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Amalia Anderson
Amalia Anderson is a Guatemalan born Maya/Latina organizer, activist, and media justice advocate. She has a B.A. from Macalester College and a J.D. from Hamline University School of Law. Amalia has worked in a number of community-based capacities including: community organizer, Teen Dating Violence Program Director, and Program Director for the Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights Project. She is a co-founder of Fourth World Rising--an indigenous youth leadership program with a focus on bridging local struggles to the international Indigenous movement Amalia is an anchor organization representative to the newly formed Media Justice Network and sits on the boards of La Escuelita, and the Indigenous Women's Network. Amalia is also a field representative for the American Indian Treaty Council. Amalia recently returned from the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, where she co-led the only all Indigenous Delegation from the United States.
Wayne Ashley
Wayne Ashley is an independent curator, producer, and consultant working at the intersection of media, technology, performance. Presently, he is he is consulting for Rich Mix, a new cultural center opening in London in 2006. He is also collaborating with the Belgian artist collective Workspace Unlimited on a series of workshops and exhibitions around virtual worlds, computer gaming, immersive technologies, and new possibilities for artistic practice and experience. Previously he was the Programs Director and Curator at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council where he organized public programming and exhibitions around art and technology. Among the many projects at LMCC, two events stand out: The Future of War: Aesthetics, Politics, Technologies; and Downtown Digital Futures. From 1999 to 2001, Ashley was the first Manager of New Media at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), one of America's foremost presenters of contemporary music, opera, theater, dance and film from around the world. He was hired to establish BAM's New Media Department; design, direct, and implement Arts in Multimedia (AIM), a research, art and technology project with Bell Labs.
Jared Ball
Jared Ball is an educator and journalist in Washington, DC. He teaches both African American and Media Studies at Frostburg State and the University of Maryland, College Park. His forthcoming dissertation is on the rap music mix tape as a source of Emancipatory Journalism. He is founder/host of FreeMix Radio: The Original Mixtape Radio Show (voxunion.com); managing editor of Words, Beats and Life hip-hop journal; and co-host of The Blackademics, on Washington's Decipher Hip-Hop Politics Block, Pacifica radio. He has a Masters from the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell and will complete his Ph.D. in Journalism and Media Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Shelley Barry
Shelley Barry is a South African artist currently completing an MFA in Film at Temple University as a Ford Fellow. Her films have screened at major international festivals. Her film Whole: a Trinity of Being was awarded Best Film at Superfest in California and Best Narrative Short at the Philadelphia Festival of Independents. Other awards include an Audre Lorde award and Most Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Pennsylvania. She has been a disability rights activist in South Africa and served as media manager on disability in President Mbeki's office. Board positions include the South African Film and Publications Board; Mediaworks, a community media organization; and Children and Broadcasting Foundation for Africa.
Roberto Bedoya
Roberto Bedoya is a writer and arts consultant working in the area of artists' support systems. As an arts consultant he has worked on projects for the Ford Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Urban Institute, and The Center for Arts and Culture. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including CMYK, the Hungry Mind Review, the Los Angeles Times, and The Movement Research Performance Journal. Most recently he authored for the National Performance Network the white paper U.S. Cultural Policy: Its Politics of Participation, Its Creative Potential (www.npnweb.org). Prior to his work as a consultant, he was the Executive Director of the National Association of Artists' Organizations (NAAO) a national arts service organization for individual artists and artist-centered organizations.
Ariella J. Ben-Dov
Ariella J. Ben- Dov is the co-founder, executive director and curator of the MadCat Women's International Film Festival. Founded in 1996, MadCat promotes avant-garde films by women directors from around the world. The Festival celebrates its annual event each September in the Bay Area and tours every spring to more than 20 museums, art houses and universities across the US. Ben-Dov writes about documentary and avant-garde film-her review of Barbara Hammer's, Dyketactics will be published in a book chronicling the history of experimental film due out next year. Ben-Dov was also invited to be a curator of the 2006 Flaherty Film Seminar.
Tania Blanich
Tania Blanich has served as Associate Director of National Video Resources since 1992. The New York-based foundation is dedicated to building audiences for independent media. She oversees the Media Arts Fellowships program, which awards Fellowships to media makers in the United States (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation) and in Latin America (funded the Rockefeller, MacArthur and Ford Foundations). She is active in the U.S. and Latin American independent media field, serving as a board member or advisor to several media organizations in the U.S. and Latin America. Blanich has edited two books devoted to the work of the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellows, among other publications and articles. Her writing was recently published in an anthology entitled "Cine, Video y Multimedia: La Ruptura de lo Audiovisual (Cinema, Video and Multimedia: The Rupture of the Audiovisual)."
Douglas Bohr
Douglas Bohr is Director of Public Programs and Exhibitions at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) where he oversees artistic programming, including the Artist-in-Residence program, exhibition and education programs in conjunction with the Founder and Artistic Director. Bohr holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boston University and a Master of Fine Arts from The University of North Carolina. Prior to joining FWM, Bohr served as Associate Curator at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, organizing exhibitions including "Picture Show: James Casebere" (2002). Bohr has also served as adjunct professor at Wake Forest University and faculty member of Governors School, a program for exceptional students through the NC Department of Education.
Joanna Bouldin
Joanna Bouldin is a Lecturer in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University. She completed her Ph.D. in the Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine in 2004. Her academic scholarship focuses on animation and media theory, as well as the construction of gender, race, and the body in popular visual culture. Recent publications include "Criminal Realism: Virtual Child Pornography, Photorealism and the Legislation of the Virtual Animated Body," (Entertext, online journal), "Cadaver of the Real: Animation, Rotoscoping and the Politics of the Body," (Animation Journal, 2004) and "Bodacious Bodies and the Voluptuous Gaze: A Phenomenology of Animation Spectatorship" (Animation Journal, Spring 2000).
Peter Bull
Peter Bull is the Online Community Developer at LTC, a community media and technology center in Lowell, MA. He is currently leading the development of the DigitalBicycle project and working to develop open-source solutions for community media distribution. The DigitalBicycle is a peer-to-peer system that allows PEG Access television stations, Community Media and Technology Centers, and independent media producers to publish, share, and syndicate their work to community television stations around the world. Mr. Bull holds a B.S. in Communications from Ithaca College.
Sharese Bullock
Sharese Bullock brings to Listen Up! her creative management skills in brand-building, event production, sponsorship marketing and community organizing. Most recently, she created a brand management company, which serviced for-profit and non-profit organizations with technical/creative writing, event production, fundraising and brand management. Sharese holds a degree in Communications from The University of Pennsylvania, where she also served as a campus event/concert producer and Marketing Representative for companies like Atlantic Records and Elektra Entertainment Group. Her financial skill was acquired through the Financial Analyst program in the Equities Division of Goldman Sachs & Company. She serves on the Advisory Board for Global Teens, a project of YMCA International and the Hip Hop Association.
