Alan Bedian spent over three decades working at the intersection of technology, design, and pattern recognition. In 1991 he founded Skquark Inc., a systems architecture and development house building bridges between complex technical systems and the people who have to use them. He later earned a BA in MultiMedia from UC Santa Cruz—not the multimedia of slide decks, but a rigorous, convergent discipline spanning computer science, cognitive psychology, visual design, audio engineering, human-computer interaction, and information architecture. Along the way he's independently built 30+ websites, worked in the film industry, co-written five feature screenplays, and picked up working knowledge of 35+ programming languages and frameworks.

Today he runs Skquark Inc. and PC Wise Consultants, and is the creator of AEIONic Diffusion Deluxe, an AI-powered multimedia platform for pattern recognition and creative synthesis, and AeionOS, a schema-driven AI operating system built to replace the dozen disconnected tools most businesses juggle with one unified platform. He's also served as technical director for the 5D Events BioMed Expo & Alien Event. Across every one of those projects, one conviction only sharpened: water was the substrate everything else was running on.

He didn't set out to study water—it kept resurfacing anyway, in project after project, until the pattern became impossible to ignore. He lives in Southern California, where a home studio has slowly become what he calls a “water research lab,” though friends insist it looks more like a shrine with very expensive sensors.

We are water, remembering itself.