Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint founded ecoarttech in 2005 to explore environmental issues and convergent media from an interdisciplinary perspective. Our collaborative explores what it means to be a modern ecological being amidst networked environments, including biological systems, global cultural exchanges, international commerce, industrial grids, digital networks, and the world wide web. Merging primitive with emergent technologies, we investigate the overlapping terrain between “nature,” built environments, mobility, and electronic spaces. In 2009–2010, we completed commissions for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Turbulence.org of New Radio & Performing Arts, and University of North Texas and exhibited and lectured at MIT Media Lab, Banff New Media Institute, Smackmellon Gallery, European Media Art Festival, Exit Art Gallery, and Neuberger Museum of Art. We have received numerous awards for our work, including a New York Foundation for the Arts Digital/Electronic Arts Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts Media Arts Grant, Franklin Furnace Performance Grant, and numerous university research fellowships.

Leila earned her PhD in literature from Columbia University in 2009 and was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities at Wellesley College in 2010-2011. Cary is Assistant Professor of Digital Art at University of Rochester and has created new media art for over twenty years. Our works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Computer Fine Arts, and (soon) the Cornell University Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. In 2012, ecoarttech will be "off-the-grid" artist-residents at Joya: Arte+Ecología, in an Eastern-Andalusian national park. We are also at work launching our own residency program in the Maine mountains where new media practitioners will be invited to make art in networked treehouses.