INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

• Visual Effects Society (2006–2011)

  • Co-Chair, Technology Committee

  • Lead, Stereo3D WorkGroup, Interoperability WorkGroup, Transmedia WorkGroup

  • Activision/VES Think Tank: The Relationship Between VFX Technologies and Video Game Production

PERSONAL

• PADI Certified Open Water Diver

• Crewmember and fabricator, Dr. Brainlove, an interactive neurosculpture mounted on a Burning Man art car/science outreach vehicle.

• Member, Long Now Foundation

• Co-founder, Southern California chapter of Dorkbot, a collective of artists (sound/image/movement/etc.), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term).

• Performer, San Francisco Fringe Festival

• Member, Transmedia-LA; Persistent and Environmental Gaming Group (PEG-LA); Machine Project, a Los Angeles-based hacker space/art gallery

• Recommended Actor-Combatant, Society of American Fight Directors (rapier and dagger, quarterstaff, hand to hand, court sword, Japanese katana).

• One of only 20 foreign actors to perform Kabuki theatre and dance in Japan in the 1990s.

• Volunteer, Maker Faire