Featured Visiting Artists Ken Rinaldo Visiting Artist - ARTificial Life, Robotics, & Emergence ARTificial Life, Robotics, and Emergence Ken Rinaldo is an artist and Professor of Art and Technology at Ohio State University. His interdisciplinary media art installations investigate the intersections between natural and technological... 202007 Scott McCloud Visiting Artist - Comics: A Medium in Transition Comics: A Medium in Transition American comics are changing fast. Bolstered by the literary ambitions of the "graphic novel" movement, a flood of international influences and the growing importance of new technologies, the comics landscape... 172007 Squirrel Eiserloh, Technical Director, MumboJumbo Games Squirrel is a veteran programmer/designer seeking to find ways to help gaming discover its full potential as a medium. His path through game development has spanned a number of games from early online MUDs to action/adventure/role-playing games... 82008 Eddo Stern Eddo Stern is an artist and game designer. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and lives in Los Angeles. He works on the disputed borderlands between fantasy and reality, exploring the uneasy and otherwise unconscious connections between physical... 132008 David Hellman David Hellman is an artist living in San Francisco. From 2004-2006 he worked on a dreamlike web comic called A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible. Since then, he has been doing the graphics for an upcoming XBOX game called Braid. ... 222009 Luftwerk w/ THE DANCE CENTER Luftwerk is a Chicago based artistic collaborative made up of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero that explores and creates projection designs and experiences. Luftwerk constructs innovative uses of video projections that... 42010 Chris Crawford Chris Crawford is a noted computer game developer who created such games as Wizard for the Atari 2600 and Scram for the Atari 800 as well as noted games for the Atari 8-bit series such as Eastern Front (1941) and the highly regarded computer¬... 182010 Previous Visiting Artists IAM Visiting Lecture: Jon Satrom & Nick Briz Jon Satrom undermines interfaces, problematizes presets, and bends data. He spends his days fixing things and making things work. He spends his evenings breaking things and... 72012 Visiting Performance: lucky dragons lucky dragons is an ongoing collaboration between Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Active as a band since 2000, they are known for their... 202012 Visiting Lecture Series: Joseph Delappe Joseph DeLappe is a Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada where he directs the Digital Media program.... 192012 Visiting Lecture Series: John Pobojewski John Pobojewski is an intermedia artist/designer focusing on blending the worlds of movement, print, sound, video, and generative art. John is a principal at the studio 3st since 2003, together with Rick Valicenti and Bud... 142012 Visiting Lecture Series: Jamin Warren, Kill Screen Magazine Jamin Warren is the founder and editor of 222012 Visiting Guest Lecture: David Sears ***Note that this lecture is only open to Columbia students, faculty and staff. No recording of any kind will be permitted. David Sears has had the good fortune to work for and learn from some of... 162011 Visiting Lecture Series: Ethan Einhorn & Anthony Vaughn from SEGA America Ethan Einhorn is the Creative Director at the U.S. branch of SEGA. He is focused on the strategic management of popular brands such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Monkey Ball, Aliens, and Shinobi. Ethan provides... 202011 Visiting Lecture Series: Gordon Kummel Chicago-based new media artist Gordon Kummel will present his past projects including hacks of the XBOX Kinect and other interactive interfaces. 122011 Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Matt Board & Janell Baxter Final lecture for the Spring semester! Janell Baxter is an Assistant Professor in the Interactive Arts and Media department at Columbia College Chicago. She... 282011 Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Chad Moore Chad Moore is the Technical Art Director at WB | Turbine Games and he co-founded and teaches at Rigging Dojo. IMAGE CREDIT: Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar 212011 show all visiting artists...