Debuts at ArtCenter

Simon Penny is an artist, theorist, curator and professor in the field of Digital Cultural Practices at UC Irvine where he founded the Arts, Computation and Engineering (ACE) graduate program.      Lita Albuquerque is an internationally active installation artist, sculptor, and painter acclaimed for her ephemeral and permanent artworks focusing on astronomical relationships and alignments.       Robert Hurt is a physicist and member of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology. Since 2006, he has hosted a video podcast called The Hidden Universe and often speaks on the subject of using new media to communicate science and astronomy  .      Christopher O'Leary is a photographer and media artist living in Los Angeles. His current research project Cloud Chambers studies the aesthetics of cosmology through documentary photographs, and algorithmically generated visualizations.       Sarah Rara is a Los Angeles-based artist and poet working with video, sound, and performance, whose practice includes a focus on human-technology relationships. Her work in progress is SYZYGY, an astronomical term used to describe objects "yoked to the sun."       Jay Marx is a Caltech experimental particle physicist who in recent decades has been involved in several of the highest-profile physics projects in the country, and was most recently executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).