Dekker Dreyer, Julia Hiroko Howe photo by Bobby Schutz

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Dekker: Grew up in Florida, New York, Massachusetts, and California. First job was as a DJ while attending art school. Celebrity portrait photography has appeared in major music magazines like Spin. As a director, films have played (and won) at Slamdance, Cannes and other festivals. Founded Illusion On Demand cable network (nation-wide footprint on operators like Fios, Charter and Dish). Published one book of speculative fiction and working on a second. Consulted with Paramount and Miramax. Original art has been praised by Gawker. Interests include: Cosmology, oceanography (having worked with Museum Victoria AU on cephalopod research along with involvement at the Ponce Inlet’s Marine Science Center), Artificial Intelligence (having worked with the ALICE foundation and served on its ethics committee while housed at Carnegie Mellon), guitar, and firearms. Creator of Tentacle Grape soda, 8bit FM, and the Anime After Dark touring film festival. Television presenter for Cinemax and AMC. Collegiate Service:  Board of Communications Stevens Institute of Technology, Digital Media Advisory Board Rasmussen College.

I’m bad at organizing this info into a uniform block since it’s all over the spectrum. Someone on Wikipedia did it better here (without the academics and collegiate)

Cyr3n: (currently abridged) Grew up in Wisconsin, DC area, New Jersey, and Tokyo.Video game producer, television presenter, musician. Cyr3n holds a B.A. with dual concentrations in philosophy and sociology from Stevens Institute of Technology. Cyr3n is a certified project manager.