Hana Iverson, Director

http://hanaiverson.com

Hana Iverson is a media artist with a conceptual grounding in photography and portable/wearable media, with a focus on networked communities and wireless technologies. Her public projects, Cross/Walks: Weaving Fabric Row and View from the Balcony along with her education initiative Neighborhood Narratives, employs the neighborhood as social practice to explore questions about place, embodiment, and social engagement inside of mobile and other alternative forms of distribution. Iverson is the Visiting Scholar with the Institute for Woman and Art at Rutgers University (NJ), and founder and director of the Neighborhood Narratives Project. She is the former director of the New Media Interdisciplinary Concentration at the School of Communications and Theater, Temple University. Iverson approaches the educational environment as a communications network, situating conventional disciplines of media and art production within structures of social exchange.  An important aspect of this model is its situation both inside and outside of the academy and the extension of the classroom to the city, locally and internationally, via social computing and physical interfaces. She holds a Master’s Degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

The Center for Creative Research, Collaborative Partners http://www.centerforcreativeresearch.org/html/slideshow.php

Eiko Otake	David Gordon	Ralph Lemon

http://stevebull.org/












Steve Bull is a mixed media technology artist whose practice includes writing computer code, rewriting historical narratives, recording audio interviews, and shooting video to create new location specific experiences delivered via cell phones. Bull has been collaborating with the New-York Historical Society to create a series of cell phone tours of Lower Manhattan in support of their ongoing "Slavery in New York" exhibits. The cell phone tours for Slavery in New York, were honored as part of the 2008 Outstanding Public History Project Award from the National Council on Public History, and were included in the 2007 top ten museum podcasts. In 2008, Harvestworks/NYSCA commissioned the concert Cellphonia: Tempo Variabile for Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T) at Stevens Institute of Technology. In addition, Target has recruited Bull to create the interactive multi-media effects for the Teen Vogue Fashion event at the Hudson Theater on Broadway. In 2005, he produced the still and video design for Wet, a multi-media chamber opera that premiered at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT). His single channel videos have been exhibited at the Getty, the Museum of Modern Art, PBS New TV series, the Kitchen, American Film Institute, Mill Valley Film Festival, Berlin Video Festival, Columbus Film Festival, Bucks County Film Festival, Cork Film Festival, Cleveland Film Festival, a ten-city tour in Brazil, and Creative Time on 42nd Street. He received the New York State Council for the Arts grant for Cellphonia: In The News.

Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
http://www.masongross.rutgers.edu

Mason Gross School of the Arts is currently hosting Neighborhood Narratives, providing access to all university resources, while also recruiting faculty and student participants at the New Brunswick, NJ campus.

Laura Collini, PhD. Marie Curie Research Fellow, MediaCity Project, Bauhaus University-Weimar, Germany.

Mary Hawkesworth, PhD. Chair and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2005-2010.

Elizabeth Kilroy, founder of ElizabethK Studio, a new media design firm, serving a wide variety of clients, cultural, artistic and commercial.

Rob Kitchin, PhD. Professor of Geography, National University of Maynouth, Ireland; Director of the Institute for Spatial Analysis; Editor, Social and Cultural Geography.

Siobhan O’Flynn, PhD. Assistant Professor of Canadian Studies and English, The University of Toronto. Faculty, The Canadian Film Center’s Media Lab. Advises on the development of narratives across media, including projects such as Murmur Toronto. http://murmurtoronto.ca/

Ferris Olin, PhD. Director, the Margery Somers Foster Center of the Rutgers University Libraries; Co-Director, The Institute for Women and Art.

Rickie Sanders, PhD. Professor of Geography; Director of Women’s Studies, Temple University.

Fred Ritchin, Professor of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Director of PixelPress (www.pixelpress.org), creating web sites, books and exhibitions investigating new documentary and promoting human rights.

Morris Vogel, PhD. Professor of History, Temple University; President, The Tenement Museum, New York City.