Introductions

Copper Giloth, Professor

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~giloth/

Copper Giloth is Director of Academic Computing, Office of Information Technology, and Associate Professor, Department of Art, Computer Animation and Drawing, Design, and Video. Her most recent project, Come In/Keep Out: The Complete Driveway - 2000 is a photographic book made in collaboration with Michele Turre.

Ana-Maria Campos, Graduate Teaching Associate

Ana-Maria Campos is a practicing artist, designer, writer, composer, and MFA candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has been working under various creative hats since 1986 and claims to have designed one of the first Intel run-card templates (in Quark 1.0 on an SE30), so enabling the efficient and rapid production of the Intel microchip. She recently completed a collaborative artist book project with New York Artist Anton VanDalen and is quite ready to move from her course research and development cave and into teaching this very exciting course. Her most recent project, "Purity Not Purity" is a grouping of paintings, cyanotypes, digital prints and short performances that propose a simplified and tendered dialogue between self-identity and the mediated landscape.

Fred Zinn

Fred Zinn is the Multimedia Applications Specialist in Academic Computing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His interest in visual design of human interfaces began at an early age when he and his brother would meticulously arrange the control panels on an endless series of cardboard time machines and transmorgrifiers. Since 1987 his work has involved information design: from teaching workshops in slide design at the University of Michigan to being the graphic designer at the original Internet service provider in Minnesota. In the real world he is an illustrator and cartoonist. He will be hosting the class workshops in human perception and visual thinking.

Kate Hudson

Kate Hudson is the Information Support Specialist in Academic Computing where she works with the Web Development group providing information design, navigation design, project management and content development. She will be visiting the class to share her knowledge of group dynamics. Kate received her M.Ed. in Counseling from the University of Maine/Orono, where she specialized in new theories of group leadership and collaboration. She is excited about the opportunity this class provides for integrating two areas of interest, how people work together (and how they can work together more productively) and using information technogy as a communication tool. When not in front of a computer, Kate can be found playing oboe in local orchestras or tending her gardens.

Michele Turre

Michele Turre is a practicing artist with a national exhibition record. Her project "Tired Landscapes" is included in the ArtBase archive of internet art at rhizome.org. She works as a member of the design team at Academic Computing where she is involved in the development of Web sites and multimedia projects for a variety of clients from the campus community. She is also on the faculty at the Graduate Center of Marlboro College, where she teaches courses in Website Design in the Internet Stateless Management Program. Michele will be hosting a technical workshop in Adobe Illustrator for the course.