David Ben Kay － 康如松 － Passion Maestro

David has been focused on China since a night class in Chinese in 1971 while in high school in Denver, Colorado and through formal academic training at Brown University (AB, 1976), UC Berkeley, the Stanford Center in Taipei (1977-1980), Thunderbird School of International Management (MBA 1981) and then UCLA Law School (JD, 1986). David has been in Beijing for the past 20 years and was in Hong Kong for the three years immediately prior to that. During his 15 years as a corporate lawyer, David assisted over 300 companies in setting up their China operations. His emphasis was on high-tech companies and legal issues relating to intellectual property. Among David’s largest and most interesting clients was Microsoft whom he assisted in setting up their China operations in the early 90s. In 2003, he had that rare opportunity for a lawyer in private practice to go “in-house” into a company he had known so well from the outside. From 2003 to 2005 David was Microsoft China’s General Counsel, heading up the Law and Corporate Affairs Group; in addition to managing all of Microsoft’s commercial and IPR related work, he was also in charge of the company’s government relations as well as their corporate social responsibility efforts in China. In 2005, David took on a position Steve Ballmer created called the “Piracy Czar” (aka General Manager, Genuine Software Initiative). David was Microsoft’s spokesman and “evangelist” for innovation and IPR protection. Having left Microsoft in 2008, David is now exercising his own entrepreneurial urges having converted his loft in Beijing’s 798 Art District into Yuanfen New Media Art Space. He is the creator of the notion of Artists Social Responsibility and serves as governor of China Youth Education Assistance, a PRC NGO that aims to provide Chinese students with a broader horizon and better individual development opportunities. “By integrating community resources, summoning volunteers from diversified industries and organizing hope-inspiring sharing programs, CYEA empowers Chinese student to explore their potential and their dreams.”

Several months ago David called together a diverse group of people whom he had met over the past 20 years during his incarnations as corporate lawyer, company exec and gallerist. These are the people of Yuanfen~Flow.

Joseph E. Rubenstein – CTO & Dreamer

Joseph began programming in the late 1970s and in the 1980s operated his own software and design related company. He has held a variety of roles throughout his more than 30 year technology + entrepreneurial career. He is the founder, Chairman & CTO of Sinologic Ltd., the parent company of FileTransfer.com LLC and SafePlatform.com. He also founded Creative Digital Design Ltd., a Beijing-based graphic design and programming studio, was the Beijing Director of CyberLabs and a Systems Administrator, an Instructor for Delter Business Institute in Beijing and founder of Vancouver-based Cyber Concepts Ltd. In 1994, Joseph sold his software company and used the proceeds to invest in New Era Technologies Ltd. a conglomeration of environment technology companies that he helped structure and that went public on NASDAQ. Joseph is a visionary technologist whose knowledge spans from systems and database design to web application development and programming. In his youth, Joseph was a certified lifeguard, ski instructor and was a competitive cyclist, downhill racer, and swimmer, played rugby, was an off-road 4x4 fanatic, surfed and scuba dived.

Christopher Mustafa Grant Kirwan

Mustafa is a multi-disciplinary consultant and educator with expertise combining urban planning, architecture, and media. Currently based in Beijing, he is working on a number of large real estate development and media projects while teaching a graduate-level research course at Parsons The New School for Design in collaboration with Tsinghua University. During the past decade, as creative partner in a 30-person New York/Dubai consulting firm, he directed master planning projects in the New York Metro area and in several Middle East countries. In all his projects, Mustafa strives to employ an integrated process, combining design innovation, financial profitability, environmental sustainability and social wellbeing with an emphasis on new media, branding and marketing.

Earlier in his career, Mustafa worked in several renowned international design offices including Sottsass Associati in Milan, Fitch in London and Machado & Silvetti Architects in Boston. Since 1996, he has been adjunct professor at Parsons, visiting faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and guest lecturer in many international schools and conferences. He received his undergraduate degrees in Architecture and Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design and performed graduate studies at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies. His permanent residence with his wife and daughter is Manhattan.

Ron Rossi － Marketing Maven

Ron Rossi has been has been flowing in one direction or another for years. The one constant is that Ron has moved within the realm of marketing communications, advertising, and public relations for a variety of clients and corporations worldwide.

