Speakers
Cynthia Clabough | Gary Klatsky | Joseph Ballay | Carla Diana | Christa Erickson | Andruid Kerne | Cara Thompson | David Vampola | Paul Vanouse |
Cynthia Clabough, Co-Director
Professor, & Graphic Design Program Coordinator
SUNY Oswego
Cynthia Clabough holds an M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University and a B.F.A. from Lake Erie College. She exhibits work on regional and national levels in juried, group and solo shows. Her most recent exhibitions include work at the Mad Art Gallery in St. Louis, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, and at Central Missouri State University. Her work has been reviewed in numerous newspapers and publications. Before coming to Oswego, she taught at Sinclair Community college in Dayton, Ohio. Her research and medical illustrations were published regularly in scientific journals, publications, and textbooks while serving as an illustrator and graphic designer at Southern Illinois University. She has worked as a free-lance graphic designer/illustrator and computer prepress consultant. Her graphic design work and scenic art projects can been seen yearly at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival.
At present, she is coordinator of the Graphic Design Program at SUNY-Oswego as well as chair of the Center for Communication and Information Technology (CCIT). Professor Clabough is one of the faculty members who transitioned graphic design from a print technology program into a “full media” program that encompasses print, web, multimedia and illustration. She is one of the founding members of CCIT.
Gary Klatsky, Co-Director
Associate Profession & Director, HCI M.A. Program
SUNY Oswego
Dr. Klatsky received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University at Buffalo after receiving his M.A. in Psychology from San Francisco State University and his B.A. in Psychology from C. W. Post College. The first part of Dr. Klatsky’s career was spent working in the corporate sector where he was involved with the HCI components of U.S. Navy systems. One of his significant accomplishments was overseeing the usability of the combat system for the Seawolf class submarine. This was one of the first submarine systems that utilized color digital displays.
At SUNY Oswego, Dr. Klatsky was one of the faculty responsible for the development of the Cognitive Science Major, the first of its kind within SUNY. He was responsible for developing the new HCI Masters of Arts program that was approved in 2004. Recently, he has worked on establishing research partnerships with local businesses that will allow them to take advantage of the expertise and facilities that exist in the program.
Joseph Ballay
Founder/Principal, Maya Design
Joseph Ballay is a nationally known industrial designer and a senior faculty member in the Department of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. As the head of the department, Joe was instrumental in orienting CMU's design programs toward integrating high technology with traditional graphic and industrial design. He is concerned that people have satisfying, aesthetically pleasing experiences with technology as it influences ever more of our everyday lives. At MAYA, Mr Ballay was one of the principal developers of Workscape, an interface metaphor for a software product that collects, stores, retrieves, and works with large numbers of diverse documents. He has also helped to guide the design of products in the domains of consumer electronics, interactive television, military logistics, fire protection, and computer peripherals.
Joesph Ballay holds an M.F.A. in design from Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds a B.S. in industrial management from Carnegie Institute of Technology and a B.F.A. in industrial design from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America. Mr. Ballay has presented papers on interface graphics, computer-aided design, and a cross-disciplinary approach to usability design. His article "The Rose and the Chip: Feeling Our Way Through the Information Age" discusses predicted trends in the changing relationship between people and technology. It was published in 1986 in Innovation (Vol. 5, No. 2), the Journal of the Industrial Designers Society of America.
Carla Diana
Professor, Savannah College of Art and Design
Carla Diana is a design professional focused on the balance between the technical and the creative. Originally from New York City, she has an MFA in Industrial Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the Cooper Union. She has received several awards for her work and her latest large project, repercussion.org, has been featured in design publications and galleries worldwide. Her career includes heading up the product research lab at the Good Housekeeping Institute, designing software, kiosks and interactive environments for Sarkissian-Mason (where clients ranged from Ford Motors to independent filmmaker Atom Egoyan), and doing industrial design work for Karim Rashid. Recently, she was a Senior Design Technologist at the San Francisco office of frog design and is currently a faculty member at Savannah College of Art and Design exploring Interaction Design.