Rebecca Campbell
Rebecca Campbell has served as Executive Director of the Austin Film Society since 1998. During her tenure, the Film Society expanded its nationally recognized exhibition and artist services, created Austin Studios, founded the Texas Film Hall of Fame, and established a community outreach and education initiative involving paid internships and summer youth camps. Rebecca has an MFA in Video and Film Production from UT Austin. She has produced award-winning CD-ROMs for Cortex Interactive, including "Film, Form and Culture;" worked on feature films in Austin and Los Angeles, and directed an award-winning documentary, The Town that Jack Built.
Michael W. Carroll
Michael W. Carroll is an Associate Professor at the Villanova University School of Law and serves on the Board of Directors of Creative Commons, Inc. Prior to joining the Villanova faculty, Professor Carroll practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and served as law clerk at the federal Court of Appeals and District Court in Washington, D.C. Professor Carroll is a graduate of the University of Chicago (A.B.) and Georgetown University (J.D.).
Kenyatta Cheese
Kenyatta Cheese is a pioneer in participatory media technology who likes to explore the area where culture, media, and community intersect. In 1998, he built the first 24-hour-a-day live streaming simulcast of public access television in the U.S. In 2000, he co-developed with Drazen Pantic the WiFiTV project allowing for the transmission of live on-location TV shoots via public WiFi hot spots. In 2003, his interest in the cross points of technology, media, and art led him to co-found screensaversgroup, a unique alliance of artists, mediamakers, and technology activists dedicated to exploring the relationship between art and audience, art and society. In addition to editing unmediated.org, Cheese also works with the Eyebeam Atelier in New York City.
Dr. Mark Cooper
Dr. Mark Cooper holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright Fellow. He is Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America where he has responsibility for analysis and advocacy in the areas of telecommunications, media, digital rights, economic and energy policy. He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases for public interest clients including Attorneys General, People's Counsels, and citizen interveners before state and federal agencies, courts and legislators in almost four dozen jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada. He is the author of Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age (Center for Internet & Society, Stanford University, 2003), Cable Mergers and Monopolies (Electronic download) (Economic Policy institute, 2002, paper), The Transformation of Egypt (Johns Hopkins, 1982), and Equity and Energy (Westview, 1983).
Roderick Coover
Roderick Coover explores synesthetic constructions of time and place and the relationship between word and image, especially in cross-cultural milieu. His work has been featured at M.I.T's Media In Transition Conference, and Milwaukee's Center for 20th Century Studies. He was a featured speaker at the European conference, Working Images and the Whitney Museum-University of Colorado conference, Rethinking the Visual. Publications include Film Quarterly, Visual Studies, and Visual Anthropology. Fellowships include USIA Hays-Fulbright, Whiting, Chicago Group on Modern France, and an LEF grant. He holds a Ph.D. in the History of Culture specializing in media arts and anthropology and is an Assistant Professor of Film & Media Arts at Temple University.
Erika Dalya Muhammad
Erika Dalya Muhammad is First Deputy Commissioner/Director of Arts & Culture for the City of Mount Vernon, NY and Executive Director of The Mount Vernon Hip-Hop Arts Center. She has held curatorial positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the American Museum of the Moving Image. Muhammad curated the critically acclaimed exhibition, Race in Digital Space, and has taught classes on film and emerging technologies at Yale University and The New School for Social Research. She received her Ph.D. from New York University and undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago.
Glorianna Davenport
Glorianna Davenport is a founding member of the MIT Media Lab where she leads the Media Fabrics (formerly Interactive Cinema) group. Trained as a documentary filmmaker, Davenport's recent work explores the emergence of "media fabric"- a new paradigm in and around modern communication networks comprised of media artifacts, structures and programs. Davenport's work and research centers around collaborative co- construction of digital media forms and is internationally recognized. In 2000 Davenport co- founded MediaLab Europe, a partnership between the MIT Media Lab and the Government of Ireland. To date, this partnership has facilitated Davenport's international reach as she endeavors to create storytelling systems which will appeal to a "widely dispersed society of audience".
Dee Davis
Dee Davis began his media career in 1973 as a trainee at Appalshop, an arts and cultural center devoted to exploring Appalachian life and social issues in Whitesburg, Ky. Appalshop thrived under Dee's direction as executive producer, and the organization created more than 50 public TV documentaries, established a media training program for Appalachian youth, and launched a number of initiatives that use media as a strategic tool in organization and development. Dee has served on several boards in various capacities including as president of the board of the Independent Television Service. He is a member of the Rural Advisory Committee of the Rural Network, and serves on advisory groups for the Open Society Institute and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Jay Dedman
Jay Dedman has produced in a spectrum of media outlets, from CNN to Manhattan Neighborhood Network. One of the founding vloggers of our thriving community, Jay has always encouraged and taught beginners from the get go. His envisions back channel conversations that are not confined by geography or traditional media barriers. http://momentshowing.net
Tony Deifell
Tony Deifell is Moderator, Chief Strategist & Founding board Director of KaBOOM!, Inc.. He was the architect of KaBOOM!'s growth strategy, which led to a $5 million investment from the Omidyar Network, started by the founders of eBay. As the national market leader for community-built playgrounds and skateparks, KaBOOM! generates 91% of its $13 million annual revenue through earned-income activities. In the nineties, Tony founded and served for eight years as CEO of the Institute for Public Media Arts, Inc., a national media education nonprofit that used storytelling to build youth leadership and to fight racism, sexism and other "isms." He serves on the board of directors for the Social Enterprise Alliance, the nation's largest association of nonprofits with earned-income strategies.
Helen De Michiel
Helen De Michiel has served as Director of NAMAC since 1996, to build national programs that strengthen the work of member media organizations through research, policy, organizational and leadership development, and technology planning. She is also a director, writer and producer whose creative work includes film, television and media installation. A participant in the media arts field since 1983, she has made several award-winning independent works (both dramatic and documentary), produced programming for public television, taught media practices at the university level, created regional media projects with youth and written about independent media. She has just completed "The Gender Chip Project," a documentary exploring the lives of young women pursuing their dreams to work in technology and science fields.
Aliza Dichter
Aliza Dichter is the Co-founder and Director of Programs for the Center for International Media Action (CIMA), a new not-for-profit organization providing strategic services to media advocacy, reform and education groups. Previously she helped found MediaChannel.org, where she became Senior Editor and Education Coordinator for an information network serving more than 1,000 media-issues groups. Aliza helped plan and launch the Action Coalition for Media Education, a national media literacy membership organization and works with the Angels of the Public Interest, an activist group challenging FCC deregulation. She sits on the board of Women In Media and News (WIMN), a women's media-monitoring, training and outreach organization and participated in the planning and strategy meetings that initiated the Youth Free Expression Network (Y-FEN).
