Speakers
Merlin Donald
Merlin Donald is Founding Chair of the Department of Cognitive
Science at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
He was previously Professor of Psychology and Education, Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. A cognitive neuroscientist
with a background in philosophy, he is the author of many scientific
papers, and two influential books: Origins of the Modern
Mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition
(Harvard, 1991), and A Mind So Rare: The evolution of
human consciousness (Norton, 2001).
His PhD was obtained from McGill University in 1968. He spent
two years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Yale University School
of Medicine, followed by three years in New Haven, Connecticut,
as a Research Neuropsychologist. He has also been a visiting
professor at University College London, Harvard, Stanford, UCSD,
and elsewhere, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for
Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences, at Stanford, and
a Killam Research Fellow. He was elected a Fellow of the Canadian
Psychological Association in 1984, and a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada in 1995.
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Lynn Hershman Leeson received her BA from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, and an MA from San Francisco State University. She is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Davis, and A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Hershman Leesons work has been featured in more than 200 exhibitions internationally. She has created 53 videotapes, 8 interactive installations, 3 web-based installations, two feature films, and additionally, has edited the book Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture (1996). In 1994, she was the first woman to receive a tribute and retrospective at the San Francisco International Film Festival. She has been recognized internationally with awards such as the ZKM/Siemens Media Art Award (1995) alongside director Peter Greenaway and theorist Jean Baudrillard; the Golden Nica in Interactive Art at Ars Electronica (1999); and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize in Science and Technology at the Hamptons International Film Festival for her film Teknolust (1999-2002). Hershman Leeson has had retrospectives at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and, most recently, at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, which travels to the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karslruhe in 2006. A monograph of her work, The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson, was published in 2005 by the University of California Press. Hershman-Lessons work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; DG Bank, Frankfurt; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; William Lehmbruch Museum, Duisburg; and the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, among others.
Hershman Leeson has lectured and written extensively about new media, From 1984-1993 she was the Director of the Inter Arts Center, San Francisco State University, and from 1993-2005, a professor of electronic art at the University of California, Davis where she founded the IDEA Media Lab.
Kristina Hooper Woolsey
A noted pioneer in the development of interactive multimedia as a Distinguished Scientist at Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 - 1998, Dr. Woolsey received her Ph.D. in cognitive science at UC San Diego. Her focus in graduate school was in visual representations, leading her to a postdoctoral fellowship in architecture and landscape architecture. She was on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz, where she investigated the development of geographic knowledge and the relationship between spatial abilities and mathematical competencies. As a visiting faculty at MIT in 1978 she was a principal on the Aspen Movie Mapping project.
Woolsey is currently a co-PI with Henry Jenkins on a new project investigating New Media Literacies, and a consultant to the Exploratorium for the development of a web site for the Institute for Inquiry. From 1998 - 2004 she served as a technology consultant for the James Irvine Foundation on a five-city afterschool program. These projects allow her to extend her expertise and impact in the general arena of digital learning, with a continuing emphasis on visual learning. She is a co-author, with Scott Kim and Gayle Curtis, of VizAbility, an award winning CD/book product that provides participants with experiences in seeing, drawing, diagramming and imagination. She was the executive producer of a range of multimedia titles in learning --- Life Story, the Visual Almanac, Animal Pathfinders, Disappearing Ducks, Countdown, Planetary Taxi and others --- that were produced when she was Director of the Apple Computer Multimedia Lab. She served four years as a School Trustee for Ross School, a K-8 public school in Marin, including two years as President. She was an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium, where she continues to consult on projects related to science learning and media. In her second term as a member of the New Media Consortium Board, she is one of two designated visionary board members.
John Weber
John Weber is the Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, an interdisciplinary museum opened in 2000 to create links between contemporary art and other disciplines as part of the teaching effort at Skidmore. As director of the museum he supervises the Tang's staff and oversees exhibitions, programs, collections, and the Tang website, as well as curating and writing for museum publications. Weber is also a member of the Skidmore faculty and teaches in the art history program. Before coming to Skidmore in 2004, he was the curator of education and public programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 1993 to 2004, where he spearheaded the design of the Koret Education Center and founded the museum's interactive educational technologies program. From 1987 to 1993 Weber served as curator of contemporary art at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. He is a board member of the New Media Consortium, an international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media in educational environments.
Participants
Lev S. Gonick (Symposium Chair)
Lev Gonick is Vice President for Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, one of the nation's leading independent research universities whose technology infrastructure and reputation for innovation and cutting-edge applications is recognized across the country and around the world. Previously, Lev Gonick served as Chief Information Technology Officer for Cal State Monterey Bay (CSUMB). CSUMB is the Cal State's "Bullets to Books to Bytes" campus being built on former Fort Ord as the Cal State's first 21st century campus. From 1996 through 1999 Lev Gonick was University Dean for Instructional Technology and Academic Computing at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Lev received his PhD in International Political Economy from York University in Ontario Canada. He is married to Barbara Weltman-Gonick. They have two children and live in Beachwood, Ohio.
Leonard Steinbach (Moderator)
Leonard Steinbach is Chief Information Officer of The Cleveland Museum of Art, one of the foremost encyclopedic art museums in the country. He is responsible for a broad range of technologies including telecommunications, business systems, interactive multimedia for interpretation, and the web site. During Steinbachs tenure, CMA became the first art museum member of Internet2, an early museum member of the New Media Consortium, and the Museum has won international recognition for its gallery interactives, and distance learning programs for youth and older isolated persons. He is currently technology lead for a federally funded demonstration project blending the programs of the Cuyahoga County Public Library and the Museum through electronic community-building and high quality video teleconferencing, using the OneCleveland metropolitan community network. In 2001, he delivered the talk, "The Place is the Brain." to the Electronic Visual Arts [EVA] conference in Glasgow and most recently Steinbach presented on the topic of cognitive science, technology and the arts at the American Association of Museums Annual Meeting (2005).
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