The Eastside is home to some of the most powerful technology-based companies. It is also home to a community of technology creatives: artists and technologists for whom the lines of distinction blur. Join in presentations and conversations on those blurring lines and opportunities for cross-over and collaboration. Then, let’s enjoy a post-panel reception, together.

Featuring panelists Hugo Solis Garcia, Elan Lee, Genevieve Tremblay and Kristina Erickson Hudson, moderated by Susie J. Lee.

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Susie J. Lee, artist
A new media artist, Susie merges digital technologies with physical objects, to create systems of experiential art forms from material phenomena. Exploring the potential of experimental technologies, her installations and sculptures investigate the time-based activation of light, sound and image to hover between the physical and the ephemeral. In her recent work “For these Unclosings,” she developed a complex, real-time composition that seamlessly integrated movement, sound and image. Three distinct characters – dancer, line and music – pushed, pulled, and reacted to one another in this performance. Boundaries dissolved between illusion and reality, digital and analog, and presence and absence. Lee’s work has been exhibited locally, throughout the US, and internationally in Korea and Italy, and has been collected by prominent private institution collections. She has taught at the Frye Art Museum, Centrum Arts Organization and the University of Washington, written about the intersection of art and science in the Journal of Science Communication in Naples, and has been awarded a number of grants, awards and public commissions. Her background is in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University with a Masters in Science Education at Columbia University. She received her MFA at the University of Washington. Susie is represented by Lawrimore Project in Seattle and Galleria Tiziana Di Caro in Italy.

Hugo Solis Garcia, artist
Interested in technology and improvisatory music, Hugo is founder of the NICROM Trio, an interdisciplinary ensemble of electro-acoustic improvisatory music with action painting. Playing piano and electronics, he has collaborated in many interdisciplinary projects in conjunction with dancers, painters, film-makers and radio-artists. A PhD student at DXARTS, Hugo’s main interests are musical structure of improvised music, human computer musical interaction, and audiovisual systems. He is currently working on the development of sonic and visual extensions for acoustic pianos, the production of tools for collective creation, the creation of interactive and multimedia installations, and also plays with the Juum duet. He holds a DEA of Computer Sciences and Digital Communication from the Pompeu Fabra University where he was a member of the Music Technology Group, and an MA in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Laboratory Opera of the Future group where he developed the Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface, the audiovisual program for improvisatory music.

Elan Lee, Founder/Chief Designer at Fourth Wall Studios
Considered among the foremost Alternate Reality Gamer creators in the world, Elan Lee believes that if you’re bored, you’re doing something wrong. A self-identified entertainment-addict, Elan has spent his career finding and sharing ways to extract adventure from the world around us. From surfing down the flooded streets of LA to broadcasting a radio drama over thousands of ringing payphones, Elan has pioneered breakthroughs in the area of entertainment and immersive gaming. Elan started his career at the Microsoft Game Studio where he was a Lead Designer for the X-Box launch portfolio. Next, he co-founded and served as the Vice President of 24 Entertainment (the company behind I Love Bees, The Vanishing Point, Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero, and The Dark Knight.) He was also the Co-Founder of EDOC Laundry, and most recently the Co-Founder and Chief Designer at Fourth Wall Studios.

Genevieve Tremblay, cultural entrepreneur
Genevieve is a creative catalyst and public scholar who provides strategic vision to pioneering community ventures at the digital convergence. She has worked with community leaders and educators at all levels to develop programs and partnerships, residencies and roundtables that leverage the synergy between artists, designers, scholars, technologists and industry professionals to serve the public good. Her current research and curatorial efforts identify innovators who are redefining culture, community and the environment through public art and the creative application of digital, social, mobile and gaming technologies. Genevieve is working to drive the development of cultural assets in our community and has recently worked with an interdisciplinary team to create a model for a public/private partnership and catalyst real estate asset for digital arts/technology in the newly rezoned Bel-Red Corridor.

Kristina Erickson Hudson, Director of Washington Interactive Network for enterpriseSeattle
Kristina is the Director of the Washington Interactive Network for enterprise Seattle, a public private economic development partnership representing King County. Guided by a strong industry task force, Kristina works to promote, nurture, and grow the interactive media and technology industries in Seattle. Five years ago, she founded the Washington Interactive Network, a program designed to brand the Seattle region as a global center for video game development. She believes that his region is the apex of arts and technology – a place where the technology is disruptive and the spirit of innovation thrives.

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