Prior to moving to Beijing in 2008, Ron worked for several international marketing and consulting firms. Ron was Managing Director of a marketing firm based originally in Houston, Texas. Within one year Ron not only turned a profit in the company, but also expanded operations to include offices in Miami, Caracas, Zurich and the Caribbean to handle a growing clientele with diverse interest worldwide. Before that, Ron had been a partner in a major West Coast marketing firm developing marketing programs for clients in such industries as telecommunications, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail, hospitality and the government. Ron’s experience in international marketing also includes working in Tokyo for four years, developing programs for major Japanese firms worldwide. This initial opportunity to live and work overseas has given Ron a solid background in understanding the cultures of various regions and how that impacts marketing programs worldwide.

Ron is from New York City. He holds a degree form St. John’s University in New York. He has also taught courses in Brand Building at the Rhode Island School of Design. His passion is art, and has even been able to exhibit his own work in the past. In his spare time he has worked at art galleries in the United States, and was even the first Executive Director of his local Arts Society.

Cory M. Grenier － 高瑞 － Ideas Man

Cory is a Global Marketing Product Manager for the Lenovo Think line of Desktop PCs. He has worked continuously in Beijing since the Lenovo acquisition of the IBM PC Division in 2005. In 2008 Cory marketed one of the first Intel powered Mobile Internet Devices (MID) in China. He often serves as a global product spokesman for new Lenovo products and has worked closely with industry and government leaders.

Since 2008, Cory serves as a part-time lecturer of Presentation Design and Visualization of Data at the Peking University Guanghua School of Management. In 2009, he served as an advisor to the first TEDx Beijing event. He has also been a speaker at the Beijing-London Advertising Forum and has delivered business speeches to over 70 universities, including MBA schools of Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

Cory is an active photographer, blogger, business writer, reader, carpenter, calligrapher and political cartoonist. Educated in Silicon Valley and Europe, Cory has a B.S. degree from San Jose State University and a Master of Science degree in Management from the Nottingham Business School.

Olivia Zhao － CFO - OZ

Olivia H. Zhao currently works at the China Greentech Initiative, an open source, commercial collaboration of over 80 of the world\'s leading technology and services companies, entrepreneurs, investors, NGOs and policy advisors, founded in 2008. Through the Initiative, these organizations have come together to define Greentech market opportunities and solutions that will contribute to building a sustainable China and world.

In her previous career, Olivia was a corporate finance executive, who had served as CFO of LBX Drugs (China\'s 2nd largest retail pharmacy chain); Finance Director of Starbucks Greater China; Director of Business Planning & Analysis of Starbucks Coffee Company (US); and VP Finance of DF Corporation (an US industrial motors manufacturer and importer).

Olivia is a Beijing native who has attended Beijing University before moving to the US shortly after 1989. She received an MA in International Affairs from the George Washington University and a BA in German and Economics from the University of Wisconsin. She also attended an executive program at Northwestern University\'s Kellogg School of Management while working at Starbucks.

Vahe Abrahamyan － 万海 － Flow Jedi

Vahe was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1982. In 1992 he moved with his family to Greece after the “Perestroika”. In Athens, during his high school years, he was introduced to classical studies and literature by an inspiring teacher and studied ancient Greek and Latin much to consternation of the math teacher. In 2001, he left Athens for Paris to study law at the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne. While in France, he kept practicing wushu with the French National Team under the coaching of Zhang Xiaoyan and was in the National Team of Greece. In 2003, he returned to Athens to continue his studies at the Law School of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. He practiced law in a Law firm and at the Embassy of Armenia. But Vahe couldn’t find his Flow during his practice of law. Instead he could “hear himself” while working on his body (exploring wushu, acrobatics and ballet) and when engaging in filmmaking. So in 2009. he moved to Beijing to seek both. He shot a short film called “The Beginning” that explores the Yin and the Yang in the male body through wushu and modern dance movements.

Vahe works at the Yuanfen New Media Art Space co-curating and coordinating new media art exhibitions as well as working on the Yuanfen~Flow platform. He speaks Armenian, Greek, English, French and some Chinese and Russian. He loves writing, performing and visual arts, cinema, wushu and gymnastics.

Stephen Balaban － 白德文 － FlowOSopher

Stephen is an entrepreneur and life-long student. In 2005, he started a third-party software distribution business in the multiplayer online-gaming industry. He has been designing websites since fourth grade and is the founder of a web design, search engine marketing and web consulting company. He is passionate about Martial Arts and has practiced Ninjitsu for five years; in 2008, Stephen traveled to Japan with his dojo to train with the Grandmaster of his art. He has been studying Mandarin Chinese for four years and regularly consults the Yi Jing. A recovered MMORPG addict, Stephen understands the motivational power of the experience bar and check lists. Stephen is a senior at the University of Michigan.

