Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet with over eighty books of poetry and twelve assemblages of traditional and avant- garde poetry such as FLOWER WORLD VARIATIONS, Technicians of the Sacred, and, with Pierre Joris and Jeffrey Robinson, Poems for the Millennium, volumes 1-3. Recent books of poems include Gematria Complete, Concealments & Caprichos, A CRUEL NIRVANA, A Poem of Miracles, and RETRIEVALS: UNCOLLECTED & NEW POEMS, 1955- 2010. His most recent big book is Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, co-edited with Heriberto Yepez, and he is now working on a global and historical anthology of outsider and subterranean poetry.
Harold Cohen (1928-2016), a groundbreaking digital artist, won a reputation as a painter in London in the 1960's, but is best known for the project that would occupy him for 40-plus years: the invention and evolution of the AARON program. He worked for decades bringing computing into the mainstream of art and exhibited widely with AARON. His work has been exhibited at the Tate, the LA County Museum, The Stedelijk, the San Fransisco Museum, documenta 6, and elsewhere. There is a permanent exhibit dedicated to his work at the Museum of Computing History.