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Cyber-Disciplinarity:
Participants
Co-Director
Ursula Anna Frohne is an art historian and cultural theorist. She has been
curator at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (Germany) from 1995-2002
and has taught art history, visual studies, cultural studies, and media theory
at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe since 1997. She was Visiting Professor
at the Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University in 2001/2002
and is currently Professor for Art History at the International University
Bremen (Germany). After studying art history she received her PhD with a thesis
on the social history of the American artist at the Freie Universität
Berlin, where she taught at the Department for Art History from 1988-1995.
Her research has been funded with grants from the J. Paul Getty Center for
the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica (1990/91), the American
Council for the Learned Societies (1994/95) and the Pembroke Center, Brown
University, Providence, R.I. (2001/02). The focus of her work is in contemporary
art, photography, film, video and installation, theory of image media and new
media. She has been curator for numerous exhibitions on contemporary art and
architecture.
Her publications on contemporary art, new media, and museum studies include
video cult/ures (ed.), (DuMont: Cologne 1999); (ed. with Christian
Katti) escape_space (Cologne 2000), Maler
und Millionäre (Verlag der Kunst: Dresden, 2000);
CTRL [SPACE], Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother (ed.
With Thomas Y. Levin and Peter Weibel), (MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.);. L & B
Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, Screen-Based Art (2000); Black
Box (Cantz: Ostfildern, 2001); Peter Weibel (ed.), Olafur Eliasson,
Surroundings Surrounded (The MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2002), Hans
Belting, Dietmar Kamper and Martin Schulz (eds.), Quel Corps? (Fink Verlag:
Munich, 2002) and she is currently finishing a book on appropriation in contemporary
art: Aesthetics of the Re-make.
Visiting Fellows and Participants
Chika Anyanwu currently heads the Media Department of the University of Adelaide
in South Australia. Prior to this he was Head of the Mass Communications program
at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Chika has a Diploma
in Broadcasting and Film, a First Class Honours in Theatre Arts, an MA in Television,
a PhD in Cinema and a Graduate Business qualification in Leadership and Management.
His professional background is a synthesis of art, technology and commerce.
From a production perspective, he has documented many cultural practices of
Papua New Guinea; co-produced a documentary on African-Australian cultural
relations (2000); and in 2002 completed a research documentation of the Ghanaian
film industry. He is also a playwright and theatre director with an internationally
acclaimed stage play Bung Wan Taim (1993) ("Lets get together"),
based on the crises in Bougainville which attracted such important personalities
as the Governor General of Papua New Guinea, Sir Wiwa Korowi plus many top
personnel of the Papua New Guinea Defense Force (see Post courier, June 11,
1993 page 35). He designed, established and headed the first Media Arts program
of the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Papua New Guinea from 1991 to
1995 and also set up the Theatre Technology arm of the drama program. In 1994
Chika was a member of the working party to restructure the Papua New Guinea
Cultural Commission under Dr Jacob Semet. In the same year (1994) he was invited
by Sir Alkan Tolo, Chairman of the PNGBC (Papua New Guinea Broadcasting Corporation)
to advise Senior Management on strategies in restructuring the Corporation.
In Australia, Chika's research in new media technology began in 1996. In 1998
he designed the first Humanities program in new media technology titled Cybermedia
at Curtin University of Technology. In 1998 he was a member of a successful
Curtin New Media Research Grant team for a project titled "Core Curriculum
of IT knowledge and skills for undergraduate students in the Humanities," headed
by David Carter. In 1999 Chika won another Curtin University Research Grant
to study the Pedagogical Implications of Virtual Classroom Environments, a
project that led to many publications and international research presentations.
The success of that project justified the need for the establishment of the
first full degree program on Internet Studies in an Australian university in
2001, at Curtin University's School of Media and Information. Chika's current
research project in creative industries has led to a successful Australian
Research Council Industry Linkage grant in 2004.
