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Full Time Faculty
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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, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 12:00 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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Dave
Gerding
Associate Professor
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Office Hours : Mon 9AM-Noon; Wed Noon-3PM
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David Gerding, MBA, is an associate 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. In the early nineties, at game developer CyberDreams, he served as Marketing Manager and later, as a leading technology related editor, columnist and writer, Professor Gerding published in over twenty national and international technology publications, trade and consumer. Professor Gerding is a McCarthy Technologies certified team and collaboration skills facilitator, a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a co-author of the programming text “ASP.NET Namespace Reference” by WROX Publishers (2002). He owns Versive LLC, a business development and technology-oriented consulting services firm. His consulting clients over the 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 in the field of serious games, Professor Gerding has served as Principal Investigator of ~$1.8 million of federally funded cooperative agreements and managed an additional ~$1 million research grant. He is currently Principal Investigator of Construct, a cooperative agreement with the Human Research and Engineering Directorate of the U.S. Army Research Office. Additionally, Professor Gerding is evangelizing his vision of "constructive games" - games that render lasting social value as a function of play.
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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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Office Hours : Mon, 3:30-5:30 Tues, 12-3
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Patrick Lichty (b.1962) is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the activist group, The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. He began showing technological media art in 1989, and deals with works and writing that explore the social relations between us and media. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney and Turin Biennials, Maribor Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars Electronica, and the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA).
He also works extensively with virtual worlds, including Second Life, and his work, both solo and with his performance art group, Second Front, has been featured in Flash Art, Eikon Milan, and ArtNews.
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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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Part Time Faculty
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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 : I don’t have any office hours. However, I encourage my students to contact me if they have any questions – either by email sjb44@hotmail.com or by phone 312.320.4378.
Bio:
I have designed and built websites for 10 years, and have worked "in the industry" for six years. HTML and CSS are my BFFs.
I have taught in our fine, fine department since the Fall 2001 semester. Presently, I teach Authoring Interactive Media.
I am currently a Graduate Student at DePaul University, working on attaining my Masters Degree in New Media Studies.
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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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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
Bio:
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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Office Hours : All day every day
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Bill Guschwan graduated from Notre Dame and moved on to Apple with some colleagues. He was on the founding team for Quicktime, where he wrote technical articles and created the first Quicktime sample movie. He was then on the founding team at 3DO, and moved on to Sony to launch the PlayStation and where he was the main technical liaison for the PlayStation in the US. He worked for Ken Kutaragi in 1995 in Japan at the Sony headquarters. Currently, he works in the interactive arts and media department at Columbia College, is the resident juggler for the WNBA's Chicago Sky, is a Pilates and Meridian Stretch instructor at Ultimate Fitness in Evanston, and enjoys dancing, drumming and philosophy in his spare time.
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Office Hours : By Appointment
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Patrick's work examines the spaces, movement, and relationship of commodities and people, power structures, ideological expression in engineered and cultural forms, cultural memory, and speculative possibilities of alternative ways of living. Based in video and digital media, but including other materials and objects, it has been shown at spaces such as The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Antena in Chicago, The Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, and in solo exhibitions at Eyedrum and the Saltworks Gallery Project Room in Atlanta, and A\V Space in Rochester NY.
He also sometimes teaches at SAIC, and has been a visiting artist at RISD, The University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Scripps College, and The University of Memphis. He was an Assistant Professor at the Georgia College & State University Art Department from 2002 to 2007, where he started the digital media area. He has also worked as a web and print designer.
Patrick grew up in New Hampshire and received an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, a B.A. from Hampshire College, plays music with The Wood Knots, and runs Eel Space here in Chicago, where he loves to live.
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Margarete (Peggy)
Huber-Draver
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Peggy Draver (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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Heejoo Kim is a visual+digital artist, graphic/web designer, video producer/
editor, and educator.
She received a MFA degree in Film, Video, and New Media from The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA degree in Art and Tech from The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and BFA degree in Painting and Drawing from
Hongik University in Korea. With a diverse academic background in painting,
animation, video, and design, she has been teaching over 15 years.
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Office Hours : after class
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A native Hyde Parker, Claudia earned a BA in behavioral science from the University of Chicago and also an associate degree in fine art from the American Academy of Art. While she continues to make art and work as a portrait artist, a love of typography led her into pre-press publication for print. She has worked in editorial and advertising production and graphic design for the past ten years. Since 2002, she enjoys sharing what she knows as adjunct faculty at Columbia College Chicago in the Interactive Arts and Media department. Note: Tree nuts rank among her favorite foods, which may explain some of the extra-ordinary company she keeps.
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Office Hours : None - available by email or IM
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Lauren Liss is an alumna of the IAM department, as well as an
instructor for Columbia's Center for Instructional Technology. She
runs a freelance design business, works part-time as lead designer
at an advertising boutique, and writes for several online sites.
