MARSHA KINDER Executive Producer and Project Leader Marsha Kinder currently chairs the Division of Critical Studies in the USC School of Cinema-Television, where she has been teaching since 1980. Since 1997 she has also been director of the Labyrinth Project, a research initiative on interactive narrative at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication. As part of this initiative she co-hosted "Interactive Frictions," an international conference on interactive narrative held in 1999; curated an accompanying art exhibition at USC’s Fisher Gallery; and produced a number of electronic works. Besides being a multimedia producer, Kinder is a cultural theorist specializing in new media, narrative theory, national media culture and children’s media culture. She is also a prolific film scholar whose work on Spanish cinema has been particularly influential. Kinder is the author of over 100 published essays and 10 books, whose titles include, "Playing with Power in Movies, Television and Video Games" (1991) and "Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain" (1993), as well as several edited collections —"Refiguring Spain: Cinema, Media, Representation" (1997), "Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1999) and "Kids’ Media Culture" (1999). She was the founding editor of "Dreamworks" (1980-1987), an award-winning interdisciplinary quarterly on dreams and the arts, and since 1977 has served on the editorial board of "Film Quarterly." Kinder holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles.

ROSEMARY COMELLA Interface Designer & Software Developer Rosemary Comella has been working since 1999 as a project director, interface designer and programmer at the Labyrinth Project, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. As part of Labyrinth, she developed the interface for Tracing the Decay of Fiction, a collaborative project between experimental filmmaker Pat O'Neill and the Labyrinth team, and she collaborated on The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Current of the River, an interactive installation with filmmaker Peter Forgács. She also co-directed Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, an interactive installation and DVD-ROM, in collaboration with cultural historian Norman Klein, and with Andreas Kratky from ZKM. For the past ten years, Comella has been producing new media works ranging from interactive installations and CD-ROMS with various artists to social research projects, children’s CD-ROMS and cultural projects in France. Some of the published CD-ROM titles she has been instrumental in developing include: "An Anecdoted Archive of the Cold War" by George Legrady and HyperReal Media Productions, San Francisco; "Slippery Traces" by George Legrady in collaboration with Rosemary Comella, published by ZKM, Karlsruhe; "Clicking In" by Lynn Hershman, published by Bay Press, Seattle; "MUNTADAS: Media Architecture Installations," published by Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and "Cosmos, voyage dans l’universe," published by Montparnasse Multimedia, Paris. She has also participated in developing interactive museum installations for the following venues: Kunst und Austellung Halle Museum, Bonn; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Siemens Museum, Munich; the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. In addition to her career in the digital realm, Comella has also worked in the fine arts arena both as an assistant director at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and as an exhibiting artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has an undergraduate degree in both English Literature and Art from California State University, Hayward and has done graduate coursework in Clinical Psychology at JFK University in Cupertino, California and graduate coursework in Art/Photography at California State University, San Jose.

KRISTY H.A. KANG Art Director & Graphic Interface Designer Kristy Kang is a media artist who has been one of the leading members of the creative team of The Labyrinth Project since its establishment in 1997.  Most recently, she directed Three Winters in the Sun: Einstein in California – an interactive installation about Albert Einstein exhibited at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles as part of the Einstein exhibit in 2005.  In addition, she has co-directed the design and artwork for many of the Labyrinth Project collaborations including The Crazy Bloody Female Center, Mysteries and Desire; Searching the Worlds of John Rechy, Tracing the Decay of Fiction: Encounters with a Film by Pat O'Neill, The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River, an interactive installation with Hungarian filmmaker Peter Forgács, and The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing, an interactive DVD-ROM based on a memoir by Carroll Parrott Blue which was the recipient of the New Forms Jury Award at the 2004 Sundance Online Film Festival. As a digital artist with a background in conceptual art, Kang's own work explores ephemeral media in creating a language of personal and cultural memory. These works include Anjaane Geheno Ki Baath: The Language of Unknown Jewels, a collaborative installation with Nithila Punnen Peter exploring dialogues on cross cultural mythologies and Collective Memory, a CD-ROM using the female body as a landscape for storytelling. She is currently working on an interactive installation entitled Dream Mandalas – a work inspired by Tibetan Buddhist dream practice and sand mandala paintings. Kang has exhibited and presented her work internationally in Europe, Asia, South America and the U.S. in various film and media exhibitions and conferences including the Sundance Film Festival, the 51st Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Ars Electronica, the European Media Art Festival, MILIA, Viper Festival and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. In addition to creating multimedia projects, Kang teaches interactive media at The University of Southern California’s Division of Animation and Digital Arts in the School of Cinema-Television.  She received a BFA in Fine Arts from UCLA in 1991 and an MFA in Animation and Digital Arts from the School of Cinema-Television at USC in 1997.

SCOTT MAHOY Designer & Project Director Scott Mahoy has over 10 years experience in the media arts including web design, motion graphics, animation and film/video production and post-production. He is currently the creative director of the Russian Modernism distant learning course being developed by the Labyrinth Project. Drawing upon his extensive experience in design and usability, he is creating an innovative e-learning prototype that immerses the student in a dynamic, multimedia-rich learning environment. Mr. Mahoy’s first collaboration with the Labyrinth project was as lead designer for the "Danube Exodus"– an interactive video installation which premiered at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Working closely with artist Peter Forgács, Mr. Mahoy designed and produced all the touch-screen interfaces for the exhibition, and edited and created parts of the video installation. Prior to joining the Labyrinth Mr. Mahoy worked with the online company Excite where he oversaw the development of this broadband portal’s video strategy that served over 3 million users. Here he developed and produced several informative video series on technology, science, entertainment, and the arts. Prior to this Mr. Mahoy broadened his skills by developing freelance motion design projects for companies such as Ernst & Young, Sony, CNN, Macy’s. Mr Mahoy received a bachelor of Arts in "Media and Artistic Expression" from Antioch college in Yellow Springs OH in 1989.