Born in 1948, Mariannah attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City, and graduated, in 1983, with honors from Smith College with a triple major in Art, Writing and Biology.

Her background as a painter, printmaker and book artist evolved into a focus on digital media - video, video installation and digital printing in 1996.

Her commitment to Parallel Studios brings her many diverse skills together in service to a medium that she loves, allowing her to participate in cultivating and supporting the next generation of New Media artists.

Born and raised in Tampa, Florida, Frank began his creative life studying dance - ballet and modern. A move to New York City in 1980 shifted his focus to experimental theater and installation environments. Santa Fe became home base in 1996, where he continued his installation work, eventually incorporating video. In 2002, he and Mariannah Amster produced the first CURRENTS exhibition which became an annual, international media arts festival in 2010. They remain the Creative and Executive Directors of Parallel Studios, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which produces CURRENTS.

Sarah Kim is a multimedia artist from Alabama working in Chicago, IL where she has received her BFA (2022) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In her work, she utilizes various types of technologies to create personal narratives within media tropes, currently investigating ideas of avatars, influencers, and gods.

Trained as a painter, studying w the late Jorge Fick in Santa Fe, NM. Started working with computers early on. Became founding department chair of the flourishing Media Arts department at Santa Fe Community College. Currently involved in multiple, interactive, video and other media projects, both individually and collaboratively.

Hannah Kramm is an artist/designer, educator, and realtor from Santa Fe New Mexico. Hannah holds a degree from Parsons School of Design in integrated design and printmaking. She strives to use her design thinking skills to aid collaborations between organizations and individuals working toward creating resilient, creative, social, and sustainable cities. Hannah worked for CURRENTS as their education coordinator and assistant to the directors for four festivals and is delighted to continue being engaged with the festival through serving on the board.

Planning Design and Construction Management. Retired Railyard Development Projects Administrator at Santa Fe Public Works/Engineering Division

Sandy Zane is the owner, with her husband, Ned Bennett, of form & concept and Zane Bennett Contemporary Art. Ms. Zane is also an accomplished artist and has exhibited her prints and paintings in many solo shows as well as in more than 25 solo, juried, group, and invitational exhibitions primarily in New York and New Mexico.

Ms. Zane has served on the board of the NMSU Foundation and currently serves on the boards of Creative Santa Fe and Creative Startups. Ms. Zane and Mr. Bennett are philanthropists, contributing major gifts to Alzheimer’s research, the Safety Foundation of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and to Santa Fe area educational and arts organizations including the New Mexico Museum Foundation and New Mexico School for the Arts.

In 2012 Ms. Zane was the Remarkable Woman Honoree of the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Ms. Zane earned a B.A. in Arts Administration from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. She is a private pilot and owns aircraft for recreation.

Robert Campbell’s practice includes video art, digital film, digital imaging/collage, installation, and documentary filmmaking. Since 1984 his single-channel video art work has been exhibited at festivals and exhibitions nationally and internationally in Europe and Japan. For the past 15 years, his installation work has been featured in museums and galleries around the country and included in recent ISEA and Santa Fe International New Media Festivals. His video/dance collaborations have been featured at On the Boards and Bumbershoot in Seattle, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, and Lincoln Center in New York. He has produced documentaries in the U.S., Italy, Ukraine, Zambia and South Africa, with excerpts of his work in Africa selected for the Journey to Planet Earth series on the PBS network. He currently teaches New Media in the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts, where he is co-director of the Institute of Emergent Technology and Intermedia (iET+I).

Steina Vasulka is an early pioneer of video art, and has been producing work since the early 1960s. She moved to New York City in 1965, where they began showing video art at the Whitney Museum and founded The Kitchen in 1971. Steina became a Guggenheim fellow in 1976.

She has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1980 and has continued to produce her innovative work.

David Stout is a visual artist, composer, writer, curator and performer exploring cross-media synthesis and interdisciplinary approaches across the arts. He is a recipient of the New Mexico New Visions Award (2007), the Harvestworks Interactive Technology Award and the Sun Micro Systems Award for Academic Excellence (2004) and a nominee for the USA Artist Fellowship (2008), International Media Art Prize (2004) and the WTN World Technology Award (2003). Stout previously founded the MOV-iN Gallery and the Installation, Performance & Interactivity project (IPI) at the College of Santa Fe. He is at present directing the Initiative for Advance Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA) at the University of North Texas located in the Dallas metropolitan area, where he holds a joint appointment in the College of Music and College of Visual Art and Design.