Alumni Updates
Bren Bataclan
(1995, Design)
Recently returned to Boston from San Francisco. Bren continues
to direct his design firm, Bataclan
Design (formerly Designfilter). Recent exhibits include: Cambridge
Artists Association 1999 (Cambridge, MA); Agusta Savage Gallery 2000 (Amherst,
MA); Current works in San Francisco, CA, March 2003.
Bren has also been giving talks about research in Philipino design aesthetics
and has been asked to write a chapter about Philipino technology and design
for an upcoming arts book based in California. He also recently spent
time in London working with Universal Music Group on their on-line music
web hubs. Bren says "Hi" to everyone. (e-mail: bren@bataclan.com)
Wooksang Chang
(2000, Art, Art and Technology)
Accepted a teaching position at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea as
an Associate Professor. He will be teaching graduate level 3D animation
in the Art and Technology program, beginning Fall semester. Until that
time, he is finishing work on "Sinbad" for PDI/Dreamworks as
lead lighting artist (due to release in July).
Wooksang was interviewed
by "CG Land" a Korean 3D web magazine about his study in the
United States (however, it is in Korean!). (e-mail: wooksang_chang@hotmail.com)
Joe Daniels
(1991, Art Education)
Joe and his wife Rhonda had a baby son, Kyle Zachary in August of 2002.
Joe wrote a 30-day animators diary, which will be included in a new book
from GGC/Publishing this year.
Also see: http://www.blakboxx.com/news.htm
Tim Glenn
(1999, Dance)
Is Assistant Professor of Dance at Florida State University. Tim recently
received $12,000 from the Office of Distributed and Distance Learning
and the Council for Instruction for the development of new courses and
a telematic presence for FSU Dance.
(e-mail: tglenn@mailer.fsu.edu)
Other projects Tim is working on:
- Commissioned by
"Seven Days of Opening Nights", a regional performing arts
festival to create a multidisciplinary evening of mediated dance theater,
"Aqueous Myth", to premiere in February, 2005.
Tim is currently working
as a video consultant for the Paul Taylor Dance Co. of New York.
- Nearing completion of the "Nikolais and Murray Louis Costume
Collection" (CD-ROM).
- Presenting a workshop,
"Dance Video for the Stage and Screen", at the American
College Dance Festival, Miami (March).
- Grant for conducting
research on current practices in dance documentation.
Heath Hanlin
(1997, Art)
Has been promoted to Associate Professor at Syracuse University. Heath recently
received two grants, one from the New York Foundation for the Arts, 2003
Planning Grant for Artists in the School Community, and one from ArtSTART
Grant from Partners for Arts Education, 2003, for initiating a documentary
website on the suburbanization of Central Square, NY.
Heath exhibited
his piece "eso", 2001:
- Postflesh group show at Sacramento State University Gallery, 11/25/02-3/21/03.
- Screening and lecture, "Subtle Technologies", University
of Toronto, May 2002.
- Visiting artist presentation and talk at University of Maryland 2/13/02.
- Visiting artist presentation and talk at UMBC, Baltimore 2/12/02.
- "Sensory Overload", Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University,
Ypsilanti, MI.
- "Art In General", NYC, 4th annual video marathon.
See Heath's
two sons, Ezra (1) and Henry (4) playing
in the family igloo. Heath says "This is why I don't play that much
Quake anymore". (e-mail: hahanlin@syr.edu)
Muqueem Khan
(1994-96, Design)
Muqeem currently works
at The School of Architecture and Design at American University of
Sharjah (United Arab Emirates). The school prepares undergraduate
students for careers in the following fields: environmental design, architecture,
landscape architecture, interior design, town planning; graphic design,
advertising, packaging design, illustration, animation, multimedia applications,
computer simulations, video; art, heritage, and culture management, exhibition
design and publicity, general design consulting.
He is currently teaching Senior/Junior Studios for Multimedia Design;
Advanced Modeling and Animation; Special Topics in Multimedia Design;
and Internships for Multimedia. He has also participated in several conferences
in the UAE; Auckland, New Zealand; and Dubai UAE. Muqueem says "Hi"
to everyone. ~ Muqeem (e-mail: muqeem_khan@hotmail.com)
Wobbe Koning
(2000, Art, Art and Technology)
Wobbe says, "Our company Pixelberg just did send a newsletter, but
I'm afraid it's in Dutch! It mainly stated that we have been making animations
for DVD, television and 2K film leaders. The info can be found on our
website, which is in English: www.pixelberg.nl.
Next to that: teaching at Filmschool is going well. I teach compositing
to editing and "New Media" students. That is, they just changed
the name of that last department to the more catchy "Interactive
Multimedia / Visual Effects". There I got a little more hours now,
still not enough for all the work that has to be done though! No family
changes or other shocking news... Hope to come to Siggraph this year though."
