Slayton is a pioneering artist, educator, and curator. His professional activities explore contemporary culture as informed by emerging technologies. Slayton is focused on cutting-edge research, creative projects, and sense of place. He is Professor Emeritus at San Jose State where he founded the CADRE Laboratory for New Media in 1984. Joel Slayton is on the Board of Directors of LEONARDO/International Society for Art, Science and Technology. He is the 2018 Sterling Visiting Scholar in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Joel recently curated the 5th LAST Festival (Life, Art, Science, and Technology: hosted at the prestigious SLAC National Accelerator. Slayton recently received the Silicon Valley Nexus Award for Art and Technology sponsored by Adobe and awarded by SVCreates. He is a Senior Fellow of the Silicon Valley American Leadership Forum.

Slayton’s artwork has been featured in more than 100 exhibitions around the world including Berlin, Linz, Buenos Aires, Auckland, and New York. For eight years he served as Executive Director of ZERO1, Silicon Valley-based arts organization and agency for four international art biennials that featured more than 600 artists from 45 countries. Slayton is recipient of numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Arts.

Is an artist, consultant and faculty member of the Digital Media Art program at San Jose State University. He has worked on numerous individual and collaborative projects involving public art, digital media, installation, networks, music and performance that have been applied to traditional art and academic environments as well as business and commercial venues. Steve has worked in collaboration with public artists including Mel Chin, Ann Chamberlin and Buster Simpson. His digital media design work includes the SJSU Public Library in San Jose and the California Superior Court House in San Francisco. He has also designed and participated in several public art projects of his own most notably the San Carlos Lantern Relay in San Jose. Also a digital media producer and consultant Steve has worked for many companies in Silicon Valley such as Apple Computer and Toshiba.

Emily Bright is an artist and designer working at Ubisoft San Francisco. Her artwork uses the narrative of artifacts, collection, and curation to explore the role of creativity in technology’s development and implementation. She has a BFA in Digital Media Art from San Jose State University and has exhibited at the Cannes Film Festival, Academy of Sciences (Nightlife), and Maker Faire. Recently she has co-curated the 5th L.A.S.T, Exhibition (Life, Art, Science, and Technology) hosted by SLAC National Accelerator at Stanford University.

Garrett Beleu is an artist and designer whose work facilitates novel experiences through the combination of emerging and familiar technologies. He is an alumnus of the Digital Media Art program at San Jose State University where he was a founding member of the CADRE Student Organization. His projects often include interactive software, data visualization, physical computing or algorithmic art and have been shown in the San Jose subZERO Festival and LAST Festival, San Mateo Maker Faire and San Francisco Exploratorium.