Charles M. Falco is Professor Emeritus of Optical Sciences and Physics at the University of Arizona. Falco has published more than 250 scientific manuscripts and co-edited two monographs. He also has seven US patents, given over 400 invited talks at conferences, research institutions, and cultural organizations in thirty-two countries, and has been elected Fellow of four science and engineering professional societies.
In addition to his scientific work, Falco has assembled one of the world's most extensive libraries of motorcycle books and has published Motorcycling at the Turn of the Century (1995) and The Gold Star Buyer's Companion (2015). Falco was co-curator of The Art of the Motorcycle at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1998. In recognition of The Hockney-Falco Thesis, which was based on their discovery that artists of such repute as van Eyck, Bellini and Caravaggio used optical projections in creating portions of their paintings, Falco and world-renowned artist David Hockney have received the Ziegfield Lecture Award from the National Art Education Association, the Dwight Nicholson Medal from the American Physical Society and were invited by UNESCO to speak in the opening ceremonies of the United Nations International Year of Light.
Ultan Guilfoyle is a film producer, director, curator and writer whose films have appeared on HBO, Bravo and PBS in the USA and the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 in the UK. At the BBC he produced music and arts programs including The Whistle Test and Live Aid. In 2001 he produced the film 1071 Fifth Avenue for ITV's The Southbank Show with creative partner Bob Geldof. Working with the late director Sydney Pollack, Guilfoyle's film Sketches of Frank Gehrywas an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics.
Guilfoyle has made films with architects Renzo Piano, Annabelle Selldorf and the Japanese Pritzker-prize winning architects, SANAA as well as the Yale School of Architecture and Yale Law School. Guilfoyle was the founding director of the Film Department at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, where he luter co-curated the landmark design exhibition The Art of the Motorcycle. He has contributed to books including Spoon (2002) and Phaidon Design Classics (2006) both by Phaidon Press and his writing has been published in international publications including the New York Times, the lndependent and Design Magazine.
