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 “I liked the fact that i3Forum was a gathering for, and by the people who have been on the vanguard of digital imaging. An annual gathering of this type is pixels for the soul.” Russell Sparkman | Guest BiosGuests already planning to attend i3forum 2004 (alphabetized by last name): Stephen Abrams is the Digital Library Program Manager at the Harvard University Library. » David Alexander, Owner, A&I laboratory Rita Amladi is an author,trainer, and consultant. » Paul Anderson is Technical Director, Production Designer, and Owner at Tarati Media Design. » Bill Atkinson is a full-time nature photographer and fine art printmaker creating archival photographs that faithfully share his experiences. » Larry Baca is a consultant specializing in creative market development strategies for new companies and products. » Marjorie Baer is executive acquisitions and development editor for Peachpit Publishing Group. » Doug Baker, Engineering and Technical Development Manager for Graphic Arts at X-Rite Inc., has been working in Digital Imaging, Photo, and Printing Markets for the company since 1991. » Tim Barnett, TerraGrafica Inc. J. Bills is a New York City based visual effects artist and designer, originally from Kansas City. » Lyn Bishop is an internationally exhibited artist, a contributor to The Studio at SIGGRAPH, and has recently been sharing her digital monoprint techniques through an artist-in-residency program at the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose, CA. » Jon Bloodworth is a principal in Mesa Venture, a Santa Fe-based private equity venture firm, and advisor to Koyosha, Ltd. (Tokyo,Japan) and TerraGrafica, Inc (San Francisco). » Doug Bloom has been creating digital art for the past nine years. » Steve Broback is the Founder of i3Forum and co-founder and current partner at Avondale Media. Also co-founded Thunder Lizard Productions (the legendary technology event production company). » Russell Brown As Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated, Russell Preston Brown facilitates the exchange between digital designers and software developers that is so vital to Adobe’s product development. With complete mastery and breathtaking style, Russell Brown shows users how to work—and play—with Adobe software. » Dan Burkholder a fine art photographer and originator of the digital negative process used by fine-art photographers. » Diane Burns is one of the pioneers in electronic publishing, and in 1984 founded TechArt International. » Gerald Bybee is a San Francisco-based advertising & design photographer specializing in digitally manipulated images and portraits. He presently works from a state-of-the-art digital studio and not-so-state-of-the art barn at his Sonoma County vineyard/ranch. » DL Byron produces award-winning, internationally recognized work and has been nominated for a prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Media Fellowship. » Anthony Cardinale is a producer of events, seminars and web projects focusing on the professional digital imaging market. » Robb Carr retouches publicity photographs of the movie industry¹s most demanding clients, producing work that can be as recognizable to fellow professionals as it is invisible to the general public. » Raymond Cheydleur is the Lead Application Specialist, Graphic Arts and Imaging, for X-Rite Incorporated. » Daniel Clark’s Los Angeles based firm, Daniel Clark & Associates, specializes in high-end illustration, photo compositing and retouching. » Sandee Cohen is a New York City-based instructor and trainer in a wide variety of graphic programs especially the Adobe products Illustrator, Photoshop, ImageReady and InDesign. » Tim Cole of Adobe Systems Inc. has shown InDesign to audiences all over the world, and is in demand as a trade show and conference speaker. » John Connell is a master photographer with the mentality and creative talent of an artist. Widely recognized for his exquisite photos that combine superior composition and texture with state-of-the-art digital technology. » Doug Cruickshank, Peachpit Publishing Doug Dawirs is the Director at Online Services Workbook. » Paul Debevec is the leading researcher on techniques for capturing real-world illumination and illuminating synthetic objects with real light. » Eric Doehne is a Conservation Scientist at the Getty Center in Los Angeles where he applies advanced imaging and analytical methods to the study and conservation of art, such as the first photograph (1827), the Laetoli footprints (3.6 million years old), and the technology of ancient