~ Wobbe (e-mail:
wobbe@pixelberg.nl)
Jeff Light
(1983, Cinema and Photography)
Is now at PDI/Dreamworks, in Redwood City, until August, training on the
PDI software pipeline. In August, he will be moving to the Glendale area
to work at the main Dreamworks campus as a Character TD.
Rick Lucas (1986,
Art Education)
Has been the Director of the School of Art and Design at Christchurch
Polytechnic, New Zealand since 1997. This year he steps down to coordinate
the school's graduate programme in digital design. Rick has had 3 exhibitions
of his work in the past 12 months: "Insignia", based
on cultural icons, Salamander Gallery in Christchurch (June/July 2002);
"Systemicity", based on societal dynamics, Centre of
Contemporary Art Museum, Christchurch (Sept/Oct 2002); and "Signs
of Life" based upon urban and corporate signage, Aigantighe
Art Museum in Timaru, N.Z. (now till end of March 2003).
Rick lives and paints
on a small ranch in the foothills of the great Southern Alps of New Zealand
along with his horses, a donkey, geese, chickens and a cat. Recently he
expanded his studio to accomodate new works which are becoming increasingly
large in scale and sculptural. "Life is very good and hello to all
my old colleagues and mentors". ~ Rick
(e-mail: LucasR@cpit.ac.nz).
Marla Mayerson
(1997, Art, Art and Technology)
Is currently working
at Youngstown State University as an Assistant Professor in the Art and
Technology program with Andrew Bac (just received his PhD in Art Ed at
OSU). Marla says, "The school is on semesters so it seems that classes
are taking forever. This semester I'm teaching courses in digital imaging
and web publication design. I'll be adding digital compositing to that
lineup next semester. My classes are stacked so I can still spend some
weekends in Columbus. I'm quite impressed by the facilities here and walked
into recently updated computer labs with new Macs. The students are mainly
commuters but there is some good talent here. After doing the corporate
thing I'm glad to be back in academic life. I hadn't realized how much
I missed the developing minds and teacher/student interaction. This is
a small art faculty and I'm on lots of committees. The town itself isn't
much to talk about but is within range of the Cleveland NPR station which
plays lots of good jazz music. ~ Marla (e-mail: mayerson@ysu.edu)
Sonia Oster
(2001, Design)
Is now living in Austria working for Sony in Salzburg as Lead Designer
for Sony NetServices. Sonia is also involved in an "eLearning"
project from the European Comission and the University of Salzburg. "My
greetings to you and the people in ACCAD" ~Sonia, (e-mail:oster.12@osu.edu)
Jack Paulus
(1998, Engineering)
Congratulations to Jack and his wife Amy Likar on the birth of their second
child, Joshua (1/22/03). Joshua joins his big sister
Hannah who is two and a half. Jack has been at Pixar for nearly four years
and is working in the FX dept. on the movie, "The Incredibles"
due in theaters
by 2004. ~ Jack (e-mail: jack@pixar.com)
Stephen Spencer
(1988, Computer and Information Science)
Stephen and Kristina Spencer and their children,
Nathan (almost five) and Sophie (almost three), are thriving way out in
the Pacific Northwest. They moved back to Seattle from Bainbridge Island
in May of 2002, preferring city life and much shorter commutes.
Stephen's job as
manager of the computer graphics lab at the University of Washington's
Computer Science and Engineering department keeps him busy and satisfied,
as does his ongoing role as Director for Publications for ACM SIGGRAPH.
Kristina's working for Watchguard Technologies, a network security hardware
manufacturer in Seattle, helping to maintain their training and education
Web sites. ~ Stephen (e-mail: spencer@cs.washington.edu)
Joan Staveley
(1989, Art Education)
Joan and David Hunt had a baby boy, Samuel Ernest Staveley Hunt
on Christmas Eve, 2002. Everybody is doing great! See pictures of Joan,
David and Samuel.....and Joan and
Samuel. Joan adds, "Sam's middle names are in honor of my Dad,
Ernest Staveley, whom many CIS grads know from his 20 odd years as an
administrator in that department. Sam is a joy and I am having a blast
being a Mom!" ~Joan (e-mail: jstaveley@visi.com)
Nanette Wylde
(1996, Art)
(e-mail:
nan@preneo.com)
Recent exhibitions
include:
- Chiangmai First
New Media Arts Festival, Thailand, 2003.
- ISEA 2002 in Nagoya,
Japan.
- SIGGRAPH 2002 in
San Antonio, Texas.
- 15th Filmwinter
Festival of Expanded Media in Stuttgart, Germany, 2002.
- Word Play: Electronic
Flipbooks at the Krause Center for Innovation in Los Altos Hills, CA,
2002.
- Assumptions: Performative
Texts at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford
University, 2002.
- New Media Connections
at the TECH Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA.
- Lasers in the
Jungle: Humans and Technology at the University of the the Pacific.
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