C Bangs, G. Matloff, S. Diehl, a
G. Matloff, a space scientist, has worked on solar-sail spacecraft since the early 1980s. Since 1999, he has served as a faculty fellow at NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center working on interstellar solar-sail concepts. Dr. Matloff's most recent book is Deep-Space Probes, Springer-Praxis (2000). He teaches physics and astronomy at the City University of New York and New School University.

C Bangs has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. Her work is included in museum permanent collections both in the United States and abroad. S. Diel has exhibited widely in the United States and has worked with Hubble Telescope images for many years. J. Feldschuh initially was a physics major at Harvard and became an artist after undergraduate school. His work is widely exhibited in the United States.

Andrew Kaiser
Andrew Kaiser is a composer and sound designer. His current projects focus on the exploration of sound as a means towards understanding the human thought process. Assumptions are that sound can break free from conditions of culture, and capture an essential perspective on what it is to be human: even what it is to be sentient and awake in the universe. His work in the studio now focuses on tools and techniques to dissect and study sound material. He works particularly with Csound (http://www.cSound.org) , whose signal processing capabilities are very deep, and with a didgeridoo, which as an instrument seems perfectly constructed to bring out the phases, pulses and drones that are integral to an intercultural understanding of sound. He is influenced in this thinking by meditation practice, which practice provides a wonderful counterpoint to the scientific understanding of our physical universe. In the event of a received ET message, it is vitally important that we be able to recognize those responses of ours that are engrained and unthinking.