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Hannah Addario-Berry
BAASICS.3 The Deep End
Solo Cello Performance
Hannah Addario-Berry grew up in British Columbia, Canada, and studied music at McGill University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Hannah performs with many Bay Area ensembles, including the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and Opera Parallèle, and is a former member of the Del Sol String Quartet. She is committed to providing opportunities for local musicians and audiences to share great music, and has founded two successful Bay Area series: Cello Bazaar and Locaphonic.
www.addarioberry.com

Leeza Doreian
BAASICS.3 The Deep End
Con-Currents: Creativity, Individuality, and Community
Leeza Doreian is a visual artist and educator who has been exploring the delicate negotiation between sensate experiences of the body and the inner cognitive workings, or ordering, of the mind. In her work, repeat patterning acts as both structure and metaphor to create a place where sensuality and order meet. Leeza is also a visual arts instructor at Creativity Explored, a San Francisco nonprofit organization with a 30-year history of supporting artists with developmental disabilities.
www.leezadoreian.com/

Professor Walter J Freeman, MD
BAASICS.3 The Deep End
Persevere or perseverate? How brain chaos surmounts challenges
Walter J Freeman was born in Washington, D.C. He studied physics, mathematics (MIT), electronics in US Navy (World War II), philosophy (University of Chicago), medicine (Yale), internal medicine (Johns Hopkins), and neuropsychiatry (UCLA). He has taught brain science in the University of California at Berkeley since 1959, where he is Professor of the Graduate School. He received his MD cum laude (1954), the Bennett Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry (1964), Guggenheim (1965), MERIT Award from NIMH (1990), and the Pioneer Award from IEEE Neural Networks Council (1992). He is Life Fellow of the IEEE.
sulcus.berkeley.edu/

Indre Viskontas, PhD
BAASICS.3 The Deep End
Release from Inhibition: the creative impulse in patients with dementia
Dr. Indre Viskontas is a scientist and artist, highly proficient in neuroscience and music. She has published more than 35 original research papers and book chapters on the neural basis of memory and creativity, and curates, performs, and commissions chamber music and opera as the leader of two ensembles: Opera on Tap – San Francisco and Vocallective. Dr. Viskontas is affiliated with the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF where she explores creativity in patients with dementia and is a collegiate professor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she teaches musicians how to apply the tenets of neuroscience to develop effective practice strategies. Her talent for bringing complex scientific topics to a broad audience garnered her international recognition as the scientific co-host of Miracle Detectives, a docuseries on the Oprah Winfrey Network. She is an editor of the journal Neurocase and hosts the podcast Point of Inquiry.
www.indreviskontas.com

Katherine Sherwood
BAASICS.3 The Deep End
How a Cerebral Hemorrhage Altered My Art
Katherine Sherwood’s acclaimed mixed-media paintings gracefully investigate the point at which the essential aspects of art, medicine, and disability intersect. In addition to showing regularly throughout the United States, she co-curated the exhibition “Blind at the Museum” at the Berkeley Art Museum, and organized an accompanying conference at UC Berkeley. Sherwood was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship 2005-2006 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant 2006-2007. Katherine is a professor at UC Berkeley in the Art Department and the Disability Studies Program. She is the artist-in-residence at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the co-founder of the art and disability collective, The Yelling Clinic.
www.katherinesherwood.com/

Timothy Archibald
BAASICS.3 The Deep End
ECHOLILIA : Walking The Path On The Autistic Spectrum
Timothy Archibald is a photographer based in San Francisco, California. His personal projects have been celebrated around the world in publications such as National Geographic, Esquire UK, The New York Times, and Popular Photography. His first monograph, Sex Machines : Photographs and Interviews (2005, Process Media Inc) was exhibited at The Museum Of Sex in New York City and Zephyr Mannheim Gallery in Germany. ECHOLILIA / Sometimes I wonder (2010 Echo Press) has been exhibited at Emory University and Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Timothy is the father of two boys, Eli and Wilson. They all enjoy shooting hoops, playing Minecraft, and cheering on the San Francisco Giants.
http://www.timothyarchibald.com/

Terence Ketter, MD
BAASICS.3 The Deep End
Creativity, Mood, and Temperament in Bipolar Disorder
Terence Ketter received his medical degree from the University of Toronto, completed internship and residency training at the University of California San Francisco, and fellowship training in psychopharmacology and brain imaging at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda. He is Chief of the Stanford University Bipolar Disorders Clinic and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Ketter’s research interests include the use of brain imaging methods to better understand the neurobiology of mood disorders, the use of novel medications and combinations of medications in the treatment of bipolar disorders, with an emphasis on the comparative effectiveness of different pharmacotherapies, as well as the links between creativity, temperament, and mood disorders, and his research in these areas has been published extensively.
bipolar.stanford.edu/team/people.html

