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Stephanie Davenport is a Boston-based
consultant focusing on media relations and development for
the arts. Her clients include the Boston CyberArts Festival,
the Art Interactive Gallery (Cambridge, MA), Parsons School
of Design (NYC), and the Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria),
the latter being the site of her masters thesis case study.
Nadya Direkova is an Associate Producer
at LeapFrog Enterprises in Emeryville, CA. She has produced
interactive books teaching English, second-grade Math and
first-grade Word Games. She continues to develop her research
in Language Learning Games through product design and collaboration
with teachers and academics. Nadya is an active participant
in the MIT Northern California Club. (9/2004)
Robin Hauck is a freelance film critic
and director. She writes about films from around the world
for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and is in pre-production
on a documentary on foster care mothers in Massachusetts.
Susannah Mandel is now packing up to spend
a year teaching French middle-schoolers through the government-sponsored
"American Assistants in France" program. She plans
to figure out what to do with her life while soaking up
a little culture along the way. She invites anyone swinging
through the region of Lille, France, to contact her: she
wants to do as much traveling and have as many guests as
possible this year, and she'd be delighted to see you! She
will have an essay appearing in the upcoming collection
Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, edited by Sherry
Turkle, forthcoming from MIT Press. (9/2004)
Heather Miller is a Supervising Editor
at Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Education in New York City. She
occasionally serves as an educational consultant to UNESCO.
(9/2004)
Aswin Punathambekar is now in his second
year of Doctoral Studies in the Media & Cultural Studies
program at UW-Madison. He spent the summer working on an
IT & e-governance project (in the sunny, beachside town
of Pondicherry), and doing some preliminary fieldwork in
Bangalore towards his dissertation. He also watched every
Bollywood release this summer - first day, first show! (9/2004)
Philip Tan is Technologist in Residence
in Comparative Media Studies, and Project Manager of the
Education Arcade project.
2002
Candis Callison is a doctoral student
in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
at MIT. There, she is continuing some of the work she began
in CMS on digital representations of the environment with
new research on scientific visualization, climate change,
and GPS-related technologies. She is also a new mom and
welcomed her daughter, Freya into the world in December
2003.
Anita Chan is currently enrolled in the
Ph.D. Program in Science,
Technology, and Society at MIT. As a Masters student at
CMS, she studied emergent models of online news construction
and exchange on the technology-centered news site, Slashdot
(http://web.mit.edu/anita1/www/thesis/Index.html).
She is currently
pursuing research on free software activism and discourses
of
state/political reform in Latin America. She was a visiting
lecturer
in the Communication Department at the Universidad Iberoamericana
in Mexico City this past summer. And she currently leads
the working group on Information Technologies and Self under
MIT's Initiative for Technology and Self. Her article "Seeing
Software, Seeing States: Free Software Legislation and Visions
of Power and Politics in Peru" is forthcoming in the
journal Anthropological Quarterly. (9/2004)
Sophie Ormerod is VP Targeting for 121Media
in New York. 121 is an online marketing outfit where Sophie
manages a team responsible for the algorithmic categorization
and recognition of online browsing behavior.
Qi Wang is currently enrolled in the Ph.D
program in Critical Studies, Department of Film, Television
and Digital Media, School of Theatre, Film and Television,
UCLA. Professional goals: film scholar and filmmaker. She
is continuing to make documentaries and art films, the most
recent of which include Written on the Water, Pink Dots
Set to Indian Song in Chinese, and a documentary in progress
that is on gay culture in Chongqing, China (temporarily
named "Little Devil").
Margaret Weigel writes on arts and culture
for WBUR and The Women's Review of Books, and creates digital
media projects. She presents her research paper "Paint
Guns, Cops and the 21st Century Tagger: Graffiti's Form
and Content as Determined by Authoritarian Responses"
at the College Art Association's annual meeting in Feb.
04, and will teach as a Visiting Professor at Boston's School
of the Museum of Fine Arts for the Spring 2004 semester.
Michelle Woodward is currently the Media
Outreach Coordinator and Photo Editor at the Middle East
Research and Information Project (MERIP), publishers of
Middle East Report, in Washington, DC. Her essay "Between
Orientalist Cliches and Images of Modernization: Photographic
Practice in the Late Ottoman Era" was published in
the winter 2004 issue of the journal History of Photography.
She has also been working on several long-term projects,
including photographing abandoned industrial sites (several
exhibits of hers are upcoming in Baltimore), and continuing
research on photographic representations of the Middle East.
(9/2004)
2001
Jim Bizzocchi is an Assistant Professor
in the School of Interactive Art and Technology at Simon
Fraser University in British Columbia. He teaches courses
in Interactive Narrative, Game Design, and Video Production.
His research interests include the emergent aesthetics of
high-definition video, issues in interactive narrative,
and the use of games and simulations as educational environments.
He has recently been awarded a research grant from the Canadian
Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to
review existing video post-production tools and make recommendations
for further research and development in this area. Jim is
producing a series of videos in conjunction with the Banff
Centre, and is curating an exhibition of Video Paintings
for the New Forms Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia.
He is also a member of the Pan-Canadian Simulation and Advanced
Gaming Environment research project (SAGE).
After completing CMS, Cynthia Conti was
an Adjunct Professor at Clark University in Worcester, MA,
where she taught courses in media policy and television
culture in the Communication and Culture and Screen Studies
Department. She is currently attending New York University,
where she is pursuing a PhD in Media Ecology at the Steinhardt
School of Education. (9/2004)
David Spitz is an MBA student at Columbia
Business School (Class of 2005). He is on leave from his
position as a management consultant in Deloitte Consulting's
Technology, Media, and Telecommunications practice, where
he has worked since graduating from the Comparative Media
Studies program in 2001.
Christa Starr attended the Graduate Film
School at NYU, and is currently working at Dreamworks, where
she says, she makes "way too much money lighting models
of a fish that kinda resembles Will Smith in a scary Mr.
Limpett sort of way," (9/2004)
Christopher York was Director of Technology
for the Metamedia Project at MIT (2001-2002) and on 2002
accepted a position as Researcher for the Perseus Project,
a digital library in the Department of Classics at Tufts
University. When last contacted he planned to start a Ph.D.
program. (Information as of 2002)
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