Dr. Angus Forbes is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directs the Creative Coding Research Group within the Electronic Visualization Laboratory. His research investigates novel techniques for representing and interacting with complex scientific information, and has appeared recently in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, ACM Multimedia, IEEE BigData, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, and Leonardo. Dr. Forbes is chairing the IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP’15), to be held in Chicago in October 2015. More information about his research and artworks can be found at http://evl.uic.edu/creativecoding. The call for participation for VISAP'15 is located at http://visap.uic.edu.