0. Festival Curators
1. Festival Presenters
2. Festival Staff

Justin has been a creative computer user since he was seven. Now 24, he has spent six years building his personal site - 1800 pages detailing and connecting the grand theories and minutae of his life @ links.net. Last year he started an online culture watching webzine @ bud.com as a way to engage non-publishers in web page making. Recently he has begun to study the games he only played before; both writing freelance articles and serving as Playstation editor @ gamers.com.

Brenda Laurel's work focuses on interactive story, human-computer interaction, and cultural aspects of technology. She was a co-founder of Purple Moon - formed to create interactive products for girls-and has worked as a software designer, producer, and researcher for companies including Atari, Activision, and Apple. She is the author of the book, "Computers as Theatre" and has published extensively on interactive fiction, computer games, autonomous agents, virtual reality, and political and artistic issues in new media

Douglas Adams is the creator of all the various contradictory manifestations of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," In a long and varied career, He has also written the Dirk Gently novel series, a nonfiction book on endangered species, worked as a chicken shed cleaner, a bodyguard for an Arab royal family and played guitar for Pink Floyd. Douglas is a founding partner and the Chief Fantasist of The Digital Village, an online and multiple media entertainment company which produced the CD-ROM, Starship Titanic. Douglas is also an Apple Master.

Peter Bergman helped found the Firesign Theater. He has written and appeared in a series of one man shows, including the award winning " Help Me Out of this Head". Bergman has been invloved with interactive media since 1986 and is the producer of the interactive CD-Rom parody "Pyst". This is Peter's 3rd year at the Festival where he will conduct a workshop called "Too Funny for Words" and present part of his new one man show: "How to Survive the Millenium". Peter is also an Apple Master.

David is a leading digital effects, graphics and multimedia expert. His writing, educational efforts, multimedia and special effects work have enjoyed global exposure. He is considered by many longtime industry players to be one of the technical and creative pioneers of personal computer-based multimedia. Biedny was a founding editor of MacUser. Recent technology consulting clients include Intuit, CMP, LucasArts Entertainment, Landor & Associates, Broderbund Software and Kraft Robot.

Howard Bingham has spent the better part of the last three decades photographing many of America's historical turning points, as well as one of the world's best known and most beloved figures, Muhammad Ali. During the turbulent '60s, Bingham recorded the devastation of virtually every urban uprising of significance, with his work appearing in "Life Magazine," "Time," "Sports Illustrated," "Look," "People," "Newsweek" and "Ebony," among others. Howard is also an Apple Master.

Bonifer oversees a staff of 35 artists, animators, videographers and information architects in iXL's Los Angeles office. He considers himself, first and foremost, a storyteller, who uses the narrative form as the basis for designing interactive media. Under his guidance, iXL has produced interactive projects for such clients as Frito-Lay, Warner Bros., Merrill Lynch, Disney, Technicolor, Pepsi as well as a colorful parade of Dotcoms. He is looking forward to the day when everyone working on the internet is post-IPO.

Bricklin is best known for co-developing VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, while he was a student at the Harvard Business School. VisiCalc is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of the personal computer industry. He has served as president of Software Garden, Inc., where he developed a software program used for prototyping and simulating other pieces of software. He also founded Software Arts, Mr. Bricklin has received many honors including the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Entrepreneur Award and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Software Publishers Association.

Russell Brown maintains a vital presence in the digital design and publishing community, facilitating the exchange between user and software developer that is so essential to Adobe's product development. With complete mastery and breathtaking style, Brown shows users how to work - and play - with Adobe software. He combines the taste of a connoisseur, the energy of a rocket, and the delight of a small child to educate and enlighten with a performance that's much more than a simple presentation of tools.

Ben was the Founding Editor of the New Media Magazine. His articles have been published publications including Wired and Parents Magazine. HearthStory is an Internet-based, software driven, family focused based on the concept of StoryCatching. "Ever since I was little I've been fascinated with how technology could be used to extend what each of us is able to accomplish in our lives," says Calica. "Computers don't replace us, they extend how far we can reach, how easily we can touch each other and how much we can remember."

Fabrice leads creative development and web operations for ShockRave.com and shockwave.com - featuring a popular mix of online games, cartoons, music and greeting cards. He has a 20-year involvement with multimedia production having acted as President of Zenda Studio and Executive Producer at Apple Computer. Fabrice was a founding member of Apple's Multimedia Lab, where he pioneered the use of multimedia with partners ranging from Lucasfilm to National Geographic and the Smithsonian.

Harper was previously the strategic marketing director for Intel's Developer Relations Group, where he crafted marketing programs for tools and consumer applications companies working with Intel. He also established Intel's industry analyst relations program within the PR department, and headed up the Content Group's digital arts program. Harper recently left Intel to form Rolling Thunder Media which specializes in digital storytelling.

Melissa founded Organic's Editorial department, set quality standards and determined guidelines for Web-first writing, and developed a philosophy for interactive narrative. With her advice, Organic has spread the faith of online editorial to companies such as Sun, Starbucks, and Stan Lee. Prior to joining Organic, Melissa was as a Writer and Information Architect for a series of live events and worked with such companies as Nike, Pepsi, Ford, and Nissan.

Reid pioneered the concept of "electronic marketing" and "digital everything" at XL, one of the world's largest providers of insurance, reinsurance and structured financial solutions to large multinational corporations. He designed and produced the insurance industry's first interactive CD-ROM and is creating a system for "distributed storytelling" across a diverse global organization where web and multimedia technologies will serve strategic corporate goals such as e-commerce and global knowledge management.

