We envision a time when new research practices integrate art, science and design in a discipline that goes beyond traditional practices. The mission of Intermedia Projects is to support research that will contribute to this new structure of art, science, and design. Intermedia Projects supports and enables projects at the nexus of art, science, and design, through public performances; presentation of scholarly work at conferences and in publications; education and workshops; and through the development of new forms of communication for this new discipline.

Where do we do what we do?

Our nonprofit headquarters are in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the construction of the gallery is finished. The new gallery is connected to Jack Ox's 1940's stucco house. In this building works managed and/or owned by Intermedia Projects Inc will be exhibited for sale, from which the profits will support further collaborative and creative works. The building is designed by the designer/builder, Justin Wiseman. The lighting designer is Allen Scheuch from As Light Works, Cologne, Germany. Many of the collaborative activities of the nonprofit will be financed through the sales of these previously created works, donated to the corporation.

Bios of Intermedia Projects' Board of directors 

David Britton is the President of Intermedia Projects. He holds a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from City University of NYC and B.A. in psychology and computer programming from Michigan State University. After the War on Poverty, in 1980 he left nine years of community social work to pioneer in the emerging personal computing industry, founding a computer store developing business computer applications. He developed software for art installations in the early 1990’s including the famous virtual reality exhibit of the Cave of Lascaux and wrote the VR software for the 21st Century Color Organ and Gridjam collaborating with Jack Ox. He was IT manager for Mark Green’s Office of the Public Advocate of New York, and became the first Director of Production for NBC.com in the 1990’s. He was Chief Technology Officer of music producer Chris Blackwell’s website, winning the Webby Award for best streaming music and video in 2001. He was tech director of True Majority. In 2004 he turned to neuroscience to focus on neural network applications for AI, receiving a Ph.D. for a dissertation on semantic attention studying the neural correlates of meaning. He taught in the psychology dept. of The City College of New York for 10 years until retiring in 2019.

Mario Alberico Artist, Advocate, Advisor-Managing Director at Accenture, a $62B global management consulting, technology, and digital services company; he has been an artist and curator alongside his career in Financial Services. Concurrently, he advocated for people in need, specifically social services, disabilities, suicide, and childhood cancer and serves non-profit boards, many as Chairperson. His 45 years as a long-term survivor of a rare pediatric cancer informs all. With his bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1982) he provides unique, innovative ways to release the abundance that is already present. As a senior officer of two Global 500 corporations, and the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange, Mario is at the forefront of major transformations, changing society’s uses of money. Across bedrock changes in capital markets and banking, he worked four decades on designing businesses and products at the heart of sociological change in the way people and businesses manage capital and cash. His art and research represent a unique bridge at the intersection of art, business, science, technology, and healthcare. Using intermedia methods, he explores the paradox of trauma conjoined with the magnificence of being alive and reflect on art’s power to transcend suffering, celebrating life.

Peter Beyls is an interdisciplinary artist working on the intersection of computer science and the arts, active as a researcher, curator, educator, occasional performer, and software artist. Beyls studied at the Royal Music Conservatory Brussels, the Slade School of Art, University College London and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Plymouth, UK. He was a professor of digital culture at LUCA Brussels and The School of Arts, University College Ghent, Belgium and visiting professor at various institutions in the US, Canada, and Japan. Beyls was a researcher at the VUB Artificial Intelligence Lab, Brussels and CITAR (Centre for Research in Art and Technology), UC Porto, Portugal. Currently, he is a visiting researcher at the FormLab, UC Ghent. His research interests include machine learning in interactive music systems, generative autonomy in machines, cognitive issues in software art and human-robot interaction. Beyls published extensively on various aspects of computational art. Two monographs document his work: Simple Thoughts (MER Publishing, 2014) and Coming Full Circle (Verbeke Foundation, 2019).

Susan R. Atlas is a theoretical and computational scientist and amateur artist whose research spans multiple disciplines, including physics, chemistry, materials science, and biomedicine, with common foundations in mathematical analysis and advanced computational modeling techniques. She is currently Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of New Mexico, a faculty researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and serves on the Steering Committee for the Center for Quantum Information and Control. From 2009-2016, she served as Director of UNM’s supercomputer center, the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC), where she established the CARC Gallery to showcase artistic works by faculty and students at the intersection of art and technology. Atlas holds a B.A. in physics and mathematics summa cum laude from Queens College, City University of New York, and an A.M. in Physics and Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Harvard University. A common theme of her research is the identification of emergent patterns in the interacting entities of a complex system, whether these be electrons, atoms, molecules, or proteins.

Jack Ox, Executive Creative Director, is a trained artist with an MFA in visual arts from the University of California at San Diego and a Ph.D. from Swinburne University of Technology, School of Design, Melbourne, Australia. From 2010-2014, Ox was an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Music at the University of New Mexico. She was also Associated Faculty with Center for Advanced Research Computing during this time, and from 2005-2007 Artist in Residence and Research Associate at the ARTS Lab at UNM. She is a musicologist, having spent thirty years creating large-scale visualizations of extant musical compositions: Including Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate, Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, Claude Debussy's Nuages, Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, and John Cage's 4 minutes and 33 seconds (4'33"). Ox created Intermedia Projects Inc in 2015. She is building The Legacy of Artist-Scientists with the other leaders in ImP. This online international archive will define the essence of art science for the general public. In her 2015 dissertation, Ox researched manifestations of conceptual metaphor and blending theories in science, design, and art, thereby showing the existence of these concepts before they appeared as written theories. Jack Ox has served on the editorial board of Leonardo Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (MIT Press) for over thirty years.

Miguel Gandert has a Master of Art in Photography from the University of New Mexico and was a Distinguished Professor of Communication and Journalism from 2011- , Director of the Interdisciplinary Film and Digital Media Program from 2011- , associate chair spring 2003-2005, fall 2006-2007 Department of Communication and Journalism, and research associate at the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute. His university department affiliations were in American Studies, Chicano Studies, Art and Art History, Media Arts, Architecture, Anthropology, and Latin American/Iberian Institute. Gandert is a freelance photographer, filmmaker, and videographer for publications and companies including Time Warner, Newsweek, Los Angeles Time Magazine, New Mexico Magazine, ABC New, Washington Post, Cable News Network, PBS. His one person exhibitions include: Artes Americas: Casa La Cultura, Fresno, CA (2013), Museo de La Universidad de Valladolid, Spain (2011), Hispanic Culture Center, Albuquerque, NM (2008 and 2001), and Museo de Ethnografia y Folklore, La Paz, Bolivia. Some group shows: Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (2016), Spanish Colonial Museum, Santa Fe, NM (2016), NM Museum of Art, Santa Fe NM (2012). Gandert is in the public collections of the Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, the Special Collections Library, Stanford University and The Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, Texas State San Marcos.