The Rosemary Initiative

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Mark Shepard is an artist and architect whose work integrates film, architecture and technology. His independent work has been exhibited at museums, galleries and arts festivals internationally, and has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Experimental Television Center, the U.S. Department of Education, the British Council of Berlin; USIS BERLIN/Amerika Haus; and the Brandenburg Ministry of Economics, Culture and Technology. Mark received a Masters of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University; a Masters of Fine Arts from Hunter College, City University of New York; and a Bachelors in Architecture from Cornell University. He is a co-founder of dotsperinch - a collaborative network of artists, architects, and technologists.
www.andinc.org
www.dotsperinch.com

Carlos Tejada designs environments that engage the hand, heart and mind. As much an architect as a digital craftsman, Carlos' queries extend across graphic, industrial, and architectural design disciplines, enabling him to weave narratives through a range of visual, tactile and spatial languages. Prior to dotsperinch, Carlos was a practicing architect. Working with Lee Robinson Roesch, Inc., he was responsible for preparing and updating details and drawings for the 32,000-square-foot Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The house features roughly 200 small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and birds, coexisting in naturalistic, mixed-species habitats. Carlos has a Bachelors of Architecture from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He is a co-founder of dotsperinch - an collaborative network of artists, architects, and technologists.
www.dotsperinch.com

Andy Kim has a bittersweet relationship with technology. Andrew's interests converge at the intersection of aesthetic creativity and high technology. Graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Computer Science, Andrew currently resides in Seoul, Korea where he has grown a taste for spiced-fermented cabbage. Aside from spiced vegetables, Andrew is nurturing his curiosity in typography, Go, and trip-hop music. Andrew also currently works for IBM's Pervasive Computing Group.
www.ibm.com/pvc/

Victor Szilagyi is fascinated by the influence of communications technologies on society and design. Graduating from New York University with a B.A. in Urban Design Studies and Psychology, his honors thesis, "Cogs, Pulse Takers & Prairie Dogs" examined how evolving information technologies have informed our understanding of work and the shape of the workplace.
www.semiot.com