Matt Devine － Fearless Leader

Matt is the founder of GameAsiaTel Inc (GAT). GAT licenses the latest and best-of-breed technology platforms from around the world, together with proprietary-built platforms, to retail products and services to its customers. He was also the founder of Gametel Australia, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, using Vodafone Australia’s network, focused on the Australian mobile gaming community. He has been heavily involved in the mobile content industry in Australia since 2001, where he was the first person to sell ringtones there. The company was an accredited Service Bureau with Telstra. Founded with a working capital of $20 000, it turned over $40m in its 4 years of operation.

Matt has worked for internet startups in the UK as well as working in advertising both in the UK and South Africa.

His passion for the past nine years has been yoga, of which he is a certified Bikram Yoga teacher, and he teaches in his spare time.

Russell Haines － Designkind

Russell Haines is the design manager at memory x design, a multi-disciplined design consultancy which works in product design, branding and identity. With a broad range of skills, Russell is able to investigate and initiate design concepts where various disciplines overlap, enabling innovative solutions that transcend singular products and create completely new user experiences and product segments. Russell has been responsible for multiple brand and product designs, where end-to-end solutions have exceeded clients’initial brand and business objectives.

Previously, Russell was a Senior Industrial Designer at Lenovo Group, one of the world’s largest PC manufacturers and the largest electronics manufacturer in China. At Lenovo, Russell led product design for the consumer PC product line, including the new All-In-One form factors. On the world stage, Russell contributed to designs that won awards from Red Dot in Germany, the Consumer Electronic Show in the US as well as the iF design award. Russell has worked with top product design consultancies including Richard Sapper and IDEO.

Russell’s designs are innovative solutions, possessing unique character and appeal, which can ultimately translate to larger product sales. His education includes a B.S. degree in Industrial Design from Massey University, School of Design & Fine Arts, New Zealand.

Gabrielle Harris － 夏黛柏 － Martian

Gabrielle is an expert in development issues in China as well as in business development services for entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs. She is currently the Executive Director of PlaNet Finance China.

Since she joined PlaNet Finance in 2005, she has designed and directed several development projects with microfinance components, in both rural and urban China; she has managed the PlaNet Finance Beijing representative office, been in charge of local fundraising and technical business development, spearheaded technical consulting, including market studies, operation and credit process diagnostics and strategic advisory services. Gabrielle has been in charge of design of economic baseline studies, impact studies adapted to local areas of China as well as event planning, creation of training courses for the sector, development of a technical consulting team, and conducting advocacy work at both the central and local levels of government and national financial institutions.

Prior to joining PlaNet Finance, Gabrielle had been a jewelry designer and entrepreneur in Beijing. She set up her own joint venture manufacturing company, Beijing Han-Link Crafts Company Ltd, which marketed its products under the Things of the Jing ® mark. Her company became a premium supplier of corporate gifts to foreign companies in China and also ran a popular retail operation.

Gabrielle was Chief Representative for Kamsky Associates in Beijing in the early 1990s after working for Trade Media (now Global Sources) and International Data Corporation in the 1980s in Hong Kong.

Gabrielle Harris received a degree from the University of London, School of Oriental & African Studies and she pursued postgraduate history studies at Nanjing University.

Wang Hailei － 王海磊 － Codes Ninja

Hailei is a 31 year-old Beijing resident, originally from Qingdao, Shandong. He describes himself as an artist, a designer and a computer programmer. With a background in classical Chinese philosophy, history, literature and art, in addition to the exceptional art he creates, Hailei composes classical Chinese poems, practices calligraphy and studies architecture. He majored in English language and literature in university and minored in economics and computer science. When he was a junior in university, he fell in love with the cello, which prompted him to study western music history.

It\'s been nine years since he first coded computer programs after being certified by Microsoft as a Systems Engineer. During his time at Microsoft he evolved from programmer to Interactive Designer. After leaving Microsoft in 2008, he started his own company, Farefore, and became fully engaged in interactive design and generative art.

