Claudia Hart, Adjunct Professor
Prof. Hart's work appears in a show called "Risky Business", curated by Dana Dale Lee at P.P.O.W. Gallery (www.ppowgallery.com), opening on Monday, August 14th.
Prof. Hart has been awarded a 2005-2006 Pratt Faculty Development Grant.
Prof. Hart's work was featured in "Post Everything" at the Rotunda Gallery, in "TIME’S ARROW -> TWELVE RANDOM THOUGHTS ON BEAUTY" also at the Rotunda Gallery, and in “Embodied Technologies /Technologized Bodies,” which has toured Art Interactive, Boston Mass, the Fringefest, Los Angeles, CA and the Silverlake Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA. She curated and appeared in the exhibition “Can We Fall in Love with a Machine” at the Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, chaired a panel with the same title at the College Art Association conference in Boston, presented her work at MIT, and edited a book of essays also called “Can We Fall in Love with a Machine,” published by the Wood Street Galleries with a grant from the Warhol Foundation. In addition, Hart's work, Timegarden 02, was presented at the Margret Mead Film and Video Festival in the Museum of Natural History, in NY. Her Timegardens and other works were exhibited in a personal exhibition at PS122 last September 2006. | Rob O’Neill
Adjunct Instructor
With the help of Paris Mavroidis, DDA Graduate Student and Digital Arts Lab Graduate Research Assistant, Prof. O'Neill will present in the Siggraph 2006 Guerilla Studio (July 30 - August 3, 2006):
"Hacking 3D: Recontextualize Your Online 3D Avatar With OGLE (OpenGLExtractor) and a 3D Printer or Google Earth"
Eyebeam's Open Lab publishes the open-source software package OGLE (OpenGLExtractor) for capturing 3D geometries from applications using OpenGL. With OGLE, attendees can capture 3D geometries of avatars and other forms from a variety of video games. The captures will be fabricated with 3D-printers, exported into GoogleEarth, or saved for use in other applications.
Prof. O'Neill was featured in "The Studio Visit", an exhibition at Exit Art. "The Studio Visit" included the work of over 160 national and international artists who were invited to create a short video on the subject of their workspace. ( www.exitart.org )
In November 2005, O'Neill contributed an original artwork to the Kidrobot charity event, the MUNNY SHOW. To benefit children affected by hurricane Katrina (via Feed the Children), artists and celebrities were invited to customize an 8-inch vinyl toy to be auctioned on-line.
At 2005 SIGGRAPH, O’Neill presented excerpts utilizing SyFlex (http://www.syflex.biz) from an independent short film entitled Blank, which has recently entered production. O’Neil discussed the film's pipeline and plans for other uses of SyFlex in the film. Rob is the Studio Technical Director at Eyebeam in NYC and was previously a Character Technical Director at PDI/Dreamworks on the feature length animated films Shrek 2 (2004) and Madagascar (2005). | Rick Barry
Professor; DDA Interim Chair
Prof. Barry has been elected by the members of international ACM SIGGRAPH to the position of ACM SIGGRAPH Director for Education, effective June 1st, 2006. As a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Board of Directors, Prof. Barry will serve on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. As Director for Education, I'll chair the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee, whose charge includes Interactive and Poster Competitions, Conference Activities, Curriculum Workshops and Knowledge Base, Education for Visualization Committee, South American Activities, Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source,
Academic Information Index (Education Directory),
The Education Booth, The SPACE–TIME Student Competition, Educators Grant Program, Computer Graphics Education 06 workshop in Vienna (Eurographics)
Prof Barry has been appointed by Scott Owen, President of ACM SIGGRAPH, to serve on the oragnization's newly-formed Digital Arts Committee (DAC).
In November 2005, Prof. Barry was a key speaker at the annual AICAD (Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design) Symposium in Philadelphia. The theme of the symposium was "Respecting Boundaries: Teaching the Disciplines Within an Interdisciplinary World." Prof. Barry's presentation was entitled "Respecting Boundaries While Transcending Them: Teaching Art & Design in a Convergent World."
In August 2005, Prof. Barry participated in a discussion on the "Art and Technology" program, broadcast on WPS1 RADIO. The topic of this broadcast, hosted by digital artist Daniel Durning, explores how today’s colleges prepare students to be artists using digital technologies. Other guests included Professor Bruce Wands, Chair of the Computer Arts MFA program at School of Visual Arts, and Professor Peter Voci, Chair of Fine Arts at New York Institute of Technology.
"Art and Technology" and all other WPS1 shows are archived for online listening at http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/art_and_technology.html.
Prof. Barry was Chair of MetroCAF 2005, the NYC Metropolitan College Computer Animation Festival conducted by NYC ACM SIGGRAPH.