pigments.. » Dennis Dunbar is the APA Digital Dept. Chair and principal of Dennis Dunbar & Associates. » Katrin Eismann An internationally respected lecturer on the tools and techniques of digital imaging for professional photographers, artists, and educators.. » Martin Evening is a London-based fashion photographer, consultant, and author of Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for Photographers. » Matthew Felton is an Architect in the Rich Media Group within Microsoft’s Business Platforms and Strategy division. He is responsible for identifying technology problems as it relates to the digital imaging needs of professional photographers across the Microsoft Technologies. » Bonnie Fladung is the Worldwide Product Marketing Manager for Digital Imaging at X-Rite, Inc. Randy Francisco, Worldwide Director for Graphic Arts at X-Rite Inc., has been with the company since 1999. » Bruce Fraser is a founder and principal of Pixel Genius, LLC, an author, contributing editor to MacWorld and www.creativepro.com, and a consultant specializing in publishing, graphic design, and color image reproduction. » Gene Gable has spent 25 years in publishing and graphic arts and is currently president of Gene Gable Industries. » Juan Manuel Lopez Garduño is president of Edumundo, a subsidiary of ZoneZero.com, a Mexico City-based education-technology company. » Greg Gilley is vice president of digital imaging and video product development at Adobe Systems Incorporated. » Helen Golden is a pioneer in the digital art realm, and a founding member of 911 Gallery, The Main Gallery and the pioneering digital art collective Unique Editions. » Bob Goldstein has been instrumental in the development of essential digital imaging tools for professional photographers. Bob recently completed a tour of duty as President of the Altamira Group, which produced the Genuine Fractals line of digital image scaling and compression software. » Greg Gorman is one of the top digital photographers in the world. His fine art portraiture has long been regarded as beautiful in its vision, and complex in its execution. » Steve Gorman is a wholesale custom framing specialist and art gallery owner. » Joshua Greene, is the president of The Archives, a company dedicated to the restoration, preservation and printing of fine art photography using today’s newest technology. » Mariana Gruener, Mexican photographer, makes editorial design for zonezero.com and Pedro Meyer. » Mark Hamburg is an Adobe Fellow at Adobe Systems Incorporated. » John Han is the 3d Technical Director at EntityFX. » Jim Heid is a 20-year veteran of the personal computer world. Well-known writer for computer, Internet and popular magazines. Known for wearing cool hats. » Steve Heiner has provided technical assistance and training to many pro photographers at events including the Super Bowl, Kentucky Derby, Pan American Games, Shuttle launches, and four Olympics. » Jim Heiser, Apple Computer, Inc. Chris Hoar is the founder of textamerica.com. » Mac Holbert is the co-founder of Nash Editions, widely regarded as the world’s first digital printmaking atelier. » Will Hollingworth is the Manager of OEM Product Design & Development Engineering at NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America, Inc. » Molly Holzschlag is a steering committee member for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) where she works along with a group of other dedicated Web developers and designers to promote W3C recommendations. » Ryszard Horowitz is recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography predating digital imaging. » Hoon Im Ashwini Jambotkar, Sr. Manager Creative Markets , Adobe Systems Inc. George Jardine is a Product Manager at Adobe Systems. » Janet Jarman is a photojournalist focusing on divisive social issues of our time. » Stephen Johnson is a landscape photographer and designer. » Thomas Knoll along with his brother John, created Photoshop. » Julieanne Kost is a master of both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and has used them extensively in graphic design, print, and photography as well as cross-media for online and multimedia productions. » Bryan Lamkin As senior vice president of Adobe’s Digital Imaging and Digital Video Business Unit, Bryan Lamkin oversees product marketing and development for Adobe’s line of award-winning graphics, digital imaging, and digital video products including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Premiere, and Adobe After Effects. » Francis Lamy serves as an executive vice president and chief technology officer and covers GretagMacbeth’ strategy, innovation, and business development functions. » Karl Lang is a product Creator, scientist, artist, and engineer who has worked to bring a long history of products and technologies to market. » Citlali Lara is chief coordinator and designer for the Pedro Meyer retrospective being prepared for the web. » Filip Lein is Director, Business Development at ZoneZero.com. » Bonny Lhotka in 1997 co-organized “Digital Atelier”: A printmaking studio for the 21st century” at the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution and was an Artist-in-Residence there for 21 days. » Mark Liebman is Pictopia’s founder and CEO. Pictopia provides stunning-quality photographs, production services, e-commerce solutions, and consulting to photographers and business clients worldwide. » Richard LoPinto, Vice President of SLR Cameras, Nikon Kevin Lynch began his photographic career in the early 1980s. Although primarily working in celebrity and fashion imagery, Kevin has also pursued the genre of fine art photography, exhibiting his work both domestically and internationally. » Jay Maisel’s name has become synonymous with light, gesture, and color. His photographic images have been used for advertising, editorial and corporate communications. » John Martin of JFM Digital Imaging is an early pioneer digital photographer. » Scott Martin has worked with digital imaging since the pre-Photoshop late ’80s and as a fine art photographer, brings a combination of deep knowledge and craft to color management, digital photography, proofing and digital workflow issues. » Charles Mauzy’s passion and professional career has centered on photography and visual communication for over 30 years. » Lisa McCormack of Extensis is an expert in digital asset management and digital photography. » John Mcintosh is the chair of the Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. » Rajiv Mehta’s extensive experience in digital imaging industry includes: leading Adobe’s expansion of its digital imaging efforts resulting in Photoshop Album and several partnerships; leading Apple’s camera and scanner efforts in the early 1990s resulting in the ground-breaking QuickTake 100 digital camera; and leading a start-up developing enterprise solutions based on stereo-vision technology. » Pedro Meyer is an internationally renowned photographer and the creator of ZoneZero.com, one of the most visited web sites for photography on the Internet. » Daniel Milnor specializes in long-term, black and white documentary work relating to a variety of topics including, Sicilian Easter Processions, Big-Wave Surfing, Portuguese Bloodless Bullfighting, California Off-Highway Vehicular Recreation Parks, Exotic Game Ranches as well as Los Angeles Urbanization. » Chris Murphy is president of Color Remedies, specializing in worldwide training and consulting in emerging color technologies. » Mark Niemann-Ross is the Developer Evangelist for Adobe InDesign at Adobe Systems, Inc. » Michael Ninness is a Senior UI Designer at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He is the conference chair of The Photoshop Conference and the author of Photoshop Power Shortcuts. » Evan Nisselson is Founder and CEO Digital Railroad, Inc., a software and services company that is creating a comprehensive suite of application services to solve critical technical problems for creative professionals (photographers, illustrators, artists, etc.). » Sharon O'Mara, Apple Computer, Inc. Clark Omholt is a color management and digital workflow consultant with Rods and Cones. » Mike Ornellas is senior print production color analyst for Visiongraphix. » John Pannozzo is the president of ColorByte Software, a software developer dedicated to professional imaging systems. » Marc Pawliger has been at Adobe since 1994 and has been working on and around Photoshop the whole time. » Pamela Pfiffner’s career in publishing encompasses print, Web, and television: as editor in chief of such magazines as MacUser and Publish; launched the dynamic-media Web site of the cable television station ZDTV (now TechTV); and started creativepro.com. » Parker Plaisted is a product manager in the Photo Imaging Group at Epson America, Inc. In this capacity, he manages the development and marketing of the company’s industry-leading high-end desktop photographic printers for North America. » Liz Quinlisk is Director of Field Marketing for Digital Imaging at GretagMacbeth. » Seth Resnick is an award-winning photographer based in Boston, who also serves as an alpha and beta tester for Photoshop. » Roger Ressmeyer consults on photography, editing, and business for