Jennifer Dorner
Jennifer Dorner is the National Director of the Independent Media Arts Alliance (MAA), a national association, representing 80 independent film, video and new media production, distribution and exhibition organizations across Canada. Prior to this, Jennifer was the Director of eyelevelgallery, an artist-run centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia where she was instrumental in establishing the Association of Artist Run Centres of the Atlantic and was the Atlantic representative for the founding of the Artist Run Centre and Collectives Conference. The MAA, is an active member of the Canadian Arts Coalition which was initiated to lobby the federal government for increased funding for the arts.
Gene Dugan
Gene Dugan received his M.A. from the University of Essex, and ran
the film program at Plymouth Arts Centre in Plymouth, England. In 1978 he moved to Alaska where he worked with several nonprofits. He produced an AIDS education video series and live call-in TV broadcasts for Alaska Native families. The founder of Out North, he is now entering his third decade as a senior staff member of this multi-arts organization. Gene has served on grants panels for Alaska State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, and is a board member of the National Performance Network.
Michael Eisenmenger
Michael Eisenmenger, an educator and media producer, currently works in community outreach and education at Manhattan Neighborhood Network in NYC. In 1999, he co-founded the May First Technology Collective (formerly called Media Jumpstart), where he was on staff until 2003. A past professor of design and multimedia at Rutgers University, he served on the boards of the Paper Tiger Television Collective, Videazimut (an International Coalition for Democratic Communications) and was one of the founding members of the New York Free Media Alliance and the Autonomous Media Project. He has also worked in the projects of the Independent Media Centers since their inception and coordinated IMC television satellitecasts from Seattle, Washington and Mexico City.
Arthur Elsenaar
Arthur Elsenaar worked briefly with independent radio and television, and studied at Academy Minerva in Groningen, where he graduated with a stunning performance called Body Convention. Elsenaar developed a portable computer system for his performances, allowing him to control facial and other muscles via electrical stimulation. Elsenaar is interested in the relationship between body and technology, and the mechanical aspects of human behavior. He has exhibited and performed at various important festivals, including SISEA 1990, Out of Control Ars Electronica '91, Doors of Perception 1993, Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht 1994, ISEA '94 Helsinki, DEAF '94, Rotterdam, and most recently at venues in Zurich and Washington D.C. Elsenaar has also developed software for automatic radio stations (Agent Radio), and a wireless device for disabling nearby mobile phones (BuBL Space) with Taco Stolk.
Nettrice R. Gaskins
Nettrice R. Gaskins is an artist, educator, and youth advocate. Nettrice teaches digital media and media literacy for the Community Media & Technology Program at UMass, Boston and she is a computer arts academic liaison at the Massachusetts College of Art. She is a board member for CTCNet and NAMAC. She received a BFA in computer graphics from Pratt and a MFA in art & technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the priority area coordinator for digital media support programs for youth as part of the CTC VISTA project.
Shira Golding
Shira Golding is a filmmaker, graphic designer and activist who has been with the nonprofit Arts Engine, Inc. since 2002. Serving as the Director of Education & Outreach, Shira co-produces Arts Engine, Inc.'s projects: MediaRights, YMDi and the Media That Matters Film Festival. Shira writes and commissions articles on how alternative media is being used as a tool for social change, organizes workshops and screenings around the country, helps independent filmmakers develop their outreach campaigns, and develops curricula and take action guides for teachers and activists.
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is News Director and Morning Show Host at Pacifica station WBAI in New York City anchors the show Democracy Now! from NY. Goodman has covered U.S. foreign policy and reported for Pacifica in Mexico, Haiti and Indonesia. She won awards for breaking the story on a massacre of peaceful demonstrators in occupied East Timor. She is a recipient of a 1999 George Polk award for her work on Drilling & Killing.
DeeDee Halleck
DeeDee Halleck has been working in alternative forms of media since the early 1970s. She is a founding member of Paper Tiger Television, the grass-roots media collective, and co-founded Deep Dish Satellite Network. She is one of the founders of the Independent Media Center Movement, which has created alternative media centers in thirty-eight cities around the world. Her book, Hand Held Visions: the Uses of Community Media, was published in Spring 2001. Most recently she has worked on developing a television version of Democracy Now!, the daily national news program with Amy Goodman. This series is currently being uplinked to community stations around the country through the Deep Dish Satellite Network and Free Speech TV.
Tom Hansell
Tom Hansell has worked at Appalshop since 1990, producing documentary radio and television programming. Appalshop is an internationally acclaimed media arts center located in rural Kentucky. Hansell is currently producing a documentary examining the impact of national energy policy on Appalachian coalfield communities. His 2002 documentary, Coal Bucket Outlaw, screened on public television in 30 states and was part of the Museum of Modern Art's documentary fortnight program that year. Tom is a graduate of the Ohio University School of Telecommunications in Athens, OH
Hilary Harp
Hilary Harp is a sculptor working in a range of scales and materials. She has been working collaboratively with Suzy Silver since 2003. Her work has been exhibited at the Gale Gates Gallery, The Sculpture Center, White Columns and Esso Gallery in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, The Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial. She received a Pew Fellowship, a Creative Heights grant from the Heinz Foundation, and was artist in residence at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Kohler Center for Arts and Industry in Wisconsin. She has taught at Tyler School of Art, New York University, Carnegie Mellon University and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
Matty Hart
Matty Hart is the founder of Spiral Q puppet theater in Philadelphia, Hart has traveled around the world to share his knowledge to other grass-roots organizations interested in the mobilization of communities through the construction of full-scale giant puppet parades, toy theater, and neighborhood park pageantry. Committed to the cause of activism through the arts, Hart has successfully managed several actions and implemented effective plans for his organization's long term sustainability. Hart has worked with organizations such as the Bread and Roses Community Fund and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. Most recently he was part of the Director's team that provided strategic and logistical planning for major Olympic media events.
Ryanne Hodson
Ryanne Hodson started her career as a video editor at WGBH PBS Boston and in Boston public access. Another disillusioned television producer struggling to get distribution for artists, videoblogging has become her medium of choice for uncensored, unmediated communication. She envisions a huge population who have transformed themselves from media consumers to media creators. http://ryanedit.blogspot.com
Sherri Hope Culver
Sherri Hope Culver has been active in television and communications for over 16 years. She was the General Manager for WYBE Public Television. As a broadcast and communications consultant she has developed hours of television programming and worked with businesses to utilize television more effectively. Sherri has produced hundreds of programs, including The Turtle Stone: Legend of Abbott Farm, which went on to win two regional Emmy awards and the New Jersey Historic Preservation award. Sherri has also published The Television and Video Survival Guide: An Insider's Top Notch Creative and Technical Advice for Your First (Or Next) Production.
