Ian Rowen, PhD is a human geographer who has forgotten the 50 U.S. state capitals and an artist who’s never bothered to draw, which makes him uniquely unqualified to serve as one of Burning Man’s international Meta Regionals. Read more of his diversions at ianrowen.com.
Iris Yee first set foot in Black Rock City in 2008, fueling her
curiosity about innovative and diverse creative communities across the
world. Raised in New York, she spent the next four years living in
China and exploring much of Asia. Passionate about media and technology's potential to grow a better understanding of the world, she has worked with Media Mecca and the Regional Network. Iris will be highlighting regional Burning Man communities, their art and culture in the Burning Blog.
Irmandy Wicaksono is a transdisciplinary electrical and textile engineer, artist, and designer. By applying an artistic approach to technological textile design and experimenting with various functional and non-functional fibers and fabric architectures, Wicaksono augments knitted textiles with sensory and computation capabilities that bridge and merge the physical and digital worlds to evoke memories and novel experiences. In the age of functional materials, digital fabrication, and immersive technologies, his approach redefines and reinvents textile purpose as a responsive skin, challenging materiality and the blurring dualities between material and immaterial, real and virtual.
Jane Lyons (a.k.a Lioness) is a Melbourne, Australia-based Burner who first hit Black Rock City in 2009. She has since spent an inordinate amount of time building theme camps, artwork, communications teams, Regional burns, Decompressions, and Burner communities in Australia and overseas.
Jenna Seiden (aka Maven) went solo to her first Burn, found a camp where she served coffee and beignets, held the space as a Temple Guardian, and danced from dusk ‘til dawn on the top of the Mayan Warrior. Now she wears a VR headset or is glued to her multiple screens as she lends some help to the Virtual Burn communications team.
Jennifer Martin-Romme is a fourth-year Burner and a journalist from Duluth, Minnesota. She is currently reporting from the playa for the 2019 MOOP Map blogpost series. She can be reached at burner_madrina@yahoo.com.
Jennifer Raiser is an avid long-time Burner, Burning Man Project board member and Treasurer, and the author of the book, “Burning Man: Art on Fire.” Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, and numerous publications. As CocoCabana on playa, she appears in Ranger khaki, Gate black, and radically self-expressive cowgirl boots.
Jennifer Richter (aka Preamble) is a Meta Regional Contact based in Washington, DC, whose role is dedicated to social alchemy, education and development within the Burner community. Preamble has spent much of her adult career in multimedia training and development for non-profit, corporate and government agencies. As part of her volunteer role with the Burning Man Network, she is co-lead of the Mid-Atlantic Leadership Conference (MALC), a member of the Local Leadership Event Organizers (LLEOs), and one of the newest members of Nation of Makers (NOM). Burning since 2014, Preamble, a self-professed conference and event organizer, always admired artists for creating...well...art. That is until 2017 when she realized she had a knack for helping build and burn things. That led to the building of multiple effigies and temples and eventually to rigging pyro. What more could a girl ask for? Perhaps her email tagline “Because life is an adventure” sums it up. Indeed it is.
People have often described Jessica Hobbs as someone trying to lead a compulsively artistic life, which is more or less true. She started off her adventure in a small Sierra Foothill town and eventually meandered her way to the San Francisco Bay Area. Along the way Jess has worn many hats; running and creating community art programs, counseling teenagers, curating, exhibiting, designing, photographing and creating monumental interactive art experiences. She is an MFA graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute and has been wandering and creating in the dust fest for well over a decade.
Collaboration is her magic ingredient for success in work, community, art and life. This can be seen through her founding and directing work with the Flux Foundation and All Power Labs.
Jessi Sprocket is resident artist at The Generator. She makes large scale art for Burning Man and beyond including The Space Whale and The Pier. She loves working in community and inspiring others to build their dreams.