sensing space Creative Stage

A few of our 2020 Humans to Mars Sensing Space Creative Stage guests are described here.
The others are featured on our Design Your Habitat Guest List and indicated with an "*"

Kelly Snook, Founder, Kepler Concordia Project, Former NASA Scientist
Dr. Snook is a planetary scientist, music producer, engineer, and data sonification researcher based in Portland, Oregon and at the University of Brighton, UK. She is one of the original developers of the MI.MU Gloves for gestural control of music and visuals. She holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. She served two decades as a NASA Research Scientist with a focus on Mars and the Moon, before turning her attention to music full-time in 2010 when she joined Imogen Heap as her studio manager and musical assistant. Her current research efforts center on a new post-disciplinary field called Investigative Music through the development of Concordia, an immersive (AR/VR) musical instrument for scientific exploration based on the work of Johannes Kepler, which allows people to experience and play the music of the spheres. She also runs her own recording studio, called "It's Not Rocket Science Studios," in Portland, producing and mixing music by independent musicians.

​Ryan Genz, Co-Founder, Cute Circuit
Ryan Genz is an Anthropologist, artist, engineer, technology visionary, and designer. After earning a double degree in studio art and anthropology from the University of Maine Orono, he completed a Master’s degree in Interaction Design from the prestigious Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy. Here, he learned not only about technology and human-computer interaction and gained an understanding for the Italian approach to design and fashion, but also focused on how to think about innovation. With an interest in wearable technology, he founded CuteCircuit in 2004, the world’s first wearable technology fashion brand, pioneering merging fashion with technology and creating groundbreaking award-winning fashions featured in exhibitions and publications all over the world, including the annual exhibition at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Ryan also received the Netexplo Innovation Award 2019 from UNESCO for creating technology that improves lives and holds patents in wearable technology, sensor-enhanced fabric constructions, and 3D audio for AR and VR as well.