David Rosen is Executive Producer/Convener of Digital Independence and has worked in the media and technology fields for twenty years. He is author of Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films, commissioned by the IFP and Sundance, and has written for the Hollywood Reporter, Foundation News and other publications. He has served on the Board of Directors/Advisors of ITVS, FAF, NVR and Video Collection/MoMA-NY. He has held senior management positions with MuSE/AVS (helped take the company public) and Commodore (worldwide launch of the first CD-ROM system). He has been a consultant to Ameritech, ComCam, Consumers Union, IBM, Fugitsu, HBO, KQED/SF, WNET/NY, Weather Channel, MacArthur Foundation and Rep. Richard Gephardt.
Neil Seiling is Creative Director of Digital Independence and a media arts curator, television producer, and media systems architect. He was the Executive Producer of Alive From Off Center, the experimental arts/television showcase on PBS. Recent consultancies include The Independent Television Service (ITVS); The Open Society Institute (affiliated with The Soros Foundations Network), and the POV series on PBS. He helped launch and program Link TV (www.linkTV.org), a new public channel. WorldLink TV launched in 1999, and Sieling continues to license programming for the channel as well as doing strategic planning. He was the Executive Producer for the digitally animated documentary works "Figures of Speech" (www.itvs.org/figuresofspeech) by Bob Sabiston and Tommy Pallotta (Co-Creators of "Waking Life"). He completed a significant research project with The Rockefeller Foundation related to their past and future awards in the Digital Arts and is now working on a feasibility study connected to the effort of understanding new creative practices in the performing and media arts in the 21st Century. He was the project manager for the Augmented Social Network white paper that was commissioned by the Link Tank. He is also the co-convener for the Digital Independence Conference, to be held in San Francisco in 2004.