This research project is only possible through the help of many amazing collaborators.
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Andrew Quitmeyer – Primary Investigator
Andrew Quitmeyer is a researcher looking into digital tools to fight human solipsism. He works to examine and build cybiotic tools which create interaction loops between creatures and machines. He is also the creator of this research into “Digital Naturalism” www.quitmeyer.org
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Hannah Perner-Wilson: Collaborator
Hannah Perner-Wilson combines conductive materials and craft techniques, developing new styles of building electronics that emphasize materiality and process. She received a B.Sc. in Industrial Design from the University for Art and Industrial Design Linz and an M.Sc. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab, where she was a student in the…
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Peter Marting – Collaborator
Peter Marting is a PhD Researcher at Arizona State University looking into collective behaviors of the cecropia tree -symbiotic Azteca ants. Here is a short documentary which summarizes a bit of his research into this mutualism.
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Antonia Hubancheva – Collaborator
Antonia Hubancheva is bat researcher since 2007. Her passion for science led her in the rainforest of Panama, where her most recent project is about trying to understand how sleep deprivation affects bat behaviour.
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Michael Nitsche – Advisor
Michael Nitsche is an Associate Professor at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the primary advisor leading Andrew Quitmeyer’s research into “Digital Naturalism.” He teaches courses mainly for the Digital Media Masters and PhDs, as well as for the Computational Media undergrad program. He is founder and Director of the Digital World & Image Group (DWIG), which is the home…
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Stephen Pratt – Committee Member
Dr. Stephen Pratt is the primary advisor of Peter Marting. He leads a lab at ASU studying insect societies as complex adaptive systems. Stephen C. Pratt Associate Professor stephen.pratt |at| asu.edu