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Jim Fournier describes himself in Buckminster Fuller's terms as a design scientist and comprehensivist. In 1998 he co-convened The Sequoia Symposia, a series of cross-disciplinary invitational gatherings of internationally renowned scientists and mathematicians focusing on geometry as a unifying principle in nature. Following undergraduate work in physics and chemistry, Jim studied architecture at MIT, and at twenty three started JLF Designs, which rapidly grew into one of the premier lines of international high-design consumer products in the 80's. At the same time, as ecology editor for the Industrial Design Society of America he was an early advocate of industrial ecology, while his passion for fundamental geometry led him to work in computer graphics as a developer with Silicon Graphics. He is currently working on his doctorate in the PCC program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. |
Elizabeth Thompson has originated and produced numerous art and cultural events both in New York and Europe. She is a founding member of the Obie Award-winning experimental theater company Cucaracha Warehouse Theatre in New York where she worked both as a performing artist and as a producer of their renowned 'underground' performance art series. Additionally, she has held positions as director of John Gibson Gallery in New York, specializing in contemporary European and American conceptual art, and studio manager for American artists Leon Golub and Nancy Spero. In addition to PlaNetwork, for which she received a seed grant from The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, she is currently a contributor to the Guggenheim Public series at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy. |
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Erik Davis is a San Franciso-based writer,
culture critic, and independent scholar. His book TechGnosis,
a study of technological mysticism in the information age, was recently
published by Harmony Books. As a freelance writer, Davis has contributed
articles and essays to Wired, Gnosis, 21C, Spin, Mediamatic, Lingua Franca,
Magickal Blend, The Nation, Parabola, Green Egg, Details, Rolling Stone,
and the Village Voice, where he has written extensively about television,
technology, music, philosophy, and the subcultural landscape. Davis is also
a contributing editor to the cyberzine Fringeware
Review, and edited a special issue with Spiros Antonopoulos devoted
to "Chaos Spirituality." Davis has also lectured internationally on topics
relating to cyberculture, contemporary electronic music, and spirituality
in the postmodern world. |
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| Cate Gable is founder and President
of Axioun Communications International (www.axioun.com)
and has twenty-plus years of marketing and communications experience. She
has worked in government, academic, nonprofit, public and privately held
organizations in the US and Europe. Prior to founding Axioun, Cate was Marketing
Director for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and CitiBank Western
Division. Additionally, she has served as Director of Public Information
for Ohlone College, an institution of 10,000 students serving the silicon
valley in Fremont, CA; and for the Federal Reserve Bank of Los Angeles.
An Active poet and recent author of Strategic Action Planning NOW! A Guide
to Setting and Meeting Your Goals, Cate has published widely. She divides
her time between Berkeley, CA; the Pacific Northwest; and Paris, France.
Her deep commitment to ecology is rooted in her upbringing in Yakima Valley-a
high fertile desert in Central Washington-and the Columbia River watershed
of Naches River Valley in Western Cascades. |
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| JP Harpignies is an Associate producer of the Bioneers conference, a program consultant and conference producer for the New York Open Center, a contributing editor for the journal Lapis, and the author of Double Helix Hubris, a critique of genetic manipulation. | |
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Richard Harris is a graduate of the University
of California at Berkeley. He holds a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies
(PACS) from the International and Area Studies Teaching Program. His area
of concentration within the PACS major was Sustainable Development with
a strong emphasis on the experience of people in the developing world (Latin
America in particular). |
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Heather Reid is a freelance journalist
devoted to raising consciousness regarding ecological and spiritual issues.
She has written and produced several feature-length documentaries for Canada's
CBC Radio, for which she interviewed many of the leading thinkers in these
fields. She has also worked in television production, corporate communications
and public relations. She holds a degree in English from Vassar College
and is currently completing her masters in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness
at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her world view has been
deeply influenced by the experience of living in Japan and extensive travel
through India. |
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Mike Vincenty has managed
to turn a life interest in How Things Work into a paying job as Network
Administrator for the California Institute
of Integral Studies. His professional path started with graduation
from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and followed an engineering course
from shipboard electrical power and control systems to facility energy
audits and efficiency design. The advent of ubiquitous desktop computing
and expanding inter-network connectivity provided opportunities for
systems consulting including an Internet marketing start-up (in 1994!),
technical project work for websites and e-commerce, and integrated multi-platform/OS
network administration. He also currently serves as Senior Technical
Officer for MCAnet, an established
new-media marketing firm. |
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| Doug Piercy, database manager. Doug's biography will
be posted here soon. |
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Peggy Nelson is a visual artist
and web designer in Berkeley, whose work encompasses painting, photography,
video, and theatre. She counts among her influences a bunch of philosophers, renaissance painting, and graffiti.
Originally from the east coast, she has worked for Harvard's Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Christie's auction house, and Greenpeace New York, and has been
a union organizer for the U.A.W. and a member of the Cle Douglas Dance Theatre.
Most recently she was the production designer for DJ
Christ Superstar, a rave opera performed at Burning Man 1999. |
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David Ulansey is Professor
of Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
He received his Ph.D. (1984) in Religion from Princeton University and has
taught at Boston University, University of California at Berkeley, Barnard
College (Columbia University), Princeton University, and the University
of Vermont. David is a historian of religion specializing in the religions
of the ancient Mediterranean. He is particularly interested in the Mystery
Religions, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, ancient cosmology, and the relationship
between religion, myth, and the evolution of consciousness. He is author
of The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in
the Ancient World (Oxford University Press, 1989), as well as numerous
articles in publications ranging from Scientific American to the
Journal of Biblical Literature. David is a frequent lecturer at the
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. |
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| Steven Foster has designed and implemented Internet
information systems for the past 10 years. He was the co-inventor of the
Veronica Internet search-engine, the first comprehensive browsable index
of the Internet, which was for two years one of the most popular services
on the Net. As an information-systems designer, he has consulted for Pacific
Bell, OCLC, the Internet Archive, the Michigan Industrial Education Partnership,
and others. He is presently pursuing Doctoral studies in UC-Berkeley's School
of Information Management Systems, where one of his major interests is the
integration of search tools with online conferencing systems. He is particularly
interested in the qualities of information systems which shape the perception
of the "virtual" public sphere. Steven worked with the Greens-USA and Green
Party organizations between 1988 and 1992. |
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| Anita Sieff is a filmmaker and artist whose work has
been widely exhibited internationally. She is currently director of "Guggenheim
Public," an on-going dialogue series including artists, scientists, philosophers
and writers at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. Prior to
her work as an artist Ms. Sieff was an assistant to film director Michelangelo
Antonioni and art director and communications/PR consultant for Benetton,
Italy. She lives and works in Venice and New York. |