Ellen Pearlman － Visualization Oracle

Ellen Pearlman is currently a Ph.D student at the University of Calgary, Canada in Computational Media and Design with a focus on Telematic Art. She was on the Art Panel Review Board for SIGGRAPH ASIA in Yokohama, Japan and has lectured on New Media at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), and the Communications and Animation University in Beijing, the Songzhuang Art Center, and universities in Wuhan and Tianjin. She participated in the first Beijing International Conference on Art Theory and Criticism at CAFA and the first Conference on Interactive Design at Tsinghua University. Invited by the Open Academy project supported by the Prince Claus Fund of the Netherlands, she went to Ulan Bator, Mongolia to work on presentation and curatorial practices with the Blue Sun arts group and lectured at the Mongolian Fine Arts Academy.

The Asian Cultural Council awarded her a grant to investigate Tibetan sacred dance in most nomadic Eastern Tibet, and to create a documentary film on the subject. Winner of a Canadian Banff Mountain Culture Grant, and a Banff Canadian Center residency, she has also been a four-time Vermont Studio Center Special President\'s Fellow, a resident at the Great River Arts Colony in Patzcuaro, Mexico, the Repino Arts Colony in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Red Gate Artist Colony in Beijing, China, and was awarded two ACO Residencies in Hong Kong.

Ellen studied photography and video at The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The International Center of Photography (ICP), and anthropological film at Harvard University. She was the photographer for Harvard Medical School as part of an American Institute of Indian Studies grant researching Tibetan Tumo or heat yogis. She has also taught at Columbia University, The M.A. Program in Digital Design at Parsons School of Design and at The New School University.

Ellen received a black belt in Taijitsu (Ninja) under the auspices of Black Belt Hall of Fame Ninja Master Shidoshi Steven Hayes. She is a member of The International Association of Art Critics and listed in the current edition of Who\'s Who in America.

Robert Haddock － Coosmic Messenger

Robert is the founder and chairman of Coosmic Corp., developers of a smart, synaptic web that provides a radically new and intuitive way to access the functions and services most Internet users desire. Robert is an inventor with major patents for consumer and business technologies that have changed history. More than three billion people worldwide now use products and technologies invented by him. He developed the first text browser (1984), the first newsreader (1984), the first commercial concept indexing and search engine (1984), the first smart phone (1983-1991), the first phone with a chip-based Security Identity Module - i.e. SIM card (1987), the first phone with graphical interface (1991), the first web browser in a phone (1993) and the first Voice over IP on a phone (1996). Since 1981 he has focused much of his energy on creating unified environments for delivering content and services online to both PCs and Smart Phones. He previously founded and served as CEO of Global Strategy Partners, where over a 10-year period he advised more than 130 web ventures, media companies and financial institutions in the U.S. and China. In 1992 Mr. Haddock, founded M-Power Corp. where he created the first Smart Phone with a graphical interface and obtained a major patent for several of his inventions related to smart phones. During this period he consulted extensively with GTE (now Verizon) about a wide range of Web Services for delivery to mobile phones, including GTE\'s online yellow pages services (now Verizon’s SmartPages). Earlier he was VP of Product Development and Marketing for Electronic Banking Services at Citicorp where he directed the team that created the first smart phone. Prior to this he created Citicorp’s Global Report, a pioneering online news service founded in 1984.

In the early 1980’s he served as Director of Business Development at Ziff Davis Publishing Corp. where he started several profitable online ventures, including Aviation Online and Aerospace Online, and worked on various acquisitions including startup PC Magazine that Ziff later sold for about $500 million. He studied at the NYU Graduate School of Business, majoring in Finance and is the author of several books that have sold some 10 million copies in total.

David Hung (Hung Keung) － 洪强

Hung Keung graduated from the Swire School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1992), the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1995), and the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with an MA (Film & Video) (1997). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Germany (01-02) and is currently a PhD candidate at The Planetary Collegium, CAiiA-Hub at the University of the Arts in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 1995, Mr Hung has been involved in the creative and research aspects of film, video and new media art. He has been invited to lecture at local and overseas universities, including the Bauhaus University, University of California, Berkeley and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In recent years, Mr. Hung has participated in many local and overseas festivals. He was awarded numerous prizes including the Best Short Ambient Video Award at the BBC British Film Festival (1998); the Best of EMAF at the European Media Art Festival Germany (1998); the Winner of the Prize of Excellence at the Hong Kong Arts Biennial (2001); an Honorable Mention (New Media) in the 7th International Festival of New Film & Video, Croatia (2002), and a Special Mention Interactive CDROM Award at e-phos, The 3rd International Festival of Film & New Media on Art held in Athens, Greece (2002). Between 1999 and 2007, he received the Gold Award and a Special Mention at the Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards, and the Best of Code Award and a Special Mention at the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival. He was awarded DAAD Scholarship (2002) and ACC Fellowship (2005) as a Visiting & Research Scholar in Germany and the United States.

