Artists.
Aida Lizalde is a multimedia artist living in Sacramento. Her work consists in researching issues of citizenship, power, heritage, nationality and other personal and political experiences. She has been in recent exhibitions at the Museum of Northern California of Chico, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Beacon Project Sacramento, SOMArts Cultural Center, The Latino Center of Art and Culture, and Axis Gallery. She received her BA from UC Davis.
Recent artistic projects include a series of ongoing outdoor installations creating physical-yet-arbitrary geographical borders that deals with idea of frontiers and belonging and the process of assimilation, ownership, and identity, inspired by the artist’s own personal journey. Her sculptural practice includes objects that are the result or records of physical process, referencing corporeal existence. They become almost performative, referencing tactile, immersive, and ritual movements related to the body. Aida has also produced multiple collaborative and interactive artistic installations that draw upon various themes and are designed to engage with multiple publics.
Partner Engineer: Megan Carter,
Bryan Valenzuela lives and works in Sacramento. For over a decade he's been aiming to perfect a unique drawing technique involving the atomization of the figure by carving out shape and light with handwritten text. Though virtually unnoticeable from afar, once the viewer steps closer to each work they are engulfed in a barrage of words intermingled with other mixed media elements such as needle and thread, acrylic paint, and collage. His subject matters explore connections between perceived opposites (microcosm vs macrocosm, order vs chaos) and aims to weave disparate elements into a whole. He frequently employs symbols that meld together interests in psychological states, the natural world, physics, mathematics, and astronomy to name a few.
Bryan has created numerous large-scale public murals both in Sacramento and elsewhere, and has been featured in many exhibitions in the area. He also completed a large-scale installation in the Golden 1 Center, titled Multitudes Converge (2016).
Partner Engineer: Kaleb Clark
David Stone is a creative code and technology, projection, mixed and new media artist that uses various tools to facilitate the creation of his work, including microcontrollers, ICs, depth cameras, Processing, C++, Max/MSP, TouchDesigner and Pure Data. David creates visualizations that take the form of video, sound, and installations (often combining all three) that frequently involves performance or participation from viewers. He has created multiple collaborative and solo installations in the Sacramento area.
Partner Engineer: Jordan Duval
Aida Lizalde is a multimedia artist living in Sacramento. Her work consists in researching issues of citizenship, power, heritage, nationality and other personal and political experiences. She has been in recent exhibitions at the Museum of Northern California of Chico, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Beacon Project Sacramento, SOMArts Cultural Center, The Latino Center of Art and Culture, and Axis Gallery. She received her BA from UC Davis.
Recent artistic projects include a series of ongoing outdoor installations creating physical-yet-arbitrary geographical borders that deals with idea of frontiers and belonging and the process of assimilation, ownership, and identity, inspired by the artist’s own personal journey. Her sculptural practice includes objects that are the result or records of physical process, referencing corporeal existence. They become almost performative, referencing tactile, immersive, and ritual movements related to the body. Aida has also produced multiple collaborative and interactive artistic installations that draw upon various themes and are designed to engage with multiple publics.
Partner Engineer: Megan CarterBryan Valenzuela lives and works in Sacramento. For over a decade he's been aiming to perfect a unique drawing technique involving the atomization of the figure by carving out shape and light with handwritten text. Though virtually unnoticeable from afar, once the viewer steps closer to each work they are engulfed in a barrage of words intermingled with other mixed media elements such as needle and thread, acrylic paint, and collage. His subject matters explore connections between perceived opposites (microcosm vs macrocosm, order vs chaos) and aims to weave disparate elements into a whole. He frequently employs symbols that meld together interests in psychological states, the natural world, physics, mathematics, and astronomy to name a few.
Bryan has created numerous large-scale public murals both in Sacramento and elsewhere, and has been featured in many exhibitions in the area. He also completed a large-scale installation in the Golden 1 Center, titled Multitudes Converge (2016).
Partner Engineer: Kaleb Clark
David Stone is a creative code and technology, projection, mixed and new media artist that uses various tools to facilitate the creation of his work, including microcontrollers, ICs, depth cameras, Processing, C++, Max/MSP, TouchDesigner and Pure Data. David creates visualizations that take the form of video, sound, and installations (often combining all three) that frequently involves performance or participation from viewers. He has created multiple collaborative and solo installations in the Sacramento area.
Partner Engineer: Jordan Duval
Mikko Lautamo is a Sacramento-based artist whose work takes the form of software installations, projections and interactive screen pieces. His practice focuses on the methods and movements of complex systems such as biological, environmental, social, economic, political. Blending these systems within a context of AI (artificial intelligence) results in his generative abstract animations. Lautamo’s work has been featured in exhibitions in Germany and the Sacramento area. Lautamo teaches New Media at Sacramento State, where he also studied.
