MATTHEW KENYON
Assistant Professor of Art

Website: http://swamp.nu

Matthew Kenyon is an Assistant Professor of New Media at Penn State where he teaches courses in 3D Animation, Physical Computing and Video Art and Game Art. He is a founding member of the art group S.W.A.M.P. (Studies of Work Atmospheres and Mass Production) whose primary goal is to find creative expression within elements of culture that are inherently counter-creative.

Matthews art has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia in such venues as SIGGRAPH 2005-Emerging Technologies in Los Angeles, The International Symposium of Electronic Language in Sao Paolo Brazil, Nicograph Internation, The Society for Art and Science in Seoul, South Korea, Bilbao Arte in Bilbao Spain, Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario among others.

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Mark Ballora
Schoolof Music and the Department of Integrative Arts

Ph.D in Music Technology, McGill University, May 2000,
New York University, M.M. in Music Technology, May 1995
New York University, M.A. in Composition, August 1995 Kindermusik teacher training workshop Summer 1991
Taubman Institute of Piano, 1987, 1988, 1989
UCLA, B.A. in Theatre Arts, June 1984

Research: Link

Mark Ballora joined the PennState faculty in 2000. He holds a joint appointment in the Schoolof Music and the Department of Integrative Arts. Ballora teaches courses in music technology, history of electroacoustic music, and musical acoustics. He received degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles, New York University, and McGill University. He is the author of Essentials of Music Technology (Prentice Hall, 2002), and has been published in LEONARDO and the College Music Symposium. He has also written short articles in Electronic Musician magazine. Past work includes sound designs and electroacoustic scores for modern dance, theatre, animated films, and radio dramas. His current research focuses on auditory representations of scientific datasets, with an emphasis on auditory displays of heart rate variability data for diagnostic and artistic realizations. His work has been presented at the International Conference on Auditory Display, Computers in Cardiology, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), and the Society for Arts in Healthcare.

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CARLOS ROSAS
Associate Professor of Art

Born: Brooklyn, New York
Live: State College, PA and Los Angeles, CA

Websites:
Rosas Studio: http://www.overtheedge.net
The Emitto Project: http://www.emitto.net

Carlos Rosas, has been creating, exhibiting, and publishing new media based work since the mid 90s during his graduate studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Much of the recent interactive and networked installation work incorporates a range of performative elements, print, video, sound art and multimedia based web publishing. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally, internationally, and throughout the Internet.

Currently, much of the work seeks to mediate experiences that traverse both digital and analog worlds in an attempt to reflect upon transactions and/or distortions that are being ‘digitally filtered’ and how one identifies with these continually evolving conditions. The intent is to formulate a constructive discourse involving the ethos that governs our con temporal existence. The interest in using new media, networks, databases and visualization strategies stems from a continual fascination with localizing these digital and analogue experiences, the blurring of boundaries between their dual-existence and how our lives, environments and cultures are continually being shaped and redefined by the use of technology.

An ongoing internet project he has been developing since 2002, at http://www.emitto.net, functions as an online cultural arts resource, archival database, and collaborative publishing network. Carlos Rosas is currently a Professor of New Media Art at Penn State University where he has taught since 2001, previously he spent 6 years on the Art School Faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.

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Darla Lindberg
Associate Professor

Research interests consider Systems Theory and complexity (indeterminate and non-reductive thinking) applied to the determining of resilient bio/agro/socio-ecosystems. She’s interested in the generative, phylogenic and non-pliant methods of modeling, asset mapping, aggregating or communicating environmental data (to include social, economic and cultural influences) in order to construct a natural systems intelligence for resilient ecologies, so then “the specificity of a situation to actualize its potential.”

Her current work falls into three main areas:

Architecture and building physics. Generative mapping identifies potential roles for variables that affect systems behavior; also part of a multi-disciplinary team working on systems integration designs to reduce spread of pathogens (Avian Influenza) and filter, capture or eradicate other unhealthy emissions from production processes.

Characterizing sustainable and resilient natural systems. Asset mapping of mechanical and biological factors and interactions in communities and environments identifies viability and resiliency of an ecosystem, i.e., urban agriculture.

Game theoretic strategies. This work uses game theory tools not frequently employed by traditional architectural investigations to explore Common Pool Resource dilemmas for finite resources, i.e., ethical housing models. Game Theory strategy is also explored in game play and game worlds. Her work includes the design and development of games/game engines linked to a database for a designed approach to constructing reliable virtual research environments of interactivity. A recent game studies college-age adults and their confidence with decisions about nutrition and the Glycemic Index .

She is a registered architect and holds a distinguished university teaching award, "University Professor", from the University of Utah for interdisciplinary efforts in knowledge systems aggregation.

Madis Pihlak
ASLA Associate Professor, Tenured, Appointed 1998

Madis Pihlak, ASLA is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and founding Director of The Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University. Madis has taught design computing at three different universities. At Penn State Professor Pihlak is a member of the Stuckeman Family Building Committee programming the first high speed wired and wireless green architecture facility, with ubiquitous network design computing.

Rebecca Strzelec
ASLA Associate Professor, Tenured, Appointed 1998

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Rebecca Strzelec is coordinator of Visual Art Studies and an associate professor of Visual Arts at Penn State Altoona. She received her BFA and MFA in Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM from Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2000 and 2002). Her work consists of wearable objects that are created via CAD and Rapid Prototyping. Her latest exhibitions include Alternatives: Materials/Means, Contemporary Studio Jewelry at Rhode Island College's Bannister Gallery and Virtual/Tangible at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She was the 2005 recipient of the Nancy Graves Fellowship at The Millay Colony for the Arts. Strzelec's work can be seen in the recent Lark Books publication 500 Brooches Inspiring Adornments for the Body, Metalsmith Magazine (Fall 2005 and Spring 2006), American Craft Magazine (Dec.2005/Jan. 2006), and the fall 2007 book Body of Art.