- Kevin McGarry People
Kevin McGarry joined Rhizome after graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts; at NYU he studied Film/Video production and Art History and held internships with Electronic Arts Intermix, the New York Underground Film Festival, and the Ocularis microcinema in Brooklyn. His interest in new media is linked to digital literacy and a stated affinity for role-playing, cartography, and atypical communities; he has taught video in New York and New Hampshire and produces his own work and collaborations on Sundays.
- Astra Price People
Astra Price holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Webster University; is presently Assistant Video Engineer and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts; has lectured at the University of Southern California, Moorpark Community College and California Institute of the Arts. Exhibitions include The Foundry (MO), ATA Festival 2006 (CA), Generic Remix Project (CA), Version Fest 05 (IL) and Opensource Gallery (IL).
- Owen Shapiro People
Owen Shapiro directs the Film Program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University and founded the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival (SIFVF), serving as its artistic director with executive director Christine Fawcett Shapiro. He has led the program since 1973, designed the B.F.A. and M.F.A. curricula and film facilities in the Shaffer Art Building, and has made over 30 films and a dozen videos. His work received a 1976 retrospective at the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris and a 1987 Fulbright Fellowship to teach at Tel-Aviv University.
- Education
Directory of links to educational programs and projects concerning video history, including an archived NYU Arts Technology Group page (2005). Entries list university departments and research centers (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne; Columbia Center for New Media; Rensselaer iEAR; Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music), museums and institutes (MoMA Video Center; Getty Institute and Getty Research Institute), and community organizations and initiatives. Resources referenced include program descriptions, course and faculty listings, research projects and databases, exhibition and study centers, media literacy collections, and artist residencies and radio facilities at Wave Farm (Acra, NY).
- Deborah Stratman People
Deborah Stratman was Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film, Video, and New Media (1998) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; she holds a BFA (1990) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Film/Video (1995) from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at Temporary Services Gallery (Chicago), Para/Site Gallery (Hong Kong), the Latvian Museum of Foreign Art (Riga) and Smioagalleri (Reykjavik), and screened at San Francisco Cinematheque, Rotterdam, Sundance, Viennale 2002, L'Alternativa (Barcelona) and CinemaTexas. Awards and support include the Center For Land Use Interpretation (Wendover, UT), Wexner Center for the Arts (OH), Danish Film Institute Workshop (Copenhagen), Illinois Arts Council Artist's Fellowships, the Gecko Award (CinemaTexas), THAW Best of Festival and CUFF Best Experimental Film.
- "Intermedia 68" Chronology
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) funds experimental media artists as part of Intermedia 68, a theater workshop at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; projects include environmental video performances, film projections and videotapes. Contributors listed include Aldo Tambellini, Nam June Paik, Les Levine, Carolee Schneemann, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Ken Dewey and USCO.