Jon Penvose is an architectural technologist and co-founder of OKIE5, where he serves as Special Projects Lead. His work connects virtual production, artificial intelligence, and architectural computation to produce commercial products, interactive systems, and design platforms. Early experiments included AI R&D work at Scissor Films, where he developed custom software and hardware components for virtual production shoots and contributed to major game-industry cinematics such as Tekken 8: The Story So Far featuring Brian Cox and Persona 3: Seal Your Fate featuring Aidan Gallagher. During this time he also served as an AI developer and integrations engineer for Lifeforms.io’s Planet Garden project, where he designed and implemented an AI-driven swarm of agents named GAIA. With OKIE5 he has led the development of OTTO, WebCTRL, OBBO, OKIE5-AI (a Food4Rhino plugin), and a range of experimental and commercial tools.

Jon has also developed AI-integration systems and computational design workflows for organizations such as POA, PARTISANS, Cumulus, and numerous artists and research groups. His work has been exhibited at the A+D Museum, SCI-Arc, the Venice Biennale CITYX Virtual Exhibition, and Pacific Standard Time Museum.

He currently teaches computational design and algorithmic methods at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design in the MSD-RAS program and at The Cooper Union, where his courses explore emerging integrations between architecture, fabrication, and machine intelligence. He has taught at Kent State University, Houdini School, the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) in Brazil, and UT Austin (Honorarium), and has hosted AI-focused workshops at SCI-Arc, UCLA, WashU, Kent State, and UT Austin.

Jon holds postgraduate degrees from SCI-Arc, where he developed “Pro-Futures,” an AI-driven multimodal story-generation platform that integrated text, image, audio, and video generation into a single real-time system. His work earned the Hsinming Fung + Craig Hodgetts Postgraduate Award and the A+D Museum’s AI & Generative Art Award.

Jon's CV is available here. 

A specialist in modern and contemporary art with a focus on art theory and on Holocaust representation, Andrew Weinstein earned his BA at Brown University, MA degrees at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, and his PhD at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Dr. Weinstein has presented papers at the Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Association for Jewish Studies, College Art Association, International Congress of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Genocide and the Holocaust, and the Modern Language Association, and has lectured for The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford University, and Road Scholars (previously known as Elderhostel). He has contributed academic essays to Absence/Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust (Syracuse, 2005); Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness and Modern Art. (Rutgers, 2001); Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz and Genocide: Philosophical Challenges (Humanity Books, 2000) and The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo  – Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of  Representation (Winter Verlag, 2010). Criticism and fiction by Dr. Weinstein have appeared in American Book Review, Bloomsbury Review, Boulevard, High Plains Literary Review, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Philadelphia Inquirer, Studies in Short Fiction, zingmagazine and other publications.

Karl LaRocca a.k.a. Kayrock is an artist, writer, printer, musician, white crane kung fu instructor, graphic designer, product designer and computer programer. He is the owner of Kayrock Screenprinting, a commercial and fine art studio located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn where he has designed numerous posters, books, and records and worked with many contemporary artists to realize their fine art editions. Recently published books by Karl include "3x5 Matrix" and "32 Geometric Shapes". Karl was raised in Philadelphia, received a BA in studio art and creative writing from Oberlin College and resides in Brooklyn.