Annette
Barbier
Chair
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Office Hours : W 1:30 - 3:00PM
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Annette Barbier uses new technologies to address issues of home, domesticity, and the ways in which identity is bound up with one's environment. It has moved from an emphasis on the personal to a consideration of the global, looking at ways in which home has come to be defined more broadly as populations shift, and as our interdependence becomes increasingly clear.
Barbier graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA. She chairs the Interactive Arts and Media Department at Columbia College, Chicago, where she teaches new media theory and practice. She came to Columbia from Northwestern University, where she directed the Center for Art and Technology.
She has exhibited in the International Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA), Arts Electronica, the International Digital Media Art Association (IDMAA) and has show at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and screened work in numerous festivals and on public television and cable. More detail may be found at: http://iam.colum.edu/abarbier
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Office Hours : Tuesdays 1:30 to 6:00 pm, 1:30 to 3:00 pm
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Janell Baxter is an artist, educator, and interactive media developer. She began creating interactive art (in both traditional and digital mediums) in 1993 and has been focusing on emergent and adaptive systems for the past several years. She is currently working on a series of small bots that analyze visuals in search of meaning and inspiration for their own “artwork”. These bundles of code have been anthropomorphized in her view as budding artists, and their continued artistic development will soon expand to include audio (in collaboration with Dr. Joseph Cancellaro).
Commercial work over the past decade has primarily focused on building solutions that enhance communication and collaboration; creating technologies that increase the effectiveness of teams and individuals. These applications have been primarily web based utilizing technologies and languages such as .NET, C#, SQL, ASP, CSS, and XML. Applications that write web standards compliant code have been a particular interest.
Ms. Baxter has been teaching interactive media at Columbia College Chicago since 1998. She has a MS degree in computer science from the University of Chicago, a BFA in studio arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and she is a McCarthy Technologies certified instructor. More information about her and her work can be found on her website: janellbaxter.com.
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Joseph
Cancellaro PhD
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Office Hours : Monday 10am -1pm, Tuesday 10am - 1pm
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Dr. Cancellaro is an accomplished composer and sound designer. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Composition and Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music in Boston, a Master's Degree in Composition from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Edinburgh University in Scotland. His music has been performed around the world and he has written many film scores. Interactive audio and sound sculptures are also a significant part of his output.
While in Europe he worked for the BBC and ECAT in Great Britain as well as the Warsaw Electro-acoustic Music Studio in Poland. Dr. Cancellaro has taught at the University of Edinburgh, The I.M Paderwski Poznan Academy of Music in Poland, the Polytechnical Institute in Poland, and was the senior sound designer at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center also in Poland. Recently he has published a book on sound design: 'Sound Design for Interactive Audio' published by Thompson Delmar Learning. Current projects include three film scores, the sound design for a feature film, a cello concerto, 12 pieces for piano, and a chamber ensemble piece. In October, Joseph will give a live interview regarding his compositions on a local Seattle radio station.
Along with his musical and sound design accomplishments Dr. Cancellaro also works as a 3D designer and teaches the subject as well. Joseph has been faculty at Columbia College since 2000.
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Office Hours : Wednesday and Thursday 10:30am - 12 Noon and 1:30 PM to 4 PM
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Tom Dowd (MA, Communication) is a 20-year veteran of the game design business, having been first published while still in high-school. He is one of the co-creators of the award-winning Shadowrun role-playing game, as well as writer/contributor to other role-playing titles. He was a developer at FASA Corporation, working on the Shadowurn, BattleTech, and EarthDawn game lines and joined the Microprose-FASA Corp joint venture FASA Interactive in the mid-90’s where he was senior designer on the RTS computer game MechCommander. In 1999 he was the lead designed on the Microsoft/Day:1:Studios Xbox/Xbox-Live million+ selling release, MechAssault. His other computer game credits include Shadowrun games for the NES and Sega consoles, the MechWarrior 2 and MechWarrior 3 game series, Axis ' Allies: Iron Blitz (Hasbro; PC), Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude (PC, Xbox, PS2), and DuelMasters (PS2). He is currently the lead of Skotos Tech’s online multiplayer text-based social/rpg game Castle Marrach and is a full-time instructor at Columbia College Chicago in the Interactive Arts and Media department teaching and building curriculum in their Game Design major.
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Office Hours : ON SABBATICAL
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David Gerding, MBA, is a tenured professor in the Department of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago. His technology career began in 1987 as the national advertising manager for a pre-Internet electronic publication that was the world's first to be independently audited for circulation. After undergraduate studies in screenwriting, he enjoyed entry-level positions in Los Angeles, including stints at director Michael Apted's company and “covering” scripts for Fred Roos, executive producer on the Godfather and other Copolla film projects.
