Jeffu Warmouth is a contemporary media artist and professor of Game Design at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts, USA. His conceptual work asks the viewer to unravel their relationships to language, identity, and culture. Born in San Diego, CA, he received his BA from University of Michigan in 1992 and MFA from Tufts University in 1997. His work has been featured at galleries, museums, and festivals worldwide, most recently at the 404 Festival in Argentina & Colombia.
Ben Houge is an artist working at the intersection of music composition, digital art, video games, performance, and gastronomy. Highlights of his twenty-year career in the video game industry include composing the acclaimed string quartet soundtrack for Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (2001) and developing an innovative cell-based music deployment system as audio director of Tom Clancy’s EndWar (2008). From 2004 to 2010 he lived in China, where he was active in the Chinese art community, and his real-time, multichannel sound work has been exhibited internationally. His current work investigates the connections between music, gastronomy, and technology in a series of multisensory events he calls “food operas,” drawing on recent technological advances to achieve an unprecedentedly close pairing of music, combining aspects of performance, sound installation, and video game music composition.