About the artists:


Lisa Hutton is a media artist working primarily in digital imaging, net.art, sound, and text. Hutton creates low technology interventions which critique assumptions of truth, gender, and consumer culture. Her work has been exhibited in the 5th and 7th New York Digital Salons, LA Freewaves at MOCA Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center's Beyond Interface, the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts in Skopje, Macedonia, ISEA '97 Chicago, the Fringe Gallery in Hong Kong, and Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. Her net.art is supported by the Center for Research in Computing in the Arts (CRCA) in La Jolla, CA. Two works of net.art have received mentions. Woman Words was honored by the New Media International Design Festival, New York City in 1998 and Cyber*Babes was honored by Prix Ars Electronica in 1996. Hutton's past collaborations include projects with new media artists Paul Vanouse, Natalie Bookchin, and poet Jerome Rothenberg. Hutton holds a BA (Summa Cum Laude) in Visual Art and Literature Writing from the University of California San Diego and an MFA in Visual Art from the same institution. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Central Washington University. She has been getting along very well with computers since 1987 and is sometimes seen using rollerblades.

Mark Polishook is a composer and a jazz pianist working in acoustic and electro-acoustic genres. He has been a Visiting Composer at the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at UC-Santa Barbara, a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in the Electro-acoustic Music Studio at the Krakow Academy of Music, and a Resident Artist in the Television/New Media Department at the Banff Centre for the Arts. His electronic chamber opera, Seed of Sarah, based upon the Holocaust memoir of the same name by Judith Magyar Isaacson, was developed into an independent film by Emmy award-winning director Andrea Weiss. "Seed of Sarah" has been seen across Europe, the United States, and New Zealand. A semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition and a finalist in the Great American Jazz Piano Competition, Polishook has performed as a jazz pianist with Ted Curson, Mark Murphy, Cassandra Wilson, Kenny Garret, John Blake, and Eddie Gomez, among others. He holds a Doctorate in Composition from the Hartt School of Music, an MM in Jazz from the Manhattan School of Music, and an MA in Composition from the University of Pittsburgh. He currently directs the Composition/Theory program in the Music Department at Central Washington University.