Hyperreal is dedicated to providing a home for emerging artforms based around technology and progressive culture. It easily follows that some of our staff are artists themselves. Below are some of our volunteers who are exploring new avenues in music, graphics, and digital art.

• Rob Campanell is the producer of the computer animation/techno music video program Cyberia. This site features program guides, quicktime music video clips and quicktime videos for some of the virtual environments created on the show.

• Matthew Corwine, in addition to writing for XLR8R and co-publishing the Northwest US techno-zine Resonance, composes techno music. His work has appears on Visible Records as well as New York's Oxygen Music Works.

• Francois Dion also writes music and operates his own multimedia label IdMEDIA.

• Sami Khoury comprises part of the group Induction alongside Tom Butcher and Wes Pearson, and is a partner in Orbitrecords. He is also working in conjunction with the Berkeley Contemporary Opera in its production of Neuromancer.

• Mike Perkowitz composes and records as Tintinnabulation and is also part of Acidophilus. He's also a partner in the Seattle techno label Groove Needle Records.

• Dave Scruton is an SGI artist trying to blur the boundaries between music and graphics.

• Todd Sines is very successful in his recording efforts as .xtrak, and Todd's work appears on the prestigious Peacefrog record label.

• Jeff Taylor composes techno music as Deluxe, and is signed to Ultra Violet Recordings

• Tom Butcher also records music with Induction and composes experimental electronic dance music as x09. He is currently developing electronic sculpture and installations and is involved with Roger Dannenber's computer music team at Carnegie-Mellon University. Tom is also a partner in Orbitrecords.