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FACULTY
Bob Kaputof is Chair and Associate Professor of the Kinetic Imaging Department. He teaches video and animation and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Bob received his BA from Chico State and his MFA in Sculpture from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Bob Paris is a video artist whose work has screened at the Whitney Biennial, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Image Forum in Tokyo, and a variety of other venues around the world. Many of his videos use appropriated imagery to form critiques of mass media and popular culture.
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Semi Ryu is Assistant Professor in Kinetic Imaging. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and BFA from the Korean National University of Arts. She is currently a Doctoral candidate at Planetary Collegium, CAIIA-hub, UK, exploring Virtual Puppetry informed by Korean Shamanism. Her works started from experimental 3D animations, with the subject of interactivity in Korean shaman ritual and oral tradition of storytelling. Her animations have been widely presented in more than 15 countries and recently featured on StreamingMuseum.org, organized by Chelsea Art Museum, NYC. Her interest about interactivity has been continued to her critical view of interactive media and virtual interactive puppet performance, presented internationally in Vancouver, Amsterdam, Milan, Beijing, Montreal, Madrid, Berlin, etc. Her talks and papers have been frequently invited from international conferences and publications. One of her papers “Ritualizing Interactive Media” was mentioned as exceptional quality in Leonardo review (MIT press), 2005 and published in Technoetic Arts 3.2, edited by Roy Ascott. Since 2004, she has been collaborated with Multimedia lab, University of Rome, Italy, for her ongoing virtual puppetry projects. Her recent collaboration is “Experimental Virtual Wayang” project, combining Virtual and traditional shadow puppetry together, performed by Gusti Sudarta, a shadow puppet master from Bali.
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Pam Turner began her creative inquiry in photography and in the mid-1980’s expanded into the realm of the moving image: video, film, and computer animation. Since 1995 she has taught studio and lecture courses in 3D-computer and experimental animation. Pam encourages interdisciplinary approaches—thinking, and getting the work, outside of the box. Natural forms and spaces, and a mythical experience of those forms inspire much of her work, which has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at galleries and film festivals, including the Ajijic Festival Internacional de Cine 2000, Ajijic, Mexico; Microcinema’s Independent Exposure; the Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY; Nashville Independent Film Festival; Worldfest Houston; and the Mill Valley Film Festival. Her animation Falling Back to Earth: Tomatillo (2000) won a Director’s Citation at the 21st Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival, a Gold Award in Experimental Video and Film Animation at Worldfest Houston, Best Animated Narrative Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival, and the CiNY (Cinewomen New York) Award for Outstanding Filmmaking in Animation. Pam is currently completing research on the late animator Adam Beckett, who was the head of animation and rotoscoping for Industrial Light and Magic’s 1977 Star Wars. Her educational background includes a BFA in Art History/Studio and a MFA in Visual Communication, both from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Stephen Vitiello is Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinetic Imaging. He is a renowned sound and media artist whose work—sound installations, CDs, and performances—has been presented internationally and resides in such permanent collections as the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has been a guest media curator for the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, and the Knitting Factory.
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