proboscis people

CORE TEAM	Alice Angus, Jo Hughes, Giles Lane, Karen Martin, Catherine Williams & Orlagh Woods
CURRENT ASSOCIATES	Loren Chasse, Kevin Harris, Stefan Kueppers, Paul Makepeace, George Roussos & Sarah Thelwall
INTERNS	Niharika Harihan (2008), Peter Timms (2008), Carmen Vela Maldonado (2008), Diab Al-Kudairi (2003)
	Please contact us to apply for an internship: interns AT proboscis dot org dot uk
SOUNDING BOARD	Bronac Ferran, Martha Fleming, Dr Myria Georgiou, Professor Sarat Maharaj, Professor Robin Mansell, Hannah Redler, Gary Stewart, Sarah Thelwall, Bill Thompson, Catherine Williams & Chris Yapp.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS	Alice Angus, Brandon LaBelle & Giles Lane
ALUMNI	Dimitrios Airantzis, Daniel Angus, Phil Ayres, John Paul Bichard, Camilla Brueton, Dima Diall, Steve Ehrlicher, Nima Falatoori, Paul Farrington, Michael Golembewski, Damian Jaques, Natalie Jeremijenko, Joan Johnston, Katrina Jungnickel, Brandon LaBelle, Joyce Majiski, Rachel Murphy, Dikaios Papadogkonas, George Papamarkos, Victoria Peckett, Simon Ruffle, Zoe Sujon, Jenson Taylor, Marcel Weiher & Nick West

core team

Proboscis was founded by Giles Lane and is directed by Alice Angus and Giles Lane.

ALICE ANGUS
Alice is an artist, writer and filmmaker. Her work is inspired by rethinking concepts of landscape and human interaction and opening up new spaces for artistic practice. She is currently leading the development of the Topologies and Liquid Geographies research themes and their related projects, including co-curating Private Reveries, Public Spaces (PRPS)and is editor of the Mapping Perception CD-ROM. Alice is former Visual Arts Consultant to Glasgay Festival, in Glasgow, for whom she has curated exhibitions at the Gallery of Modern Art, she is formerly Programe Manager for Fotofeis, Scottish Biennial of Photo-based Arts and editor of (Re)visions of Sex, Fotofeis (1997).
>Brief CV

JO HUGHES
Jo is Proboscis' finance manager and bookeeeper. Jo runs her own accounts management and bookkeeping business for arts organisations.

GILES LANE
Giles founded and co-directs Proboscis. He leads its research programme (SoMa) as well as directing major projects and initiatives such as Social Tapestries, Urban Tapestries and Mapping Perception. Giles founded and edited COIL journal of the moving image, co-edited Ghost Stories by Pavel Büchler, conceived the DIFFUSION eBook format and the eBook Generator and designed the latest StoryCubes format. Between 1998 and 2002 Giles worked at the Royal College of Art, first in the Computer Related Design Research Studio (1998-2001), and latterly as a Research Fellow in the School of Communications. Giles is currently Associate Research Fellow to MEDIA@LSE, the media and communications department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Giles is currently a visiting tutor on the MA Design Course at Goldsmiths College, University of London and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2008.
>Brief CV

KAREN MARTIN
Karen has worked for Proboscis on interface design for the Robotic Feral Public Authoring and Snout projects, and has been recently facilitating the Diffusion Case Study Residencies and devloping the new Diffusion website. Karen is an artist and researcher studying for an EngD at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University of London.

CATHERINE WILLIAMS
Catherine is a curator, editor and art consultant. Her work for Proboscis included co-editing Performance Notations (DIFFUSION eBooks), and research and development on Topologies and, more recently, planning the marketing and promotion strategy for Mapping Perception. She is a Contributing Editor of Portfolio Magazine and was Managing Editor of Afterall Magazine. Catherine consults widely for artists and organisations, editing several CD-ROMs for FACT, developing a contemporary commissions programme for the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (1999-2001) and working as development officer for Blast Theory.

ORLAGH WOODS
Orlagh is Proboscis' Creative Development Officer working on project development and planning.

current associates

PHIL AYRES
Phil is an architect, programmer and a lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Phil is collaborating with Proboscis to design and build the DIFFUSION eBook Generator.

LOREN CHASSE
Loren is a sound artist and educator based in San Francisco, USA. He is collaborating with Proboscis on the Sound Scavenging project as part of Topographies & Tales.

KEVIN HARRIS
Kevin runs the community development consultancy, Local Level, and is collaborating with Proboscis on grassroots community collaborations for Social Tapestries.

PAUL MAKEPEACE
Paul is a programmer and sys admin working for Google in Dublin. He host and administers Proboscis' public webserver, lists and mail server. Paul was also a programmer on Urban Tapestries and upgraded the original system for the mobile phone trial in June 2004.

GEORGE ROUSSOS
George is a senior lecturer in computer science at Birkbeck College, University of London. George has collaborated with Proboscis on the Robotic Feral Public Authoring and Snout projects, and we are currently developing a major collaborative research project on biosensing and ethics, Sensory Threads.

SARAH THELWALL
Sarah is a business and strategy consultant whose skills combine blue chip marketing, strategy and business development (B2B and B2C) with academic literature review and market research experience. Sarah is collaborating with Proboscis on a series of business development and strategy consulting initiatives for the the visual arts sector. Sarah received her MBA from Imperial College London.

past associates

DIMITRIOS AIRANTZIS
Dimitrios is an electronics engineer and is working woth Proboscis the creation of a new generation of feral robots with public authoring capabilities.

DANIEL ANGUS
Daniel is a programmer based in Ayrshire, Scotland. He specialises in network application design and implementation, and is a senior programmer at the Student Loans Company. He was previously CTO of Autonomous Software and Thought Ltd. Daniel was the original software architect of the original Urban Tapestriesplatform.

