Disciplinary Interests: science

Dr. Mel Alexenberg
Mel Alexenberg lives in Israel where he is Founding Dean of a new School of Art and Multimedia at Netanya Academic College, Professor Emeritus at Ariel University Center of Samaria, Head of Programs in Art and Design, Emunah College in Jerusalem, 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, 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.
Richard J. Urban
Richard is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves as a graduate research assistant for the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project and as project assistant for the Metadata for You & Me: A Training Program for Shareable Metadata. Previously he worked with the ECHO DEPository Project. Prior to returning to his graduate studies, Richard served as the Operations Coordinator for the Collaborative Digitization Program (aka Colorado Digitization Project), which assisted libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage organizations providing online access to their collections.
David Bogen
David Bogen received his B.A. in philosophy from Macalester College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University. Since 1997, he has been the Director of the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College. He is the author of Order Without Rules: Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation(SUNY Press: 1999) and, with Michael Lynch, The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (Duke University Press, 1996) as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews that explore the intersection of language, technology, and everyday orders of social practice. His most recent work focuses on social, organizational, and perceptual issues in the design of computer mediated interactive environments.
Janet Simons
Janet Simons is an instructional technologist at Hamilton College supporting the scholarship of teaching and faculty development programs. Janet specializes in tailored course designs that integrate technology and learning theory to achive specific learning goals.
Michael McLeod
Michael McLeod is an online trainer and Academic Technical Support Specialist at Trinity Western University
Gary Wells
Gary Wells is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at Ithaca College.
Sean Pollack
Sean Pollack has worked as a technologist at campuses in California while teaching writing and literature part time. He is now on the faculty of Pomona College as a Visiting Assistant Professor.