Wilson's interactive installations have been shown internationally in galleries and art shows. In this project a computer automatically called selected pay phones in the city 24 hours a day and used intelligent programming and digitized speech to engage those who answered in conversations about their lives and their surroundings. Wilson is an international co-editor of Leonardo , an international journal of art and science. He also directs the Conceptual Design and Computer Art program at San Francisco State University. Moulthrop is a hypertext author and associate professor in the School of Communications Design at the University of Baltimore.
Loader is a writer, CD-ROM designer and documentary filmmaker.
Representatives from AVX, Avalanche, The Voyager Company and Bionic Media will be on hand to discuss career opportunities at their respective organizations. From the fragmentary remains of 20th-century American culture they fashion a tumultuous, arbitrary world which teeters dangerously on the edge of nonsense and oblivion. The complete cycle was included in the Whitney Museum 1995 Biennial. Filmmaker Toni Dove will give a talk with video segments of a work in progress. The interactive interface is a video motion sensing system that allows the piece to track a viewer's movement and translate it into responses in laser disk video and sound.