ZER01 will be hosting the second iteration of our Art/Technology: In Conversation artist talk at Gray Area, Friday June 24th. The artist talks are an ongoing series of discussions featuring artists and technologists exploring topics relevant to contemporary society. We are pleased to announce the our guests, artist Ken Eklund a.k.a Writerguy and Sibley Verbeck founder of StreamJam and Electric Sheep Company.

Music will be provided by Krautrock-Space-Electronic artists SpaceKraft.

Space is limited to please rsvp to [email protected].

About Sibley Verbeck
Sibley Verbeck is founder of The Electric Sheep Company and is responsible for overall company strategy. Currently, Sibley is leading the business development for the company’s new product, StreamJam, a free app for putting live music events online in a virtual environment. Previously, as Chief Scientist of StreamSage, Inc. and Comcast Online, Sibley has been a leading researcher in advanced computational linguistic and statistical techniques for analyzing audio, video, and text. In January 2001, Sibley received an award from the Washington Techway Magazine as one of the top young technology executives in the DC area; in 2003 he was selected as one of MIT Technology Review’s top 100 technology innovators worldwide under the age of 35.  Sibley has also been heavily involved with the I Do Foundation, the Acceleration Studies Foundation, The Virtual Worlds Roadmap and the Journal of Young Investigators.

About Ken Eklund
I am a freelance game and experience designer with credits on over three dozen projects with commercial, educational, and cultural goals. I’ve worked as a team lead specializing in narrative and play design on large-budget projects, and as creator, developer and producer for groundbreaking games and experiences for education and social change. I take a very liberal view of what a game platform can be: for my latest project, it’s a plain ol’ voicemail system.