ABOUT THE ARTIST: Rachel’s work is very highly regarded in the field of electronic art. She is currently Vice-President of the CAA New Media Caucus and Editor-in-Chief of the online journal media-N, an international journal of digital and media arts. She is Associate Professor of Electronic Art in the Art Department at California State University, Sacramento.

Her work, involving digital and traditional media in drawing, video, installation and new media, intertwines themes of nature, technology and culture. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include The Present Moment at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, and Home and Away: Contemporary Video Art at JayJay Gallery, Sacramento.

In 2003, she collaborated with composer Stephen Blumberg on a piece for chamber ensemble with digital projection entitled Skirr that was performed at the Mondavi Center in Davis and at the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento. Collaborating again with Stephen Blumberg in 2004, she produced The Gold Kitchen, an interactive sonic/visual installation commissioned by the Crocker Art Museum.

Projects abroad include Avatar (video performance with music by Stephen Blumberg), which was screened at VAD International Festival of Video and Digital Arts in Girona, Spain, and at INPORT Video Performance Art Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2005. Originally from Shropshire, UK, Clarke studied at Winchester School of Art, Winchester, UK and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

M. Azevedo has been involved in audio engineering and electronic music for more than 25 years. This includes Beta hardware and software testing; writing hardware and software reviews, as well as tutorials on audio production, sound design and synthesizer programming. Azevedo has worked on programming and audio production for several charting European recording artists as well as countless friends and colleagues. He has been involved in sound design and programming for several synthesizer manufactures, and has produced several commercial CD sample libraries.

Since 1995, he has been internationally recognized for operating the primary, worldwide resource for information and sounds for several vintage synthesizers. He designs synthesizer hardware modifications and continues to experiment with circuit-bending.