In 2004, Mr Hung founded imhk lab, with involvement of new media art research, interactive software development, application and production.

Noemie Vernet & Tiziano Abrahamyan － Space Mum & Flow Baby

Tiziano made his entrance in this world in April of this year and became the first Flow Baby.The Yuanfen~Flow is for him and all his small friends the hope to inherit from us a better world. As a child, his mum used to live in Germany, Russia, England, France, Italy, Greece, Malaysia and China. As a grown up... well she hasn\'t decided yet but wishes the same opportunities of travels and discoveries for her boy. Her life is a contradiction. After classical and languages studies and a Ph.D in Contemporary Italian History, she found out that she couldn\'t spend her days locked up among four walls and decided to study architecture. She believed she would like to do something meaningful and help "repair the world" and found herself designing high-end hotels in exotic locations. She\'s been working as an Interior Architect in five countries and hopes there will be a lot more to come. She enjoys reading, learning new languages, yoga, African dance and changing diapers!

Enrico De Sanctis – Flowcirtect

Enrico has spent most of his life in Italy. Rome: his first love. Surrounded by the charm of antiquity and art, and dreaming of the glories of the past. “Know the past, live the present and flow into the future.” Enrico is a world traveler, fascinated by people, cultures, points of view and different ideas.

Always interested in art, technology and design, together these have become a genuine form of expression and communication for Enrico. From technical design to street art Enrico decided to join the faculty of engineering and architecture, trying to achieve what has always been the dream of merging design and science.

In 2008, Enrico decided to move to China. He started working in a Chinese architecture and interior design studio where he still works. In the past several years he has developed a good knowledge of interior design, architecture, landscape masterplanning and concept design. At the same time, he has improved his skills as a graphic designer and event organizer in his company - temple-theater located in Beijing.

During his time in China, Enrico has come into contact with a wide variety of people who share various interests with which he began collaborations and projects. Enrico is now working on his “small” project to build his own brand of furniture, trying to meld art, architecture, graphic design, music and advertising.

Yam Lau － 刘任钧

Yam Lau was born in Hong Kong and is currently based in Toronto, Canada. He received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Alberta. His creative work explores new expressions and qualities of space, time and image. His works combine video and computer-generated animation to re-create familiar spaces and activities in varied dimensionalities and perspectives. Also, Lau publishes regularly on art and design and is active in the local art community. Certain aspects of his art practice, such as using his car as an on-going mobile project space, are designed to solicit community participation.

Lau has exhibited widely across Canada, the United States and Europe. He is a recipient of numerous awards from the arts councils in Canada. Currently Lau is a Professor of painting at York University, Toronto. In addition to his teaching and research, Lau also serves on the board and advisory committee on two public galleries. Yuanfen New Media Art Space in Beijing and Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto represent his work.

Robinson Steinke – 石洛宾 － Flowdome

Robinson is based in Beijing where he develops content for the full-dome movie format. With this format, the image is projected on a 360° hemispherical screen (Dome, Planetarium) which effectively envelopes the audience making them the center of the action and, in so doing, creates an emotional experience for the audience that far exceeds that of conventional flat screen projections. It is through this full-dome format that Robinson has been able to find and develop his creative passion. Robinson’s first encounter with the full-dome movie format occurred in 2006, when he lead a team of artists as the Production Manager & Production Supervisor on Adamas, a high-budget, 25 minute, 3D animated, 360-degree full-dome movie project about evolution, from the Big Bang until today. In 2007 Adamas won the highly prestigious Dome Fest Award in the Best Use of Dome category. Born in Berlin, Germany, Robinson first worked for architectural firms as a construction drafter and then spent several years as a 3D artist on major film productions, including Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. Robinson won several awards for his 3D works, which were also published in Expose 2, an international publication that focuses on digital art. With a foundation in 3D work and full-dome technology, Robinson is now pushing beyond the limits of his earlier creative thought. His vision is carrying him and his audience to new places with new experiences. Robinson is at the forefront of defining the boundaries between art and technology; the internal tensions between the two that he is currently experiencing are very evident in his work.

