Austin Samson is an architect and 3D designer, modeler and fabricator who worked as part of the design team at RadLab Inc, Boston, and Xefirotarch under Hernan Diaz-Alonso and Ivan Bernal, and later as the lead drafter at Eastland Partners. Austin holds a degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and was an Instructor at Yale School of Architecture and is currently teaching at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Austin is committed to furthering his understanding of built form and its aesthetics in relationship to emerging digital design technologies stemming from all different types of media background.
Dan Deacon is a musician and composer renowned innovative electronic-pop and his high-energy live shows featuring large-scale crowd participation. Over the past decade, he has toured internationally with artists including Arcade Fire, Miley Cyrus, Future Islands, Lightning Bolt, and The Flaming Lips. Dan has also premiered compositions at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and collaborated with artists and institutions including Kronos Quartet, Sō Percussion, The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, and Justin Peck with the New York City Ballet. His albums Spiderman of the Rings and Bromst were both named Best New Music by Pitchfork, and his collaborative animated video for Adult Swim, “When I was Done Dying,” has millions of views. Dan’s work as a composer includes scoring eight films—two of which, Rat Film and Time Trial, are available as soundtrack albums. Dan’s fifth studio album Mystic Familiar was released January 31, 2020 by Domino Recording Company. Dan has produced five albums and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mary-Ellen O’Neill is a Senior Editor at Workman Publishing, New York City and formerly Vice President and Senior Editor at Harper Collins and Hyperion where she published several New York Times best-selling books, several were featured on Oprah.