Joanne Hovis
Joanne Hovis is President and Principal Analyst of Columbia Telecommunications Corporation(CTC). Ms. Hovis is an analyst and attorney with a background in communications and commercial litigation. At CTC, she oversees the company's work for non-profit agencies and the Federal Government. As CTC's Principal Analyst she has co-authored extensive white papers regarding communications topics for the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies. Her work with non-profit organizations include the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, the William Penn Foundation, the Center for Digital Democracy, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Ms. Hovis also frequently serves as project manager on large projects such as the telecommunications network that CTC planned and implemented for the City of New York in the 1990s.
Charlie Humphrey
Charlie Humphrey has been Executive Director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers since 1992. Pittsburgh Filmmakers is one of the oldest and largest media arts centers in the United States. Prior to joining Filmmakers, Humphrey was editor and publisher of In Pittsburgh, an alternative weekly paper. Prior to that he was a radio producer and announcer, and still does occasional voiceover work for film and other media. In addition to his role at Filmmakers, Humphrey is Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, assuming the dual positions after the Center closed amid a financial crisis in August of 2004. Until late last year, Humphrey sat on the board of Directors of the Andy Warhol Museum, and was president of the board of Quantum Theater for ten years. He is past co-president of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture and past chair of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance.
Galen Joseph-Hunter
Galen Joseph- Hunter is Executive Director of free103point9, an organization focused on promoting artists who explore transmission mediums for creative expression. Simultaneously, she has worked at Electronic Arts Intermix since 1996. She has curated numerous exhibitions and public performances on video and transmission art. Recent projects include Microradio Sound Walk at the Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; and Radio 4x4 at the Center for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk in Poland; Airborne at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC; Tune(In))) Santa Fe at SFAI; and Tune(In))) The Kitchen, NYC. Other recent exhibitions include The Workshop of the Film Form, at EAI, NYC, and Video Jam, at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida.
Hana Iverson
Hana Iverson is a new media artist, whose work crosses between digital, video and sound media. She currently is Director of the New Media Interdisciplinary Concentration at Temple University. Her work was recently exhibited at the International Center of Photography (2004), Dorfman Projects, Mary Anthony Gallery, Pulse Art, Art in General, and 494 Gallery in New York; the Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City; and in Canada. Her long-term installation and multimedia project, View from the Balcony, was on view at New York's Eldridge Street Synagogue from 2000-03. She has received support for her work from the Covenant Foundation, TU Vice Provosts Research Initiative, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Iverson holds a Masters Degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Paul Jay
Paul Jay, founder and Chair of Independent World Television, is building a news and current affairs network that will defend the public interest and the highest standards of journalism. A non-profit broadcast service, IWT will be financed by viewers across the globe -- independent of corporate or government funding and commercial advertising (www.iwtnews.com). Jay founded and produced counterSpin, CBC Newsworld’s flagship current affairs debate show, is the founding chair of Hot Docs!, the Canadian international documentary film festival, and made several films, including Return to Kandahar, Hitman Hart: wrestling with shadows, and Lost in Las Vegas, among others.
Steven Jenkins
Steven Jenkins is Associate Director of Frameline, presenter of the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. Previously, he honed his curatorial and nonprofit media-arts administration skills as Executive Director of San Francisco Cinematheque, the world's premiere proponent and presenter of experimental, avant-garde film and video. He has curated programs and served as a juror for media centers and film festivals in San Francisco and nationwide, as well as in England and Korea.
Fred Johnson
Fred Johnson is a documentary maker, teacher, writer, and communication policy analyst. Johnson directs the Community Media and Technology Program at Umass Boston's College of Public and Community Service. He is a former telecommunications national policy associate for the United Church of Christ's National Telecommunications Consumer Coalition and has worked with government, non-profits, educational and community groups in the area of telecommunications policy and community development for over 25 years. He also directed Media Working Group's Open Studio project, a joint initiative of the Benton Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, focused on the strategic use of the Internet by arts and cultural groups. In 2000, he directed the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture's Digital Directions project, a national planning process, funded by the Ford Foundation, that focused on the impact of digitization on the media arts.
Matt Johnson
Matt Johnson is Founder and Executive Director of Strive Media Institute focuses on the formal training of high school aged teens in a comprehensive curriculum of five fields of mass communication: print journalism, integrated marketing communications, technology, film and video production, and radio broadcast. Thus far, 100 % of Strive Media's 200 plus graduating students have gone on to pursue higher education at universities that include Harvard, Cornell, UCLA, Fisk, Tuskegee, Boston College, among others. Recognized as a social entrepreneur and for his innovative approach to ending the under-representation of minorities in mass communications, Matthew received the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship in 2001.
Art Jones
Art Jones is an image/sound manipulator working with film, digital video, and Installation. His documentaries, experimental music videos, cd-rom's, live videomixes, and installations often concern the inter-relationships between popular music,visual culture, history, and power. As a VJ he has performed with a variety of musicians and artists including DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Soundlab, DJ T-Ina/Femmes with Fatal Breaks, Amiri Baraka, Anti-Pop Consortium, Alec Empire and Phillip Virus. He is currently working on a trilogy of and an interactive dvd-rom, as well as performing as a VJ at various venues in the U.S. and abroad. He lives New York City.
Ken Jordan
Ken Jordan is one of the pioneers of Web-based multimedia. In 1995 he led the development and served as founding editorial director of SonicNet.com, the first multimedia music zine and digital music store. SonicNet was named best website of 1995 by Entertainment Weekly and won the first Webby award for music site before becoming a property of MTV. In 1996 Mr. Jordan became creative director of Icon New Media, publisher of two seminal, award-winning online magazines: the general interest zine Word.com, and the action sports site Charged.com. In 1999, he co-founded the public interest portal MediaChannel.org, in partnership with Globalvision and the international civil society network OneWorld.net; it was OneWorld's first U.S. based project. In 2002-2003 he was Director of the Art and Culture Network. He is currently a writer and digital media consultant based in New York, with articles recently published in Wired, Index, and other journals.
Marsha Kinder
Marsha Kinder is a Professor of Critical Studies in USC's School of Cinema-TV where she has been teaching since 1980. Since 1997 she has directed The Labyrinth Project, a research intiative at USC's Annenberg Center for Communication, producing database documentaries in collaboration with independent filmmakers (Pat O'Neill, Carroll Parrott Blue and Peter Forgács), writers (John Rechy and Norman Klein) and cultural institutions. She is now developing on-line courseware on Russian Modernism, with a role-playing game called "Montage." Kinder is also a cultural theorist and film scholar, and has published over 100 essays and ten books, including Playing with Power, Blood Cinema, and Kids' Media Culture. She was founding editor of Dreamworks (1980-88), and since 1977 has served on the editorial board of Film Quarterly. In Fall 2005 she was appointed USC's Vice Provost for Research Advancement in the Humanities.