In the early nineties, at game developer CyberDreams, he served as Marketing Manager and led a successful public relations campaign that culminated in a prestigious “Codie” industry award for the product. As a leading technology related editor, columnist and writer, Mr. Gerding published in over twenty national and international technology publications, trade and consumer. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a co-author of the programming text “ASP.NET Namespace Reference” by WROX Publishers (2002).
Mr. Gerding is a McCarthy Technologies certified team and collaboration skills facilitator and owns Versive LLC, a business development and technology-oriented consulting services firm. His consulting clients over they years have included both consulting firms like McKinsey & Company, Sanwa Bank, DFC Intelligence and McCarthy Technologies as well as small to mid-size enterprises and startups in a variety of markets. As a researcher, Mr. Gerding is currently project director for a simulation training project for the Office of Army Research under a grant from the Department of Defense.
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Niki
Nolin
Associate Chair
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Office Hours : Tuesday 10am- Noon, Wednesday 10am - Noon and 1-3pm
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Niki Nolin, currently the associate chair of the new Interactive Arts and Media Department at Columbia College, is a visual artist who works with technology. She holds an MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a concentration in art and technology. She has worked on numerous collaborative projects with writers, many on-line, for organizations such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, UCLA, eNarrative Roundtable Boston, the College Art Association, and many others.
She has engaged in several projects with poet Maureen Seaton, including CHAOSity and Literal Drift, poet Sherry Antonini, including a Fate Saved Us performance, sculptor Suzanne Cohan-Lange in Dune Archetypes and poet Nancy Gaziano, Point Normal: Pipe Dreams of Sink Women. Her work has been featured at the MCA Chicago, SIGGRAPH, Artemisia Gallery, and numerous other locations, real and virtual. Niki teaches imaging, time-based media and experimental website design at Columbia College Chicago.
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Office Hours : Tuesday 10:30am - 12:30pm
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Wade Roberts is a documentary-maker, and has worked in writing, film, video, photography, and audio. His works have been widely published, exhibited, screened, broadcast, and presented at numerous conferences. Since the 1980s, he has used computer technology to create interactive documentaries in collaboration with the subjects, participants, and co-authors. Wade's current research and practice focus on technology-enabled convergence of disciplines in education and in the arts, media, the humanities, and sciences; he is currently working with teachers at a Chicago elementary school and a middle school on the development of project-based curricula that utilizes technology as a powerful learning and authoring tool.
He is also an academic development partner involved in the creation of an open-source, peer-to-peer 3-D authoring and collaborative environment. Wade has taught at in all three of the college's schools: Media Arts, Fine and Performing Arts, and Liberal Arts and Sciences, including both undergraduate and graduate courses. He is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the teaching academy for the New Millennium Studies: The First-Year Seminar course.
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Office Hours : Monday 11-3pm, Wednesday 11-12, 4-5pm
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Before joining the faculty of Columbia College in 2003, Ms. Shannon was the Vice President of Institutional Operations for the New York City investment management firm Neuberger Berman, a senior executive for SEI Corporation, and the president of her own management consulting firm which she started in 1996.
After a rewarding career in Information Systems, Ms. Shannon served for two years as an Information Technology Peace Corps Volunteer in Belize, Central America and taught in the Computer Science Department at the University of Belize.
Ms. Shannon holds an M.A. from New York University and a B.A. from DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.
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Although his background is in fine arts/painting, Dave has been making digital art and media for over 10 years. He has taught digital media for over 6 years. Dave joined Columbia College Chicago as a part-time faculty member in 2000. Dave recently received a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia’s graduate division. In addition to teaching at Columbia, Dave also teaches Web Design and Art History at Westwood College.
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Office Hours : Sal does not have any office hours. However, he encourages his students to call him on his cell phone if they have any questions: 312.320.4378.
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Sal J. Barry has been creating websites for nine years. He is currently employed by RC2 Brands, Inc.—a toy and collectible company near Chicago—where he designs and updates their various websites. He has worked there since 2001. That year, Sal also became an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College’s Interactive Arts and Media Department. He currently teaches Authoring Interactive Media, and has previously taught Designing for the Web I and Intro to Computer Graphics—as well as numerous workshops for Columbia’s Center for Instructional Technology. Additionally, Sal does freelance work when time allows.
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I joined the faculty in February 16, 1996 after a satisfying and
successful career in the private sector. I held executive and
principal positions with several organizations, primarily in
contract textile converting and distribution and the transportation
services industry.
I bring real world business sense and experience to the classroom.
I am not only an expert in the applications I teach, but have in
depth and hands on knowledge of their uses in business, journalism
and the arts.