John Koriath is drawn to projects, people, and relationships that are working to bring positive change to 21st century living. He employs an ecological approach to experiential learning that brings together the tools of technology and the cultural needs of team collaboration. John has devoted years to the investigation of the psychoneuroimmunology of storytelling. He is a co-founder of the Turtle Island Project whose programs integrate principles of mind and body through the teachings of Native American rituals and ceremonies.

Along with Dana Atchley and Nina Mullen, Joe created an ongoing training program, Digital Storytelling, which introduces people to digital video through stories based in their personal image archives. From 1983 to 1993, Joe directed Life On The Water, a nationally recognized theater organization in San Francisco. He is also the host of Joe's Digital Diner, a multimedia salon in SF.

Deena Larsen explores the intriguing multidimensions of hypertext fiction. She first tried to connect stories about women in a Colorado mining town with a model village and connecting embroidery thread. It didn't work. A friend said try HyperCard-and Deena has used hypertexts ever since. Deena wrote the first Masters thesis on hypertext (University of Colorado 1992), has edited several hypertexts, and conducts hypertext workshops throughout the world. She develops web sites for the federal government.

Carolyn collaborated with Intel Corporation and PBS to produce the Frank Lloyd Wright "Poetry of Structure," the first enhanced digital TV project, which accompanied the Ken Burns' documentary. This historic enhanced DTV project was the first to be digitally broadcast, transmitted, and received on a computer. She is currently developing interactive DTV projects and contributes to convergent interactive media using the best of technology and media to inspire, inform, and engage discovery and imagination.

Lee is an Emmy Award-winning art director and animation Director and President of Lee Marrs Artwork. Her clients include Apple Computer, IBM, Electronic Arts, Atari, Time Warner Inc., Levi-Strauss, Foote Cone & Belding and Omni Zoetrope Films. She served as studio art chief for The 3DO Company. A recipient of the comic book fieldŐs Inkpot Award, sheŐs author/artist to hundreds of titles, reprinted in nine countries, for such characters as Pudge, Girl Blimp; Batman; Wonder Woman; and Indiana Jones. Lee is the co-author of Inside Autodesk Animator with Leah Freiwald.

Co-Director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. Nina is a visual artist and educator who has been active in the Bay Area multicultural arts and education community for the last eight years.

As the handbook of the business revolution, Fast Company magazine equips people exploring the uncharted new world of work with tools, techniques, models, and mind-sets. Heath coordinates the Company of Friends, Fast Company's global readers' network, which includes about 16,000 members in more than 100 cities around the world. Heath will be creating a digital story at the Festival Bootcamp and will launch FC's Company of Friends Road Show at the Festival. The Road Show will take him to 15 cities seven southern states in search of the New Economy in the New South.

Nathan is an information and interface designer and Chief Creative Officer at Vivid Studios which he co-founded to develop online brand strategies, products, services, events and communities. He earned a B.S. in Industrial Design, with emphasis in Automobile Design, from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has written and designed several books and maintains a website with resources on Interaction Design.

Suzanne lectures on Digital Storytelling. She came to new media through the studies of contemporary culture and mass media and has lectured at Sussex University and the University of Toronto. She is also a new media consultant, specializing in Internet Strategy, New Media Environments and Digital Storytelling through her company, Everyday Life, which is located, like its founder, at the intersection of culture and communications.

John is an interactive media artist and leading consultant on digital media technology. At Apple Computer, he led the original development of QuickTime, created the MIDI Manager and contributed to the development of the Sound Manager and the AIFF file format. Recent clients include Digital Origin, The Frank Russell Company, and AdKnowledge.

Dana Atchley takes a background in graphic design, multimedia performance and broadcast television into the interactive arena. He is the creator of Next Exit, an interactive theatrical performance, and President of Dana Atchley Productions, Inc., creator of digital stories for corporate and entertainment clients. His most recent project was a digital storytelling theater for The World of Coca-Cola in Las Vegas.

Denise spent seven years in the world of broadcast design graphics with Harry Marks before moving to San Francisco to join Dana Atchley as a partner in the Digital Storytelling Festival and Dana Atchley Productions. She is the gracious and knowledgable voice on the other end of your Festival phone and email conversations.

Kenneth Carter brings his ten years of experience designing award-winning interactive environments for the tradeshow industry to the digital frontier. As founder of Spank Interactive he is exploring the communicative power of computer animation and virtual reality. Kenneth is currently creating broadcast graphics for Hearst-Argyle Television's NBC (KCRA-TV) and Warner Bros. (KQCA-TV) affiliates in Northern California.

John joined ERC after working for several years as Talent Coordinator for E-Town. He is also a six-year volunteer of KGNU in Boulder, where he currently serves on the Program Committee. John hosts several shows on GoGaGa Brand Radio including Music For Cubicles and The Observatory, the first weekly Internet show to focus on and incorporate the technology of webcams into a multi media Internet experience.

Tim has been involved in Macintosh Desktop Video since it's inception, and has worked at Apple, Truevision, and Radius. He offers consultation services to clients such as ATTO, Micropolis, FWB, Hammer Storage, Micronet, and others. All-Mac Onsite Services specializes in onsite training, accurate diagnosis, timely repair, and personal service. Special services include Custom High Speed Disk Arrays, complete Digital Video Turnkey Systems, and training.

Don Wrege hosts ZappaTrax, a one hour webcast featuring the music of Frank Zappa on internet radio station RadioM. He writes a weekly column for ClubCorp.com's Cigar Cafe, a "virtual club environment." Wrege's satirical comments on Boulder Colorado's JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation, in the form of self produced parody songs, are regularly broadcast on Denver's KHOW radio as well as attracting a Nationwide internet audience. In real life, Don is a project manager at Boulder's XOR Network Engineering.