Fantom is an online sticker album publisher and software developer founded in 2009. It is a privately owned company based in Dublin, Ireland. The company both sells the software platform to brands and licenses content onto its platform to create online sticker albums.
Formation
The company was founded in 2009 by Paul Healy, a "former information technology journalist". obtaining a €30,000 investment in the company. Later that year, a full seed funding round was completed bringing the total of outside investment in the company to €490,000. Investors at the time included Enterprise Ireland, and Bloom Equity.
The company's software platform was built using PHP and MySQL.
Clients
Several English soccer clubs have used the Fantom platform as a digital engagement tool on their Facebook pages. These have included Queens Park Rangers, Derby County FC, and Wolverhampton Wanderers.<ref name="sportspro"/>
As of January 2018, Fantom also held licences for Fifth Harmony and Guinness World Records.
Formation
The company was founded in 2009 by Paul Healy, a "former information technology journalist". obtaining a €30,000 investment in the company. Later that year, a full seed funding round was completed bringing the total of outside investment in the company to €490,000. Investors at the time included Enterprise Ireland, and Bloom Equity.
The company's software platform was built using PHP and MySQL.
Clients
Several English soccer clubs have used the Fantom platform as a digital engagement tool on their Facebook pages. These have included Queens Park Rangers, Derby County FC, and Wolverhampton Wanderers.<ref name="sportspro"/>
As of January 2018, Fantom also held licences for Fifth Harmony and Guinness World Records.
Originally created by Herb Rose, Falken BBS was one of the few BBS products that allowed up to 128 users to dial into a single system (running DOS) using multiport hardware, requiring no external multitasker. The product was far advanced from the large number of other BBS systems available at the time allowing users to interact in online teleconferences and multiplayer games.
Dates back to at least 1989.
Herb's company struggled to market this product against the already well established Major BBS product developed by Galacticomm. The product enjoyed moderate success but eventually Herb relented and sold the product in 1996 to Chris Whitacre of California who continued to develop the product on the Linux platform, finally discontinuing the original DOS based product.
Ironically, in 2002, Falken was again sold to Michael Polzin of WilderLand Software, one of the companies which actively supported the competitive Major BBS product as an independent software vendor.
The name Falken was a cultural reference to the hacker movie WarGames.
Dates back to at least 1989.
Herb's company struggled to market this product against the already well established Major BBS product developed by Galacticomm. The product enjoyed moderate success but eventually Herb relented and sold the product in 1996 to Chris Whitacre of California who continued to develop the product on the Linux platform, finally discontinuing the original DOS based product.
Ironically, in 2002, Falken was again sold to Michael Polzin of WilderLand Software, one of the companies which actively supported the competitive Major BBS product as an independent software vendor.
The name Falken was a cultural reference to the hacker movie WarGames.
Xenia Benivolski is a curator of contemporary art, sound and music, an art critic and a writer. She founded several collectives and art galleries in Toronto, including The White House, 8-11 gallery The Feminist Art Museum, and SUGAR. Benivolski often lectures about her work. She contributes to e-flux, Artforum Frieze, Texte Zur Kunst and
Curatorial Projects
Benivolski has curated art exhibitions and projects with a focus on sound art, music, instruments and composition, the politics of collectivity, and labour. In 2008, she co-founded The White House Studio Project. The White House was recognized as a space for culture in Toronto by Making Space for Culture, a project led by the City of Toronto. In 2014, Benivolski co-founded 8-11, an art collective and gallery in Toronto's Chinatown. The gallery hosted some of the first exhibitions for artists Azza El Siddique, Tau Lewis, and Lotus L. Kang. In 2016, Benivolski co-founded The Feminist Art Museum with Su-Ying Lee. The goal of the project was to bridge feminist art institutions in North America, and included exhibitions, talks, workshops, and performances.
Benivolski is the grandniece of Ukrainian writer and journalist Mikhail Baitalsky. Her work is informed by her upbringing in Soviet Russia, and her cultural heritage as a Tatar. Benivolski co-founded SUGAR Contemporary in 2019, a contemporary art gallery near Sugar Beach in Toronto. There she curated the inaugural exhibition Pickle Politics by Slavs and Tatars. In 2020, Benivolski curated a solo exhibition in Canada of work by Latvian-born, Montreal-based outsider artist Zanis Waldheims (1909-93). In 2022 she co-directed the visual art residency The Weapon of Theory as a Conference of Birds at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity with Ayesha Hameed, Jota Mombaça, and Suzanne Kite. In 2024 she received the War Art Fellowship from the National Gallery of Canada.