Danny Lee Ladley
Danny Ladley has served as curator and administrator of the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center (formerly the Sheldon Film Theater) since 1973. He oversaw the design and construction of the center’s new facility, completed and opened in 2002, that houses two theaters, a film and video storage facility, a research library, offices, and lobby, thanks to a major donation he solicited. An avid programmer, in 1992 he began the Great Plains Film Festival and he currently serves on the staff of the Telluride Film Festival coordinating the selection of films for the Filmmakers of Tomorrow program as well as on its Student Film Program Advisory Committee.
Roger LeMay
Roger LeMay is a twenty-five year broadcast veteran who joined WXPN in January 2003 and is responsible for the overall operations of the station. Roger's recent triumph is the completed construction of the stations' new state-of-the-art studio and headquarters that opened in October 2004. He championed the Campaign for WXPN to raise the more than $4 million required for the project, a unique partnership with World Cafe Live, the performance venue named for the station's flagship program that resides alongside the station in its new home. Prior to joining WXPN Roger served as general manager and news director of Fox's WTXF TV in Philadelphia where he created the award winning “The Ten O'Clock News”.
Anna Lefer
Anna Lefer is Program Officer for Youth Initiatives at the Open Society Institute(OSI). She supervises OSI's Youth Media Program, which works to empower young people as they engage in the discussion of critical social issues. Lefer also oversees the program's grant making, and she designs program development strategies. Currently, she is developing OSI's strategic grant making in support of college activism and youth outreach. She earned a B.A. in Sociology from Wesleyan University, and studied documentary radio production at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. Lefer was a fellow in the 2004-2005 Coro Leadership New York program, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Urban Justice Center.
Amy Lesser
Amy Lesser is the Director of Programs at CTCNet, a network of more than 1,000 community technology centers in the U.S. that provide community access to and training on computers and other technologies. Amy oversees Youth Visions for Stronger Neighborhoods, a nationwide grant project that uses multimedia tools and training to engage at-risk youth in community decision-making to strengthen their neighborhoods. Amy was a Luce Scholar in Japan with the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at Osaka University.She has an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College in Physics and Philosophy and an M.S. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Wendy Levy
Wendy Levy, Director of Media Arts and Education at Bay Area Video Coalition, directs the operations of all of BAVC滆žἠeducational workshops, media arts and exhibition programs, industry-certified training, and adult workforce development initiatives. Prior to joining BAVC in 2004, Levy served as the Festival Director for the Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema in San Francisco, and has worked with a range of Bay Area nonprofits, including New Performance Gallery, Performing Arts Workshop, San Francisco Artists-in-Schools, KQED, and the Film Arts Foundation. An accomplished filmmaker, Levy滆žἠfilms have received numerous awards and have screened at Sundance, Lincoln Center, and at festivals around the world. She also teaches film and new media courses at San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley.
Claude Marks
Claude Marks is the Project Director of The Freedom Archives, a political, cultural oral history project, restoration center, and media production facility in San Francisco. He is also a recent fellow of the Violence Prevention Initiative of the California Wellness Foundation doing media training with youth activists. He has also taught ESL, literacy, writing and history in a prison education program. He acts as a media consultant to several universities and has become a consultant in audio restoration to oral history projects and the Pacifica Radio Archives. Under his direction, The Freedom Archives has released several recent documentary CDs and videos combining restored historical audio and contemporary interviews.
Paula Manley
Paula Manley is the Co-Founder of The Learning Commons and an educator, group facilitator, and consultant to the media arts field. With a background in journalism, media arts administration, and documentary making, she now focuses on catalyzing healthy organizational change and leadership development in nonprofit organizations, with special attention to board development and executive leadership transitions. Paula is the co-founder of The Learning Commons, a nonprofit group devoted to community-based leadership development, and the co-creator of the Media Arts Leadership Institute (MALI), which is presented bi-annually by NAMAC. Paula serves as Board Chair for Technical Assistance for Community Services (TACS), a management support organization for nonprofit groups in Oregon and Washington.
Carrie McLaren
Carrie McLaren is the editor and publisher of Stay Free!, a Brooklyn-based magazine and blog focused on American media and culture (www.stayfreemagazine.org). She is also the curator of the Illegal Art Exhibit, a multimedia art show and website devoted to copyright reform. (www.illegal-art.org). Her writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Newsday, Mother Jones, Time Out NY, and SPIN magazine, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, where she pays rent by working as a freelance graphic and web designer.
Fidelma McGinn
Fidelma McGinn joined Film Arts Foundation, one of the nation's top resource centers for independent filmmakers, in July 2004. Previously she was the Executive Director for 911 Media Arts Center, based in Seattle (1998-2003). She is currently the chair of the board of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture. Prior to joining the non-profit sector, she had a successful career in marketing in the high-tech industry. She has a degree in Marketing and Communications from the College of Commerce in Dublin and is a graduate of Stanford Graduate Business School's program for Executive Leadership in the non-profit Arts.
Filmon Mebrahtu
Filmon Mebrahtu is an independent filmmaker whose cinema verite documentaries on African immigrant experiences in Philadelphia have aired locally on public television stations and screened nationally at festivals. Mebrahtu is the founder of Reel Voices, a non- profit organization with a mission “to express and document diverse cultural experiences with an emphasis on African and African Diasporic communities in the Greater Philadelphia Area.”
Sheryl Mousley
Sheryl Mousley is Curator of Film/Video at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where she sets the artistic direction of the museum's Film/Video Department. In producing contemporary and historical media exhibition programs, she researches and creates conceptual based film series, artist retrospectives, Regis Dialogues, and artist-in-residence projects. She directs the acquisition and presentation of the Ruben Film/Study Collection and curates the annual Women With Vision festival, a showcase of women filmmakers, directors, and artists. Prior to joining the Walker in 1998, she held positions at ITVS, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Film in the Cities, and served on the Board of Directors of IFP/MN.
Chuck Olsen
Chuck Olsen is the producer-director of Blogumentary, an open-source blog documentary combining his love of filmmaking with his passion for democratized media. His work has been featured in Mother Jones magazine, Wired News, and on computer screens around the world. After working in public television for 7 years as a web producer, he is now an independent consultant and media-maker helping shape the burgeoning videoblog revolution. His new project is a daily videoblog called Minnesota Stories, showcasing Minnesota-produced citizen videos that slip through the cracks of broadcast media. He is also the Minneapolis correspondent for Manhattan-based videoblog Rocketboom.
Hye-Jung Park
Hye- Jung Park is Director of Youth Channel at Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Previously, she was Director of Programs for eight years at the Downtown Community TV Center (DCTV), a grassroots media center. As a media/community activist, she has curated many community and national screenings and organized community events to address issues of labor, women, Korean Reunification and international solidarity. As an independent producer, she has produced "Homes Apart: Two Koreas" (PBS), "...Will Be Televised," "The Women Outside" (PBS) and "7 train from Main Street" (Local PBS). An adjunct lecturer, she has designed and taught courses on Asian-African/American Media at New York colleges.
