interactive media staff
Dave Chapman is a senior lecturer in media production and co-course tutor of the MA Interactive Media Practice. He is also a freelance producer and director. This includes work in television documentary and community and educational video and multimedia. He is also involved in the development of various arts projects, working with a number of artists in the area of video, new media and performance. David is also a practicing musician with a long history of recording and performance and an exhibiting sound artist. His current research interests involve the relationship between digitalisation and the documentary and the role of sound in fine art practice.
David Dorrington has a background in audio-visual electronic engineering and multimedia production. He has worked on various commercial and educational multimedia projects and a number of art installations in collaboration with digital artists. David is a senior lecturer teaching 3D Graphics and Computer Games Design on the Computer Games and Multimedia programmes. His research interests include the design and development of 3D virtual environments and using game technologies for learning.
Lizbeth Goodman is Professor of Creative Arts and Technology Innovation and Director of the SMARTlab Centre for Site Specific Media, Performing and Digital Arts which has recently moved from Central St Martins College to UEL. She also directs studies for a group of professional new media artists registered on the SMARTlab's PhD programme. Lizbeth is also known as a professional performer and presenter, with many years of experience in live and telematic writing, improvisation, performance and direction. She has worked extensively in comedy and theatre and television/convergent media entertainment, and has recently won commissions to create a new style of empowering online and live performance game.
Steve Goodman is a lecturer in media production. He runs the MA Sonic Culture and is currently writing a book on the intersection between war and sonic culture. He is a member of the autonomous research collective, the CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), is founder/editor of www.hyperdub.com. Under various guises, he djs on London pirate radio and internationally, and has produced sound designs across a range of media. His research interests include cybernetic culture, sonic culture, diasporic futurisms, abstract materialism.
Maciej Hrybowicz works part-time as Apple Network Manager at UEL, running a network of multimedia-equipped Apple Macs. He also gives guest lectures and technical support across our interactive media programmes. At other times he works as a web consultant/designer, specialising in standards compliant accessible websites. His projects always contain content management systems, which empower users so that after the development process ends, they can update and re-design their own sites themselves. Maciej cycles to work and enjoys scuba diving, skiing and walking his dog. Pictures and occasional blogs can be found on hrybowicz.com.
Roshini Kempadoo is a digital artist and a senior lecturer teaching digital media on the MA Interactive Media Practice and MA Media Studies. Her work uses digital technologies to map colonial history, stories and locations in network environments and interactive art installations. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with a retrospective exhibition of her work Roshini Kempadoo: Works 1990 - 2004 having just completed a national tour. She has presented at many international conferences including contributing to the 2003 Visual Culture Colloquium lecture series Cornell University and as a duPont fellow at The Art Institute in Boston, USA. She is currently researching and creating artworks with historical material and contemporary landscapes of Trinidad, Caribbean.
Helen Kennedy's research interests span the broad area of new media theory and practice. She is currently researching new media development processes, exploring: emotional/affective labour; personalisation; and ways in which disability impacts some of the core concepts of new media studies (subjectivity, cyborg citizens, sense/perception, inclusion/exclusion, access/participation). She has published articles on the subjects of virtual identity, gender, technology and in/equality and in 2001 she co-edited Cyborg Lives? Women's Technobiographies. Her interactive media practice includes a range of collaborative projects, on which she has worked as new media developer and project manager. She is a principal lecturer, teaching on most interactive media programmes at UEL.
Educated to postgraduate level in education science, Ulf Krautmacher is a media practitioner and theorist, with work and teaching experience in a variety of environments. From 1990 - 2003 he established and developed Public Access Radio and Television in Hamburg. In addition to this, he has always worked as a freelance video and multimedia producer. His recent completion of a postgraduate qualification in multimedia brought him back to academic life. His research interests include the personalisation and customisation of digital technology in everyday life, the conceptual and practical status of participatory web media (Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts) and the exploration of interactive media for documentary story telling.
cSPACE director Loraine Leeson has worked with communities through the visual arts for over twenty years, creating artworks in the public domain. In the early nineties she co-founded and directed The Art of Change, which developed participatory projects exploring creativity in relation to issues of social change. During this time she became increasingly interested in the opportunities for collective creativity offered by the new communications technology, which led to the founding of cSPACE in 2002. Loraine has lectured and taught throughout the country. Her work has been widely exhibited and published nationally and internationally. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East London.
Andy Minnion is Director of the Rix Centre for Innovation and Learning Disability at UEL, which researches and develops applications of multimedia and ICT for the benefit of the learning disability community. His work is at the meeting point of multimedia production and research, centred on the advocacy potential of both practice and product for groups exluded in society. He has a background directing and producing TV, video and interactive media using 'workshop' and documentary approaches. Current research interests focus on multimedia accessibility and participation for people with intellectual impairment.
Grethe Mitchell has published work on the relationship between computer games, interactive entertainment and film, and on interactivity in digital performance. She is co-editor of a book on the intersections of videogames and art, out in 2006. Grethe is also a practitioner and has designed an internet based production tool for feature film production, used by Working Title Films. She is a founder member of COSIGN and has been a jury member for the Milia d'Or (the major European Multimedia Festival Prize). Her research interests include: videogames and their relationship to other media; the creation of meaning through computers; digital interactive media and its influence on other media.
Mary Newman has a background in media and ICT. A senior lecturer, she teaches on the Multimedia and Computer Games Design (Story Development) programmes as well as developing and delivering courses in Multimedia Advocacy. Her research interests include the design, development and use of games and story, particularly in education and online learning and for those with learning disabilities. She works with the Rix Centre at UEL and current research is as part of Project @pple, an ESRC/DTI funded project under the Paccit Programme about the development of a learning environment with and for people with learning disabilities.
Stacey Pogoda is lecturer and programme leader for the BA (Hons) Computer Game Design (Story Development). She has a background in multimedia design and development, and has worked as an interface developer and internet consultant/developer, most recently on dynamic, database-driven websites. She teaches on a range of modules on the Games, Multimedia and Interactive Media programmes. Her research interests include the study, design and construction of virtual environments. She is currently researching the impact of realistic sound on embodiment and learning within virtual archaeological environments.
Tony Sampson is a senior lecturer. He has published work and presented papers at international conferences in the field of new media. His research includes an ongoing study of viral technologies and network vulnerability. He defines this work as a topological study of the replicator class, an intensive philosophical perception of the viral that considers both the role of code and environment. He is presently co-editing a book of selected essays on the anomalies and so-called 'accidents' of digital culture. Tony teaches across the new media programme. He leads the Interactive Media and Multimedia undergraduate degrees. More information @ http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/T.D.Sampson/research.htm
Theresa Senft combines ethnographic method with feminist and postcolonial critique to examine how new media technologies shape our current debates about the private, the public, the pornographic, and the pedagogic in global society. Terri is the author of Camgirls: Web Celebrity and the Personal as Political in the Age of the Global Brand (2006), the co-author of History of the Internet, 1843-Present, and the co-editor of a special issue of Women and Performance devoted to sexuality and cyberspace. Terri has published in The New York Times, appeared on National Public Radio, and was featured in the documentary Webcam Girls. Her LiveJournal is at www.livejournal.com/users/tsenft.
