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Transparent Network Gallery

An expert in online design communication and a highly respected
artist, Roz Dimon created RDA Design with the credo "bring creativity
to business and business to creativity." Of her artistic creations,
Paul Trachtman, Editor-at-Large of the Smithsonian Magazine
wrote: "Dimon's work shows the truth that art has a deep, spiritual
meaning for us even in the digital world." See her ongoing "artstory"
site, featuring over 150 original artworks and accompanying stories
by the artist, at www.artstory.net.
"I believe in the sacredness of the earth and its interconnectedness
to spirit," says Stevee "That is what my art is about. I like to
blend technology with the organic in ways that communicate these
mysteries through a kind of techno-paganism. My creative process
is a sort of prayer for me, an offering."
His images are created by taking initial photos with a digital camera;
and mixing, layering, and transmogrifying with Photoshop wizardry.
One of Stevee's amazing projects is the Cosmic
Tribe Tarot deck, which includes a collection of his visionary
art. Stevee lives in Portland, Oregon.
www.stevee.com

Jim Fournier
did undergraduate work in architecture, physics and chemistry at
Bennington College and went on to study architecture at MIT. His
product design work, and love of geometry, led him into computer
aided design, then modeling and animation, and ultimately to developing
3D modeling software as a geometry partner with Silicon Graphics
in the early 90s.

Barbara Nessim is an internationally known artist, illustrator,
and educator. Her work has appeared in many publications, such as
Fast Company, Newsweek, and on the cover of Time magazine. She has
worked with computers since 1980 and Nessim's interactive installation,
RAM ("Random Access Memories"), has traveled worldwide. In 2003,
her exhibition, "Black Truths / White Lies", was shown at the bitforms
gallery in Chelsea, NY. You can view her work at www.barbaranessim.com

Diane Fenster
is an internationally exhibited digital photographer and photoillustrator.
She began using the computer as an artistic tool in 1989. Her work
has been called an important voice in the development of a true
digital aesthetic. She views herself as an alchemist, using digital
tools to delve into fundamental human issues. Her work is literary
and emotional, full of symbolism and multiple layers of meaning.
Her style is an innovative combination of her photography and scanned
imagery.


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Michael
Green is responsible for the first Art book ever created on a
personal computer, Zen & the Art of the Macintosh, and more
recently, The Illuminated Rumi.
"We are witness today to the emergence of an ancient spiritual vitality
into modern affairs. Call it the River of Sanity: an underground current
which has run through all history, nourishing visionaries in every
tradition. It arises from the deepest wellsprings of our humanity,
and it moves us into harmony with the natural world and ourselves....
My work is to illuminate this emergence in the style or media most
appropriate to the moment--Digital media or a pile of stones."

Miquael
is a visionary and communicator. Living by a profound inspiration
to pioneer the new frontiers of culture, communication, and consciousness--he
believes that a significant evolutionary leap can occur through the
application of technology for humanitarian and spiritual pursuits.
Weaned on a home computer at the age of 8, he has since tempered his
creative inspiration along the digital path for over 22 years.

Award winning performance artist, vocalist, filmmaker, video artist,
composer, producer and filmmaker, Carol
Michelson has been performing in the USA and abroad for over fifteen
years. Carol's passion for both music and film led her to explore
and create simultaneously in both the visual and the musical realms.
As VJ Luna, she
creates her own content and mixes video live and/ or creates video
installations. She is a specialist at creating thematic images for
special events, concerts and performances.

Frank Tycer
is a digital and traditional artist, programmer, and musician, from
Southern California. Interested in the process and juxtaposition of
many different mediums - he combines drawing, sculpture, 3D, interactive
media, animation, music, photography, and multimedia performance.
Frank has composed and produced a number of musical scores and is
exploring the integration of music, fine art, animation, and performance.
Throughout his career Frank has established himself as both a commercial
and fine artist. Franks commercial work includes 2d and 3d imagery
for print, product design, games, web and other interactive media.
He was awarded a certificate of achievement by the Sony Corporation
for exemplary work on some of their top selling Playstation titles
while holding a position as 3d artist / animator at Sony Interactive.

Carey Thompson
grew up on the east coast in Virginia and North Carolina, and has
since lived in New Mexico and Costa Rica. He currently resides in
San Francisco, California. Carey describes his work as holomorphic
transmission vision crystals. The imagery channels through, sourced
from the universal matrix, and crystallizes into form onto templates
based on sacred geometry and other patterns of nature. Beginning usually
with only a seed of intention, the color and form evolve unconsciously
to create the finished art. Revealing the interconnectedness of all
things is the primary intention of Carey's artwork. He hopes by revealing
this interdependence through the visual medium humans can once again
live together in harmony with one another, the planet, and with the
greater universe.

Tina
Zimmerman: Being continuously inspired by the ingenious creation
of nature, I acknowledge Mother Earth and Father Sky as the ultimate
Artists. Nature and nature' energy-systems are reoccurring source
material in my work that celebrates the wonder of organic creation,
of Life and its everchanging visual phenomena. As an interdisciplinary
artist I work with all perceptual components -spatial, visual, audible,
textual and temporal - using the computer as the universal tool
that simulates and unites all traditional artistic techniques. My
driving creative motivation throughout my digital art, video, webdesign
and sculptural work is to unite and transcend the opposing realms
of organic and digital, physical and virtual, and contemporary entertainment
culture and spiritual intent.
The Be-In team is pleased to announce an exhibit by top artists responding
to the Digital Be-In 13 theme “The Transparent Network.”
Curator Michael Gosney (founder of digital media producer Verbum and
the Be-In), working with sponsor Digital
Pond of San Francisco, is producing a gallery of 13 mounted fine
art prints to be exhibited in the SOMARTS Gallery during and after
the Digital Be-In on May 29, 2004.
“The Transparent Network” 2004 Digital Be-In theme can
be interpreted in various ways. Speakers at the event will address
a range of subjects such as alternative news media, open source computing,
freedom of speech on the Internet, access to corporate and government
information and transactions, personal privacy, many-to-many publishing
(vs. traditional model of centralized one-to-many), and rich content
and meaningful interactions via increasingly invisible technologies.
Topics will transcend the digital realm as well: biomimicry, the Web
of Life, sustainability strategies, Teilhard’s noosphere, Sheldrake’s
morphogenetic field, the “innernet” of collective consciousness,
dolphin pods, remote viewing, the galactic ecology, the holographic
universe, Indra's Web, the Akashic Record, clear light, cosmic awareness,
universal love...all aspects of the transparent network.
Digital Pond
has been serving artists in the Bay Area and around the world with
high quality digital output since 1995. This exhibit is the latest
in a long series of digital art exhibits produced by Verbum at the
Be-In and Beyond.
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