individual photographers and image archives. He is a member of Canon’s celebrated Explorers of Light program and lectures frequently at industry events. » Jack Reznicki is a New York City based commercial photographer and is well known for the many educational and informative lectures and classes he gives around the country. » Jim Rich is president of Rich & Associates, LLC, a Washington, D.C. area consulting and training firm that specializes in publishing, black & white and color imaging training programs and system integration. » Matthew Richmond is a Designer and Principal Partner at The Chopping Block, Inc. » Christopher Robinson Andrew Rodney is the owner of The Digital Dog, a digital imaging training and consulting company. One of only a hand full of Adobe Certified Technical trainers for Adobe Photoshop. Beta tester for Photoshop since v2.5. » Steve Roth is most recently the author of “Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country” and has been a writer and editor for several magazines, including Publishers Weekly, Personal Publishing, Macworld, and Small Press. Roth also co-founded Thunder Lizard Productions. » Michael Rubin is Sr. Product Marketing Technology Manager for Nikon Inc. » Mark Rutherford has been a commercial photographer for over 20 years, investigating since the mid-1990s the burgeoning possibilities of an all-digital workflow. » Sergio Salvador Ed Sanchez, Director of Field Marketing, nik multimedia, Inc. Michael Sauer is a California based professional photographer. » Jeff Schewe is an award-winning advertising photographer based in Chicago. Alpha and beta tester for Photoshop. Appears in the About Photoshop credits box. » Karin Schminke is a pioneer and educator who began integrating digital technologies into her mixed media fine art over 20 years ago. » Susan Schultz, Market Development Manager, CREO Alexis Scott began her career in the graphic arts back in 1976 as an artist’s representative for a photographer. » Helge Seetzen is the director of the emissive display program at Sunnybrook Technologies. » Michael Slater, President/CEO, nik multimedia, Inc. James Sorensen, A&I laboratory Russell Sparkman is the founder and CEO of FusionSpark Media [http://www.fusionspark.com] producers of original web-based documentaries. » Larry Spevak is the president and founder of ColorBurst Systems. » Lori Stafford is the West Coast Advertising Sales Director at Photo District News. » Michael Stokes has 30+ years multimedia and cross media color reproduction experience. » Jim Taskett was the Director of Stanford University’s Visual Art Services for over 15 years and has been directly involved with a vast array of specialized projects with emphasis towards scientific and technical imaging. » Maggie Taylor is a digital artist who lives in Gainesville, Florida. » Jerry Uelsmann has been successful beyond his wildest dreams. » Greg Vander Houwen is the founder of Photoshoptechniques.com. » Lee Varis is a photo-illustrator working in Hollywood. He has been involved in commercial photography for the last 25 years. » Juan Vega is Senior Manager, Dell Precision(tm) Workstation Marketing. » Andrea Velazquez is a graphic designer specializing in multimedia and Web design. She is a member of the Zone Zero team where she designs and programs exhibitions articles and portfolios. » Gary Voth is the Director, Rich Media Group, Microsoft Corporation. » Annette Wagner describes herself as a human interface designer and artist. She began her career at Apple Computer working on the Lisa personal computer. » Dennis Walker is the Founder and President of Camera Bits, Inc., makers of the Photo Mechanic image browser and the Quantum Mechanic plug-in. » Greg Ward is the author of the widely used RADIANCE package for lighting simulation and rendering. » Gwyn Weisberg is currently the product manager for Adobe Photoshop CS. » Hanan Weisman, CREO Paul Wensley is currently CTO and Executive Vice President at TerraGrafica, a software company addressing the needs of Graphic Arts professionals. » Gregg Wilensky is a Principal Scientist and member of the Advanced Technology Group at Adobe Systems Inc. » Henry Wilhelm is co-founder,president, and director of research at Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. and appears frequently as a speaker on inkjet printing technologies and print permanence at industry conferences, trade shows, and museum conservation meetings. » Russell Williams is the Engineering Architect for Photoshop. » Guests who attended i3forum 2003 (alphabetized by last name):
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