JOHN PAUL BICHARD
John is a games and web designer. John took part in PRPS as well as designing the project website. John led the software development on Urban Tapestries in 2003/04 and is now developing 'Neighbourhood Games', a research project on social gaming and mobile technologies, for Social Tapestries.

CAMILLA BRUETON
Camilla worked for Proboscis from November 2005 to June 2006 as part-time project assistant on Social Tapestries. Camilla is a practising artist and combined her role with Proboscis with that of Training Manager at SPACE Studios.

DIMA DIALL
Dima has recently completed his PhD in Computer Science at University College London. He is working on designing and building a sensor platform for the Robotic Feral Public Authoring project as part of Social Tapestries.

STEVE EHRLICHER
Steve acts a Proboscis' fiannce consultant, assisting with bookkeeping, managing of project budgets and reporting to funders. Steve is also a practising artist and performer.

PAUL FARRINGTON
Paul is a designer, sound artist and founder of the design agency Studio Tonne. For Proboscis Paul designed and developed the DIFFUSION eBook format, and continues to design individual titles. Paul is also a member of the Visible Frequencies research team. Proboscis and Studio Tonne recently teamed up to write, edit, design and produce a major publication for IDEO London.

NIMA FALATOORI
Nima is a designer and principal of NMoDesign. He collaborated with Paul Farrington on the design and development of the DIFFUSION eBook format, and continues to design individual titles. Nima was also responsible for design and implementation of the new DIFFUSION website launched in May 2002. Nima designed the CD-ROM for the Mapping Perception project.

MICHAEL GOLEMBEWSKI
Michael is an artist and interaction designer, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art MA Interaction Design programme. Michael designed some Flash animations about Urban Tapestries and created the original Flash Viewer for the UT system. He is now developing a fully featured Flash web client for the Urban Tapestries platform.

DAMIAN JAQUES
Damian co-founded Proboscis with Giles Lane in 1994 to publish COIL journal. Damian was the graphic designer of the first 6 issues of the journal and a director of the company. Damian left to develop his burgeoning freelance design practice in 1998.

NATALIE JEREMIJENKO
Natalie is a world renowned artist and engineer and a founder member of the bureau of inverse technology. Natalie will be an EPSRC Visiting Fellow at Proboscis during 2004/2005 where we will be investigating the uses of her Feral Robots with Urban Tapestries. Natalie was previously commissioned by Proboscis for PRPS. Natalie runs the Experimental Design Lab at University of California San Diego (UCSD).

JOAN JOHNSTON
Joan is a freelance arts manager with experience in the independent film and video sector and a director of Supernova*, a new site for Early Childhood in East London. Recent projects include: Location Manager – a guide to East and North London's filming locations and local services, published through her own company Lightbulb Productions. Most recently Joan has been involved in research and development for the Centre for the Cell for Queen Mary and Westfield College and Barts and the Royal London Hospitals Trust. Joan received her MA in Arts Management from City University, London in 2000.

KATRINA JUNGNICKEL
Kat is a socio-cultural researcher on business, non-profit and academic projects. Her work focuses on new technologies and social behaviour, mobility and place. She was a team member on Urban Tapestries and contributed to other projects such as Mapping Perception and LILT.

BRANDON LABELLE (member of the Board of Directors)
Brandon is a writer, editor and sound artist, and the founder of Errant Bodies Press based in Los Angeles. Brandon has performed and created installations for art and music venues and festivals in the USA, Japan, UK, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Holland and Denmark, such as for ISEA 98 and at NTT ICC, Tokyo. Recordings of his work have been released by labels such as: Unique Ancient Tavern, Fringes, Selektion, Ground Fault, meme & digital narcis. Brandon recently curated the Social Music series of experimental sound works for Kunstradio Vienna, which were broadcast from May to October 2001.
>Errant Bodies website

JOYCE MAJISKI
Joyce is an artist and wilderness guide based in the Yukon, Canada. Joyce is collaborating with Proboscis on the Topographies & Tales project.

RACHEL MURPHY
Rachel is an interaction designer and principal of Rudegirl Designs. She has worked as a Usability Consultant for Motorola and a Conceptual Designer for Lego Futura and Hewlett-Packard Research Labs. Rachel was a team member on Urban Tapestries and is a commissioned artist for Navigating History.

DIKAIOS PAPADOGKONAS
Dikaios is studying for a PhD in Computer Science at Birkbeck College, University of London. Dikaios is working with Proboscis on the development of a Java client for mobile devices for the Urban Tapestries platform.

GEORGE PAPAMARKOS
George is studying for a PhD in Computer Science at Birkbeck College, University of London. George has taken over the role of software architect and system programmer for the Urban Tapestries platform and is leading the development of version 2 of the system.

VICTORIA PECKETT
Victoria recently completed her Masters in Media and Communications at at the London School of Economics. She was a social researcher on Urban Tapestries.

DIAB AL-KUDAIRI
Diab is reading Computer Science and Management at Kings College, University of London. He was on a STEP Placement with Proboscis during Summer 2003, working on the DIFFUSION eBook Generator proof of concept prototype.

ZOE SUJON
Zoe is a PhD candidate in Media & Communications at the London School of Economics. She is a social researcher on Urban Tapestries and Social Tapestries.

MARCEL WEIHER
Marcel is a programmer and principal of metaobject. Marcel collaborated with Proboscis on the development of the DIFFUSION eBook Generator proof of concept prototype.

NICK WEST
Nick is an information architect and researcher, currently studying for a PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has managed research projects at New York University (with Bell Atlantic/Nynex and Viacom), National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janiero as well as posts at Paramount Pictures and Apple Computer. Nick is an information architect working on Urban Tapestries and Social Tapestries.