H.E.Ai.D.

The Über Geek Team is a group of friends and collaborators who share a passion for technology and art.  In early 2009 they came together with the idea of doing an “Über geeky” sound and laser installation at Burning Man 2009, which they originally called “The UberGeek Project”. They have been collaborating on H.E.Ai.D. installations and other projects ever since.

Peter Brown (vision system developer, laser guru)

@Flippyhead
Peter is a ruby on rails developer who has created a number of interactive/technological art projects.  He created the “assimilator” art car in 2006, which raised a wireless camera to 200 feet at Burning Man, connected to VR goggles for participants on the ground.  This art car received a grant from Ignition Northwest. His day job is CTO of Pathable, a startup that creates social networking and community tools for events.

Jeremy Calvert (developer, physical computing, laser)

@jcalvert
With formal training in mathematics and physics, and continuing professional and academic work in software development, Jeremy is constantly seeking new challenges in a wide variety of disciplines.  Recently he has driven projects in computer vision, kite-based wind energy generation, and information retrieval.  For his day job, Jeremy is a software developer at Amazon.com, working to develop algorithms to maintain and improve the quality of data in Amazon’s product catalog.

Chris Overstreet (MAX MSP/MIDI/OSC)

@cloverstreet
Chris is an avid musician and composer. He has a deep passion for exploring new ways to connect with musical sound in addition to a strong foundation in traditional musical knowledge. He plays many instruments, and is fluent in skills form piano to Max MSP. Learn more about Chris at http://www.perfreal.com/.

Shelly Farnham (management, sculptural artist)

@shellyshelly – shelly [at] wagglelabs.com
Shelly is a technologist, artist, and community organizer who has played a lead role in numerous large scale arts installations. In 2007 and 2008 she served on the board of Ignition Northwest, the regional burner-based non-profit in Seattle, and from 2006-2009 she has served as the Dorkbot Committee Lead in Seattle and produced the “People Doing Strange Thing with Electricity” art exhibit.  See http://shellyfarnham.com for her arts bio, paintings, and installations.   For her day job, Shelly is a senior researcher in social media at Yahoo! She blogs sporadically at Wagglelabs.com, or you may follow her via @ShellyShelly on Twitter.

Brady Forrest (technologist, music)

@brady
Brady has participated as a lead organizer in various community and collaborative arts activities. For his day job he works for O’Reilly Media where his job is to stay abreast of the latest technologies and organize large scale events.

Joshua Lind (web designer/developer, Drupaler, music-type, DJLo)

@doublejosh – josh [at] dbltht.com
Josh Lind is a designer and web developer who has created a number of “geek” projects, with a particular focus on music and radio.  One project, the “radioator” was funded by Ignition Northwest in 2007.  The Radioator provided a mobile low-bandwidth radio station, allowing vehicles and people to synchronize music nearby; sometimes silently using ear phones.
He created http://iheartsea.com. A news, chatter and chatter aggregator for Seattle neighborhood and topics. He also made this site.

Bryan Wilkerson (developer, physical computing)

Bryan Wilkerson is a technologist and developer with extensive experience with physical computing.  He is actively involved in fund raising and community building and currently serves as treasurer of the Space Virgins Art Collective, a Seattle based 501c3.  Previous geek art projects have focused on sound activated lighting.  By day Bryan is the mild mannered Director of Product Development for LiquidPlanner Inc.  where he has developed patent pending algorithms for computing the uncertainty in project plans and social/cooperative planning software.

Kevin MacDonald (structure)

Kevin MacDonald is mechanical engineer and machinist by training, but the last dozen years or so have been devoted to software development. He is currently chief technology officer at Jigsaw Learning – a company that provides therapy assistance software for special needs children. Kevin has participated in numerous collaborative projects. In 2004 he led a team of five to design and build the Gravity Bowl (http://www.gravitybowl.com) – a fully computerized electric vehicle that was partially funded by Burning Man. His most recent interactive art project is his two year old son Theo, a joint project undertaken with his wife Erika.