Megan Boler earned her PhD in the History of Consciousness at the University
of California Santa Cruz and is Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education, University of Toronto where
she teaches media studies and philosophy of education. She has been invited
as a noted scholar in the area of democracy, media and education this summer
to the University of British Columbia, Her books include
Feeling Power: Emotions and Education (Routledge 1999) and a recent edited
collection titled Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech,
Disturbing Silence (Peter Lang 2004) which addresses how race,
colonialism, and homophobia are addressed through voice and silence in classrooms
and introduces controversial notions such as "affirmative action pedagogy" to
highlight marginalized voices. Her essays have been published in such journals
as Hypatia, Educational Theory, and Cultural
Studies. While a professor at Virginia Tech, she founded the Social Justice
Resource Database Project. She has also worked closely on a major research
project about Maori, indigenous, and Pacific Island youth with
colleagues in Maori Education in New Zealand. Her multimedia website Critical
Media Literacy in Times of War is widely used; she recently produced a study
guide to accompany the 2003 documentary The Corporation; and her current research
focus is on how web-based multimedia political
Lisa Gitelman is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Media
Studies at Catholic University. She is the author of Scripts, Grooves,
and Writing Machines (Stanford 1999) and co-editor of New Media,
1740-1915 (MIT
2003). Her current book project is entitled Always Already New: Media,
History and the Data of Culture, and she will be senior-scholar-in-residence next year
(AY 2005-6) at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture,
Rutgers University.
Jacob Park is Assistant Professor of business and public policy at Green Mountain
College in Vermont specializing in the teaching and research of global environment & business
strategy, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and community-based
entrepreneurship with a special interest in Japan, China, and the Asia-Pacific
region. His writings on a wide range of global energy, environmental, and business
issues have appeared in journals such as The International Studies Review,
Washington Quarterly, Energy Policy, Corporate
Environmental Strategy, as well
as in newspapers and magazines such as Fortune, International
Herald Tribune,
Washington Post, MSNBC.COM, Toronto Globe and Mail, Christian
Science Monitor,
Far Eastern Economic Review, Nikkei Weekly, and the Asian
Wall Street Journal.
His most recent book is The Ecology of the New Economy: Sustainable Transformation
of Global Information Technology, Communication, and Electronics Industries (Greenleaf Publishing, 2002) and he is currently working on two edited books,
Sustainable Global Governance and Ecological Modernization & Asia-Pacific.
Michele White is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History and Women's
Studies at the University of Connecticut. She recently completed a Mellon Post-Doctoral
Fellowship at Wellesley College. She teaches Internet and new media studies,
television and film theory, art history and contemporary visual culture, science
fiction and technology literature, gender and queer theory, and critical race
and postcolonial studies. Her recent articles include: "Too Close to See:
Men, Women, and Webcams," New Media & Society 5, 1 (2003); "The
Aesthetic of Failure: Net Art Gone Wrong," Angelaki: Journal of
Theoretical Humanities 7, 1 (2002); "Representations or People," Ethics
and Information Technology 4, 3 (2002); "Where Is the Louvre," Space
and Culture - The Journal 4/5 (2000); and "Visual Pleasure in Textual Places: Gazing
in Multi-User Object-Oriented Worlds," Information, Communication,
and Society 2 (1999).
Her current book project, which is entitled The Body and the Screen:
Theories of Internet Spectatorship, is under contract with MIT Press. It considers how
spectatorial positions are produced and structured by
Internet settings. Internet sites and computer interfaces address the spectator,
depict the kinds of bodies that are expected to engage, model the views and
experiences that can be accessed, and promise spectatorial
control for some individuals. Rethinking theories of art viewing, feminist
and psychoanalytic film, gender and queer studies, hypertext, media, photographic
reproduction, and postcolonial theory offers ways to
understand Internet spectatorship. She indicates how computer settings provide
new techniques of control and theorizes strategies of resistance without presuming
that such interventions are available to all users or
will prove powerful enough to disable dominant modes of representation.
John Willinsky is currently the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology
and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy
Education at the University of British Columbia. A Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada, he is the author of Learning to Divide the World: Education
at Empire's End, winner of Outstanding Book Awards from the American Educational Research
Association and History of Education Society, and more recently The Access
Principle: The Case for Open
Access to Research and Scholarship, forthcoming from MIT Press. Examples of
his work, including the open source software designed to improve the access
and quality of research, are available at the Public
Knowledge Project which
he directs at UBC, when he is not playing guitar with an international blues
band of scholar-musicians at academic conferences.
Dartmouth Fellows and Participants
Denise Anthony is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth
College. She studies cooperation, trust, and social capital formation in different
contexts, including micro-credit borrowing groups and in Internet communication
and exchange. She also studies organizational behavior in health care, including
physicians' referral networks, and utilization norms and preferences, and overall
satisfaction among patients and physicians, as well as organizational change
in the managed care industry.
