alexie's feature film "The Business of Fancydancing," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2002. She also recently wrapped a segment for
the WNET/Thirteen series "New York Voices," in which she talks with New York area college students about how their generation has been marked by
the events of September 11th. She is currently an associate programmer for the Newport International Film Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Her
ongoing projects include a documentary film that will explore the relationship between race and celebrity, and her first collection of short
stories, Killing Time. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Rucker Alex joined Night Kitchen, Bob Stein's multimedia software company, in 2000 as the Director of Website Development. She was responsible for
development, information architecture, and functional specifications for the website, which is the core sales, marketing, distribution, and service
center for the company and its downloadable software products. In 1997 she co-founded DesignerShoes.com, the largest e-commerce venue for women's
upscale shoes in larger sizes, and is currently a member of its Advisory Board. Ms. Alex also worked for Amazon.com, was an editor for
EssayEdge.com, and researched and wrote publications for the Harvard News Office, the Harvard Dean's Office, "Let's Go: Australia," and "Documents of
Destiny: A Legal History of Macroengineering." She has served on the boards of Harvard's Institute of Politics and the Signet Society of Arts
and Letters.
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Evan Sable graduated with honors from Princeton University in 1997, and received his Bachelors of Science and Engineering degree with a major in
Computer Science. During the preceding summer, he worked at Microsoft as a software design engineer with a team of developers implementing Microsoftıs
Outlook. Since Princeton, Evan joined iVillage.com and has been designing and implementing Internet technology projects, including iVillageıs
registration and authentication system and their highly trafficked message boards, supporting a community of 2.5 million members - one of the largest on
the Net. As the senior application developer for iVillage, he was also the technical manager and mentor for his team of application developers. Evan
left iVillage in March, 2002, to work as an independent technology consultant. On a team with Yaniv Eyny, they designed and built the website
for St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital's Department of Surgery.
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Before working in new media, Yaniv Eyny was manager of the Neuroscience Dopamine Research Lab at Columbia University. Yaniv was responsible for
all analytical programming for the lab, he published a paper in the Behavioral Neuroscience Journal and he presented at multiple Neuroscience
conferences. After Columbia, Yaniv joined the iVillage team where he was the key developer for their online quiz engines which accounted for the
highest percentage of traffic at iVillage. Yaniv left iVillage in April 2002, to work as an independent technology consultant. Along with Evan
Sable, they designed and built the website for St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital's Department of Surgery.