Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Annie Han is an installation artist who lives and works in Seattle. Her work has been exhibited widely in Washington State: at the Suyama Space in Seattle, Sand Point Arts and Cultural Exchange, Linda Hodges Gallery, Center on Contemporary Art and the Henry Art Gallery. She is a part of the collaborative team Lead Pencil Studio, which she co-founded in 1997 with Daniel Mihalyo. Their work has been awarded a 2005 Creative Capital Visual Arts Grant, a 4Culture Special Projects Grant, an Artist Trust Grant, and a grant from the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in Arts, and has been featured in Art in America, Art and Architecture Journal UK, Arcade Magazine, Dwell and Architectural Record. She is trained architect who employs her interest in space to create sculptures, drawings, photographs and site specific installations that expand the possibilities of built form and the contained space.

Rob Millis is a founding member of Climax Golden Twins, who have long been at the forefront of of Seattle’s vanguard music scene, creating a diverse and often uncategorizable array of record releases, new media installations, performances, and works for film and choreography. Millis has released two recent solo CDs documenting music from Asia (Leaf Drunks, Distant Drums on Anomalous Records and Harmika Yab Yum: Folk Sounds from Nepal on the Seattle-based Sublime Frequencies label). A frequent collaborator, Millis has played, composed for, and improvised with numerous artists in a variety of settings, including Jesse Paul Miller, Jeph Jerman, Dave Knott, the Messenger Girl’s Trio, Mary Simpson, the Phonographer’s Union, Bill Horist, Jeffery Taylor, Don Fels, and Richard Bishop. In addition to his work as an instrumentalist, Millis also works with field recordings, electronics, collage, found sounds and whatever else comes to hand. Additionally, he recently co-curated In Resonance, a sound-based art exhibit at this year?s Bumbershoot Arts festival which featured national and international artists working with sound and video.

Kate Seekings co-founded RenderMorphics, Inc., a 3D graphics-focused software company acquired by Microsoft Corporation in 1995. After acquisition, Kate worked at Microsoft in various capacities from 3D Technology Evangelist to Group Manager, and on products ranging from multimedia operating system components to online computer games. On leaving Microsoft in 2003, Kate founded dorkbot-sea, the Seattle branch of the international family of dorkbot forums for people interested in art and technology. She curates and produces the monthly dorkbot assemblies and related events, including the 2003 and 2005 People Doing Strange Things With Electricity exhibitions at CoCA and a two-volume compilation CD of contemporary experimental music available for free download from net label Comfort Stand Recordings. In March 2005, she produced a film screening of rare 1960’s Electric Arts at Seattle Art Museum with Robin Oppenheimer. Kate also curated Outside In, a group exhibition considering environment through art using technology at the 2005 Seattle Bumbershoot Arts Festival, and exhibits of recent work by Ginny Ruffner and by folk, outsider and self-taught artists at Sea-Tac International Airport. She has a BA (Hons) from Oxford University’s St Hugh’s College and studied for a MSc in Computer Graphics at Middlesex University.