Digital Arts New Media

Faculty and Professional Interests

Ralph H. Abraham, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics

Elliot W. Anderson, Assistant Professor, Art
Electronic art, digital arts/new media

Lawrence Andrews, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media
Film, video, installation and media art

Tandy Beal, Lecturer, Theater Arts (Dance)
Choreography, improvisation, technique, performance skills, collaborations with classical and jazz composers, circus, theater and video, children's productions

James H. Bierman, Professor, Theater Arts (Drama)
Playwriting, theater history and literature, classical and Renaissance drama, Chicano theater, digital media

Benjamin L. Carson, Assistant Professor, Music
Theories of consciousness and cognition, rhythm perception, Schoenberg, history of compositional method, subjectivity and identity

David H. Cope, Professor, Music
Composition; 20th-century music history, with focus on the avant-garde; 18th- and 19th-century theory; analysis; Experiments in Music Intelligence

David W. Crane, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media
Film and media theory, discourses on technology, digital culture, experimental media, critical and psychoanalytic theory

David L. Cuthbert, Assistant Professor, Theater Arts
Lighting design, CADD, projection design, scenic design

Sharon A. Daniel, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media
Community-based public art in information and communications environments, social and political aspects of information technology, community networks, participatory culture, digital inclusion, net art, human-computer interface design

James E. Davis, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Computer graphics and computer vision, methods for acquiring and manipulating complex graphical models from the real world

Teresa De Lauretis, Professor, History of Consciousness
Semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism, film theory, literary theory, queer studies

Peter Q. Elsea, Lecturer, Music
Electronic music and music technology

Shelly E. Errington, Professor, Anthropology
Globalization of folk art, visual and social semiotics, photography, film, the Internet and digital media, Southeast Asia, and Latin America

Mary K. Foley, Professor, Theater Arts (Drama)
Asian theater, Southeast Asian studies, performance studies, maskwork, puppetry, multicultural theater

Mark Franko, Professor, Theater Arts (Dance)
Dance history and theory, choreography, technique, performance studies, theatrical theory in historical and critical perspective

Frank R. Galuszka, Professor, Art
Painting, book arts

Jennifer A. Gonzalez, Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.

Eli E. Hollander, Professor, Film and Digital Media
Film and video directing; ethnographic documentary directory, editing, cinematography, and videography; digital image generation; screenwriting

Donna M. Hunter, Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice, portraiture

David E. Jones, Professor, Music; Provost, Porter College
Composition and analysis, chamber opera, Balkan music, language and music, timbre and orchestration

Norman Locks, Professor, Art
Photography

Suresh K. Lodha, Professor, Computer Science
Geo-spatial visualization, scientific visualization, sensor and computer vision, data mining

Charles L. Lord, Professor, Film and Digital Media
Film and video directing and editing, video theory and history, video installation, screenwriting, documentary production

Dominic W. Massaro, Professor, Psychology
Understanding language, speech perception and reading, language learning and speech technology, pattern recognition, psychology of interactive media, psychology of art and new media, human-machine interface

Michael J. Mateas, Assistant Professor
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in art and entertainment, computer games, interactive story, autonomous characters, story generations, game AI, and AI-based art

Charles E. McDowell, Professor, Computer Science
Programming languages, parallel computing, and computer science education

Margaret E. Morse, Professor, Film and Digital Media
Digital and electronic media theory and criticism, media art, media history, technology and culture, film history and theory, German cinema, documentary, science fiction, and silent comedy

Paul Nauert, Associate Professor, Music
Theory, composition; rhythm and meter; music cognition; mathematical and computer models of the compositional process

Dard A. Neuman, Assistant Professor, Music; Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music
Ethnomusicology; Hindustani music; colonialism, nationalism, technology and performance; sitar

Edward P. Osborn, Assistant Professor, Art
Electronic art, digital arts/new media

Alex Pang, Professor, Computer Science
Uncertainty visualization, tensor visualization, scientific visualization, collaboration software, virtual reality interfaces

Warren Sack, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media
Software design and media theory

Daniel Scheie, Professor, Theater Arts (Drama)
Acting, directing, dramatic literature, theater history, Shakespeare, Wagner, gay studies

Barry R. Sinervo, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Animal behavior, evolution, physiological ecology

Catherine M. Soussloff, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture (UC Presidential Chair)
European cultural theory, aesthetics, and the historiography of art; performance studies; early modern Italian art; media history including film; Jewish identity and representation

Elizabeth Stephens, Associate Professor, Art
Intermedia, electronic art, sculpture, and performance art

Hai Tao, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering
Image and video processing, computer vision, vision-based graphics, and human-computer interaction

Edward C. Warburton, Assistant Professor, Theater Arts
Development of dance thought in action, creative processes, and technology in theater arts; dance technique, movement research and composition, and applied dance practices

Lewis G. Watts, Associate Professor, Art
Photography

Emmet J. Whitehead, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Software engineering, software configuration management, web, hypertext, collaborative authoring, hypertext versioning, Internet information systems