Academic Links
Greg's home department is the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. With Ken Goldberg, Director, Greg is involved with the Art, Technology, and Culture lecture series. For a long time, Greg serves on the board of Leonardo Magazine, which publishes scholarly articles on Art and Science. Occasionally, Greg blogs at the Center for New Media at UC Berkeley.
Art Links
Some of his favorite art venues are the Banff Center for New Media, in Banff, Canada, the New Langton Arts Center in San Francisco, USA, and of course the incomparable Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Egypt. CCRMA is a wonderful planet, now with a brand-new building, and is also the home of Chris Chafe, a great collaborator and source of constant inspiration.
Open Source Links
Among the great open source projects Inkscape reigns supreme. Inkscape offers a free vector-based illustration software package. Ajaxwrite is a elegant demonstration of what promises web 2.0 holds. If there is such a thing as open source games, sf0 is a beautiful version of it.
People Links
From Phil Ross I learned much about courage and art. Also full of courage is Abdel Karim Mardini, who is running a branch of the Open Source movement in Egypt, a tricky subject. Joe McKay is one of the MFA students I work with. He has rather wide-ranging website, full of movie pre-reviews and UFO photos. Chris Chafe makes wonderful music from minute tremors of reality. Ken Goldberg has been my mentor at Cal from Day One, and his art projects are very inspiring to me. Katherine Isbister is the first game character therapist, and she's been very inspiring through all her great research publications. Dan Perkel and Ryan Shaw are my two favorite players at the School of Information, and frequent collaborators on all things game. Ryan's photo is almost as flattering as Katherine's. Irene Chien, Meredith Hoy, and Jane McGonigal are the three Ph.D. students at Film Studies whom I work with the most. Anton Schwartz is the premier provider of fine jazz in the Bay Area, and Joshua Kit Clayton is the premier provider of fine coding tools, especially Jitter. Now if only Jitter were Open Source.