Ted Passon
Ted Passon is the Director of Artistic Outreach at MOOVlab Philadelphia, which is a production entity dedicated to making experimental/non-narrative High-Definition video content for broadcast on Echostar's DISH Network domestically. He is responsible for scouting and producing work by outside artists. Ted has worked as a curator for several festivals including the Rotterdam Film Festival and the New York Underground Film Festival, as well as the monthly Small Change film screening series. He is also an award winning filmmaker and has exhibited his work in galleries and festivals internationally. A DVD collection of his work is currently distributed by K-Records. www.moovlab.com www.mobiusmedia.tv
K. C. Price
K.C. Price has over nine years experience in nonprofit fundraising and administration. From 1999 to 2003, he was the Development Director of Frameline, one of the four main building partners of the San Francisco-based media arts consortium. Since 2003, K.C. has headed Ninth Street's capital campaign. In his current role, he is responsible for all fundraising and administrative efforts for the media arts consortium, including the coordination of Ninth Street's unique, collaborative capital campaign for the purchase of a shared facility in San Francisco
Andrea Isabel Quijada
Andrea Quijada is the Director of Educational Programs for NMMLP.
In her current position she has taught media literacy locally, nationally, and internationally at professional conferences, student conferences, community forums, and in middle and high schools, providing workshops for students, teachers, media activists, community organizers, and health professionals. She also presents twice a year at NMMLP's Catalyst Institute. She presents on topics such as media ownership, gender and racial stereotypes, health disparities, and on media literacy as a substance abuse prevention strategy. Andrea has also facilitated numerous anti-oppression workshops and believes in media literacy as a tool for media justice. Andrea has co-founded numerous community organizing projects in New Mexico, including Young Women United, a community organizing project by and for young women of color in southeast Albuquerque.
Hal Real
Hal Real is a seasoned entrepreneur with a passion for new ideas and a history of transforming those ideas into successful businesses. After establishing himself as a respected real estate attorney, and having created a successful data security firm, in 2001 he formed the Real Entertainment Group in order to “radically change the landscape for contemporary music audiences and artists.” In 2004 he delivered the first installment of that promise by opening World Cafe Live, a live music venue and restaurant complex, developed in partnership with public radio station WXPN and located in Philadelphia's University City. Plans for additional World Cafe Live venues in other cities are underway.
Barry Rebo
Barry Rebo co-founded the first high definition video (HDTV) production company in the United States, REBO Studio. He has been awarded many honors, including national and local Emmy Awards for documentary cinematography. Rebo founded EmergingCinemas,
(www.EmergingCinemas.com) in early 2000 with digital projection pioneer Giovanni Cozzi. EmergingCinemas is creating a national network of digital theaters in partnership with some of the nations most prestigious performing arts venues, museums, and science & technology centers. He was recently elected to serve a two-year term on the Board of Governors of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Science.
Tony Riddle
Tony Riddle, has for more than 25 years worked in the many forms of media for the purpose of effecting positive social change. He is currently the Executive Director of the Alliance for Community Media. For the past 22 years, he has concentrated his efforts in the emerging field of community media. Riddle’s work has been on all levels, from technician to policy-maker, from producer to political advocate, from community-based teacher to international representative. As the Executive Director of Manhattan Neighborhood Network he started the first nationwide Youth Channel. He was also the Executive Director of Minneapolis Telecommunications Network, and a member of President Carter's Commission on Radio and Television Autonomy in the Former Soviet States.
Fred Ritchin
Fred Ritchin is director of PixelPress (www.pixelpress.org),an organization working in new media and human rights. The most recent project by PixelPress is "Chasing the Dream," an exhibition and web site created for the United Nations to advocate for young people globally. Ritchin is also a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and is former picture editor of the New York Times Magazine. He is author of the forthcoming "Reinventing Photography," and the previous "In Our Own Image." His essays have appeared in many books, including "An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado," "In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers," and "Sahel: The End of the Road."
Alex Rivera
Alex Rivera is a New York based digital media artist and filmmaker. Through the past 5 years he’s made work in digital video and on the internet that addresses concerns of the Latino community through a language of humor, satire, and metaphor. His work has been screened at The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, on PBS, as well as at film festivals, universities, libraries, union halls, and community centers.
Tammy Ko Robinson
Tammy Ko Robinson is a scholar-activist-member of the Video Machete Collective and is currently an assistant professor in Art Education at the School of the Art Institute. She has been a radio artist, has served as the former Education and Programs Director at Video Machete, and co-produced the award winning series, For Whose Freedom. She is working on a collection of essays. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, Robinson is completing her dissertation on the affective labor, aesthetics, and geopolitical imaginaries of Asia and the Pacific in Asian/North American and diasporic digital media culture. She currently serves as a representative for the Media Justice Network, a new national grassroots organizing network focused on media policy issues in marginalized communities, and on the boards of both the Korean American Resource and Cultural Center and INCITE!.
Josué Rojas
Josué Rojas is a core member of the award winning YO! Youth Outlook Magazine, a project of the Pacific News Service, where he serves as art director. Based in the West Coast, Pacific News Service has pushed the envelope of alternative news for three decades, PNS has also worked to nurture young people's voices as communicators in a media driven society. Josué is part of a generation of young voices at PNS whose explores the boundaries of news, media, art, community and documentation of our modern era. Trained as a painter, with interest in illustration, Josué holds a BFA in Painting from the California College of Arts and Crafts. He has a prolific history in print media in both written word and images.
Teri Rueb
Teri Rueb's large-scale responsive spaces and location-aware environments explore intersections of architecture and urbanism, landscape and human movement, and sonic and acoustic space. She was an early pioneer in using GPS to create location-aware responsive installations and environments in urban and remote landscapes. She lectures and exhibits internationally at venues including Transmediale, The International Symposium on Electronic Arts, SIGGRAPH, Consciousness Reframed, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and FIT/GMD (IRCAM, Paris, 2002; The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 2001). She is a professor in the graduate Department of Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design. Upcoming exhibitions include a new work to be presented in Berlin as part of a symposium hosted by the Akademie der Kuenste.
César Sanchez
César Sancheza Guatemalan-American educator, visual artist and activist. As an educator, activist and video/electronic media maker, my work over the years has focused on sustaining vital links between diasporic communities in Chicago and Latin America. For me this cultural work promotes, protects and creates a space for dialogue, where basic human dignity, cultural preservation and social justice are realized as human rights. These beliefs, a most sincere form of cultural work, have allowed the work I am a part of to define my role in changing and influencing a positive and healthy growth for our communities.
