 The expositions were originally developed by Dominic Milano, editor of "Keyboard Magazine," who served as conference chair, in collaboration with Robert B. Gelman, event producer and Director of Business Development for Miller Freeman Expositions.Other paid staff members and volunteers also assisted in event preparation, including arts organizations YLEM and EZTV, as well as author and publisher Michael Gosney of "Verbum Magazine," who later co-produced a series of Digital Be-Ins with Robert Gelman from 1993 to 1998.The term cyberarts is a portmanteau combining the root word of cybernetics, dealing with the study of control systems in machines and human nervous systems, and the word for the broad creative fields dealing with the creation of objects of form, beauty, and expression.