2018 Team

2018 Partners

Past Contributors

• 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 Films
• 2013 & 2014 Festival Hosts & Co-Producers: Bot & Dolly
• 2014 Botsker Award Ceremony Sponsor: KUKA
• 2014 Botsker Printer: Shapeways
• 2015 Co-Producer: Heather Mallak of Remake Learning/Digital Salad
• 2015 Sponsor: Assemble
• 2015 Sponsor: BirdBrain Technologies
• 2015 Sponsor: Schell Games
• 2015 Sponsor: Healthy Together
• 2015 Sponsor: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
• 2015 Sponsor: Pittsburgh Technology Council 
• 2015 Sponsor: Sprout Fund

Past Jury Members

• 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