Remko Scha
Remko Scha is an artist, DJ, and computational linguist. He has built an automatic electric guitar band ("The Machines"), designed an image-generation algorithm ("Artificial"), and developed a theory about language-processing ("Data-Oriented Parsing"). Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha have jointly developed a series of automatic performance pieces and video installations that involve computer-controlled facial expression, algorithmic music, and synthetic speech. These works have been presented at scientific conferences, theatre festivals, and art exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Elsenaar and Scha also explore the use of automatic radio stations as a medium for computer art.
Trebor Scholz
Trebor Scholz is a German-born, New York-based media artist, writer and organizer who works collaboratively and individually in the fields of media art, event-based cultural practice, new media arts education, and media archeology. His works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennial (with Martha Rosler/ The Fleas), Hull Time Based Arts, the Sao Paulo Biennial, the Web Biennial of the Istanbul Museum for Contemporary Art and many other venues. Scholz is currently research fellow at the School of Art & Design Zurich.
Suzie Silver
Suzie Silver is an artist working primarily in video and performance and has been working collaboratively with Hilary Harp since 2003. Her works have screened at the New Museum and Whitney Museum, NYC; the Worldwide Video Festival in The Hague; Documenta IX Video Festival, Kassel; the London Film Festival; The Moscow Film Festival, gay and lesbian film and video festivals in Austin, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, and Tel Aviv. Currently she is Associate Professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Awards include the 1996 James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, the Jerome Foundation and the Lyn Blumenthal Fund for Independent Video.
Felicia M. Sullivan
Felicia Sullivan promotes open and sustainable communication networks within community environments. With an MA n Media Studies and over 15 years of community-based practice, Felicia's current work is centered in Lowell, MA linking local endeavors to regional and national community capacity building through media and technology.
Ben Scott
Ben Scott is the Policy Director for Free Press. He heads up the Washington DC office, dedicated to monitoring and analyzing media policymaking in order to increase public awareness and participation. Before joining Free Press, he spent a year working as a legislative fellow handling telecommunications policy for Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the US House of Representatives. He is also in the final stages of his doctoral degree in communications from the University of Illinois. He is the author of several scholarly articles on American journalism history and the politics of media regulation as well as co-editor of Our Unfree Press (The New Press, 2004) and The Future of Media (Seven Stories, 2005).
Sabine Seymour
Sabine Seymour is the creator of Moondial, Inc. which is the commercial entity that resulted from her research and concept works. Projects are focusing on wearable/wireless technologies in sports, healthcare, design, and branding for clients like Nike and Siemens. Sabine introduced the course 'Fashionable Technology' at Parsons School of Design and is an Adjunct Faculty. She co-curated the “Wearable Experience” section at ISEA2004, recently published ”Intelligent Wearables” and presents for instance at Ars Electronica and Cooper-Hewitt Summer Design Institute. Her PhD deals with innovation and economics in wearables. She received a MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU and a Joint-Master's degree from the University of Economics (Vienna) and Columbia's MBA program.
Jen Simmons
Jen Simmons is a multimedia designer and filmmaker with 15 years of experience in performance and community-based arts. Her short films have screened at hundreds of festivals, including Rotterdam, Resfest, Media That Matters, Frameline and NewFest. Jen is currently designing interactive multimedia for Violet Fire: an opera about Nikola Tesla, creating content for the videblog Emerging Awareness, and developing a documentary about colonialism, abuse and healing. From 1992-2000, Jen was a critical force at the Esperanza Center, creating a safe space for the artistic expression of people of color, women, lesbians and gay men. She designed projection, lighting, scenic and sound for artists including Peggy Shaw, Sharon Bridgforth, Lourdes Pérez, Daniel Alexander Jones, Gloria Anzaldúa, Beto Araiza, Sandra Cisneros, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, and Cherríe Moraga. jensimmons.com
Marlon Barrios Solano
Marlon Barrios Solano is a Venezuelan dance/new media artist, teacher and researcher, US-based since 1994. He directs, performs, researches and designs improvisational digital real-time performances and environments; recent projects include collaborations with Dennis Delzotto and Walter Froetscher at Share (NYC); Patrick Delges at STEIM; and choreographer Bebe Miller. Residencies include The Advanced Computing Center for Arts and Design (Ohio State University); Interaktionslabor 2004, Denison University; and STEIM (The Netherlands). He has lectured extensively on improvisation, interactive media and embodiment in South America, Europe and the USA. He has performed with choreographers Susan Marshal, Lynn Shapiro, Merian Soto, Dean Moos, Bill Young, and musicians John Zorn, Philip Glass and Eric Friedlander. He holds an MFA in Dance and Technology (OSU).
Theeba Soundararajan
Theeba Soundararajan is a Tamil Dalit Web Developer and graphic designer, translator, and media justice organizer. As a student she has worked with and trained youth and adults in San Francisco, California and Rio de Janiero, Brazil on the basics of web and graphic design, producing anti-war graphic art agitation, and land reform media productions. Theeba has worked with WITNESS, through which she has developed curriculum around video organizing, which encompasses documenting human rights violations under violent situations(war, riots, police brutality), Using video as evidence before courts, and using video as a tool for community organizing. Through WITNESS Theeba has worked with partner organizations in the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico on casteism, reproductive rights, land reform and popular education. She is currently a board member of the Online Policy Group.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a filmmaker, singer, and grassroots media organizer. As a second generation Tamil Untouchable Dalit woman, she strives to connect grassroots organizers with media resources that can widen their base of resistance. In that context she has worked with over 300 community organizations across the United States. Thenmozhi was featured in 2003 in both Utne Magazine as one of 30 visionaries under 30, and in Source Magazine as one of the top ten political forces in hip hop. Further, she was in residence at the MIT Center for Reflective Community Practice writing about her experiences with community based digital storytelling from 2001-2003. Finally she has been awarded the Jewel Ryan-White Award for Cultural Diversity from the Alliance for Community Media for her work in Media Justice. She is currently working on her first Speculative Fiction Novel: The Distance Between You and Me Is the Empire.
Dwight Swanson is an archivist at Appalshop, Inc. in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Hehas a B.A. in history from the University of Colorado and an M.A. in AmericanStudies from the University of Maryland and a Certificate in Film Preservation from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House. He has served as the archivist for regional film and video collections at the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association and Northeast Historic Film, as well as the Smithsonian Institution. He has lectured and written on amateur film and regional film production and is a co-founder of Home Movie Day and the Center for Home Movies.