Benjamin Forest is Associate Professor of Geography
at Dartmouth College.
He received his Ph.D. in Geography from UCLA in 1997. He has been a Visiting
Fellow at Stanford University (2001-02) and a Doctoral Fellow at the American
Bar Foundation (1994-1996). He has published articles on identity, race and
ethnicity, political representation, and the social impacts of GIS in Society
and Space, Urban Geography, Social Science Quarterly, Political
Geography,
Social and Cultural Geography, and the Annals of the Association
of American Geographers. His research has been supported by grants from the Association
of American Geographers, the American Philosophical Society, the Ford Foundation,
and the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College.
Mikhail
Gronas, born in Tashkent (former USSR), graduated from Moscow State
University and University of Southern California. He is an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Russian at Dartmouth.
His primary fields are Russian 19th century and 20th century literature and
historical linguistics. He is also interested in the sociology of tastes, cognitive
poetics, and applications of automated language analysis to literary theory
and taste analysis. His current research is on taste
patterns in amazon.com book reviews. As a poet, he was awarded the Andrey Bely Literary Prize in 2002
for "Dear Orphans" (OGI, 2002).
Quintus R. Jett is a Visiting Associate Professor and Lecturer at the Thayer
School of Engineering. His research interest is the growing ubiquity of digital
environments and its implications for organizational design and decision making.
His current research projects examine conceptions of "subjective distance" and
the relationship between digital media and public organizing. His doctorate
is from Stanford University in the field of Management and Organizations.
Amy Lawrence is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Dartmouth College.
She is the author of Echo and Narcissus: Women's Voices in Classical
Hollywood Cinema (California 1991), The Films of Peter Greenaway (Cambridge 1997), and
is currently completing a project on Eadweard Muybridge. She has written on
animation in the silent period, in Eastern Europe in the 80s, and in US experimental
films from 1970 to the present.
Douglas Moody has been involved with a variety of media and education projects
for over twenty years, including print media, radio, video, and more recently,
with multimedia. While at the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley,
he received a graduate fellowship from the Berkeley Language Center to explore
the connections between Spanish-language theatre performance and New Media,
and he developed a website about this educational project, "SP
109 Live Performance Project." Since arriving at Dartmouth College, he has been
involved with a variety of other educational projects which utilize computer-mediated
communication and multimedia. In the spring term of 2003 he taught a course
for the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies (LALACS) program, LATS
41, "Representations of/from
Latinos/as in the Media and the Arts," and
co-created the website for this class. He is an editor for the online journal,
Latino Intersections, and has presented the pedagogical implications of Latino
Intersections and other educational projects at national conferences. Other
educational projects he has been involved with at Dartmouth include "DartMOO." He
was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholar Exchange grant, and will spend January
through June, 2006 in Mexico, working on a project entitled "Creating
Networks of Intercultural Understanding: Assessing Web-based Learning Environments."
Brenda
Silver is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor at Dartmouth College,
where she teaches courses on modernist and postmodern fiction, Virginia Woolf,
hypertext/electronic literature, and cyberculture. Her publications include
Virginia Woolf Icon (U of Chicago P, 1999); "Virginia Woolf://Hypertext," in
Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the Tenth-Annual
Virginia Woolf Conference, eds. Jessica Berman and Jane Goldman (Pace UP, 2001); and
Rape and Representation, edited with Lynn A. Higgins (Columbia UP, 1991), which
includes her essay on "Periphrasis, Power, and Rape in A Passage
to India." She
is currently working on a series of essays about electronic mailing lists that
will be part of a larger project tentatively called "Small Talk, New Networks."
Mark Williams is Associate Professor and Chair of Film and Television Studies
at Dartmouth College, and the co-director of this Humanities Institute. He
has published in a variety of journals and anthologies, including New
Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality; Collecting Visible Evidence;
Television, History, and American Culture; and Living Color: Race,
Feminism, and Television.
His forthcoming book, Remote Possibilities, is a history of early television
in Los Angeles, to be published by Duke University Press. With Adrian Randolph,
he has begun to co-edit a University Press of New England book series on visual
culture, entitled Interfaces. In conjunction with the Dartmouth College Library
he is initiating an e-journal to be called The Journal of E-Media Studies.
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