Marianna Ellenberg, Visiting Instructor
Marianna's video work is featured in "THE PLEASURE SEEKERS", curated by Dan Halm, at Chashama Times Square Gallery. Her work will also be on view during LMCC OPEN STUDIOS, Thursday April 16, 6-8pm, at Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s project-based residency program. | Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols
Visiting Associate Professor
Svjetlana's piece "Before and After the Tekke" for amplified electronics and voice won the First Prize at the International Chamber Music Festival in Sarajevo where it was premiered in the fall of 2008. Her music was also recently featured at the Times Center in New York City, the Light and Sound Music series at the Old Stonehouse in Brooklyn, NY and on News 12 Cable TV. She is featured in the forthcoming book of narrative portraits of contemporary women composers in American music, writtenby Dr. Jennifer Kelly. | Rob O’Neill
Adjunct Assistant Professor
In November 2008, Prof. O'Neill traveled to Singapore as a guest artist to teach a one-week Masterclass in Character Animation at Tisch Asia.
During his visit, he presented a public lecture entitled "The Future of Animation" at the Cathay Building Picturehouse.
Also by invitation, he delivered a private lecture entitled "Animation + Innovation" to the digital artists of the Clone Wars Series at the Lucasfilm Animation Singapore studio.
These talks discussed cutting edge innovations in animation technology which are driving the art form, and included work carried out at the Pratt Digital Arts Research Lab.
Prof. O'Neill gave a public lecture at the 92nd Street Y in New York City entitled "Animation: State of the Art" on November 20th. This ticketed event presented the modern animation process to the public by using examples from O'Neill's work and clips from contemporary films.
Prof. O'Neill's video, "Cryptid Memoir", was featured in "MIXER Underground" at EYEBEAM on November 8th. Cryptid Memoir explores the hidden nature of creatures studied by pseudo-scientific cryptozoologists. By deconstructing popular video and photographic imagery of underground species like Bigfoot and The Loch Ness Monster, their existence is both doubted and validated. The work is part of a software program O'Neill is developing to track alleged and hidden creatures.
Rob's textbook "Digital Character Development: Theory and Practice" was released by Morgan Kaufmann in November 2008 and is a software agnostic overview of the process of creating animated characters for animation and games.
In 2007, Prof. O'Neill exhibited work and presented a lecture entitled, "The Art and Science of Morphometrics" at the Intersculpt2007 and DIGITAL SCULPTURE AND BIOMORPHISM symposium in Nancy, France. Intersculpt is the world-wide biennial devoted to computer sculpture and art/sciences relationships.
As part of the SIGGRAPH 2007 Educator's program, Prof. O'Neill presented a QuickTake entitled "openPipeline: Teaching Animation Production Pipelines in the Arts Context".
Prof. O'Neill's article, "Emerging Congruence Between Animation and Anatomy" was published in Leonardo (MIT Press, issue 40:2, April 2007) in the Special Section: "ArtScience: The Essential Connection".
In 2006, Prof. O'Neill presented "Hacking 3D: Recontextualize Your Online 3D Avatar With OGLE (OpenGLExtractor) and a 3D Printer or Google Earth" at the 2006 Siggraph Guerilla Studio in Boston. Prof. O'Neill's video work was featured in "The Studio Visit", at Exit Art gallery in New York City. "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 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 is currently in production. O’Neil discussed the film's pipeline and plans for other uses of SyFlex in the film. | Rick Barry, Professor
In 2006, Prof. Barry was elected to the position of ACM SIGGRAPH Director for Education. As a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Board of Directors, Prof. Barry serves on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. As Director for Education, he chairs 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 SpaceTime Student Competition, Educators Grant Program, Computer Graphics Education 06 workshop in Vienna (Eurographics). Prof. Barry was also appointed to serve on SIGGRAPH's 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. 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 explored how today’s colleges prepare students to be artists using digital technologies. "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" 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. | Michael O'Rourke, Professor
In 2006, Prof. Michael O'Rourke had a one-person exhibit of his murals and mural designs at the Blue Hill Cultural Center in Rockland County, NY. The exhibit included "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. | 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. | 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/
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