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Columbia College requires that instructors be working professionals
in the area in which they teach. In fact, the majority of Columbia
College faculty are part-time instructors who find teaching a rewarding way to
give back to their community. Most instructors soon find that teaching
not only enriches student's lives but deepens their own understanding of their
field.
The Interactive Multimedia Program honors this tradition, with a faculty
comprised of both full time and part-time instructors, all of whom have
real-world clients, real-world projects and real-world value in the
classroom. The Interactive Multimedia Program relies on both "core"
faculty, as well as faculty in our partner departments which bring their
traditional media expertise to our interdisciplinary curriculum.
Program Director
Wade Roberts, Acting
Director, 312-344-7750
Wade Roberts is a writer, video-maker, film-maker, photographer, and
sound-recordist, whose emphasis is on the documentary form. His works have been
widely published, exhibited, performed, and broadcast, and he also has
extensive experience in producing, publishing, and curating. On the faculty in
the Fiction Writing and Television Departments, his recent work includes
"CHAOSity" ( a multi-threaded narrative in text, animation, still- and
moving-images, and sound, the result of a collaboration with Niki Nolin
[Academic Computing] and Karen Osborne and Maureen Seaton [English]), and the
work-in-progress "Seasons of Grief: The Bereavement Project," an
internationally collective and collaborative, multi-threaded, multimedia, and
evolving documentary.
Core Program Faculty
Janell Baxter, Artist in
Residence, 312-344-7751
Janell Baxter is a classically trained visual artist who began creating
interactive non-digital media in 1990. Combining digital and traditional media
led to working professionally as a freelance interactive designer, developing
both websites and CD-ROMs for a variety of clients. In addition, she has been
teaching interactive design (from high-school to post-graduate students) for
several years, and has been a full-time faculty member of Columbia College since 1998.
She has received several awards including an Oxbow
Fellowship from the Art Institute Chicago. For more information visit her site
at www.janellbaxter.com.
Joseph Cancellaro, Artist in Residence, 312-344-7063
Dr. Joseph Cancellaro is a full-time faculty member in the Interactive
Multimedia Program at Columbia College. Along with his teaching obligations he
is very active as composer and freelance sound designer having worked for ECAT
in Scotland, Warsaw Radio in Warsaw, Poland and the BBC in England. Dr.
Cancellaro's music has been performed throughout Europe and the United States.
He received a Bachelor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music, a Master
of Music Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and a Doctorate of
Philosophy in Music Composition from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Currently he is completing a book on Sound Design and composing an opera.
www.mxfoundry.com
Dave Gerding is a consultant, writer, programmer and owner of Versive LLC, an
interactive solutions developer. He was the founding faculty member of the
Interactive Multimedia Program and consulted in its development before joining
the program. He is a
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a
McCarthy Technologies Certified Core Instructor. He is currently completing the first generation of a comprehensive educational
management systems application. A communicator first and foremost, Gerding
wrote for over over a dozen national and international technology publications
prior to joining Columbia and continues to write in his spare time.
Part-Time Program Faculty
Erik Brown is a visual artist from San Diego who received his MFA at the
University of Illinois in Chicago. He has shown work at
numerous spots in Chicago, and has curated several exhibitions ("Organic
Produce" at the International Museum of Surgical Science, "Compound
Fracture" at the Hyde Park Art Center, and "Softcore Pornography" at
Century 900). Mr. Brown currently teaches Graphics and Animation for
the Interactive Multimedia Program, and is a drawing instructor for Columbia 2
(Columbia College's Continuing Education Program). He has taught at several
schools in the Chicago area (including the University of Illinois) in the past eight years.
For more information visit his site at www.kittyspit.com/erik.
Mr. Hicks teaches part-time in the Interactive Multimedia department at Columbia
College. He is also a freelance multimedia designer, focusing on video
post-production and interactive design. He has designed and implemented
many interactive projects for the web, CD-ROM, and video. He works primarily
in Flash, and more recently, Premiere and After Effects.
Dennis Huston has led the completion of over 25 web and software projects
working as both Information Architect and Senior Producer/Project Manager for
the last 6 years at Chicago based design firm Closerlook and corporate training
company Cognitive Arts. He has worked with client teams at all levels from
dotcom startup to large fortune 500, with an explicit goal of extracting and
using the needs of his client's user audiences as the primary guide for the
effective design of each piece of software which he has been involved. Dennis
also writes and records music in his digital home studio and plans to release a
compact disc of recordings in the Fall of 2001, along with a complimentary web
site of writings, photography, and art. His resume can be viewed online at
www.seaempty.com
Jeff Meyers, Lab Director and
Part-Time Faculty
Jeff knows some things about puterz.
Judie Sell, owner of XsellNewMedia, has built strong relationships with expert
developers, writers, illustrators and videographers in the Interactive Multimedia industry. With
these partners, she offers web, CD-ROM, design and marketing services to
small and large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Judie has over 10 years
experience in the areas of photography and video. She has worked in the Interactive Multimedia field for more than 5 years and her clients
include, among others, Beluga Records, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at
Chicago, a variety of Healthcare professionals. Currently she
teaches Introduction to Interactive Multimedia Production and several
sections of Graphics and Animation for Interactive Multimedia.
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