Credits

Joshua Kinberg - Creator

Joshua Kinberg is an emerging-technology artist and activist based in New York City. Joshua creates contagious media and politically expressive art pieces engaging a wide array of technologies from web development to reverse-engineered consumer electronics.

In 2004, Joshua committed his talent, education, and energies in working to defeat the reelection of the incumbent Bush/Cheney ticket. Joshua's Sloganator Memorial Slideshow, celebrating the Bush/Cheney campaign’s short-lived, ill-fated, online poster creation tool, has been emailed to thousands upon thousands of people, attracting roughly half a million visitors within 8 weeks. Joshua created Bluetooth Users Against Bush, a website encouraging anti-Bush participants to create "moments of ad-hoc solidarity" using Bluetooth-enabled devices (mobile phones, PDAs, laptop computers). The effort became an overnight craze, attaining so much instant notoriety that it warranted (and soon defeated) cease and desist threats from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Bikes Against Bush, which will use wireless bicycles to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention, has already garnered Kinberg national attention with interviews on CNN and MTV, amongst others.

Yury Gitman - Advisor

Yury Gitman is a wireless and emerging-media artist. He engages wireless technology, everyday objects, and popular culture to create expressive pieces and art interventions that push the state of the art as well as the state of the technology.

Noderunner, a wireless game he co-created about chasing down open WiFi nodes, was awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Net Vision in 2003. He remains one of the first people to ever use the Internet in the New York subway, by employing a network of Magicbikes ("wireless bicycle hotspots"). He started and heads the Arts group at NYCWireless and is currently a curator for Spectropolis, a wireless festival in conjunction with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Downtown Alliance for late summer 2004 in downtown New York. He has exhibited work with Eyebeam and The New Museum among many others. Most recently, he has worked as an adjunct professor in the Design Technology MFA program at the Parsons School of Design.

 

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Cloudred Multimedia

Cloudred Multimedia provides interaction design and programming, brand identity and print design. The associates of Cloudred Multimedia are adept at both design and programming and can provide both services exceptionally well. We seek to find novel ways in which technology can become an effective tool for expression.

Xtracycle

Xtracycle is a manufacturer, educator, and vehicle for social change whose products enable an entirely new means of mobility. We promote our proprietary designs as boundary-pushing bicycles and soul-satisfying alternatives to automobile dependence. Profits support Xtracycle Access Foundation, a non-profit organization that seeks to make our technology available to all who need it. We are committed to creating a new model of business that adds to the natural wealth of humanity and the planet.

Run Against Bush

Run Against Bush is a grassroots volunteer organization focused on motivating people to run in road races and informal runs all across the country as a way to collectively voice their dissatisfaction with the Bush administration. Even if we cannot agree on who should be president, we can agree that this country will be better off when George W. Bush is out of office. We believe that positive change starts with defeating George W. Bush. Our mission is to provide a way for people to voice their objections to the Bush administration and a means to raise the money necessary to help defeat George W. Bush in November 2004.