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Sean Bonner has been putting things on the internet since 1994. As the creator of several widespread memes he has been featured in The Industry Standard, CNN, Playboy, Salon, Forbes, ZDNet, Wired News, The Register, CBS News, The New York Post, USA today, The Chicago Sun Times, The Silicon Alley Reporter, Yahoo! Magazine (Best of the Web) and more. In addition to co-creating the regional group blog, Blogging.la, he blogs about Apple Computers for Weblogs Inc, and a little bit of everything else for his own site seanbonner.com. Based in Los Angeles, he and his wife Caryn Coleman own the groundbreaking contemporary art gallery sixspace, where they work with and represent some of today's most talented artists. The website for the gallery, sixspace.com is one of the most highly trafficked art institutions on the web. Art and internet have come together more than once with projects he's co-created such at sarsart.org and SENT: America's first phonecam art show. Previously he has run his own design firm which has been hired by Adidas, IFC and Red Bull, Sean worked as Sr. Designer for Playboy.com and Creative Director for Victory Records. Before that he dropped out of college to focus on Toybox Records, an independent record label he started in high school which released some of the first recordings by Less Than Jake, Hot Water Music, Man or Astroman? and Integrity.Caryn Coleman’s obsession is the driving force behind sixspace. After working at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago on supplemental learning materials for major exhibitions including curating resource rooms for Sol Le Witt, Ed Ruscha, and Tony Fitzpatrick, she worked as a gallery assistant at Monique Meloche Gallery, one of the most highly regarded galleries in the Midwest. While in Chicago she opened the first sixspace and held some of the most exciting exhibitions in the city. After accepting a Gallery Director position and moving to Los Angeles, she helped create a respected art auction company, and began guest-curating exhibitions under sixspace projects, eventually to re-open sixspace in the fall of 2002. As co-owner of sixspace, Coleman conceives of and curates exhibitions as well as working closely with many artists who are managed directly by the gallery. Additionally, her writings have been published in major publications such as Juxtapoz and XLR8R, museum and artist catalogs, as well as art.blogging.la and the art weblog.
Tech journalist Xeni Jardin covers digital entertainment, emerging technology, and pop culture news for venues including Wired News , National Public Radio, and Wired Magazine. Based in Los Angeles, she is also co-editor of the collaborative weblog BoingBoing. Previously, she was Vice President of Rising Tide Studios (RTS), the publishing company behind Venture Reporter and Silicon Alley Reporter magazines, where she contributed to the company's publications and oversaw its acclaimed annual tech conference series. Participants included CEOs, technologists, authors, artists, celebrities, and thought leaders from academia and government, including television host Charlie Rose, US administrator of Iraq L. Paul Bremer; attorney and Innocence Project founder Barry Scheck; musician Thomas Dolby Robertson; Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban; filmmakers Darren Aronofsky, Wayne Wang, and Penelope Spheeris; Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin; LA Lakers star Shaquille O'Neal; actor Melanie Griffith; former NYC mayor Ed Koch, current NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg; and countless others. Xeni travels extensively, and has studied over a dozen languages. She co-hosts the popular unwired wireless industry e-mail list, and her online projects include kevinsites.net, sarsart.org, and a phonecam blog.
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