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The Media Design Practices iGEM / Art & Design track / 2014 / team consists of multimedia artists and designers that use a range of research methodologies, interaction design, and conceptual narratives to explore the implications of future technologies.

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He defines his practice as an instrumental method in which research and collaboration play a central role. Specifically his inquiry focuses on the tensions between the speculative model and the materials it encounters. This investigation proceeds through the design of fictionalized instruments for various contexts. With The NOISE INDEX, he explores the topicality of informational hunger within a framework that is critical of expected display strategies.

The works Convergence and Horizon have been exhibited in Paris and New York at Cutlog, through Fragmental Museum. He also hosts "Speak My Language" a monthly show on Dublab.

2. Marcus Guttenplan is an interdisciplinary designer and Media Design Practices MFA candidate at Art Center College of Design. Previously receiving a BFA in Photography from the Lesley University College of Art and Design, Marcus brings a unique philosophic and photographic perspective.

3. Xiaochen Yang a passionate, versatile and driven UX designer and design researcher with a strong background in visual communication. Xiaochen leverages a human-centered design focus and carves out new space via her design concepts to bridge technological innovation and engaging user experience.

MFA Candidate/ Media Design Practices . Lab / Art Center College of Design / 2012-2015 BFA/ Graphic Design / Jianghan University, China / 2008-2012

4. Aaron Fooshee is a person who speaks in third person. He is great and cool and interesting. With that established—Aaron is a designer and party starter. He co-found the late music blog, Missingtoof and co-found the thriving multipurpose space, The Well. He has worked as an even producer and DJ around Los Angeles for the past fifteen years. And as a freelance web developer and designer for clients such as Warner Brothers Records and Strictly Rhythm for the past ten. Since 2010, he has maintained a full-service photo/video rental studio, Kult. He currently works as a design researcher for sponsored projects at Art Center College of Design within the Media Design Practices program. In his off hours, he plays with the projecting mapping crew, Mapjacks.

Aaron received his MFA from the Media Design Practices (Lab track) program, where he was awarded the Graduate Art Center Fellowship. He received his BFA from the Web\ New Media program at Academy of Art University. A lifelong learner, he is currently teaching himself electrical engineering (with the help of community college night classes). He lives in Los Angeles—hermetically sealed—with cats and books.

5. Ian Besler is an award-winning designer, researcher, and writer whose work explores the relationships between bureaucracy, infrastructure, media, software, and cities. His practice is especially concerned with models, simulations, and 3D software, and their implications on our sense of agency, experience, and interaction with landscapes and the built environment. He was raised in Glenview, IL. He is based in Los Angeles.

His background is in journalism and graphic design; he holds a Bachelor of Science in News-Editorial Journalism from the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Fine Arts from the Media Design Practices program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he was the 2014 Milken Family Foundation Post-Graduate Design Fellow.

6. Kristina Ortega received her Bachelor of Art, emphasis in fashion design, at California State University, Los Angeles before interning with Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte. After leaving Rodarte she co-created a handmade resin line named Mctega. Mctega sold its first line to Barney’s New York, received features in NYLON magazine, were commissioned by Snoop Dogg for the “California Gurls” video, and dressed Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon for their US TV debut.

7. Jenny Rodenhouse is a designer, researcher, and currently a graduate student in Media Design Practices at Art Center College of Design. Previously, she studied Industrial and Interaction Design at Syracuse University. After graduating, she joined Microsoft as a User Experience Designer working on projects for Windows Phone, Xbox, and Microsoft Research. Her work was most recently presented at CHI 2013 and Institute for the Future’s Open City/Art City. She lives in Los Angeles.