Shilpi Kumar
As an Oakland-based artist, shilpi is focused on translating the hidden effects of technology and financial systems. Her work creates an expanded and human-centered narrative through a range of artistic, Poetic, and experiential mediums. She helps runs a social practice and aesthetic space, Dream Farm Commons. as a producer and consultant she also She focuses on Interventions across industrial sectors. She is working to Imagine new infrastructure tHat increases agency and promotes freedoms for all bodies in the age of environmental collapse.
William Glad
Will is a machine learning practitioner and complex systems researcher trying to understand and share the dynamic relationship between humanity’s technological systems and the planet, and how to rethink human society in the Anthropocene’s new age of industrial scale and ecological feedback. Some projects on his plate now are a deep learning model for desert bighorn sheep conservation and an investigative analysis on campaign finance and its relation to climate policy. Will is bringing his technical and social science background to try and find new ways to display networks of power and human-ecological connection through computational art and experience design.
Jeremy Kirshbaum
Jeremy Kirshbaum Is trying to figure out <how what if> humans are supposed to be doing right now, and he thinks art and technology have something to do with it. He thinks that the measure of a technology’s usefulness is its emotional impact on humans. VR and blockchain and machine learning and all this tech crap is hard to work with and expensive, but so are violins and oil paints AMIright? He is a social practice artist, producer, and research fellow at Johns hopkins immersive storytelling and emerging technologies lab, institute for the future, and the shenzhen open innovation lab. he also co-runs the Dream Farm commons art space in downtown oakland.