Peter D'Agostino
Roderick Coover
Fabienne Darling-Wolf
Sarah Drury
Jan Fernback
Hana Iverson
Susan Jacobson
Andrew Mendelson
Barry Vacker
Peter d'Agostino is professor of Film and Media Arts and director of the NewTechLab, teaching new media and experimental video courses. His pioneering video and interactive projects have been exhibited internationally in the form of installations, performances, telecommunications events, and broadcast productions. Recent surveys of his work include: Interactivity and Intervention, 1978-99 exhibited at the Lehman College Art Gallery, New York; and, Between Earth & Sky, 1973 / 2003 at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. Major group exhibitions include: The Whitney Museum of American Art (Biennial, and The American Century-Film and Video in America 1950-2000), the Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil, and the Kwangju Biennial, Korea. His work is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art and is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.
Professor d'Agostino is a Fulbright Scholar (Brazil, 1996; Australia, 2003) currently serving on the senior specialist roster to 2005. He has also been awarded grants and fellowships from: the National Endowment for the Arts, Japan Foundation, Pew Trusts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT. He was an artist-in-residence at the TV Laboratory, WNET, New York, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Italy as well as a visiting artist at the National Center for SuperComputing Applications, University of Illinois, and the American Academy in Rome. His installations TransmissionS: In the WELL and VR/RV: a Recreational Vehicle in Virtual Reality received honorary awards for interactive art in 1990 and 1995 at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
D'Agostino's books include: Transmission: toward a post-television culture, The Un/Necessary Image. and TeleGuide-a Proposal for QUBE. He is also a contributor to Illuminating Video, and Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. Recent publications featuring his work include Telematic Embrace: visionary theories of art, technology and consciousness, Video Art, and Digital Art.
Web: http://www.peterdagostino.net
E-mail: pda@temple.edu
Roderick Coover teaches in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University. He teaches courses in hypermedia, film and video.
Coover's works blend research in film and cross-cultural visual studies. They include the interactive CD-ROM Cultures in Webs: Working in Hypermedia with the Documentary Image, which is published by Eastgate Systems and the feature documentary DVD, Burgundy and the Language of Wine.
Coover spent two years in West Africa as a USIS Fulbight Research Fellow. His works made in Africa explored how power is negotiated through visual and expressive culture. With a grant from the Chicago Group on Modern France, Roderick Coover spent two years in Burgundy filmming in winemaking villages and conducting interviewers with winemakers and workers. He shot on 16mm color and black and white film and on digital video, using montage studies and sound to explore the spaces between the activities of the winemaker's work and the words by which their world is described. You can read an essay about his research at NMEDIAC, the on-line journal of media and culture. He is currently working on projects in Mexico and the US southwest.
Coover has also created numerous experimental multimedia works, including collaborations with the author Deb Olin Unferth for gallery installations and with the theater director, Ian Belton, for JoAnn Akalaitis' direction of the Iphigenia Cycle. His essays are published in the journals Visual Studies, Visual Anthropology, American Anthropologist, and Film Quarterly, among others.
Web: http://astro.temple.edu/~rcoover
E-mail: rcoover@temple.edu
Fabienne Darling-Wolf received her BA and MA from the University of Texas at Austin, and her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Her research explores issues of global cultural identity formation and the role of new communication technologies in this development. Most of her work focuses on the Japanese cultural environment because Japan is both highly influential on and highly influenced by the global multimedia environment in which popular culture is produced today. Her recent work has appeared in New Media and Society, the Journal of Communication Inquiry, Feminist Media Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Popular Communication, the Asian Journal of Women's Studies, and in several book chapters.