Joe Betts-Lacroix
BAASICS.2 The Future
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Joe Betts-LaCroix received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard and MIT, and did a research fellowship at Caltech on electron tunneling in redox proteins such as cytochrome and hemoglobin, which was published in Science.  He then founded OQO, a startup that employed 110 people and was in Guinness World Records for smallest PC.  More recently Joe spent two years working with Halcyon Molecular to develop better gene-sequencing methods which used DNA threading and electron microscopy.  A prolific inventor, he holds scores of patents and enjoys buying and selling them in his spare time.  Presently Joe is Executive Director of Health Extension, a community working to increase healthy, happy lifespan.
HealthExtension.co
Jamais Cascio
BAASICS.2 The Future
Ready or Not…
Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of their Top 100 Global Thinkers, Jamais Cascio specializes in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and Foreign Policy, among others, and he has been featured in a variety of future-oriented television programs. Cascio speaks about future possibilities around the world, at venues including the National Academy of Sciences and TED. Cascio is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future. In 2003, he co-founded the award-winning environmental website WorldChanging.com, and now blogs at Open the Future.
www.openthefuture.com
Earplay
BAASICS.2 The Future
Melt me so with thy delicious numbers: Earplayer Ellen Ruth Rose, violist with Edmund Campion, composer
Founded in 1985 by a consortium of composers and musicians, Earplay is dedicated to the performance of new chamber music. Earplay has performed over 400 works in its 27-year history, including over 110 world premieres and more than 50 new works commissioned by the ensemble. In addition to its flagship concert series in San Francisco, Earplay collaborates in multi‐disciplinary projects, including Aurora Theatre Company’s recent groundbreaking production of “The Soldier’s Tale,” and administers the annual Aird Competition for composers. Its major sponsors include San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and a variety of regional and national foundations. Earplay is a two-time winner of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.  Composer Edmund Campion is currently Professor of Music Composition at UC Berkeley and Co-Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies.
www.edmundcampion.com
cnmat.berkeley.edu
www.earplay.org
Scott Kildall
BAASICS.2 The Future
Tweets in Space
Scott Kildall is a cross-disciplinary artist working with networks, media, and performance. He gathers material from the public realm to perform interventions into various concepts of space: outer space, virtual space, and inner (brain) space. Kildall currently resides in San Francisco.
Leila Madrone
BAASICS.2 The Future
Robots from Water, Music from Light
Leila Madrone is an inventor and artist who explores the intersection of robotics and art. She currently works and plays at Otherlab creating origami inspired robotics for renewable energy. She cofounded Ensemble Robot, a group dedicating to designing and building interactive musical robots, and she was a lead on NASA’s GigaPan project creating large-scale interactive panoramas and the robotics for creating them.
Conrad M Meyers II
BAASICS.2 The Future
Bad Predictors
Conrad M. Meyers II is an artist and educator who creates fictive biological puzzles that include video, sculpture, and sound-based installations. His art projects have been shown recently at Queens Nails Projects (San Francisco) and Krowswork (Oakland). In 2011, he co-founded Aggregate Space, an Oakland gallery, screening facility, fabrication shop, and design studio.
Aaron Saenz
BAASICS.2 The Future
I For One Welcome Our New Overlords
Aaron Saenz is a former physicist, an improvisational actor, and a tech journalist. He currently writes for SingularityHub.com, covering everything from crowd-sourced holographic Japanese pop stars to open source research robotics. He’s also the host of Singularity Hub’s Accelerated Tech News, a new video recap of the week’s top stories in science and technology. Follow his work on Twitter: @adsaenz
www.singularityhub.com/about
Kal Spelletich
BAASICS.2 The Future
Interfacing humans and machines into hybrid systems via fear play and technology
Kal scours junkyards and dumpsters for industrial items whose technology can be reapplied. Kal teaches, lectures, and exhibits all over the world. His latest work involves experimenting with bio-morphic inputs that trigger machines and robots to provide viewers with a direct real-life experience. He believes in the Frankenstein monster’s haunted words to its maker: “You are my creator, but I am your master.”
Chris Black
BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Extinction Burst (last dance, last chance: A reanimation of lost movement)
In 1993, choreographer Chris Black co-founded POTRZEBIE Dance Project in San Francisco and, since that time, has presented over 25 new dances.  Chris was a resident artist at the California Academy of Sciences, where she developed Extinction Burst, a site-specific dance whose goal was to bring a kinetic memory of extinct animals into the present.  It premiered at the California Academy of Sciences in September 2011.
Karl Cronin
BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Kinetic Empathy
Karl is an artist, composer, and choreographer.  He is currently working on what he calls the Somatic Natural History Archive (SNHA), an art practice and public resource.  Begun in 2009, it documents his encounters with 10,000 plants and animals.  The SNHA will take roughly 50 years to complete.
Jeremiah Jenkins
BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
The Hunt
Jeremiah Jenkins is a sculptor and performance artist born in Tennessee and currently based in Oakland.  His most recent works are commentaries on contemporary American culture.
www.jeremiahjenkinsart.com
Brian Null, Ph.D.
BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Examination of Animals, Examination of Self
Brian has a passion for creating novel ways of perceiving nature.  These have driven his scientific and artistic endeavors into many realms, including analysis of mRNA transcript levels during metamorphosis, performance dance, urban livestock husbandry, rural human herding, and magnetic resonance imaging of living Drosophilia.  He is co-founder of Protean Research.
www.imaginables.org
Georgeann O’Brien, Ph.D.
BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Direct Observation of Sensory Neuron Regeneration in Live Zebrafish
Georgeann O’Brien received her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA.  She is currently a postdoc at UC Berkeley and is training to manifest her destiny of populating Mars.
Christopher Reiger
BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Introducing the Endangered Species Print Project
Christopher is an artist, writer, and curator based in San Francisco. He is also the co-founder of BAASICS. Essays and tidbits on art, ecology, and natural history can be read at his long-running blog, Hungry Hyaena.
Philip Ross
BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Eating Bugs for Fun and Profit
For the past fifteen years, Ross has been making research-based artworks that place natural systems within a frame of social and historic contexts.  He has founded and directed CRITTER, a salon for the natural sciences in San Francisco.  His diverse projects stem from a fascination with the interrelationships between human beings, technology, and the greater living environment.
www.philross.org
Jon Sack, Ph.D.
BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Bioelectric Venom
Jon Sack is obsessed with designing intelligent drugs to alter the shape of our cellular electrical signals.  He believes the way to do this is to mutate and further evolve the molecules animals generate to chemically defend themselves and envenomate prey.  Jon is a founder of Protean Research, a scientific collective in Palo Alto, and is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis.
www.proteanresearch.com