The Arts Technology Symposium Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of visual and performing artist and arts educator Richard Loveless to provide overarching critical synthesis and discursive documentation. Mr. Loveless will serve as panel moderator, symposium integrator, and synthesizer of theoretical and practical content. He will attend all symposium presentations and related events as an observer, documenting perceptions of the parts and how they relate to the whole of the experience. It is expected that a publication of Mr. Loveless' writings will be available after the Symposium. After a thirty-five year career as a visual and performing artist/teacher and arts manager, Loveless became founding Director of the "Institute for Studies in the Arts" for the College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University. The ISA is a premiere interdisciplinary arts research institute that funded 250 creative research projects during his nine-year tenure. Collaborations involved faculty/students with regional and international artists conjoined with scholars in Architecture, Engineering, Archeology, Geology, Medicine, Political Science, Social Science, Solid-state Science, Computer Science, Cell Biology and Education. Our mission was to challenge the artist to engage digital media technologies in creative ways to extend qualities of artistic mind into wider spheres of scholarly inquiry. Loveless currently serves as Professor Emeritus at ASU, as Visiting Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow for SmatLabs at the London Institute, and as President of "Global Connections: Art and Technology Consulting Services."