She is passionate about design that not only looks good, but
functions well.
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Office Hours : By Appointment
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jeff
meyers
Operations Manager
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Office Hours : All day every day.
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Jeff knows some thing about puters!!!!
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Weston Morris is both a visual and performing artist who integrates the use of technology as a means to express his artistic vision. He received his Degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied under notable technology artists, Doris Vila, Edward Wesley, Ellen Sandor, and Edwardo Kac. Their insight on the endless possibilities of what technology can bring into the world of Art inspired Weston to investigate and create what he refers to as Hybrid Art (HA). He defines HA as the visual fusion of analog methods with digital methods to create images.
In his work, Weston often uses contemporary ideas in combination with vintage and modern materials and image acquisitions with a strong use of his HA technique. His work has been shown in various gallery exhibitions in and around the mid-west and California. In addition, Weston’s works are in numerous private collections.
He continues to explore new ways to expand his artistic vision using HA. Weston also teaches Digital Image Design at Columbia College Chicago. Currently he resides in Chicago, Illinois with his family.
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Robert
Neuenschwander
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Office Hours : M - F 9 to 5
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A native Australian, David Noffs has lived and worked in the Chicago area most of his life. During the 1970‘s and early 80‘s he was involved in the Avant-Garde Music movement in Chicago and was an early innovator of the “Performance Art” genre. He was a founding member of Musica Menta, along with Don Malone, Michael Zerang , Kent Kessler, Katherine Hughes, Eric Neumann and Dan Scanlan.
In the late 1980’s and 90’s he was a co-founder and United Nations delegate for a non-government organization (NGO) that he helped spread worldwide specializing in prevention education. During that time he oversaw the development of interactive programs, printed materials, music and computer software for children ages 5 to 15.
Since 2001, he has worked at Columbia College Chicago as an adjunct faculty member in the Interactive Arts and Media department teaching Computer Applications, Sound for Interaction and Web Design courses. In 2005 Mr. Noffs joined Columbia College Chicago full time as Classroom Instructional Specialist in the Center for Instructional Technology as part of a Title III grant to oversee the development of online interactive tools for incoming and transfer students. In this capacity, his work also includes teaching faculty and staff ways to use Learning Management Systems (on-line coursework, grading, portfolios and advising tools) like Moodle.
Mr Noffs holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Roosevelt University and Master’s Degree in Public Health from Benedictine University. He is married to Laurie and has three sons, Sam, Harry and George.
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Office Hours : By Appointment
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Office Hours : Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm
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Andrew Oleksiuk has been making digital art and media for
over 25 years and teaching digital media for over 10 years. After
several years growing a successful tech consulting practice, Andy
joined Columbia College Chicago as a full-time staff member in
March 2000. His current duties include supervising Tutors,
Equipment Specialists, Lab Aides, and Media Technicians in the IAM
open studios. Andy is also currently web team member for the
undergraduate Interactive Arts and Media department of the School
of Media Arts at Columbia College Chicago.
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Office Hours : M 10-12, T 11-1, W 3:30-4
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I am a member of the English Department faculty at Columbia College Chicago. Columbia College provides a liberal arts-based education for students interested in careers in the performing and media arts. I teach Composition and New Media classes at Columbia, and look forward to participating in the Cultural Studies program.
I earned my PhD in English from the University of Florida in 2004,
where I studied Film and Media Studies as well as Rhetoric and Composition.
My research interests include: Rhetoric and Composition theory, particularly work in the sub-field of Computers & Writing; New Media studies; Grammatology (the study of the history of writing); and Film and Media Studies. My work has appeared in Kairos and Computers and Composition Online, among others. I also have some experience in programming web applications. For example, my web-based gradebook program is in use by several instructors in the English Department at the University of Florida.
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Office Hours : None,but usually stationed in Room 1319, 600 S. Michigan
Bio:
I've been on the staff of Columbia College since a cell phone was
the one call they let you make to your lawyer, as a graphic technician and designer;
graphic artist and small publisher of artists books and magazines, CCC graduate and FOB (father of boys)
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Office Hours : By appointment Only
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Robin Savage executed his first computer art in 1962, it was
step and repeat patterns in punch cards. Robin's initial college
education was in Photography and Print Making. He has worked in
photography and graphic design for national corporations to family
business, non profit originations, as well as freelance. He has
produced 9 independent 16mm shorts. Exhibited in the US and Canada and
has works in many corporate as well a private collections. In the
early 1980's after being involved with computer graphics he returned
to school to study computer science. Since graduating as a
"programmer" he has worked on many DBMS systems writing maintained
programs, compilers, formatters, translators, conversion programs, and
program generators. He has taught computer related class as an adjunct
facility member of Columbia, and several other Chicago Colleges since
1986. He currently spends his time between teaching and messing around
with boats.
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