Digital Technology and Culture

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Artists in Residency

The Digital Technology and Culture program is happy to announce its fall 2007 “Artists-in-Residence” Program.

The DTC Artists-in-Residence Program is comprised of three two-week to month-long residencies taking place during the fall 2007 semester. Three different artists will visit, each taking one of the residencies. During their stay at Washington State University Vancouver the artists will teach a segment of DTC 477 “Advanced Multimedia Authoring,” a course that provides students high level technology skills needed for careers in digital media, and DTC 300, the one-hour lab course associated with it; mentor students interested in pursuing a career in digital media; network with faculty at Washington State University Vancouver; and offer learning opportunities to the Vancouver community through such activities as workshops, exhibits, or performances.

The first artist arriving for the program is Canadian-UK new media writer and animation specialist, Chris Joseph, currently Digital Writer in Residence at the Institute of Creative Technologies in De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Also known as “babel,” Joseph has produced such award-winning works as Inanimate Alice, The Breathing Wall, and Animalamina. Joseph will teach the animation segment of the course.

The second artist is Steve Gibson, a Canadian multimedia artist, composer, curator, and theorist. He completed his Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo, where he studied music composition, and completed postdoctoral research in media and technology with Arthur Kroker at Concordia University in Montréal. He was formerly Senior Lecturer and Director of the Multimedia Program at Karlstad University in Sweden, and now serves as Associate Professor of Digital Media at University of Victoria, Canada. For the course Gibson will teach multimedia performance and installation with an emphasis on digital music.

The third artist, Samantha Blackmon, is an Associate Professor of English at Purdue University. She received her PhD from Wayne State University in 2001 and has been working in the area of computer-mediated environments and game development. During the semester she will teach storyboarding and writing for video games.

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