Ethan van Thillo
Ethan van Thillo has been involved in media arts programming and independent film exhibition since 1989 when he founded U.C. Santa Cruz' Chicano Film Festival. Upon graduating in 1992, Ethan then went on to create San Diego's annual Latino film festival (San Diego Latino Film Festival), now celebrating its' 13th year. In 1999, Ethan founded the non-profit organization Media Arts Center San Diego, for which he now is its' Executive Director. As Executive Director, Mr. van Thillo has continued to develop new programs and services for the San Diego/Tijuana border region including the monthly Spanish-language film series (Cinema en tu Idioma), annual Cine Mexicano: Mexican Film Series, Tu Voz Tv, and the Teen Producers Project.
John Thompson invented lingo programming used in Macromedia Director and Shockwave. John Thompson was the principal engineer for Macromedia Director, the inventor and developer of Lingo and XObjects, and a professor of new media at New York University - Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program. Thompson studied art at the New York Student Art League and the Boston Museum School and earned a degree in Computer Science and Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1983. From 1987 until 2001, Thompson was the chief scientist at Macromedia where he developed a number of products, including: The VideoWorks Accelerator, VideoWorks II, MediaMaker, Action, and Macromedia Director. John Thompson currently lives in Philadelphia with his wife and four children and is working on custom software for his own realtime video artwork (see artwork above).
Kathleen Tyner
Kathleen teaches in the Radio-Television-Film Department at UT Austin and also directs the Youth Media Initiative for NAMAC. She is instrumental in developing media education programs, policies and projects internationally and conducts research and evaluation for media arts and technology projects international and across the United States. The author and editor of four books and numerous articles for media educators, Kathleen's publications including Literacy in a Digital World: Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information; Visions/Revisions: Moving Forward with Media Education; and A Closer Look: Case Studies from the Youth Media Initiative.
Jennifer Urban
Jennifer Urban is a specialist in intellectual property law and policy, joins the University ofSouthern California after more than two years with the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public PolicyClinic at the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, one of the first intellectual property law clinics in the country. As visiting acting clinical professor at the Samuelson Clinic, Urban's work included projects related to digital copyright, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, opensource licensing, Internet law, and privacy in a technological society. Prior to teaching,Urban was an attorney with the IP division of Venture Law Group in Menlo Park, Calif.
Michael Verdi
Michael Verdi has led the charge to teach videoblogging to the world. His original freevlog site was used by hundreds of people to get started. Now with the assistance of Ryanne Hodson, the new freevlog.org is THE place for new videobloggers. Previously, Michael was responsible for creating the SAY Sí Media Arts Studio, recognized as model program with the Presidential Committee on the Arts Coming Up Taller Award. His students have received numerous awards for their work including a trip to the Sundance Film Festival to participate in the Young Filmmakers Program. Those students are now attending college at some of the countries best art and film schools. http://michaelverdi.com
Tan Vu
Tan Vu is the Digital Inclusion Program Manager for the People's Emergency Center. He runs the training program and oversees the daily operation of the wireless network. He designs computer trainings for people with little to no knowledge of computer training.
Celia Viggo Wexler
Ceila Viggo Wexler is Common Cause's vice president for advocacy, playing a key role in developing the organization's lobbying and grassroots strategies on media reform. She has been a part of Common Cause since 1989, first serving as legislative director for Common Cause New York, before coming to the national headquarters in late 1996. She has done both print and broadcast reporting, and worked for several daily newspapers, including the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal and Courier, the Buffalo Courier-Express, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and American Banker. Celia has earned awards for consumer and labor reporting. Celia graduated summa cum laude from the University of Toronto and earned a master's degree in journalism from Point Park University in Pittsburgh.
Antwuan Wallace is "[a] social justice advocate informed by research", Antwuan helps construct policy innovations for politically marginalized and economically stratified communities. Presently, he serves a the Program Consultant for the Media Justice Fund, which aims to galvanize activists, practioners and analysts to elevate media issues of equality and fairness within a social justice framework. Prior to joining the Funding Exchange, Antwuan served as the Senior Research Associate for BCT Partners, an IT management and policy consulting firm, working on grassroots solutions to the "digital divide" that included community-based wireless Internet solutions. A doctoral student in Policy Analysis at New School University, his proposed dissertation will investigate how youth are using information communication technologies within community-based organizations to affect social change. He earned a B.A. from Hampton University and a MPA from Indiana University-Bloomington.
Martha Wallner
Marther Wallner has been an independent media practitioner and grassroots activist for many years. She co-founded and co-coordinated the Deep Dish TV Satellite Network and was a member of the Paper Tiger TV Collective, producing and distributing media about media and other social justice issues in the U.S. and throughout the world, for over 12 years. She is the former advocacy coordinator for AIVF and executive director for Berkeley Community Media and served on the boards of Scribe Video Center, Media Network and Media Alliance. She was active in the campaign to save Pacifica Radio and helped organize the public hearings on FCC policies in San Francisco and Monterey. Currently, she is working on a guide documenting important precedents in organizing for just media policies and serves as an advisor to the United Church of Christœ£©a Empowerment Project.
Graham Weinbren
Graham Weinbren is a film, video, and multimedia artist. His interactive cinema installations have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and festivals worldwide for over 20 years, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MOCA in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Centre Georges Pompidou. Weinbren also has published and lectured internationally on cinema, interactivity, and new technology and has edited the Millennium Film Journal since 1986. He first discussed the architecture of interactive cinema at the 1983 NAMAC Conference in Minneapolis. He is on the graduate faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Nick West
Nick West is a media researcher who focuses on the interplay between interactive technologies and the surrounding physical environment. Most recently he has been helping Proboscis, a London-based think tank and creative studio, to develop Urban Tapestries. (see http://research.urbantapestries.net ) This software allowed people to use mobile devices to create and read annotations at any spot in the city using text, sounds or photos. He is currently researching the possibility of mobile highway annotation through the RoadMarker project. As an adjunct professor at New York University, West managed a research project for Viacom that investigated viewing location-triggered websites on portable wireless devices.
Patricia R. Zimmermann
Patricia Zimmermann is professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Indiana, 1995), States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (Minnesota, 2000), and co-editor of Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (California, forthcoming) Her many scholarly articles and essays on film history and historiography, documentary and experimental film/video/digital arts, amateur film, political economy of media, and digital culture theory have been published widely, both in the United States and internationally. Currently, she serves on the editorial boards of The Moving Image:The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Journal of Film and Video, and Wide Angle. She also serves on the national boards of International Film Seminars (The Flaherty Film Seminar), Northeast Historic Film Archive (Maine), and Search for a Common Ground Film Festival.
Ellen Zweig
Ellen Zweig is an artist who works with video, audio, installation and performance. Her most recent work is the video series, HEAP, parts of which have shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2003; Viper, Basel, Switzerland, 2003; Thailand New Media Festival, 2004; New York Video Festival, 2005. In her installations, Zweig has used optics to create camera obscuras, video projection devices, and miniature projected illusions. She has also created multi-channel video installations that have toured the US (museums include: New Mexico Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe, List Center for the Visual Arts at MIT, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, P.S. 1 in New York).