E-mail: fdarling@temple.edu
Sarah Drury is an Assistant Professor at Temple Universitys Film & Media Arts Program. She received a BA from Barnard College, an MPS at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and an MA in Photography at the joint program of the International Center of Photography and NYU. She is a new media artist working with interactive video, song and lyrical narrative in forms including performative installation, wearable interfaces, interactive video and the artists book. Her installations, including "The Listening Microphone," "Voicebox," "Vocalalia" and ©-Intervention Chants,©~ explore the expressive qualities of the voice in interaction with video and sound. She has received grants including an NEA Artists Fellowship and from the TU Vice Provosts Research Initiative. Her work has been presented in national and international venues such as ISEA 2002, ACM Multimedia '98, Performative Sites 2001, the Brooklyn Museum, the Kitchen, Artists Space, Hallwalls, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Worldwide Video Festival at the Hague and on PBS. Recent works include media design for "Violet Fire: a Multimedia Opera about Nikola Tesla," collaborating with filmmaker Jen Simmons, which includes interactive projections responding to the voices of opera singers. Her work on translating the energetic and sonic qualities of the voice into visual images led her to the design of assistive devices in the eVokability Project, using voice and movement input to enhance expressive possibilities for people with disabilities. Drury has been a faculty member of the NYU Art & Media Program and served on the faculty of the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program.E-mail: sdrury@temple.edu
Hana Iverson (Director, Producer-in-Residence)
Hana Iverson is a multi-media artist with a background in performance, photography and experimental video. Her photography and videos have been exhibited in galleries and festivals throughout North America and in Europe, and have won numerous awards. She is currently the Director of the New Media Interdisciplinary Concentration in the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University. A member of the faculty of the International Center of Photography/Bard College graduate program in advanced photographic studies, Iverson has taught workshops in Mexico and around the U.S. She has been a guest artist and/or lecturer at several universities including Temple University, the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Ms. Iverson holds a Masters Degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Her recent work, View from the Balcony, began in 2000 as a site-specific installation at the Eldridge Street Synagogue (NYC), and closed at the end of 2003. The sound and video installation, located in an abandoned stairwell shaft of the historic building, has now extended into a networked environment. This project shares with her earlier work a grounding in the performative, using the body as nexus of experience and incorporating gestures of reconciliation, on personal and broader cultural levels. Ms. Iverson has received the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture award for 2002/03, the New York Foundation Artist-in-the-Schools grant in 2003 and generous support from the Covenant Foundation, to further develop the web component of the installation.
Web: http://www.communitynarratives.com
E-mail: h.iverson@temple.edu
Jan Fernback, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media at Temple University. She works primarily on the cultural, philosophical, and policy issues surrounding new communication technologies. Current work includes explorations of internet privacy; theory of cybercommunity; information technology in distressed urban communities; and the internet, democracy and the public sphere.
E-mail: fernback@temple.edu
Susan Jacobson is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media, where she teaches courses in digital broadcasting, Web journalism and student portfolio preparation. Her research focus is on digital broadcasting and web video, and her projects include an original hypertextual video project Countless Stories (http://countlessstories.com), which has been exhibited at the Streaming Cinema Festival, Digital Video Expo and other venues. She has also conducted several community webcasting projects in Phildelphia and New York City, working with organizations like Caroline's Comedy Club on Broadway, ComedySportz Philadelphia, and the Fluid Nightclub in Philadelphia. Professor Jacobson received a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Florida, an M.P.S from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, and is currently completing her PhD in Arts and Humanities at NYU. She has spent several summers in the People's Republic of China conducting research for her dissertation project, Scrapbook of the Revolution (http://scrapbookoftherevolution.com). She has held full-time positions at The New York Times Company, Scholastic and GTE, where she was head of content development for GTE Mainstreet, an interactive television service. You can see what she is currently working on by visiting her blog, Escape from New York (see below).
Web: http://susanjacobson.livejournal.com
E-mail: susanj@temple.edu
Andrew Mendelson, Assistant Professor of Journalism, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin and a B.A. from Marquette University. At Temple, Professor Mendelson teaches courses in journalism and society, photojournalism and documentary photography, visual literacy and visual culture, and research methods.
Andy's research interests focus on the role(s) that photographic messages play in society through a variety of media - film, advertising, television and journalism. He questions how we understand the world through the photograph and is interested in how that influences the construction of a viewpoint. He investigates the meanings in that construction and the resulting view of ourselves.
E-mail: amendels@astro.temple.edu
Barry Vacker is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media. He received his PHD from the University of Austin, Texas. Barry writes about how utopia and dystopia are theorized in media, culture, and technology. His work applies an "arts and humanities" approach to critically explore the cultural vortex of aesthetics, technology, and mass media, all of which combine to shape the models of utopia and dystopia that, in turn, shape cultures around the world. Barry shares in Marshall McLuhans belief that there exist parallels between aesthetics and technology and that artworks can function as cultural probes, capable of revealing deep patterns of cultural change wrought by technological transformation. Thus, if we want to see where new media are ultimately destined, then we should not overlook the world of arts and aesthetics.
Web: http://www.barryvacker.netEmail: bvacker@temple.edu
