SEICA Organization
At SEICA, we wouldn't be able to do what we do without our outstandingly creative, incredibly driven, and deeply passionate team that does not let a dream stay a dream. We focus on the future while evaluating technology in front of us. We want to connect the world and help build meaningful relationships that last by delivering the highest quality multimedia research works that will change the way we view the world around us.
Diagram of organizational structure and relationships between positions (#6-D, Human and Nonhuman Resources Organizational Chart, Human and Nonhuman Resources)
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Leadership
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Laura Hyunjhee Kim
Founding Director of SEICA As the conceptual conductor of the organization, Kim comes from a unique background holding a Master of Fine Arts. She is grateful for her fabulous team full of passionate researchers who believe in her dream. Despite her admitted shortcomings in understanding how prototypes at SEICA work on a technical level, she comes with a vision that art can act as a creative filter to view and work with science and technology. Ultimately, she hopes to inspire the future generation to be mindful of how consumer technology shapes the way we interact with each other. Although she is generally busy looking for partnerships, working with students, presenting in conferences and delivering talks, she cycles through the Science Channel's How It's Made and listens to Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Radio to get her mind off of her directorial duties. |
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Laura Onmeta SEICA Head of Research Intermediary Interface Research Lab (IIRL) As the Head of Research who oversees all aspects of on-going experimental fieldwork at SEICA, Onmeta focuses on qualitative data analysis, result organization and aggregation developing strategies for speculative research and future collaborations. As the active lead of IIRL, she closely works with the Chief Engineer and the Prototype Team to scale the output from research to drive prototype applications. She is often seen with her laptop as she believes that physical proximity to her device will help it understand her a little more, which she jokingly calls machine learning. |
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Laura 0110110001100001011101010111001001100001 SEICA Chief Engineer Contrary to having the most difficult last name to pronounce among all team members, 0110110001100001011101010111001001100001 is easy going and loves working with the Head of Research and Prototype Lab. She is an excellent problem solver and communicator with topnotch analytical skills. She believes that when it comes to engineering, although it is made of cold lines of code, it is the warm heart that steers it. There were rumors that she gained romantic interest for a synthetic life form named Data, although she insists that her former colleague and exchange astrophysicist from Institut Astrophysique de Paris, Jean-Luc Picard, was more of her type. She volunteers as an educator at the Exploratorium during her off-times and enjoys star-gazing on clear nights. |
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Laura Onmedia SEICA Public Relations Director Coming from more than many years of public relations and successful nonprofit consulting experience, Onmedia is responsible for developing effective marketing and communication strategies for the organization. Black Mirror is one of her go-to TV series whenever she is stressed about work thinking about hypothetical crisis communication situations for any ethical backlash SEICA may receive. Watching the series, she finds solace in that, at least, she is not living in a fictive narrative. She highly recommends Season 3's Episode 1 Nosedive calling it a story of her life working in PR. |
SEICA Virtual Research Labs
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Dr. Laura Livingston Living Thing Research Lab (LTRL) Livingston is an artificial naturalist. Notable publications include Being Digital as a Digital Being and The Social Psychology of Artificial Creatures. She applied for a residency at Professor Sherry Turkle's MIT Initiative on Technology and Self and MIT Media Lab's Synthetic Characters Group, yet her approaches were considered too experimental and pseudo-scientfic. Although she doesn't acknowledge the nickname, the general consensus from the team members is that her demeanor is reminiscent of a well-known promising botanist from Seattle, Pamela Lillian Isley. Her favorite activity outside of the lab is listening rather than watching films by Werner Herzog to hear him deliver dramatic narratives while reading short stories from Isaac Asimov's The Complete Robot series that was written between 1939 and 1937. |
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Laura Loremipsum Human Condition Research Lab (HCRL) Coming with an expertise in people-watching, Loremipsum is responsible for monitoring human activities both on/offline. She follows all forms of social media religiously and participates in various online communities with her notorious signature filler content. She is known for her nonlinear posting-style that is often identified as scrambled or nonsensical. She prides herself in balancing witty comments with an off-standish coolness. Her favorite emoticon in chat is: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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Laura TBD Speculative Human Research Lab (SHRL) TBD is biologically considered a nonhuman-screen-entity. Her unique status allows her to transcend time and space and conduct research from a native digital anthropological perspective observing various other speculative human figures and communities residing in digital space. By observing current cyber residents, she believes her research will help forecast the future of virtual humanity existing in indeterminate digital realms and help preserve their history despite climate changes in technology. |
SEICA Prototype Lab
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Laura Attalovelace SEICA Prototype Engineering Manager Attalovelace is a visionary engineer. She was the first to recognize that SEICA prototypes could be programmed to contribute to human brain stimulus and generate imposed empathic capabilities. Along with working with Laura Palmer on developing the prototypes, she created the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such robots. As a result, she is often regarded by the team as the first engineer to acknowledge the full potentials of a synthetically empathic Companion Artefact. Although her work centers around engineering generally pleasant creatures, she is a campy found footage horror b-movie fanatic and believes that her taste in cinema greatly contributes to her work-life balance. |
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Laura Palmer SEICA Prototype Producer From design, production, to testing, Palmer is a jack of all trades. Coming from a creative writing minor, she is often tethered to her phone taking notes and photos for her next science fiction novel, Fire Wire With Me. She has been working on this novel for quite some time and hopes to finish it before the novel outlives her. |
SEICA Human and Nonhuman Resources
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Laura Gardenevel SEICA Human and Nonhuman Resources Manager Gardenevel comes from years of experience working in human and nonhuman resources. She considers her work with agent Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on the undisclosed X-files as one of the most exciting challenges in her career. She prefers to work in dark spaces relying on lights shining off her monitor display. She avoids being seen in-person as she thinks that her invisible yet operating presence is a tangible measure of success and proof that the organization is running smoothly. Her chat name is @gopherwaffle. |
SEICA Marketing
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Laura Onsale SEICA Intern Onsale is a student majoring in Digital Humanities working for college credit. She gets easily excited by news headlines that cover recent developments in applications of modern technology such as the article, You can now pay for fried chicken with a small because credit cards are so 2016 published by Mashable in 2017. |
SEICA Operations
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Aurabot SEICA Official Beloved Companion Robot Aurabot was modeled after the physiques of a mogwai with a golden retriever pup behavioral in-put. Despite its reliance on nonverbal communication, it is known to be the most opinionated among all team members. |
Human and Nonhuman Resources Handbook (#9-D, Handbook, Human and Nonhuman Resources)
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Laura Gardenevel, SEICA Human and NonHuman Resources
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SEICA Work - Life: A Fine Balance
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If you want to join an exciting team that is committed to re-defining the future, contact us for open opportunities.
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