Partners

2014 Team

Executive Director
Heather Knight of Marilyn Monrobot

Producer
Chrys Wu of Matchstrike

Executive Producer
Marek Michalowski of BeatBots

Festival Hosts & Co-Producers
Bot & Dolly

Botskers Award Ceremony Sponsor
KUKA Aktiengesellschaft

Botsker Printer
Shapeways

Annie Leahy: Executive Producer of Poptech, formerly at Sundance
Andrew McGregor: Founder of Tiziano Project and the Graphation Film Festival
Celeste Biever: Physical Sciences News Editor at New Scientist Magazine
Jer Thorp: Data Visualization guru at BLPRNT, Artist in Residence at NYTimes R & D
Ken Perlin: Director of the Games for Learning Institute at NYU
Kenyatta Cheese: Eyebeam Advisory Board, formerly Rocketboom
Reid Simmons: Robotics Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Simone Davalos: co-founder of RoboGames, guest blogger at Laughing Squid
Ventura Castro: Graphics Producer at NBC Artworks, Founder of F5 Festival
Evan Ackerman: Senior Writer at IEEE Spectrum Automaton

Festival Illustrations: Valerie Schoman of VHSart and Nickelodeon
Botsker Award Designer: Shawn Sims of CMU Computational Design Lab
Art Curators: Natalie Be’er & Lily Szajnberg of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program
2011 Sponsor: Science House
2011 Co-Producers: Kevin Laibson & Suzan Eraslan of Magic Futurebox
2011 & 2012 Hosts: 3LD Art & Technology Center
2012 Botsker 3D printing sponsors: MakerBot
2013 Botsker 3D printing sponsors: Moddler
2013 Projection Sponsor: Nationwide
2013 Media Sponsor: BoingBoing
2013 Cocktail & Gallery Sponsor: Bossa Nova Robotics
2013 Headline screening curator: Stephen Parr of Oddball Film