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Evan Roth

Research director

Evan is a maker of things with a specific interest in tools of empowerment, open source, and popular culture. He co-founded F.A.T LAB in 2007. To know more about him just google the term: "bad ass mother fucker."

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James Powderly

Research director

James born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.A. in the year of the dragon. He has been making technology and media at the fringes of robotics, graffiti, space science, tattoos and rock n roll since 1992. He co-founded F.A.T LAB in 2007. I am James Powderly and I approve of this message.

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Theo Watson

Research Fellow

Theodore is an artist, designer and experimenter whose work is born out of the curiosity and excitement of designing experiences that come alive and invite people to play. He is one of the developers of Open Frameworks.

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Bennett Williamson

Research Fellow

Bennett Williamson is an artist and DJ producing media that oozes across art galleries, radio waves and the web. His artwork explores vernacular media, information glut, and the influence of technology on popular culture. His work has been shown in Los Angeles, New York, London, and Berlin.

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Mike Baca

Convicted Fellow

Aka 2esae.

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Jamie Wilkinson

Dept of Internet

Computer programmer & Internet researcher interested in media and the spread of information and ideas online. He built VHX.tv, co-created Know your Meme and developed Star Wars Uncut, a crowdsourced recreation of Star Wars that won a Primetime Emmy.

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Borna Sammak

Research Fellow

Fight him.

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Tobias Leingruber

Research Fellow

Artist and communication designer. His work explores and exposes the mutual impacts of communication technologies and society. The web belongs to us!He's generally involved in tech start-up and digital art scenes.

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Becky Stern

Research Fellow

Becky Stern is an overachieving robot and Director of Wearable Electronics at Adafruit Industries.

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Jonah Peretti

Board Member

LOL, WIN, omg, WTF,fail, geeky, cute. He founded Buzzfeed and the HuffPost.

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Zach Lieberman

Research Fellow

Designer, developer, hacker, artist.Former Director of R&D at Know Your Meme & Rocketboom. Notable stats: C&Ds: 1 Death Threats: over 9000

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Randy Sarafan

Research Fellow

Randy Sarafan is an interstellar wrecking ball of immeasurable destruction.

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Aram Bartholl

Speed Fellow

His art work thematizes the relationship of net data space and every day life. In which form does the network data world manifest itself in our everyday life? What comes back from cyberspace into physical space? How do digital innovations influence our everyday actions?

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Geraldine Juárez

Becaria de Investigación

Geraldine is a pupil of the internet, her friends and Eyebeam. She make/copy stuff to understand new spaces that emerge where information, property and power collide. She also enjoys documenting and blogging the collapse of the intellectual property regime worldwide.

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Greg Leuch

Research Fellow

Designer, developer, hacker, artist. Making Pop Block & Metafetch. Former Senior Designer at BuzzFeed. Previously at Know Your Meme/Rocketboom and JESS3. Notable stats: C&Ds: 1; Death Threats: Over 9000.

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Chris Sugrue

Research Fellow

Artist and programmer developing interactive installations, audio-visual performances and experimental interfaces. Her works experiment with technology in playful and curious ways and investigate topics such as artificial life, eye-tracking and optical illusions.

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Magnus Eriksson

Pirate Fellow

Magnus is affiliated with a number of phenomena related with philosophy, pop culture, sociology and life on the Internet that go under the name of Piratbyrån, Interactive Institute, Telecomix, Gothenburg Hackerspace, Forskningsavdelningen and The Julia Group.

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Golan Levin

Research Fellow

Golan directs the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he teaches computation arts and researches new intersections of machine code and visual culture.

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Christopher "moot" Pole

Dept of Internet

“PUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDI PUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDI PUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDIPUDDI”

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Katsu

Research Fellow

KATSU is an international graffiti hacker who might live in NYC.He combines traditional graffiti methods with technology and the internet. He has collaborated with masterminds Evan Roth, James Powderly and OG Hacker Guru Theo Watson.KATSU is currently experimenting and working to inspire young future graffiti criminals worldwide.

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Kyle MacDonald

Research Fellow

Media artist who works with code, with a background in philosophy and computer science. He creates intricate systems with playful realizations, sharing the source and challenging others to create and contribute. Kyle is a regular collaborator on openFrameworks

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Hennesy Youngman

Research Fellow

Henrock Allah, Henrock Obama, Henrockalyps Now, The Plutarch, The Oligarch, The Time Travelling Nigga who be bumping R. Kelly on Noah's Ark, The Rowhome Raconteur, Mr. Museums, and The Pedagogic Pimp.

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Addie Wagenknecht

Artist in Residency

Addie was born in an airport terminal somewhere in Oregon.She co-founded the New York City and Austrian based research and development lab NORTD in 2006. Currently NORTD is in the final phases of open sourcing the laser cutter, Lasersaur.She splits her time between the US and Europe but really just lives on the internet.

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