Professional Organization: Arts
Dr. Mel Alexenberg
Writing book 'How to Photograph God' based on student work in Israel (see blog www.photographgod.com)., Creating Facebook group 'Aesthetic Peace' (see blog www.aestheticpeace.blogspot.com)., In the tradition of Picasso's Guernica, creating and disseminiating webart to prevent genocide (see web artwork www.futureholocaustmemorials.org archived by Rhizome at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York), Writing paper for the International Journal of Education through Art and a chapter in the book 'Digital Visual Culture' being published by the National Art Education Association
art, art education, digital art, art & science, art & technology, Jewish studies, kabbalah, consciousness & culture, interdisciplianry learning
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.
Scott Siddall
Open source software: Sakai, OSPI, uPortal, Digital asset management, especially faculty collections and protocols for sharing content, Role of teaching and learning centers on the small campus
Environmental studies, in particular the tragegy of the commons in marine resource management, Socio-cultural dynamics of online collaboration
Scott Siddall is Assistant Provost and Director of Instructional Technology at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Dr. Linda E Kvamme
MUSE Conference: The Measuring Unique Studies Effectively conference, or MUSE, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, is designed to build a community of art and design professionals who share an intellectual curiosity about student learning and are committed to facilitating continuous improvement at the program, classroom and institutional levels., Critical and Creative Thinking, A Collaboration, Chair: Kristie Bruzenak, Savannah College of Art and Design, Dr. Linda Kvamme, Savannah College of Art and Design, Defining Art and Design Education: Creative and Critical Thinking, Joel Varland, Savannah College of Art and Design, Creativity: Alternating Modes of Perception and Location Within the Body, Cheri Jacobs and Nancy Emmeluth, Savannah College of Art and Design, What Relationships Exist Between Critical and Creative Thinking?, Laura Ng, Savannah College of Art and Design, Measuring Creative Thinking – The Roles of the Critic the Critique and Context, Mary Lou Davis, Savannah College of Art and Design, The Challenge of Developing Creativity
Steven John Thompson
Chaos theory and fractal geometries, ethics, globalization, iconicology, media iconics, new media informatics, performance esthetics, philosophy of science, technology & society (STS), virtual warfare, visual rhetoric
Steven John Thompson teaches English 314: Technical Writing at Clemson University.
Richard Parker
Sakai implementation, Email & Calendar migration and implementation, Disaster preparedness design, Multi-college ID management
Richard Parker is CIO at Harvey Mudd College
Anne Balsamo
Managing Director, The Institute for Multimedia Literacy, USC, "Science Mobilized" w/Onomy Labs Inc. (Menlo Park): Installation for the Liberty Science Center on the public communication of science news
Cultural Studies of Science and Technology, Feminist Theory, Interactive Media, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Engineering Design Research, Literacy Studies
ANNE BALSAMO serves as the Director of Academic Programs of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California. She is also a Full Professor of Interactive Media and Gender Studies. In addition to her academic positions, Anne has been a technologist and new media designer for more than a decade. In 2002, she co-founded, Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC who created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She held the rank of Principle Scientist, and served as project manager and new media designer for the development of RED's interactive museum exhibit, XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading. Prior to joining the research staff at PARC, Balsamo was an associate professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she directed the graduate program in "Information Design and Technology.� Her first book, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP, 1996) investigated the social and cultural implications of emergent bio-technologies. Her new book project, Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination examines the relationship between cultural theory, the design of new media, and the ethics of technology development.
Carol Ann Wald
20th Century and Contemporary American Literature, Science and Literature, Science Studies, Popular Culture, Interdisciplinarity
Carol Ann Wald is program assistant for the Electronic Literature Organization, and a doctoral candidate in English at UCLA.
Robert A. Stewart
Communication in Instruction, Communication in Religion, Interpersonal Communication, Public Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
Rob Stewart is Professor of Communication Studies and an Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University.
Nancy Kwallek, Ph.D.
Examines productivity and human response to the interior ambience of office environments or confined spaces;, Subjects work on office tasks in a variety of color offices;, Assess the effects of color on worker well-being (mood), productivity, performance and satisfaction;, The health and well-being of the environment on individuals; Investigating the effects of VOCs on office workers, indoor off-gassing and pollution caused by reprocessed Green and non-Green interior materials;, Effects on office worker productivity, performance;, Comparisons between interior finishes of conventional furnishings/finishes (emit VOCs), interior finished with user-friendly green materials, interior finished with recycled materials.
Psychological and productivityeffects of office environment on office workers;, Effects of interior color on mood and worker productivity;, Interior Design research
Dr. Nancy Kwallek is an endowed professor at The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, Director of Interior Design Program
Larry Frye
Katherine W. Haskins
Arts Library Visual Resources database migration and cataloging software upgrade and process improvements, Planning for a new Arts Libraries facility
Art history, Visual culture, Information management, Information literacy, Teaching with digital images
Director of the Arts Libraries at Yale since 2002; formerly, Head of Reference and Information Services, University of Chicago Library (1996-2002) and Art Bibliographer (1985-1998)
