Jody Stillwater is a Chinese/Danish-American writer & director based out of San Francisco. His films focus on the articulation of rhythm, emotion and movement. Evoking machines, the art of dance and wild animals, his work projects a tactile reality and elements of a dream logic. He’s been selected to participate in various labs, such as the Tribeca Film Festival Hacks Lab (incorporating film + technology), the San Francisco Dance Film Festival Co-Lab and the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Pitch Lab. He holds a BA in Film & Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz.

William Kingston davies is a San Francisco based experimental musician performer pop artist with an eye & an ear for the touching and absurd. His work is founded in the principals of re-appropriated technology, semiotics and the willful destruction of symbols, established sounds and societal structures. His main ongoing work is the art pop project Hair Thing. He studied Music, Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz

Samantha Weinert is a frequent collaborator with Marc Kate and is interested both in live improvisational performance and exploring new ways to expressively and meaningfully interface with electronic instruments.  She aims to deconstruct commonly-held assumptions about how such instruments are played, and feels strongly that new paradigms of instrument design lead to new modes of experience and inevitably to new forms of music. Her exploration of these ideas has led to her current instrument, a synthesizer played by breath controller and modified polypressure keyboard. She studied fine art, music, and philosophy at the University of Illinois (Urbana) and currently works as a synth tech at Waveformless in Temescal, Oakland.  

Osman Koç is a creative technologist / artist, who uses technology as a medium for expression. Directed by his curiosities, Koç’s works touch many different fields such as cybernetics, artificial intelligence, biosensors, kinetic sculptures, reactive lighting, audiovisual performances and games with alternative physical controllers. In 2014, he co-founded Iskele47, a multidisciplinary design hub / makerspace in Istanbul, where he experimented, prototyped, taught, consulted, collaborated, made and played. Since 2017 he is continuing his activities in San Francisco, CA. Currently he uses Noisebridge as a place to prototype, develop and hack. Performing under the name NOS Visuals, Osman Koç has performed in many art festivals such as Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Signal Festival in Prague and Europalia Festival in Brussels.

Kris T. Force is a composer, performer and multi-media artist living and working in the San Francisco bay area and exhibiting and performing throughout the United States and Europe. Kris works as a solo artist and as a collaborator with select individuals and groups. She is an award winning sound designer for all types of media. Kris engages both old and new mediums, classical techniques and new technologies. Her work utilizes forms including sound, installation, drawing, painting, performance, video and new media. In her practice, the transformation of media characteristics through processes of decay, duplication, pause, juxtaposition, materiality, signal and transmission, and the possibility of capturing the liminal moment of transformation, is an ongoing pursuit. She is inspired by themes of the extra-mundane and uses technologies to extend her senses beyond the limits of the corporeal body. Kris is interested in the medium taking on its own intelligence, apart from her creation, thereby employing living signals, sympathetic resonances, procedural processes, generative algorithms and self realizing systems.