From 2021-2024 she collaborated with sociologist Max Haiven on Worker as Futurist, a speculative academic project that enlisted rank-and-file amazon workers to write science fiction, which was published in the volume The World After Amazon. The project was disseminated in articles in the Jacobin and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Benivolski gave a keynote presentation on the project at Georgia Tech's Space Research Initiative.
She is a curator and editor of the e-flux project You Can't Trust Music, a web-based art and music project that connects artist and musicians through thematic programs. The project included Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shiro Takatani, Julieta Aranda, Ayesha Hameed, Felicia Atkinson, Steve Reich, Elin Már Øyen Vister and others. She has been a lecturing professor in art theory at York University, the University of Toronto and OCAD University.
Curatorial Projects
Benivolski has curated art exhibitions and projects with a focus on sound art, music, instruments and composition, the politics of collectivity, and labour. In 2008, she co-founded The White House Studio Project. The White House was recognized as a space for culture in Toronto by Making Space for Culture, a project led by the City of Toronto. In 2014, Benivolski co-founded 8-11, an art collective and gallery in Toronto's Chinatown. The gallery hosted some of the first exhibitions for artists Azza El Siddique, Tau Lewis, and Lotus L. Kang. In 2016, Benivolski co-founded The Feminist Art Museum with Su-Ying Lee. The goal of the project was to bridge feminist art institutions in North America, and included exhibitions, talks, workshops, and performances.
Benivolski is the grandniece of Ukrainian writer and journalist Mikhail Baitalsky. Her work is informed by her upbringing in Soviet Russia, and her cultural heritage as a Tatar. Benivolski co-founded SUGAR Contemporary in 2019, a contemporary art gallery near Sugar Beach in Toronto. There she curated the inaugural exhibition Pickle Politics by Slavs and Tatars. In 2020, Benivolski curated a solo exhibition in Canada of work by Latvian-born, Montreal-based outsider artist Zanis Waldheims (1909-93). In 2022 she co-directed the visual art residency The Weapon of Theory as a Conference of Birds at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity with Ayesha Hameed, Jota Mombaça, and Suzanne Kite. In 2024 she received the War Art Fellowship from the National Gallery of Canada.
From 2021-2024 she collaborated with sociologist Max Haiven on Worker as Futurist, a speculative academic project that enlisted rank-and-file amazon workers to write science fiction, which was published in the volume The World After Amazon. The project was disseminated in articles in the Jacobin and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Benivolski gave a keynote presentation on the project at Georgia Tech's Space Research Initiative.
She is a curator and editor of the e-flux project You Can't Trust Music, a web-based art and music project that connects artist and musicians through thematic programs. The project included Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shiro Takatani, Julieta Aranda, Ayesha Hameed, Felicia Atkinson, Steve Reich, Elin Már Øyen Vister and others. She has been a lecturing professor in art theory at York University, the University of Toronto and OCAD University.
Husam bin Abdulwahab Zaman () is a Saudi academic who specializes in educational policy analysis.
Career
Zaman is a graduate of Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Islamic studies. He earned both his master's and doctoral degrees in administration and policy studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Zaman served as campus president of the Saudi Electronic University from 2013 to 2014. He headed up Taif University between 2016 and 2019. Between 2008 and 2013, Zaman served in various roles at Taibah University, as deputy vice president for development and quality and dean of the law faculty. He was the president of the Education and Training Evaluation Commission from June 13, 2019, to 2021. Zaman was appointed to the board of directors of the Literature, Publishing & Translation Commission on March 7, 2024.
Zaman is the recipient of the Prince Bandar bin Sultan Award for Scientific Excellence and the Rashid bin Hamid Award for Culture and Science.<ref name=":0" />
Career
Zaman is a graduate of Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Islamic studies. He earned both his master's and doctoral degrees in administration and policy studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Zaman served as campus president of the Saudi Electronic University from 2013 to 2014. He headed up Taif University between 2016 and 2019. Between 2008 and 2013, Zaman served in various roles at Taibah University, as deputy vice president for development and quality and dean of the law faculty. He was the president of the Education and Training Evaluation Commission from June 13, 2019, to 2021. Zaman was appointed to the board of directors of the Literature, Publishing & Translation Commission on March 7, 2024.
Zaman is the recipient of the Prince Bandar bin Sultan Award for Scientific Excellence and the Rashid bin Hamid Award for Culture and Science.<ref name=":0" />