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Amy Franceschini, founder of Futurefarmers, is a new media artist working with notions of community, sustainable environments and the conflicting rituals of humans and nature. Her work manifests "on" and "offline" in the form of net art, installations and public art. Franceschini studied photography at San Francisco State and received an MFA from Stanford University. She has had solo exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery and Gallery 16, San Francisco and RAMP in New Zealand. Her work has been included in numerous group shows including; "Tirana Biennale: Interactive Art" at Deitch Projects, NY; "Bay Area Now 2", at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Tranmediale, in Berlin.

Amy currently teaches New Media courses at the San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University.

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Katherine is currently a phD candidate in New Media studies at Trinity college in Dublin, Ireland. Her work focuses on ad hoc networks, public space, and the use of new technologies to create sociability and awareness among urban populations.

Katherine's work has been featured in several museum and gallery spaces. Most recently, she and her partner Jonah Brucker-Cohen received a special grant, Araneum, which will enable them to conduct research and develop their project in progress, umbrella.net.

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Josh Nimoy is a designer, artist, and technologist. Josh holds a B.A. in Design | Media Arts from UCLA, where he learned from designers such as Gail Swanlund and Vasa Mihich. Having recently graduated from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), he is now a researcher at Fabrica, the Benetton-funded design research lab in Venice. In 1999, he was a visiting undergraduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab, where he worked under Professor John Maeda in the Aesthetics and Computation Group. His work ranges from traditional print pieces to highly experimental concept, for example, robotic typography and a cellphone operated drawing canvas. Nimoy's work is playful in nature, and grounded in a working repertoire of digital and physical building. At the age of 15, Nimoy began to couple his fine arts education with insomniac computer hacking. Nowadays, he utilizes his unconventional programming skills as a means of creative expression. His most exhibited piece, Textension, is a collection of 10 experimental virtual typewriters that showed in several places in Europe and the States. Nimoy has also taught graduate independent study at the school of Visual Arts in New York.

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Rich is a media artist working in transit between Boston and Vietnam. His work investigates the liminal spaces that exist within and among performance art, video, cinema, installation, new media and design. His current research focuses on media and cultural production in Southeast Asia. Current issues explored in his work include memory, popular media, war & tourism, exile and transition, language, and narrative. He relocated to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in September 2003 to continue work in these areas. His BFA is from the Massachusetts College of Art in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM). His experience includes teaching fellow positions at Harvard University, undergraduate research at the MIT Media Lab under Professor Maeda, and a three-year stint with the U.S. Army. Recently he was Visiting Lecturer at the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts University; completed a one-month media arts residency in Chiang Mai, Thailand; a video art installation at L'Espace in Hanoi. He is now working on NetVideoLab, a collaborative video project with ArtNetworkAsia and preparing for an upcoming performance in Seoul, Korea for September 2004.

This summer Rich is a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University in Creative New Media.

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