Professional Organization: Science
Rob Lancefield
museum information work, standards, metadata, information architecture, digital preservation, digital media development, interaction design, usability
Rob Lancefield is Manager of Museum Information Services at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University; he currently serves as President of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu).
jose marichal
Jose Marichal is a Professor of Political Science at California Lutheran University. He blogs at thickculture.blogspot.com
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.
David Bogen
Sociological Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Human-Computer Interface Design, Media and Cultural Studies, Participatory Design, Philosophy of Language, Critical Theory
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.
Wendy Gem
I recently completed research on using Geographic Information Systems, GIS in education., I am just beginning to study the negative impacts of using technology in the classroom and the marketing hype behind it.
Sciences (Natural, Applied, Social), Humanities (Philosophy, History, Language, Arts (Visual, Performing)), Research
Faculty of New Media
10 years experience in an academic environment including six in Information Technology
Jeffrey S. Bullington
Jean-Claude Guédon
Jean-Claude Guédon is Professor of comparative literature at the Université de Montréal
erica brownstein
Erica Brownstein is an associate professor of science education at Capital University and is also the Preservice Accreditation Coordinator for NSTA.
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.
Joanne L. Stewart
Joanne L. Stewart is Professor of Chemistry at Hope College and Director of Integrative Studies for Hope's Howard Hughes Medical Institute Program.
James Jay Morgan
Evaluation of commercial knowledge bases for clinical information support, Integration of information resources in online learning environments
Jim Morgan is Director of Educational Technology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and Associate Librarian for Systems
Amit Prakash
J Lee Lehman
J. Lee Lehman is a Profssor and Academic Dean at Kepler 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.
Pamela Kay Hanson
Toni Carbo
developing modules for critical thinking in information ethics, exploration of policy differences between the U.S. and EU for e-government
Professor, School of Information Sciences and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
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.
Daniel Sewell
1. Scholarship in distributed or distance higher education institutions., 2. The scholar-practitioner model in higher education.
Dan Sewell is Associate Provost for Research at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA.
liz.dorland@mcmail.maricopa.edu
understanding the role of animation and visualization in the teaching of chemical concepts and processes, an interdisciplinary discussion of the teaching of the nature of science in introductory courses
Liz Dorland has taught college chemistry since 1972. She has been teaching in the Maricopa District in the Phoenix area since 1985 and has been on the faculty of Mesa Community College since 1993. She is a member of the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education's Committee on Computers in Chemical Education. From August 1993 to August 1994, Liz served as a program officer in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation.
