The Illuminator Affinity Group will present a brief history of and discuss lessons learned in the field over the last 4 months of repeated interventions in public space with this tactical media tool, the "spectacularization machine."

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Mark Read

Initiator - The Illuminator Affinity Group

Mark Read is an artist, educator, and political activist based in Brooklyn NY. He has worked on a variety of interventionist projects, but is best known for a series of projections on the Verizon building on November 17th, 2011.

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Natalia Radywyl

By trade, Natalia is a social researcher, creative thinker and urban commons advocate with an eye - and ear - for design. As a specialist in user experience she has been researching, designing and making interactive spaces for over 15 years, from art installations and screen-based media experiences, to doctoral research about museum visitor interaction with screen-based art. Sh recently skipped Australia's fine, golden shores for a much bigger urban laboratory - NYC, ever-inspired by people who live and breathe their streets.

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Grayson Earle

Grayson grew up in Northern California in the sticks and learned to rebel against his environment when punk rock cassettes finally made their way over the Sierra Nevada. His computer scientist/geographer father taught me how to view the source code of websites when he was but a wee lad. He found immediate fascination with this technique and began a lifelong love of all things computer. Once the time to apply for college rolled around, Grayson couldn't decide between pursuing the arts or computer science, and for one reason or another film studies seemed like a good fit. Armed with an education in critical theory, marxism, feminism, and all things radical-ism, he now finds himself as an MFA candidate at Hunter College in New York. While most of his peers are making incredible political documentary work, Grayson focuses on hacking technology, web experimentation, and street art.