Christa Erickson
Associate Professor, SUNY Stony Brook
Christa Erickson is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates the politics, pleasures, and pains of spaces mediated by electronic technologies. Her individual and collaborative works have been exhibited widely, including PPOW (NYC), Walker Art Center (MN), Hong Kong Art Centre (China), Institute for Studies in the Arts/Arizona State University (AZ), School for Visual Arts, Visual Arts Museum (NYC), California Museum of Photography, Banff Center for the Arts (Canada), Jamaica Center for the Arts (NY), Islip Art Museum (NY), Maryland Art Place (MD), various university galleries/museums and at international media arts festivals like CYNETart (Germany), Maid in Cyberspace (Canada), FILE (Brazil), Medi@terra (Greece and Eastern Europe), Ciber@rt (Spain). Recently she was Artist-in-Residence at the Hong Kong Arts Centre for Digital Now 2003 and an Artist-in- Residence at Sculpture Space 2006-7.
Erickson is Digital Studios Director and Associate Professor of Art at SUNY, Stony Brook where she teaches electronic media. She also writes, curates, and regularly speaks about new media. Her essay "Networked Interventions: Debugging the Electronic Frontier" appears in the Routledge 2002 anthology Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Urban Metropolis. For the conference Queer Visualities (2002) she organized the video screening and an exhibition. For the conference Singing the Body Electric (2000) she curated the exhibition Feedback: Female Artists Respond to Technoculture.
Andruid Kerne
Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Andruid Kerne’s work has epitomized the nexus between art and science. He is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Interface Ecology Laboratory at Texas A & M University. The focus of his current work is development and evaluation of expressive interfaces, computational architectures, and distributed systems that support creative processes of knowledge production and interpersonal. This general focus has let to work in Recombinant Knowledge Spaces, Interface Ecosystems, Wearable Affective Computing. Social Interactivity, Ambient Media, Cultural Databases. Information Visualization, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Hypertext, Distributed and Embedded Real-Time and Internet Architectures. Dr. Kerne holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from New York University, a M.A. in Music Composition from Wesleyan University and his B.A is in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.
Andruid Kerne’s numerous publications in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journals include: Generative semantic clustering in spatial hypertext, Doing interface ecology: The practice of metadisciplinarity, Evaluating navigational surrogate formats with divergent browsing tasks, Concept-context-design: A creative model for the development of interactivity, and Extending interface practice: an ecosystems approach.
Cara Thompson
Assistant Professor, SUNY Oswego
Cara Brewer Thompson moved to Central New York in 1988 to attend Syracuse University. She received her MFA in 1991. Her paintings, sculptures, prints, web designs and multimedia projects have been exhibited around the country. She was a founding member of Altered Space in Syracuse, where she has long been an active member of the art community. Before coming to Oswego, Cara Thompson spent 10 years as an adjunct instructor at Syracuse University, SUNY Oswego, Cayuga Community College and Cazenovia College. Just prior to coming to Oswego, she was the Graphic Design Area Coordinator for Bryant and Stratton College in Liverpool, New York. At Oswego since the fall of 2004, she has served as coordinator of web and multimedia design in the Graphic Design Program and a member of the CCIT Advisory Board.
David Vampola
Assistant Professor, SUNY Oswego
David Vampola received graduate training at the University of Notre Dame (MA in Mathematical Logic) Boston University (graduate work in Computer Science),Tufts University (MA in history), Princeton University (graduate work in cultural and intellectual history) and the University of Pittsburgh (PhD candidacy in quantitative history and the conceptual foundations of science). He has given lectures (partial list) at Harvard University, Boston University, Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), CRNS (Paris), University of Osnabruck (Germany), Leo Baack Institute (New York City), New York Academy of Sciences and at the 2001 meeting of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE). His publications have ranged over topics from the conceptual foundations of science to the statistical analysis of the health professions. He has held teaching and research positions at Boston University, Brown University, University of Pittsburgh and the University of Bochum (Germany). At present he is Director of the Information Science Program at SUNY-Oswego.
Paul Vanouse
Associate Professor, University of Buffalo
Paul Vanouse has been working in emerging technological forms since 1990. His electronic cinema, performances and interactive installations have been exhibited in 18 countries and widely across the US. While Vanouse often designs his work for public spaces, he also shows in major museums including: The Carnegie Museum of Art and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, the TePapa Museum in New Zealand and the Louvre Museum in Paris.
His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the PA Council on the Arts, the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Sun Microsystems, the Howard Heinz Endowment, the New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Creative Capital Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Vanouse is an Associate Professor of Art at the University at Buffalo, and a Research Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. His most recent solo work "The Relative Velocity Inscription Device" is a live scientific experiment, in the form of an automated electronic installation, in which he literally races skin color genes from his Jamaican-American family against one another.