At the 2005 College Art Association Conference in Atlanta, Prof. Barry served as a panelist and made a presentation entitled "The Technological Imperative in Contemporary Art and Design Studies."
In early 2005, Prof. Barry served as a reviewer for the SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery and appeared in the "Crossing Disciplines" drawing exhibition in The Schafler Gallery at Pratt Institute. | Peter Mackey, Associate Professor
Prof. Mackey's latest short story will be published in the next issue of Fictitious Force.
Entitled “Havermeyer’s Ink”, the speculative fiction tale is set in a city where the streets are clean and safe, and all free speech is dangerous. A former professor, now being rehabilitated as a janitor, seeks out the source of an insidious ink with a penchant for spelling-out revolutionary slogans on the walls he’s condemned to keep clean. | Claudia Herbst
Professor
Prof. Herbst’s work was included in the traveling exhibition for the 2005 International Festival of Cinema and Technology. In 2004, her work was screened at the MadCat Women’s International Film Festival in San Francisco, CA and featured in the group show X-Semination, at Kings Gallery in Melbourne, Australia.
Prof. Herbst’s essay titled “Code: Gendered Privileges of Literacy,” is included in an anthology titled, "Lost and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information Technology," edited by Hannakaisa Isomaki and Anneli Pohjola; published in 2005 by the University of Lapland, Finland.
In 2005, Prof. Herbst presented a paper titled, “Code: Radical Languages of the Information Age,” at the International Communication Association 55th Annual Conference in New York City.
Prof. Herbst's essay "Una súplica por nuestro futuro: lenguaje, tecnología y la lente masculine," appears in the February issue of the journal Lectora: Revista De Dones I Textualitat, published by the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. (The essay has been translated from the English. Its original title is: "A Plea for Our Future: Language, Technology and the Masculine Lens") | Lara Kohl, Visiting Instructor
Lara is featured in "Salad Days- Second course", a new exhibition at Artists Space.
For exhibition information, visit:
http://www.artistsspace.org/salad_days2006
Lara Kohl was featured in "The Studio Visit", an exhibition at Exit Art ( www.exitart.org ). "The Studio Visit" featured the work of over 160 national and international artists who were invited to create a short video on the subject of their workspace and creative process. |
| Jamie Allen, Visiting Instructor
In October 2005, Jamie Allen curated an exhibition of new media and physical sculpture entitled WOOD METAL WATER (www.lmcc.net/woodmetalwater), presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. | Michael O'Rourke, Professor
Prof. Michael O'Rourke has a one-person exhibit of his
murals and mural designs at the Blue Hill Cultural Center in Rockland County, NY. The exhibit, on view from November 7, 2005-April 21, 2006, includes "Picnic", a 7' x 45' multimedia mural fabricated during his sabbatical last year, as well as "New York #2", an earlier 7' x 16' multimedia mural. The multimedia murals include live processed video (using Max/Jitter), pre-recorded video, and pre-recorded sound. Also included in the exhibit are a mural-sized print and several smaller prints of other mural designs.
Details about the exhibit and work exhibited can be found at: www.michaelorourke.com under the "Blue Hill Exhibition" link. | Edward Darino, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Prof. Ed Darino participated lin ANIMADRID 05 -- a gathering of animators from arround the world, where more than a hundred films in all styles, techniques and categories were screened.Among the reknowned artists were Jerzy Moskowicz and Jimmy Murakami.
Prof. Darino also participated at ISKRA along with Cuban artist Juan Padron, the director/animator
of VAMPIRES IN HAVANA I and II, as well as film producer Juan Jose Mendy. | Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols
Visiting Instructor
Svjetlana is a composer and producer who wrote music for the fillm Proud, directed by Mary Pat Kelly and featuring late Ossie Davis and Stephen Rea. The film was screened in April 2005 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. | Linda Lauro-Lazin
Assistant Professor
Professor Lazin served as Chair for the SIGGRAPH 2005 Art Gallery as part of the internationally recognized ACM SIGGRAPH Conference.
The Art Gallery collaborated with several programs such as Emerging Technologies, Computer Animation Festival, Sketches, Panels and Web Program, to create a unified exploration of art and science.
Professor Lazin’s artwork is included in Bruce Wands' new book, "Art of the Digital Age", published by Thames & Hudson, February 2005.
Professor Lazin was interviewed on the Art and Technology program on WPS1 RADIO at the end of 2004. To download the interview, visit:
http://www.wps1.org/include/
shows/art_and_technology.html | Beth Warshafsky
Adjunct Associate Professor
Prof. Warshafsky directed and produced the trailer for the 2005 SIGGRAPH Art Gallery.
In 2004, Prof. Warshafsky’s animations were featured in the 2nd International Haiku Image Festival and in "150 Years Since The Birth of Rimbaud", a series of events held in honor of the birth of French poet Arthur Rimbaud. |
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