artist bio:

Dylan Tauber is a photo/digital/multimedia/ambient/techno/electronic music artist and writer based in Jerusalem and Hawaii. Son of Waves Studios is an independent studio facilitating these creations and the communication of Double Mirrors. Dylan's work includudes underwater photography of Dolphins in Miami, the Red Sea, photography of the "New" and "Old" Jew in Israel, NYC, and music and writing inspired by cyber-spirtual revolution. All Son of Waves Studios creations, including posters, prints, 2 music CDs, CD ROM, and now book, are available online through DoubleMirrors.com and various distribution partners.

Chronology:

Born in Seattle, WA, 1974,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1992-93
B.A, visual arts, Columbia University,NYC, 1996,
Project Double Mirrors CD ROM - May 1996,
Double Mirrors Soundtrack ambient/techno alblum - May, 1996
DoubleMirrors.com, Nov 1 1996
moved to Jerusalem Jan 1, 1997
DolphinNet.org/Jedinet/303net.com - 3/97
Founded Son of Waves Studios- SWStudios.net, Nov 1, 1997
SWS Miami- 2/98
Project Double Mirrors CD ROM released -4/99
The Doorway ambient/techno alumblum released 5/99
SWS Hawaii- 9/99
11-1-99- planing on uploading Double Mirrors, the book, and returning to Jerusalem in honor of the new milennium.

Author Bio ­ 100 words. (version 2)

Dylan Robert Tauber, is an independent digital artist, who has been producing electronic music, art, and writing since graduating Columbia University in 1996. He has traveled around the world searching for a dolphin paradise and a dream mermaid, but has been based in Jerusalem, Israel, as well as Hawaii and most recently a secluded island in the south eastern Pacific.
In addition to publishing 2 books, the The Doorway and Double Mirrors in 2001, he also has produced the Project Double Mirrors CD ROM, completed in 1996 / released 1999, and 2 ambient/techno music CD soundtracks released in 1999.
Dylan also runs the SWS Network which consists of 12 web sites which has accumulated over 1.5 million visitors since 1997. http://sws1.net
Dylan@sws1.net

Long Author Bio ­ 6000 words (for book web page, including several book exceprts)

Dylan Robert Tauber, is an independent digital artist, who has been creating electronic music, art, and writing since graduating Columbia University in 1996. He has traveled around the world, but has been based in Jerusalem, Israel, as well as Hawaii and most recently a secluded island in the south eastern Pacific.
In addition to publishing 2 books, the The Doorway and Double Mirrors in 2001, he also has produced the Project Double Mirrors CD ROM, completed in 1996 / released 1999, and 2 ambient/techno music CD soundtracks released in 1999.
Dylan also runs the SWS Network which consists of 12 web sites which has accumulated over 1.5 million visitors since 1997.

Dylan was born 11/1/1974, in Seattle, Washington, and was brought up in Brookline, MA by his 2 parents along with 2 brothers and sister. At the age of 5 he was given a small pocket kodak camera for his birthday, and as an introverted child, began to photograph and ponder the world around him. Not in harmony with his family or the surburbian American Modern Orthodox Jewish lifestyle, Dylan was often sad. He saw a freudian therapist named Dr. Weil for 8 years, most of this time without charge. Dylan left home at the age of 13 to attend a hermetic yeshiva boarding school in Milwaukee, WI. 7 Rabbis, and 70 untamed yeshiva guys from questionable backgrounds were his new neighbors in a setting more bizzare than any hollywood movie. The setting was a Gothic Mansion built 100 years ago by a Lumber Baron on the shores of Lake Michagen. It was secluded on a private and wooded lakefront propery which was also a favorite hangout of the nudists of Wisconsin.
Dylan found repreive from the often repressive Yeshiva environment by accidently discovering Master B. K. Yun's Black Belt Tae Kwon Do academy just down the street, and practiced his new art enthusiastically, obtaining a Green Belt and more self confidence.
After 3 years in Milwaukee, Dylan dropped out of High School in order to attend Yeshiva University in NYC as a very early admissions Freshman at the age of 16.
A year later, Dylan spent a year as an overseas student at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This year, which began in a Kibbutz Ulpan program for the summer, was to change his life. It was living on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, that Dylan had a vision of Double Mirrors, the New Jew, Dolphins, The Ethiopian Woman (Sunitayahu) and what he refers to as the meaning of life.
Dylan worked as a contributing photographer for a section of the Jerusalem Post newspaper and for a student newspaper at Hebrew University. He placed 3rd place in a university wide photo contest for a photograph of a protest by Ultra-Orthodox Jews at a Jerusalem construction site depicted Rabbis in Black juxtaposed to bright yellow Bulldozers.

The following year, Dylan was accepted to Columbia University, in NYC. Dylan returned to NYC in order to communicate what he had seen in Jerusalem. As a visual arts major, he studied black and white photography, and wrote as an investigative journalist for the campus student newspaper, The Columbia Daily Spectator. Dylan became a staff writer and then associate editor for the summer of 1994, after several stories which achieved acclaim, including several exposes on campus security.
In the summer of 94, after meeting a dancer at a Times Square strip club named Sarah, Dylan was inspired to begin writing his book Double Mirrors.
Dylan returned to Israel at the end of the summer of 94, with the goal of capturing the New Jew on film, and also work on his book project.

