ARTIST FELLOW: MARCOS NOVAK Marcos Novak: Marcos Novak is a global nomad, and an artist, theorist, and transarchitect. In 2008, "Transmitting Architecture", the title of his seminal 1995 essay, became the theme of the XXIII World Congress of the UIA (Union Internationale Des Architectes). Drawing upon architecture, music, and computation, and introducing numerous additional influences from art, science, and technology, his work intentionally defies categorization. He is universally recognized as the pioneer of architecture in cyberspace, of the critical consideration of virtual space as architectural and urban place, and of the use of generative computational composition in architecture and design. He originated several widely recognized concepts, such as "transvergence", "transarchitectures", "transmodernity", "liquid architectures", "navigable music", habitable cinema", "archimusic", "eversion", "allogenesis". His seminal essay "Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace" is included in several anthologies of critical documents of the digital era. His pioneering work "Dancing With The Virtual Dervish: Worlds in Progress", developed at the Banff Center between 1991-1994 included the world's first 4-dimensional immersive environments. His current research involves nano~ and bio~ technologies, and explores the hypothesis that we are in a cultural phase characterized by "the Production of the Alien". He has participated in many international exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including the 9th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Biennale di Venezia in 2004, and the 7th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Biennale di Venezia, in 2000, where he represented Greece. He is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is affiliated with CNSI (the California NanoSystems Institute), MAT (Media Art and Technology), and Art. He named the UCSB AlloSphere (the three-story high sphere for the creation of immersive virtual environments, the largest such facility in the world originally proposed by Dr. Kuchera-Morin) and created its first project. He is the Director of the transLAB at UCSB. www.mat.ucsb.edu/~marcos/Centrifuge_Site/MainFrameSet.html