Off campus, I pursue a thriving consulting business with diverse
clients ranging from the financial sector to the travel services
industry.
Creative Interests include: Photography, where I had my own Wedding
studio for a number of years (with 26 photographers) moving from
film to digital as the technology moved forward.
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Erik Brown is a part-time instructor teaching the DID, AIM and MTD 1 courses for IAM. He received his MFA from UIC in 1994, and has been an exhibiting artist (as EC Brown) and curator since. He runs the California Occidental Museum of Art (COMA) – an informal artspace in Humboldt Park – with Annika Seitz.
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Misha Caylor does not like writing about herself, particularly in
the third person. While in grad school at UIC in the mid-nineties,
she decided to have a whack at freelance web design, and has been
whacking at it ever since. Misha thinks she joined Columbia's part-
time staff in either the fall of 1999 or the spring of 2000, when
she was taken on to teach web design. She then learned JavaScript
for the specific purpose of teaching a class in it, and proceeded
to develop the curriculum for both the intro and advanced
JavaScript classes. Misha also occasionally performs contract work
for a local arcade game developer, by which the reader of this bio
should not infer that she kills people for money.
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I have a B.A. in Radio-Television from Ohio Wesleyan University,
an M.A. in Speech Arts from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D.
in Communication from Temple University, Philadelphia. I work as
Senior Research Analyst for the Chicago Sun-Times.
In the past, I have served as Trustee of David C. Cook
Foundation, Elgin, Illinois, 1972-83; director Illinois Municipal
Institute, Dundee, 1983-88; managing editor Senior American.
Newspapers, 1988-90; and publisher/director of my own startup, Cook
Communication, since 1990.
Since 1989 I have taught computer subjects for Columbia College
and, since 1991, marketing, communication and English subjects for
Devry University and Keller. I serve as publisher of the popular
writer’s website, AuthorMe.com, poetry websites enskyment.org, and
innisfreepoetry.org and have published articles in Journalism
Quarterly and Journal of Broadcasting. I am currently listed in
Who’s Who in America.
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Theresa is currently working as a C# programmer with a specialty in web applications. Her area of interest is the exploration of the intersection of the pursuits of art and technical tools that make imagery accessible to the larger audience.
She has technical expertise in HTML, CSS, DHTML, Java Script, ASP, PHP, ADO, VB, COM+, XML, XSLT, C#, ADO.NET, Access, SQL, mySQL, mySQL, Query Analyzer, Enterprise Manager, DTS, Visio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe ImageReady, Macromedia Flash, Design Patterns, OOP, Home Site, Dreamweaver, Interdev, Visual Studio.NET, VSS.
She also has artistic expertise in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Digital Imaging, Color Theory, GUI Development, Conceptual and critical deconstruction. She maintains a studio at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
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Jason E.
Geistweidt, PhD
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Office Hours : 2:00 - 3:00 PM Wednesday (you can find me in the lab) and, of course, by appointment
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I am sound artist currently based in Chicago, USA. My output spans a wide range of formats, from compositions for traditional instruments and electro-acoustics to multi-channel fixed (tape) works, including cross-media collaborations in theatre, film, and dance. At present I am working on various projects connected to live performance and interactivity, exploring the more spatial and cinematic qualities of acousmatic performance.
At the centre of my practice is a commitment to exploration and experimentation. For me, the creative process is comparable to a navigator sailing his ship through uncharted waters; in time he will survey the area and establish outposts constructed from the resources he finds around him. In establishing himself, he is continually reconstructing his perspective through experiences, recalling memories of these experiences, and frequently reworking his tools. These are my current creative metaphors.
I have just completed STROKE., a commission for the Naughton Gallery at Queen's University Belfast. The work, in addition to those of other participating composers, will accompany a new exhibition of ceremonial silver works this spring. I hold a Masters degree in Music Technology from the University of Limerick and a PhD in Sonic Arts from The Sonic Arts Research Centre, the Queen's University Belfast.
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MFA School of the Art Institute, Exhibitions:
"not doing" Silverlake Film Festival 2006
"Elevation" Unexpected Token, NOVA Art Space 2006
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Margarete (Peggy)
Huber
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Peggy Huber earned her B.A in Interdisciplinary Arts combining:
Multimedia, Photography and Graphic Design from Columbia College
Chicago and her M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul
University. She has done consulting work in the area of website
development and interactive interface design. Currently she is
employed as a Video Editor and Producer at the Chicago Tribune in the Editorial
Department. She is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia
College. Peggy also received a grant for creating an experimental
course, Digital Expressions, for the ESL (English as a Second
Language) students that combined elements from ethnographic studies
taught in the English Department and a technical component from the
Digital Media/Interactive Arts and Media Department (formerly Academic Computing Department.)
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