In 1995, upon his return to NYC and second year at Columbia , Dylan purchased a PowerMac 8100, and began digital photography and electronic music with the purchase of his first studio level synthesizer.
He returned to Israel again for 3 months in the summer of 1995 for more photography, writing, and searching for the Ethiopian Woman.
In 1996, Dylan moved off campus to a studio in the East Village, and began a multimedia project, which included an interactive book, 400 images, an original electronic ambient/ techno soundtrack, and video. At the same time, he discovered Columbia was not only home to the Manhattan Project, but he was taking 2 art and electronic music classes in the very same building where the first research on constructing the Atom Bomb was conducted- Prentis Hall on 125th and Broadway.

Dylan completed his multi-media project in the form of a CD ROM shortly before he graduated Columbia in May, 1996.

The Doorway, a book about the long effort to publish Double Mirrors, begins with the events of 1997 until the publication of both books in 2001.

1997 ­ Jan 1, 1997, Dylan moved to Jerusalem, shipping the studio he built in NYC including music equipment, PowerMac, and imaging equipment. He began working as a multimedia artist for a web based Jerusalem company named Virtual Jerusalem, but left 3 months later. August 29, 1997, Dylan completed a swim from Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium to the Jaffa port. He had known this swim would mark his full transition to Son of Waves. On Nov 1 1997, he founded Son of Waves Studios, his business.
Dylan was traumatized in December of '97 upon leaving Israel for a 1 month visit to Brookline, MA, to visit his parents who had recently separated. Upon returning he was to find out Dr Weil, his long time friend and mentor had been murdered several days before.

1998 ­ Dylan returns to Israel with a poster printer, and is in emotional turmoil despite his business becoming a success. Frustrated with the excessive negativity and attachment by some of the adults around him, Dylan travels to Miami, FL in order to eventually swim with dolphins in the Florida Keys. He returns to Israel after a 3 week scouting expedition in Miami. Dylan drives to Nuweiba, Egypt, where he swims with a lone dolphin who has bonded with a Bedouin boy in the Sinai. Dylan returns to Miami later in the year, and rents a temporary studio.

1999 Dylan returns to Israel after swimming with dolphins in the Keys, but frustrated with the shallowness of Miami Beach. Later in the year he returns to Miami one more time, but this time goes straight from Miami to Hawaii, where he hopes his spiritual nature will be more in tune with the people around him. He stays on Oahu, and one month on Kauai, and eventually finds an apartment to rent, but leaves in late December 1999, realizing this is far from paradise.

Dylan returns to Jerusalem just before the 2000 doorway swings open. . On 1/01/2000 Dylan uploads the Double Mirror theory to his flagship web site DoubleMirrors.com. He stays in his Jerusalem studio as a hermit for 3 months, pondering the meaning of life, and new revelations come to him. It was during this period that he discoveries the spiritual origin of the universe, and that there are in fact infinite universes.
Watching CNN, Dylan was dreamed to the tranquil islands of the South Pacific. One of his earliest memories is identifying a Paul Gaugan painting of South Polynesian women to his proud mother at the age of 3 (pointing to the picture in National Geographic, and then to a painting by the same artist in a postcard hanging on the wall).
In March of 2000, Dylan travels once again, seeking a place where he can think, pray, swim, and live without distraction in complete harmony with his environment. . like a dolphin. He flies to Hawaii, this time the island of Maui. He is disappointed when the airline loses his Prophecy Keyboard. Disappointed with the high volume of tourists on Maui, Dylan spends 1 week in an overwater bungalow in Tahiti. He then returns to Hawaii, this time Big island, where he hears there are dolphins. . . . there are in fact dolphins, but the people prove to be a distraction. . Dylan travels later in the year to a remote jungle in Costa Rica where an expatriate american woman is running a dolphin retreat. . . later Micronesia, to a tiny island of 9000, then back to Big Island where he camps for 2 weeks on a remote coast with nothing but camping gear and his jeep. . . he works on completing his book project, but cannot upload due to not being able to get a cell phone. This spot is however the most peaceful and ideal spot for groking he has so far discovered. . . miles from anyone. . . until his tent is stolen . . . he has a wireless e-mail device set up at a nearby house and gets a message from somone in Sweden claiming to have married Sunitayahu. Dylan panics, and after various further traumatic episodes, leaves the island.

20001 arrives, and Dylan heads to Washington to visit with his ailing Grandfather. He is informed he must leave the Jerusalem studio. Dylan is alone and a wired hermit, but has a laptop and can go anywhere with a phone line and continue his mission. He flies to Chicago and spends 2 weeks at a seclduded business suitte hotel with a high bandwith connection. Dylan ponders returning to Israel immediately or continuing his search for a paradise island. He decideds never to try living in the 50 states again, but has a feeling about Guam. . . he flies to Japan in order to avoid Hawaii, and then on to Guam. But Guam is a dissapointment. And no dolphins. And then he discovers the nearby islands. . and Tinian where the B-29 carrying the Atom Bomb launched in 1945. . . and a lethal hula dancer named Eve. . .

3/ 2001 Korea, Turkey, and then Israel

And the saga continues. . stay tuned for futher updates until the actual publication of these books. Or you can read further updates here: http://DoubleMirrors.com/journal

http://sws1.net
Dylan@sws1.net