Paul Kaiser is an interactive artist with a background in experimental filmmaking and special education. He received his B.A. from WesleyanUniversity, and his M.Ed. in Special Education from American University. Kaiser started out by creating short experimental films, and also studied storytelling practices among the Tarahumara and Navajo Indians. He then spent ten years in Washington, D.C. teaching students with severe learning disabilities at the Lab School of Washington. He established the Writer's Lab to teach storytelling and writing to these children, and became involved with software when he began developing computer programs that allowed learning disabled children to build multimedia depictions of their own minds. He also worked extensively with children from Washington's impoverished neighborhoods. In 1994, Kaiser relocated to New York and founded Riverbed to create cultural and art-oriented interactive projects. "Robert Wilson: A Visionary of Theater," is a work-in-progress that has been exhibited at the Pompidou Center, the New York Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and others. In 1997, Kaiser began collaborating with Merce Cunningham and Shelley Eshkar to create an interactive artwork entitled, "Hand-drawn Spaces," which will premiere at the Electronic Theatre of the SIGGRAPH conference in July 1998, and travel to the Wexner Center for the Arts from September 98 to January 99. Kaiser received a Computer World/Smithsonian Award in 1991, and in 1996, was the first interactive artist to receive a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is a Fellow at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and a visiting lecturer at the Multimedia Studies Program of San Francisco State University. Presently, he is teaching a new media seminar/workshop for professors at Wesleyan University.