Partner Engineer: Daniel Diaz,
Summer Ventis is a printmaking professor at Sacramento State and an established artist. Her work deals with internal and external landscapes and their intersections. She uses the printmaking process to experiment with and create two-dimensional prints, books, sculptures, and installations. Her recent work engages the reciprocal relationship between inner and outer space, between people and our environments, in the landscapes of the Western and Midwestern United States. ceding clouds explores this relationship through the lens of fire—the imprints left by wildfire, on the part of the landscape, and prescribed burns, on the part of people. defensible space and a belly full of water against the future drought use cactus imagery to interrogate issues surrounding borders and scarcity. Lagoons and Fringe Landscapes emerge from the beauties and horrors of modern agriculture.
Ventis’s work has been shown in exhibitions nationally and internationally, and is featured in numerous institutional collections. She received her MFA from the University of Colorado and her BA from Grinnell College in Iowa.
Partner Engineer: Rustin Vogt
Tavarus Blackmon is an artist who was born and raised Sacramento, where he still resides. He is a recent graduate of the MFA program at The University of California, Davis. His work has been in exhibitions at Shy Rabbit Gallery, Pagosa Springs, CO; The Midway, San Francisco, CA; American Steel Studios, Oakland, CA, The Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA, FE Gallery, Sacramento, CA, BrickHouse Gallery, Sacramento, CA and the Blue Banana Video Art Festival in Berlin, Germany. He also received an MA and BA from Cal State University, Sacramento, and is a current artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.
Blackmon’s practice comprises of painting bold canvases that are full of cultural, societal, and personal references, particularly surrounding his identity and domestic life. He also works digitally, creating videos, web-based projects, and digital collages. His work often references art history and culture, particularly the Funk Art movement, which was a prominent artistic style in Northern California in the ‘60s and ‘70s.
Partner Engineer:Vikramjeet Singh
Mikko Lautamo is a Sacramento-based artist whose work takes the form of software installations, projections and interactive screen pieces. His practice focuses on the methods and movements of complex systems such as biological, environmental, social, economic, political. Blending these systems within a context of AI (artificial intelligence) results in his generative abstract animations. Lautamo’s work has been featured in exhibitions in Germany and the Sacramento area. Lautamo teaches New Media at Sacramento State, where he also studied.
Partner Engineer: Daniel Diaz
Summer Ventis is a printmaking professor at Sacramento State and an established artist. Her work deals with internal and external landscapes and their intersections. She uses the printmaking process to experiment with and create two-dimensional prints, books, sculptures, and installations. Her recent work engages the reciprocal relationship between inner and outer space, between people and our environments, in the landscapes of the Western and Midwestern United States. ceding clouds explores this relationship through the lens of fire—the imprints left by wildfire, on the part of the landscape, and prescribed burns, on the part of people. defensible space and a belly full of water against the future drought use cactus imagery to interrogate issues surrounding borders and scarcity. Lagoons and Fringe Landscapes emerge from the beauties and horrors of modern agriculture.
Ventis’s work has been shown in exhibitions nationally and internationally, and is featured in numerous institutional collections. She received her MFA from the University of Colorado and her BA from Grinnell College in Iowa.
Partner Engineer: Rustin Vogt
Tavarus Blackmon is an artist who was born and raised Sacramento, where he still resides. He is a recent graduate of the MFA program at The University of California, Davis. His work has been in exhibitions at Shy Rabbit Gallery, Pagosa Springs, CO; The Midway, San Francisco, CA; American Steel Studios, Oakland, CA, The Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA, FE Gallery, Sacramento, CA, BrickHouse Gallery, Sacramento, CA and the Blue Banana Video Art Festival in Berlin, Germany. He also received an MA and BA from Cal State University, Sacramento, and is a current artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.
Blackmon’s practice comprises of painting bold canvases that are full of cultural, societal, and personal references, particularly surrounding his identity and domestic life. He also works digitally, creating videos, web-based projects, and digital collages. His work often references art history and culture, particularly the Funk Art movement, which was a prominent artistic style in Northern California in the ‘60s and ‘70s.
Partner Engineer: Vikramjeet Singh
Engineers.
Electrical engineering student, Sacramento State
Daniel Diaz is an electrical engineering major at CSUS with an emphasis in controls. He is very excited to be working on a project such as this one, which is his first big project outside of school. Daniel hopes to one day get my name on a credit sequence for a movie.
Partner Artist: Mikko Lautamo
Electrical Engineer at California Department of Water Resources
Jordan Duval received two BS degrees from University of California, Davis in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. He currently works at the CA Department of Water Resources as an Electrical Engineer specializing in Electrical System Protection for hydro-power plants, pump stations, transmission lines, and distribution centers. Within the field of Electrical Engineering he is interested in the design, integration, and programming of newer technologies in the aging power industry. In his spare time he also is interested in video game development and low-level programming.
