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Deer Fang (Lu Fang) is a video artist from Guangzhou China, now works in San Francisco. Her projects investigate the condition of video in art making and the dynamics within the production process through participation, improvisation, real-time production and socialization. Her current work uses common formats from popular culture such as the reality TV show, music videos, and online-videos as cultural containers.Fang studied in School of Visual Art with Luca Buvoli and completed her BFA in Graphic Design in 2005. She received MFA in New Genres ((Video+ Performance) at the San Francisco Art Institute with Tony Labat, Paul Kos and Okwui Enwezor in 2007.

Rejon (Jon Phillips)  is an Open Source developer, artist, writer, educator, lecturer, and curator with 13+ years of experience creating communities and computing culture. His involvements with mixing culture and software development have been presented internationally at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (2006), Sun Yat-Sen University (2006, Desktop Developers Conference (2005), SFMoMA (2004), University of Tokyo (2004), Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (2004), UCLA Hammer Museum’s Digital Storytelling Conference, UC-Berkeley’s 040404 Conference (2004), USC Aim Festival IV (2003), and the ICA London (2002). He is a core Open Source developer on Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org), a scalable vector graphics editor, the Open Clip Art Library (http://openclipart.org), and is writing/producing a book, “CVS: Concurrency, Versioning and Systems.” Currently, he is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) in the Design+Technology department and is community developer for the Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org).

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