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Robyn Miller
Robyn Charles Miller (born August 6, 1966, in Dallas, Texas) is the co-founder of Cyan Worlds (originally Cyan) with brother Rand Miller. He served as co-designer of the popular computer game Myst, which held the title of best-selling computer game from its release in 1993 until the release of The Sims nine years later. He also co-directed and co-lead designed the sequel to Myst, Riven, which was the best-selling computer game of its year of release, 1997. Miller composed and performed the soundtracks to both games. He also acted in Myst, portraying one of the antagonists, Sirrus (with brother and Cyan-cofounder Rand appearing as Achenar and Atrus). He co-wrote the first Myst novel, The Book of Atrus.
After the release of Riven, Miller left Cyan to pursue non-game interests, including films. He is the director of the 2013 film, The Immortal Augustus Gladstone.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 17.04.2014 - 15:39
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Heath Bunting
Heath Bunting was born a Buddhist in Wood Green, London, UK and is able to make himself laugh. (currently, reduced to only smile)
He is a co-founder of both net.art and sport-art movements and is banned for life from entering
the USA for his anti genetic and border crossing work. His self taught and authentically independent work is direct and uncomplicated and has never been awarded a prize.He is both Britain's most important practising artist and The World's most famous computer artist. He aspires to be a skillful member of the public and currently training artists in survival techniques so they can out-live the organised crime networks during the final crisis.
(Source: http://irational.org/cgi-bin/cv2/temp.pl#biography)
Alvaro Seica - 19.02.2015 - 12:33
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar and is a professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia. Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, MSNBC.com, and Salon.com. He is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book. From 2004 through 2008 he maintained a blog, Sivacracy.net, on which he frequently commented on media and technology issues, as well as his love of sports.
Vaidhyanathan was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, earning a BA in History in 1994 and a Ph.D. in 1999 in American Studies. From 1999 through the summer of 2007 he worked in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University, the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Columbia University.
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Sumeya Hassan - 19.05.2015 - 12:41
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Chine Lanzmann
A niece of famous documentary director Claude Lanzmann, Chine Lanzmann was one of the first female interactive fiction designers. In 1985, she founded Cite Macintosh, one of the first virtual communities in France. In 1986, she wrote a screenplay for her only work of interactive fiction, La femme qui ne supportait pas les ordinateurs, which was programmed by Jean-Louis Le Breton and released by Froggy Software. La femme... came to be known as a pioneering articulation of feminist paradigm in interactive fiction, summarizing Lanzmann's experiences in toxic, male-dominated virtual communities. After quitting Froggy, Lanzmann worked as a journalist for Canal+ and coordinated the work on a cultural magazine Cyber Culture. Recently, she works as a coach.
Filip Jankowski - 06.05.2018 - 19:27
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Yoshinori Kitase
Yoshinori Kitase (北瀬 佳範 Kitase Yoshinori, born 23 September 1966) is a Japanese game director and producer working for Square Enix. He is known as the director of Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy X, and the producer of the Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XIII series.
Trygve Thorsheim - 04.11.2019 - 18:38
