From left to right: Jonathan Glasier, John Chalmers, Rachelle Ray, Patricia Frischer, and Kaz Maslanka
Kaz Maslanka
Team Organizer
Kaz Maslanka In 1980 Kaz Maslanka received his BFA in Sculpture from Wichita State University where he also studied music, mathematics and physics. He has been involved in the arts for more than 35 years and has been pioneering mathematical poetry since the early 1980's. He has a strong international presence not only on his blog "Mathematical Poetry" but also with exhibitions of his work. He currently lives in San Diego California and works as an artist as well as an aerospace engineering consultant for a technology company where he leads a group of engineers creating leading edge computer modeling techniques for aerospace manufacturing. He is on the board of directors for the San Diego based "Sonic Arts Studio" a group of composers and musicians devoted to the development and proliferation of microtonal music. He also serves on the advisory board of the Bronowski Art and Science Forum in Del Mar, California. His work can be seen on his website.
John Chalmers
Team Member
John H. Chalmers is an astrobiologist and prebiotic chemist at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography campus of UCSD, where he had been a graduate student in Biology back in the 1960s. In 1993, his music theory book, “Divisions of the Tetrachord,” was published by Frog Peak Music-A Composers’ Collective and he is the founding editor of the microtonal music journal Xenharmonikôn. He is an active member of the Village Church Community Players in Rancho Santa Fe and has appeared in numerous plays and programs, mostly recently as the Doctor in “The Velveteen Rabbit. “ For the past several years he has been studying scales generated by variously tuned triads rather than tetrachords, and he exhibited some of the resulting polychrome digital graphics in the Intersect-Art -Science show last Fall in Escondido. He was an author or consultant on four of the proposals submitted for evaluation to The DNA of Creativity this past Spring and is on one of the winning teams (Polyaesthetics of Experience).
Jonathan Glasier
Team Member
Jonathan Glasier - Microtonal
Musician / Composer / Theorist
Joe Monzo
Team Member
- Joe Monzo is a composer music-theorist, lexicographer, author, software developer, teacher, performer, arranger, artist, cartographer, locksmith, bicyclist, motorcyclist, and pacifist. Since 1984, his main interest has been microtonal and just-intonation music theory and its application on computers.
Rachelle Ray
Team Member
Rachelle Ray is a professional artist and arts educator from Albany, New York. She has a B.A in Studio Art and a Masters Degree in Art Education. She currently teaches art in a public school in Moreno Valley, California. Rachelle is also pursuing her professional art career through her paintings.
VICki leon
team member
Vicki Leon is a San Diego based glass and light artist known for a high level of skill and innovation in her sculptural approach to glass. The Leon perspective always gives highest priority to the inherent beauty of light and color. The sand blaster becomes air brush for this talented artist who treats glass like liquid light.
Educated at California State University at Chico from 1977-1979 and 1985 – 1988, her emphasis was on sculpture, painting as well as glass. One of Leon’s greatest professional honors was to work side by side, from 1997 - 2003, collaborating with Judy Chicago, world famous for her iconic feminist works of the 1970’s. Two of these collaborative works are now in permanent collections at The Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art and at The Canadian Clay and Glass Museum. In January 2012 Leon was awarded The Creative Catalyst Program grant for innovation through the San Diego Foundation. Under this grant Leon created a body of sculptural glass art that was informed and inspired by her innovative collaboration with choreographer, Faith Jensen-Ismay. They co-mingled glass and dance in a project titled The Quilts of Light Dance Project. "Working with dance was a break through in the innovative process, to see the glass differently and as a way to explore dichroic optical surfaces for sculpture and jewelry." Vicki Leon is represented by Noel-Baza Fine Art Gallery in Little Italy, San Diego, CA.
Educated at California State University at Chico from 1977-1979 and 1985 – 1988, her emphasis was on sculpture, painting as well as glass. One of Leon’s greatest professional honors was to work side by side, from 1997 - 2003, collaborating with Judy Chicago, world famous for her iconic feminist works of the 1970’s. Two of these collaborative works are now in permanent collections at The Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art and at The Canadian Clay and Glass Museum. In January 2012 Leon was awarded The Creative Catalyst Program grant for innovation through the San Diego Foundation. Under this grant Leon created a body of sculptural glass art that was informed and inspired by her innovative collaboration with choreographer, Faith Jensen-Ismay. They co-mingled glass and dance in a project titled The Quilts of Light Dance Project. "Working with dance was a break through in the innovative process, to see the glass differently and as a way to explore dichroic optical surfaces for sculpture and jewelry." Vicki Leon is represented by Noel-Baza Fine Art Gallery in Little Italy, San Diego, CA.
Anand Bora
Team Member
Anand Bora is a software engineer with a degree in Computer Science from SASTRA University. He has worked with companies like Flexitronics Software Systems, Samsung and Cisco. He is currently working for a reputed American software company in Banglore, India. He has worked on software for network protocols, embedded devices, smart phones and switches. He loves programming and his research intrest includes Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence.
Anand feels that the greatest gift that God has given him is his creativity. He has used his creativity in various fields of study. He is a self trained artist and his art focuses on mathematical art, ambigrammy and digital illustrations. He also writes poetry to "quench the thirst of his curious mind". He feels that "The real sense of creativity lies in making yourself and other people happy."
'Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.' - Pablo Picasso
Anand feels that the greatest gift that God has given him is his creativity. He has used his creativity in various fields of study. He is a self trained artist and his art focuses on mathematical art, ambigrammy and digital illustrations. He also writes poetry to "quench the thirst of his curious mind". He feels that "The real sense of creativity lies in making yourself and other people happy."
'Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.' - Pablo Picasso
Patricia Frischer
Advisor
Patricia Frischer is a founding member and coordinator of the San Diego Visual Arts Network, (www.SDVisualArts.net ) which funds the SD Art Prize, directory and events calendar and SmART Collector features as well as project such at the DNA of Creativity, Art Meets Fashion and Movers and Shakers of SD Visual Arts. She is a trainer of artists’ agents, art dealers, consultant and collectors. Frischer has taken on the roles of gallerist, curator, writer, teacher, website coordinator and artist. Her many metamorphoses make her difficult to fit into any of the usual art world categories. She is author of "The Artist and the Art of Marketing" has lectured extensively on marketing for artists. Her own artwork (www.DrawsCrowd.com ) has been shown internationally and her most recent one person show was at Oxford University.
ARTHUR FRICK
Team Member
Contributing to a new life form of Natural Born Freedom
Sara Kapadia
Team Member
Sara Kapadia has been recognized as a stellar young scholar. Sara is the recipient of the H. Jerry Voorhis Memorial Endowed Fellowship for Public Service, the Claremont Graduate University Fellowship Award, the Marilyn Monroe Balasco Memorial Fellowship for graduate study in education, the lead investigator of the Transdisciplinary working group award for the study of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) in education, and the lead researcher of the Hillcrest award for the founding of The STEAM Journal. Sara is a writer, dancer and artist. She has shown her work at several galleries in U.K. and at exhibitions in the U.S., and uses her talent to transcend disciplines. Currently Sara is working on her dissertation work for her doctoral degree and is looking forward to being a STEAM advocate.
AntiQuark
Team Member
AntiQuark, the live electronic duo founded by keyboardist Ant Dakini in 2001, comes from California. The band received a fresh jolt of energy after Sergio O joined in 2007 as a new vocalist.
Making audiences dance by using an electro-technowave foundation, they mix in experimental musings, avant-garde twists, and classic rock elements. Their shows are a hi-energy multimedia experience combining video by Davide Menegatti and movement by Samantha Sinister.
Since inception, AntiQuark has produced 5 albums, toured Europe 6 times and performs throughout the USA and Mexico. Music festivals where they have participated include: MTV Tr3s; Fe/Male at Forte Prenestino in Rome; Gießerstraße 16 in Leipzig,Germany; San Diego Pride; LadyFest in Las Vegas. They have shared the stage with Orgy, Pigface, Le Tigre, Bettina Koster, Red Flag, Hanin Elias (Atari Teenage Riot), Godhead and The Last Dance.
In 2009 they released their album, SkyDancer, and also recorded a song for CHybernation, a CD tribute to Krisma (a popular Italian 80s synthpop band). Their new album, Riches to Rags, will be out early 2013. AntiQuark has been featured in many compilations and their music has been remixed by international producers like Marc Urselli, Chris Reynolds (Red Flag), Steve Morell (Pale-Music, Germany), Giulio Maddaloni, Electrovot, Phantom Power, The Tleilaxu Music Machine, The Moscow Coup Attempt, Traumahead Society, and Mosquito. They have been compared to Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, New Order, Fischerspooner, Daft Punk, VNV Nation, Dead Can Dance, and Skinny Puppy.
Making audiences dance by using an electro-technowave foundation, they mix in experimental musings, avant-garde twists, and classic rock elements. Their shows are a hi-energy multimedia experience combining video by Davide Menegatti and movement by Samantha Sinister.
Since inception, AntiQuark has produced 5 albums, toured Europe 6 times and performs throughout the USA and Mexico. Music festivals where they have participated include: MTV Tr3s; Fe/Male at Forte Prenestino in Rome; Gießerstraße 16 in Leipzig,Germany; San Diego Pride; LadyFest in Las Vegas. They have shared the stage with Orgy, Pigface, Le Tigre, Bettina Koster, Red Flag, Hanin Elias (Atari Teenage Riot), Godhead and The Last Dance.
In 2009 they released their album, SkyDancer, and also recorded a song for CHybernation, a CD tribute to Krisma (a popular Italian 80s synthpop band). Their new album, Riches to Rags, will be out early 2013. AntiQuark has been featured in many compilations and their music has been remixed by international producers like Marc Urselli, Chris Reynolds (Red Flag), Steve Morell (Pale-Music, Germany), Giulio Maddaloni, Electrovot, Phantom Power, The Tleilaxu Music Machine, The Moscow Coup Attempt, Traumahead Society, and Mosquito. They have been compared to Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, New Order, Fischerspooner, Daft Punk, VNV Nation, Dead Can Dance, and Skinny Puppy.
Ted Washington
team member
Ted Washington works with Jeff Doom Brianna DelGuidice as part of the PAMM team. Ted Washington is an artist, author, actor, poet and reluctant businessman. Specializing in pen and ink, his art has garnered local, national and international awards. He is the founder and CEO of Puna Press, a San Diego, CA based publisher of poetry and art that features several San Diego writers and artists. Ted also is a founding member of the performance art group Pruitt Igoe, who have performed in San Diego and Los Angeles area galleries and music venues. Pruitt Igoe was awarded a Synergy Foundation grant and performed in Harlem, New York City. Puna Press participated in the 2009 SD Comic-Con and Ted Washington won the BRAND 37 purchase award in 2008 with the Glendale Library acquiring one of his artworks for their permanent collection. Ed Decker of City Beat says,“The poetry of Ted Washington is not that of the emotional revolution. Rather, the guttural rumble in the stomach before the rebellion. The catalyst that tells us that we are emotionally starving. Each one an eructation pointing out that all is not well. That the acids are churning, but there is nothing to digest. That we need to be fed truth, dignity, respect and equality. And though we are not told this directly, it is understood that, as there is not punctuation telling us the poem is completed, there is no end to the anxiety of the human experience.”
