Harold Henry Chaput received his B.A. in Computer Studies from Northwestern University in 1990. After working at a startup company (which failed) and the Institute for the Learning Sciences (a research lab for designing educational software), he moved to Austin to attend the Doctoral Program at the University of Texas Department of Computer Sciences. There, he received a doctorate on infant cognition and its applications to autonomous robotics. In 1997, he co-founded the Austin Museum of Digital Art, and served as AMODA president for 9 years. He has also served as the co-director of the UT Forum for Artificial Intelligence, and sat on the steering committee of the UT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and on the advisory board of the Griffin School, a private high school for at risk students.

Hana Hillerova grew up in Prague, Czech Republic. Since the Berlin wall came down, she has spent the past 8 years lived between Prague, Northern California and later Texas. Hana recently received her MFA in Studio Art at the University of Texas at Austin. She now serves as the director of the UT Creative Research Laboratory. Her work was recently featured work in AMOA's "22 to Watch" exhibit, and she had a solo show at Women and Their Work.

Hana has been involved with AMODA since the summer of 2003, and she has served as Exhibition Director, Showcase Visual Art Curator, and now serves on the board.

Heath has worked as a freelance journalist since 1995, authoring articles on contemporary musical and digital artists for XLR8R, The Wire, Grooves, The Village Voice, and Urb among others; he also served as contributing editor at Urb from 2000-2003. He was an invited presenter at the 2nd annual MUTEK festival in Montreal (2002), and has authored liner notes for numerous musical projects. Professionally, Heath is the Associate Director for Corporate Relations at the University of Texas at Austin's Engineering Foundation. He has also twice served as an invited grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation, and serves on steering committees for SEMI, Central Texas Engineers Week, and Capitol BEST Robotics. Heath attended Oklahoma State University, receiving a M.A. in English in 1998.

Lisa Lee grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, but has been an Austinite since 1992. After completing a BA in linguistics at the University of Texas in 1996, she worked in the development office of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center managing a national constituency of nearly 20,000 members. Lisa now works in the advancement office at St. Edward's University as Director of Development for the Schools of Management and Business, and Behavioral and Social Sciences. Lisa received her Master of Business Administration from St. Edward's University in spring 2006. During a potluck dinner in 2001, friends Harold Chaput and Rob Turknett persuaded Lisa to put her knowledge of development and nonprofit management to use as AMODA's volunteer Development Director. Lisa also serves as the board president of the Greater Austin Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Jared Tarbell is originally from the high deserts of Albuquerque, New Mexico. First introduced to personal computers in 1987, Jared's interest in computer graphics and gaming has grown in direct relation to the processing power of these machines. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from New Mexico State University, Jared was brought to Austin to begin immediate work on large scale utility management software. He quickly realized that he did not enjoy programming for the interests of the corporate good and left to work privately on more personal projects. Jared is most interested in the visualization of large data sets, and the emergent, life-like properties of complex computational systems. Jared is currently living in New Mexico, programming as a hired gun and co-writing books on recreational computer graphics programming.

Samuel Trim, a military brat born in Landsthul, Germany, came and fell in love with Texas in 1990. In 1998, Samuel became aware of AMODA through (now) Executive Director, Todd Simmons, while pursuing a Bachelors of Arts, in Computer Science from Texas State University. Over the years, Samuel's relationship with AMODA has grown from avid volunteer, to Media Coordinator / Staff Photographer, to now a member of the AMODA Board of Directors.

Presently Samuel works as Software Development Engineer for Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond WA. When not developing software, Samuel keeps busy writing music for the bands, The Story of Light and Dark and Guild.

Robert Turknett received his B.S. in Computer Science in 1994 from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. After six months of studying art and music in Vienna, Austria, and a brief stint at BellSouth Communications developing Internet strategy, he moved to Austin to attend the School of Architecture at the University of Texas. There he was a member of the Advanced Design Research graduate program, exploring the intersection of architectural design and new technology. Rob helped to found the Austin Museum of Digital Art after receiving his M.S. in Architectural Studies in 1998. Rob lives in Austin, Texas and is currently employed as a software developer for Thinkwell, designing the textbook of the future. He is also a musician and member of the band F for Fake.