Leading the avant-garde research lab is Director Ruth West. Wests research and creative work has exhibited, presented or been featured at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, SIGGRAPH, 9e2 Seattle, the Museum of Old and New Art, WIRED Magazine’s NextFest, UCLA Fowler Museum, CAA, Ingenuity Festival Cleveland, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, FILE 09 Sao Paulo, IEEE VR, Mobisys, SPIE, IEEE ICIP, the American Journal of Human Genetics, Genomics, Leonardo, LEA, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NPR’s The Connection, NY Times, Genome News Network, AMINIMA and Artweek. She works hard to help secure funding from a variety of grants, industry and academic sponsors. When she is not in the lab, West also spends her time presenting the work at xREZ and demonstrates the need for art-science labs through frequent invited talks, panels, keynote addresses and presentations.