Director of the USC School of Fine Arts’ Art In Motion program, Lynzie Baldwin came to the new media field with a background in comparative literature and art history, which she studied at both the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to taking over the directorship of the AIM festival, Baldwin was associate director of AIM, and served as the associate director of the Berlin/Los Angeles Film Festival of Architecture and Urbanism.

In addition to her work on AIM, Baldwin curates time-based media, having conceptualized and implemented screenings and exhibitions throughout the Los Angeles area as well as in Hong Kong and Peru, including most recently the visual arts component of the Walt Disney Concert Hall’s opening gala (October, 2003). Baldwin is also involved in public art programs and public health non-profits, and is currently the president of the West Valley Free Clinic’s board of directors, and also sits on the Los Angeles MTA Metro Art Advisory Board, the San Fernando Valley Visual Arts Council and on the selection committees of events apart from AIM.

Carlos Battilana
President, Amauta Technologies

Carlos Battilana, president of Amauta Technologies, is a creative entrepreneur who founded three award-winning firms in Lima, Peru, working in design, broadcast and interactive media, before settling in Los Angeles to found Amauta. With over eight years of experience in the digital realm, Battilana’s efforts have brought scores of brilliantly successful projects to fruition. Currently producing interactive assignments for multinational corporations, he has recently delivered to clients such as Nike, the University of Southern California, Verizon, AOL TimeWarner, Bancomer, Toyota, and Sears.

Committed to facilitating the development of a digitally integrated society on a global scale, Battilana recently founded the Amauta Project, a digital media exchange program developing cooperative partnerships between technologically advanced nations and the Andean societies, promoting the birth of a supranational cultural movement, integrating the cultural inheritance of widely varied peoples and nations. In its first year alone, the Amauta Project has proven a major success, with collaborators and sponsors such as AIM (Los Angeles, USA), the Daniel Langlois Foundation (Montreal, Canada), and Centro Bartolome de Las Casas (Cusco, Peru).

Caroline Clerc
Assistant Director of the USC School of Fine Arts’ Intermedia Arts Program

Los Angeles based artist Caroline Clerc is the assistant director of the USC School of Fine Arts’ Intermedia Arts Program. She has a MA in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts from San Francisco State University and a MFA from University of California at Santa Barbara.

Janet Owen
Co-founder, AIM

Currently living in Los Angeles, British curator, writer and artist Janet Owen is the Co-founder and former director of AIM. In addition to her work with AIM Owen’s recent curatorial projects have include three exhibitions – Know Thyselves, Manifesting Destiny and Being Human Becoming Something Else - for the Susquahannah Art Museum; Artivism (w. Jenn Kolmel); and AIM on Sunset 2003 (w. Lynzie Baldwin).

Owen’s recent publications include catalog contributions for the Supersonic exhibition (Wind Tunnel Exhibition Hall, Pasadena), an essay on Subhankar Banerjee (Gerald Peters Gallery); articles for Le Rouge magazine; and an essay on the work of Heike Baronowsky published in the anthology Kolibri (Revolver 2003).

As an artist working in both traditional and new media Owen has exhibited projects in solo and group exhibitions at venues which include: Beaux Arts, Delfina Studios, and the Camden Art Center (UK), Shoshanna Wayne and Flowers West (US), Sandberg Institute (Netherlands), Festival Internacional de
Linguagem Eletrônica (Brazil), and ArtPool (Sweden).

N. Katherine Hayles, John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, teaches and writes on the relations of contemporary literature, science, and technology. Her recent book "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics," won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99 and the Eaton Award for the Best Book in Science Fiction Criticism and Theory. Her latest book, "Writing Machines," won the Susanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. She is currently completing a book entitled "Coding the Signifier: Rethinking Semiosis from the Telegraph to the Computer." Her work has been recognized by the Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a residential Rockefeller Fellowship, and a Presidential Research Fellowship from the University of California.

Natalie Jeremijenko
Design engineer and technoartist

Design engineer and technoartist Natalie Jeremijenko was recently named one of the top one hundred young innovators by the MIT Technology Review. Her work was featured in the Tate Gallery Cream 2, and she was commissioned to create a large project for the opening of the museum MASSMoCA (www.massmoca.org). Her work includes digital, electromechanical, and interactive systems in addition to biotechnological work that has been included in the Rotterdam Film Festival (2000), the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1999), the Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, the LUX Gallery, London (1999), the Whitney Biennial ‘97, Documenta ‘97, Ars Electronic prix ‘96, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Additionally, Jeremijenko was a 1999 Rockefeller fellow. As the director of the Engineering Design Studio at Yale University she is developing and implementing new courses in technological innovation. She is also affiliated with the Media Research Lab/Center for Advanced Technology in the Computer Science Dept., NYU, where she did postdoctoral studies. Other research positions include several years at Xerox PARC in the computer science lab, and the Advanced Computer Graphics Lab, RMIT. Jeremijenko has also been on faculty in digital media and computer art at the School Of Visual Art, New York and the San Francisco Art Institute. She is known to work for the Bureau of Inverse Technology.

Nils Roeller
Media Theorist

Accomplished media theorist Dr. Nils Roeller (www.romanform.de) currently teaches cultural studies at HGKZ (Academy for Design and Art in Zürich). He has collaborated with ZKM’s Institute for Basic Research since June 2002. Roeller is also an affiliated researcher at the Vilém Flusser Archive of the Academy for Media in Cologne. Roeller has been organizing exhibitions in Berlin together with Thomas Ravens since 1992 and has been an assistant to the principal at the Academy of Media Arts since 1994. Since the summer of 1997, he has been involved in project research and co-ordination in relation to media theory and the archaeology of audio-visual apparatuses, designers and concepts.