Partner Artist: David Stone
Kaleb Clark, Lead Hardware Engineer, Innovation, Uber
Kaleb is both hobbyist as well as professional maker. Four years ago he retired from a twenty plus year stent in the IT industry to focus solely on engineering and making. His strongest skills are in fabrication, utilizing rapid prototyping tools such as laser cutters, 3d printers and CNC machines. Currently he is consulting with the Innovation team at Uber, and running a maker focused Youtube channel called Maker's Digest.
Partner Artists: Bryan Valenzuela
Electrical engineering student, Sacramento State
Daniel Diaz is an electrical engineering major at CSUS with an emphasis in controls. He is very excited to be working on a project such as this one, which is his first big project outside of school. Daniel hopes to one day get my name on a credit sequence for a movie.
Partner Artist: Mikko Lautamo
Electrical Engineer at California Department of Water Resources
Jordan Duval received two BS degrees from University of California, Davis in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. He currently works at the CA Department of Water Resources as an Electrical Engineer specializing in Electrical System Protection for hydro-power plants, pump stations, transmission lines, and distribution centers. Within the field of Electrical Engineering he is interested in the design, integration, and programming of newer technologies in the aging power industry. In his spare time he also is interested in video game development and low-level programming.
Partner Artist: David Stone
Kaleb Clark, Lead Hardware Engineer, Innovation, Uber
Kaleb is both hobbyist as well as professional maker. Four years ago he retired from a twenty plus year stent in the IT industry to focus solely on engineering and making. His strongest skills are in fabrication, utilizing rapid prototyping tools such as laser cutters, 3d printers and CNC machines. Currently he is consulting with the Innovation team at Uber, and running a maker focused Youtube channel called Maker's Digest.
Partner Artists: Bryan Valenzuela
Associate Civil Engineer, City of Sacramento
Megan Carter is an Associate Civil Engineering with the Transportation Division for the City of Sacramento Department of Public Works. Since moving to Sacramento from Folsom two years ago, she has found a passion for making Sacramento a better, safer, more livable and enjoyable community for all road users, residents and visitors alike. As an Associate Engineer at Dokken Engineering, prior to employment at the City of Sacramento, Megan designed roadway infrastructure projects throughout California in Yuba City, Sutter County, Amador County, Modesto, and San Luis Obispo, among others. Megan graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from California State University, Chico in 2007.
Partner Artist: Aida Lizalde
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Sacramento State
Rustin Vogt is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Sacramento. Professor Vogt holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials Science Engineering. His teaching focus is on Materials Selection in Design and Sustainability, Manufacturing, Machine Design, and the capstone senior project course. Professor Vogt was the lead faculty on for the CSU entry into the 2016 SMUD Tiny House Competition and played a supporting role in the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015. Current research focus is on biodiesel production, energy monitoring, home automation, and vehicle towing dynamics.
Partner Artist: Summer Ventis
Network Assurance Engineer III, Verizon Wireless
Vik Singh is a Network Assurance engineer with Verizon in Sacramento, where he loves his job. If he wasn't an engineer he'd do it as a hobby. Lately, he has been very involved with Verizon 5G deployment in the Sacramento area, which is one of the first markets for Verizon 5G.
Partner Artist:Tavarus Blackmon
Associate Civil Engineer, City of Sacramento
Megan Carter is an Associate Civil Engineering with the Transportation Division for the City of Sacramento Department of Public Works. Since moving to Sacramento from Folsom two years ago, she has found a passion for making Sacramento a better, safer, more livable and enjoyable community for all road users, residents and visitors alike. As an Associate Engineer at Dokken Engineering, prior to employment at the City of Sacramento, Megan designed roadway infrastructure projects throughout California in Yuba City, Sutter County, Amador County, Modesto, and San Luis Obispo, among others. Megan graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from California State University, Chico in 2007.
Partner Artist: Aida Lizalde
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Sacramento State
Rustin Vogt is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Sacramento. Professor Vogt holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials Science Engineering. His teaching focus is on Materials Selection in Design and Sustainability, Manufacturing, Machine Design, and the capstone senior project course. Professor Vogt was the lead faculty on for the CSU entry into the 2016 SMUD Tiny House Competition and played a supporting role in the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015. Current research focus is on biodiesel production, energy monitoring, home automation, and vehicle towing dynamics.
Partner Artist: Summer Ventis
Network Assurance Engineer III, Verizon Wireless
Vik Singh is a Network Assurance engineer with Verizon in Sacramento, where he loves his job. If he wasn't an engineer he'd do it as a hobby. Lately, he has been very involved with Verizon 5G deployment in the Sacramento area, which is one of the first markets for Verizon 5G.
Partner Artist:Tavarus Blackmon