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Ivana is a sound artist and researcher currently working and living in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA's School of Arts and Architecture in the Design Media Arts and Digital Humanities department. Her art practice includes audio-video installations, robotics, web projects, as well as music performances. Her work explores the themes of sound and space ranging from microscopic, architectural, and satellite scale. Ivana participated in more than 30 group shows and two solo exhibitions in Portland and Los Angeles.

Ivy Lovett is an artist and graphic designer based in Southern California, and a graduate from UCLA's Design | Media Arts program. Doodling since the womb, she has always been naturally drawn to the arts, and throughout her educational career, explored and found passion in several artistic mediums ranging from fine to interactive art. As a result, her work aims to integrate illustration into a variety of media, playfully weaving together themes of nostalgia, memory, and eclecticism as a way of exploring the relationship between the tangible and the digital.

Nirvana Parvizimotlagh is a multidisciplinary project manager and curator based in Los Angeles. She has led and contributed to a wide range of art and cultural initiatives, including serving as Executive Manager at Mohsen Gallery, Founding Manager of Nabshi Center, and Project Coordinator of Atmosphere of Sound, part of the Getty PST initiative at the UCLA Art|Sci Center. Her work spans exhibition planning, editorial direction, and interdisciplinary programming, with a focus on bridging creative vision and organizational strategy. Nirvana’s projects often explore the intersections of art, archives, and cultural memory through collaborative, research-driven approaches.

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Samuel Yang is a media artist exploring the intersections of sound, visual, and interactive design. Graduated from UCLA Design Media Arts, Samuel's work encompasses music composition and sound design, video and animation, game development, graphic/UI design, and product design. Samuel’s work often reflects a futuristic and cautionary tone, exploring how technology shapes human identity and culture. He strongly believes that design is not only about solving problems in the present but also about shaping humanity in a technological future.

Sheraz Fayyaz is a software engineer at Art Sci, where he develops innovative solutions that merge technology with creative expression. He is responsible for supporting and updating the WordPress pages and various websites for the team, and he maintains the Atmosphere of Sound iOS and Android app to ensure a smooth user experience.

Soeun Bae is an artist based in New York working with sculpture, technology, and performance to question what it is to be living inside of a body. Her work delves into politics of care, sexuality, and production. She explores the dissection, mechanization, and objectification to birth a hybrid body that holds potential for optimization as it becomes altered, tested, and used. Bae holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Victoria Vesna, Ph.D., is a media artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci center at the School of the Arts and California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI). She is currently a senior researcher at IMéRA – Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées in Marseille (2011-2013). Her work can be defined as experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and technologies. With her installations she explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Victoria has exhibited her work in over twenty solo exhibitions, more than seventy group shows, has been published in excess of twenty papers and gave 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the North American editor of AI & Society and in 2007 published an edited volume - Database Aesthetics: Art in the age of Information Overflow, Minnesota Press and most recently an edited volume entitled Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts. (co-edited with Christiane Paul and Margot Lovejoy). Intellect Press, 2011.

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Yonatan Rozin is a NY/NJ-based classical musician-turned-interactive technologist and web developer. A compulsive collaborator and solution-finder, Yonatan is the lead creative technologist for BodyMouth, an experimental body motion-reactive speech instrument designed by transmedia playwright Kat Mustatea which was a finalist in the 2024 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition and the Lumen Prize in the “Interactive Immersive” category. Yonatan has created several personal websites for artists and institutions, including Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and Atmosphere of Sound, and is passionate about offering affordable, dedicated services for creative individuals and organizations.