<-- Behind the Scenes

Selected Crew of Molecularium™

WRITER, DIRECTOR and EDITOR

V Owen Bush, a veteran motion and experience designer, has contributed to broadcast TV projects for NBC, MTV, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Discovery, History, VH1, NY1, PBS, and others.  He was creative director of Pseudo.com, the Internet’s first live streaming media network and the associate producer of MTV’s “Amp”, a late-night electro-cultural showcase. At the American Museum of Natural History,  Bush was the editor and composite artist of SonicVision, a music and light show for the Hayden Planetarium.  As a conceptual media artist, Bush's work has appeared in a wide range of exhibitions and performances around the world.


WRITER and PRODUCER

Kurt Przybilla is an inventor, educator, writer and self-described “Positive Futurologist”. He invented Tetra Tops®, the world’s first spinning top with more than one axis of spin. These award-winning toys have been featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child and Discover Magazine, as well as at the Smithsonian Institute. Kurt taught English as a second language in New York City for over fifteen years. He taught in Japan for three and a half years where he studied Japanese archery, flower arrangement, language and poetry.


CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Chris Harvey is an Emmy Award winning broadcast designer whose career has paralleled the revolution in animation technology from hand-drawn cell to digital desktop output. He was art director for MTV for three years and has directed design campaigns for VH1, Nickelodeon, ABC, and NBC.  He was visiting creative director for the Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History, designing and directing SonicVision, a music and light show for the Hayden Planetarium.  Recently he has completed visual collaborations with legendary composers Tery Riley, La Monte Young, and David Hykes.


CHARACTER ANIMATOR

Steve Rein has been a professional computer animator for over twenty years, working as art director, technical director and animator for  companies including Colossal Pictures, Protozoa, Digital Light and Acclaim Entertainment.  From a “Virtual Bill Clinton” created for MTV to directing movies for PlayStation games, he specializes in bringing life to computer-generated characters. Rein is an adjunct professor of animation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


VISUAL FX SUPERVISOR and TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

A veteran of the visual effects industry, Blake Holland is a specialist in the integration of 3D computer graphics with motion control photography and motion simulators. He worked at Imax RideFilm, and was a member of the visual effects team at Mass Illusion where he created signature looks for the Academy Award winning effects for the films Starship Troopers, What Dreams May Come and The Matrix.  At Giant Studios in Atlanta, Holland integrated the various 3D systems and was technical director on the award-winning in-house animation Fruits of Labor, directed by Rudy Poat.


DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY and TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Joshua Minges works in many aspects of special format, immersive entertainment, from hardware integration to CG animation. Since 1992 he has worked in location based entertainment including a motion simulator attraction for the Luxor Hotel and Casino, an interactive motorcycle simulator for Mariah Entertainment, a series of productions and installations for Imax RideFilm, and an interactive multi-person simulator developed with Hitachi. Minges has worked with the American Museum of Natural History on all of their digital dome productions: Passport to the Universe, the Search for Life, and SonicVision.


CHARACTER DESIGNER

Leona Christie is an artist whose drawings, installations, and animations have been exhibited at galleries and museums including the Drawing Center (NYC), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), G-Module (Paris) and the New York Video Festival. Her work has been reviewed or reproduced in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and New Art Examiner, and may be found in the collections of the New York Public Library and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. She has been an Assistant Professor of Art at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) since 2003.