people involved
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Julian Bleecker, Technologist Julian Bleecker is a creative technologist with over 20 years of hands-on experience exploring the use of technologies to create new, exciting kinds of social formations and ways of circulating culture. His background in electrical engineering and computer science, coupled with work on emerging technology design allows him to provide a unique perspective on the near-future possibilities of technology-based mobile, location-based, social and networked applications, products and services. Bleecker currently heads the Mobile and Pervasive Lab, a near-future think tank and research and development lab at the School of Cinema-TV and the Annenberg Center at the University of Southern California. He has also taught recently in the Design and Technology Department at Parsons School of the Design. Several of his emerging technology projects have been exhibited and presented in venues such as SIGGRAPH, Xerox PARC, Banff New Media Institute, American Museum of the Moving Image, Art Interactive (Boston), Boston Cyberarts Festival, Eyebeam Atelier (New York City), Keio University (Japan), the Whitney Museum of American Art's Artport, Bitforms Gallery, and the Walker Art Center. Bleecker's practical skills in making things combined with a critical, scholarly consideration of those undertakings makes for a productive palette of capabilities that yield compelling, thoughtful project executions. SLOWmail offers a valuable new challenge to those capabilities.
Carolyn Strauss, Project Director Carolyn Strauss has over a decade of experience producing projects of various scales and media. Trained as an architect, Strauss has worked mostly at the intersection of design, technology and cultural research. Beginning in the early 1990's, she commissioned public art to encourage discourse about the social implications of emerging technologies, the creative opportunities they afford, and the new forms of cultural expression they might engender. Highlights of her career in digital media include a collaborative, high-speed multimedia network in Japan (1994-5) and user experience design and prototping for interactive television in the Netherlands (1999-2000). She is an instructor of design at the Parsons School of Design in New York and the Icelandic Academy of Arts in Reykjavik. She is a former fellow of the XDesign studio at Yale University Faculty of Engineering, and has been a visiting lecturer and workshop facilitator at the Cooper Union School of Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and many others. She continues to lecture, conduct wokshops and develop slow design curricula for several notable institutions. slowLab will host the SLOWmail project on its web site.
Zipora Fried, Graphic Designer and Illustrator Zipora Fried is an internationally acclaimed fine artist, graphic designer and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited widely in galleries and museums in New York and throughout Western Europe, and it is in the collections of several esteemed institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum (Vienna), and the Albertina Museum of Graphic Art (Vienna), among others. Fried has received European government grants in the areas of visual art and experimental film. Her artwork and illustrations have been featured and positively reviewed in publications including Flash Art, Art Review, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Tageblatt, and the Jewish Quarterly. And her short film projects have earned prizes and awards from international competitions including the Chicago International Film Festival, the Hong Kong Independent Short Film Competition, the Malaga International Film Festival, and the Philadelphia International Film Festival.
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