Wang Tao － 王韬 － Flowcare Force

Tao was born in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China in 1978. In an environment of ethnic diversity, Tao’s cross-cultural skills are second nature. Wang Tao embraces challenges. After eight years working as a senior computer engineer for Dell, he has entered Yuanfen~Flow to explore his artistic side as a gallery assistant while also exercising his skills as a website developer. His training at Dell with an emphasis on service and creating a great customer experience is a huge benefit to Yuanfen~Flow’s interfacing with the public. Wang Tao loves traveling and has backpacked around Italy, Portugal, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.

Scott Grow － 葛星光 － Flow Padawan

Scott served four years in the US Marine Corps, enlisting at the age of 19 in 2001 and leaving his Montana home for boot camp the day after his high school graduation. Originally contracted as an Infantry Marine, Scott changed to Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare Defense (NBC) due to breaking his foot in boot camp. His first duty assignment was with 3rd Marine Reconnaissance Battalion in Okinawa, Japan, where he stayed for two years. While in Okinawa, Scott spent a lot of time teaching himself Japanese. A fellow Marine and graduate of Cornell University serving in his unit encouraged Scott to apply to Cornell University after he finished his four years of service. He studied intensive languages for a year each in Japanese and Chinese at Cornell, followed by three more years of Chinese. Cornell University sent Scott to Beijing on three separate occasions and he is currently in Beijing a fourth time as an intern working for Yuanfen~Flow. With a diverse background, Scott’s greatest attributes are adaptability and resourcefulness, learned in the Marine Corps, which values itself as a force in readiness that “adapts and overcomes.” As he puts it, “It truly is not about what you know, but whom you know. I may not have all the answers I need to accomplish my mission, but I know people who do have those answers.”

Nathen Guo － 郭耀 － Flowthen

Nathen, from Shanxi, China, is a student at Renmin University, Beijing, studying new media. He works with a number of visual communications design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya and 3D Max, Final Cut Pro, Premiere and AfterEffects. He has also studied stop motion and flash animation and can code in Processing and Max/msp.

Nathen has a deep passion for contemporary art both as a participant and an observer.

Grace Lu － 盧曉琪 － Soul Child

Since a young age, Grace has been exposed to various types of music. She started playing piano when she was 5, and trombone when she was 10. From 2005-2009, Grace attended high school at the International School of Beijing, and during her four years there, she participated in many prestigious music festivals, concerts, and ensembles. One example of this is her jazz combo, The Insomniacs, which was featured in the magazine That’s Beijing Kids in 2008.

Grace currently attends the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, majoring in jazz trombone. This year she played in the Oberlin Jazz Ensemble under the direction of the late professor Wendell Logan, two small ensembles led by herself, and Son de Oberlin, Oberlin\'s only salsa band. Grace also performed in the opening celebration of Oberlin\'s new Kohl building, with the Oberlin Jazz Ensemble and acclaimed musician Stevie Wonder. At Oberlin, Grace is studying under professor and jazz trombonist Robin Eubanks. Besides music, Grace’s other love is photography. Ever since she took a B&W Film photography class under professor Pipo Nguyen-dey, she fell in love with photography. She hopes to also add a double degree in visual arts to her BM degree.

Hannah Kay － 康雪梅 － FlowTographer

Hannah was raised in Beijing and although she looks as she looks, she’s got the stomach of a local Beijingren. Nothing satisfies her like a dish called Yang Xiezi, a hot pot made of the spine of a lamb; it’s not so easy to get it in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she’s just completed her first year at Clark University. Having lived in Beijing her whole life, but being very well traveled (19 countries at last count), Hannah has a very “international” view of the world, is keenly interested in different cultures and is drawn to people who both know how to have a good time, but are also thoughtful.

Pursuing many interests, Hannah is basically an artist at heart. Her photos of the people in Yuanfen~Flow attest to that.

Qiao Si 乔思 － Flowvestigator

Josie, as she’s known in English, was born raised in Beijing. That makes her a 100% Beijinger. After graduating from Communications University of China in 2009, majoring in Digital Filmmaking, Qiao Si went to the United States to pursue her M.A. in Arts Management at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. With her passion for art and culture, during her time in the US she has continued doing video editing, communications design and managerial work at local arts institutes and continues to assist Yuanfen~Flow where she interned during the summer. Now Qiao Si is exploring her best fit in the arts and cultural world as a future career by learning both inside and outside the classroom.

Mia Kirincic 米娅 – Lady Flower

A Croatian native who spent more than half her life in Asia, Mia recently received her BA from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), School of Chinese Painting, and is the only westerner of her generation to have achieved this. Her decision to study traditional Chinese flower.