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As an entrepreneur, Kevin Slavin has successfully integrated digital media, game development, technology and design. He is a pioneer in rethinking game design and development around new technologies (like GPS) and new platforms (like Facebook). In 2005 he co-founded Area/Code … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Programmable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 1:00-3:00pm

Casey Reas

Casey Reas is a computational artist and co-developer of Processing, a programming language geared towards the visual arts. Reas’ software, prints and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, … Continued

Panel Participant in "BEING MATERIAL," 2017 CAST Symposium
Programmable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 1:00-3:00pm

Manu Prakash

Manu Prakash is an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford University and physicist working at the molecular scale to try and understand no less than how the world really works. As he told BusinessWeek in 2010, he is humbled and inspired … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Programmable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 1:00-3:00pm

Nadya Peek_Courtesy of the Artist.

Nadya Peek

Nadya Peek develops infrastructures of fabrication. She does this by deploying unconventional digital fabrication tools, small scale automation, networked controls, and advanced manufacturing systems. Spanning design, electronics, firmware, software, and mechanics, she rebuilds production systems to accommodate high-tech in low … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Programmable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 1:00-3:00pm

Ben Fry. Credit: Fathom.

Ben Fry

Ben Fry is principal of Fathom Information Design, a design and software consultancy located in Boston. He received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Programmable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 1:00-3:00pm

Benjamin Bratton.

Benjamin Bratton

Benjamin H. Bratton‘s work spans Philosophy, Art, Design and Computer Science. He is Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. He recently founded the school’s new Speculative … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Programmable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 1:00-3:00pm