Disciplinary Interests: Culture

Rachel Sagner Buurma, Anna Tione Levine, and Richard Li
Rachel Sagner Buurma is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College. Anna Tione Levine is a junior Honors English major at Swarthmore College. Richard Li is a senior Honors English major at Swarthmore College.
David R. Burns
Associate Professor David R. Burns holds a MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design. After practicing digital media art in New York City for nearly a decade and teaching at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute in Manhattan, David joined the faculty of Southern Illinois University. David developed Southern Illinois University’s first 3D computer animation sequence of courses and its first 3D computer modeling and animation lab. David specializes in teaching 3D computer modeling, animation, and media arts theory and practice. David takes an interdisciplinary approach to art combining a variety of mediums including 3D computer modeling and animation, digital video, sound design, and physical computing to push the boundaries of artistic expression. David's creative work has been exhibited internationally at art galleries, museums, film festivals, and public screenings. Most notably, his digital animation work has been screened at the National Film Theater in London, the National Media Museum in England, the Red Stick International Animation Festival in Baton Rouge, and the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City. David’s research has been presented and published at numerous international conferences including ISEA 2008 - the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Singapore, ISEA 2009 in Ireland, and the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) 2010 international conference in London.
Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss
Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss (born April 10, 1961 in Wels) is an internationally active communication scholar, art and media educator from Austria. Since 2003 he is professor of communication and education technologies in visual culture at the Aalto University, School of Art and Design in Helsinki. He is head of the international Master of Arts study programme ePedagogy Design – Visual Knowledge Building, which was awarded by the European Commission success story for an outstanding curriculum development project in 2007. He is author and editor of several books, including Mashup Cultures, (IN)VISIBLE. Learning to Act in the Metaverse.
Deb Sarlin
Deb Sarlin is the Assistant Director of Instructional Technology at Bucknell University.
Stacy L Patty
Stacy Patty is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Honors Program at Lubbock Christian University.
Dr. Mel Alexenberg
Mel Alexenberg lives in Israel where he is Head of the School of the Arts at Emuna College in Jerusalem, Professor Emeritus at Ariel University Center of Samaria, and formerly Professor at Bar-Ilan University. In the USA where he was born and educated, he was Dean at New World School of the Arts in Miami, Professor and Chairman of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, Associate Professor of Art and Education at Columbia University, and Research Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. His artworks exploring digital technologies and global systems are in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide, including: Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Baltimore Museum of Art, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Malmo Museum in Sweden, Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Jewish Museum in Prague, Museo de Art Contemporaneo in Caracas, and Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He is author of the books: 'Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture' (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2008), 'Dialogic Art in a Digital World: Judaism and Contemporary Art' (Jerusalem: Rubin Mass House, 2008) in Hebrew, 'The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness'(Intellect Books 2006), 'Aesthetic Experience in Creative Process' (Bar Ilan University Press), 'Light and Sight' (Prentice-Hall), and with Otto Piene, 'LightsOROT: Spiritual Dimensions of the Electronic Age' (MIT/Yeshiva University Museum). He was art editor of 'The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics', and has written numerous interdisciplinary papers.
Shayya,Mohammad
- 1973 master graduate on General philosophy - 1973-77 teacher vof philosophy at Secondary schools - Ph.d. on modern philosophy - 1977- full time assistant then full professor of philosophy at Lebanese University - Author and Translator( in Arabic and English) - Coordinator andco-author of the new curriculum of " philosophy and civilazation" branch of Lebanese Bac.(secondary degree)
Aaron Prevots
Aaron Prevots is Assistant Professor of French at Southwestern University. In addition to French through Songs and Singing, his current projects include studies of contemporary French poetry and numerous translations, in particular the full-length bilingual poetry volume Retour au calme / Return to Calm (Jacques Réa, trans. Aaron Prevots, Austin: Host Publications, September 2007).
George Borisov
My name is George. I am from Russia, St. Petersburg. I am 34. I am a doctor.
Brent Graber
Brent Graber is Director of Information Technology at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary.