Javier Villegas

jvillegas at umail.ucsb.edu

Javier Villegas is an electronic engineer from the Javeriana University in Bogota Colombia. He obtained a Masters degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Los Andes University. His previous research works include real-time pitch extraction for speech signals, explorations of foveal architecture in stereo vision and analysis/synthesis of visual speech. He worked as an Assistant Professor at Javeriana University and is currently a Ph.D student in the MAT program at UCSB. His current research interests are real-time video processing for HCI, multimedia signal processing, physical modeling and numerical methods for music synthesis and animation.

Pablo Colapinto

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A programmer, writer, and effects artist, Pablo Colapinto has experimented with a variety of alternative visual processes. For his animations and work in online interactive GUIs, Pablo was awarded a 2005 PEW Fellowship in the Arts, and he has been a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida and the Experimental Television Center in New York. His 2D and 3D work has been seen at BAM, the New York Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, and the Japan Society. In Philadelphia he has shown video sculptures and installations at the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, and the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery. He has taught video editing and internet design at Temple University, University of the Arts, Moore College of Arts and Design, and Scribe Video Center. Pablo Colapinto received a Bachelors in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 2000, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Media Arts and Technology at the University of California in Santa Barbara.