Rosemary Comella

Rosemary Comella

Rosemary Comella is a new media artist with a background in the visual arts, in particular photography, video and graphic design. Since 2000 she has been working as a researcher, project director, interface designer and programmer at the Labyrinth Project. At Labyrinth, she developed the main interface for Tracing the Decay of Fiction: Encounters with [...]

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Diego Costa

Diego Costa

Cohort: 2009
Research interests: queer theory, psychoanalysis, barebacking, auto-fiction, self-ethnography

Diego Costa's film work explores the notion of a queer body and the idiosyncrasies of the queer psyche in self-fiction, domestic ethnography modes. In “The Parricide Sessions,” shown at the IFC Center in New York and international film festivals, Costa engages in psychodramatic games with his father, who is invited to play Costa's former lovers [...]

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Lauren Fenton

Lauren Fenton

Cohort: 2008
Research interests: documentary, interactive narratives, situationism, avant-garde film

Lauren Fenton is an artist/writer of interactive, immersive, visceral and haunted spaces. She received her BA in philosophy from Swarthmore College in 2006. Through her subsequent work in visual ethnography she examined the process of constructing multicultural narratives in film, culminating in her being awarded a Fulbright fellowship for the year 2006-2007 to make a [...]

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Jeanne Jo

Jeanne Jo

Cohort: 2010

Jeanne Jo is a media artist who works with high and low technologies to investigate the stereotypically gendered. Her artwork has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally. She received an MFA in Digital+Media from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, where she was a President's Scholar and recipient of many awards, including [...]

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Kristy Kang

Kristy Kang

Cohort: 2007
Research interests: interactive narrative, database documentary

Kristy H.A. Kang is an award winning media artist and a Creative Director with The Labyrinth Project-a research initiative on interactive narrative and database documentary at USC that collaborates internationally with experimental artists, scholars, scientists and cultural institutions to produce a range of digital media projects. These works have been exhibited at the Getty Center, [...]

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Joshua McVeigh-Schultz

Joshua McVeigh-Schultz

Cohort: 2009
Research interests: mobile media, experimental documentary, performance

Joshua McVeigh-Schultz is a designer, scholar, and media maker. He is interested in the intersection between the real-time web and emerging tools of participatory democracy. He completed an MA in Asian Studies at UC Berkeley and in MFA at UC Santa Cruz's Digital Arts and New Media program. He is currently working on a mobile [...]

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Veronica Paredes

Veronica Paredes

Cohort: 2007
Research interests: Los Angeles history, race and technology, affective archives, creative industries

Veronica Paredes is a digital media scholar/ practitioner interested in issues of race, subjectivity, cultural geography, and media histories. She is currently a PhD candidate working on a digital dissertation project called MARQUEE, about the mediation, and media circulating, on South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles. Let her know if you would like to walk [...]

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Gabriel Peters-Lazaro

Gabriel Peters-Lazaro

Cohort: 2010

As a media arts scholar and practitioner, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro's areas of interest include early primary media education as well as the intersections of technology and health. He completed his B.A. in Film Studies at UC Berkeley in 2002 where he received a departmental citation as well as that institution's highest award for artistic achievement. He [...]

Susana Ruiz

Susana Ruiz

Cohort: 2008

Susana Ruiz is a media artist and scholar working in the intersections between art, journalism, game design, documentary and ethics. In partnership with mtvU and a team of passionate and socially conscious students, Susana developed DARFUR IS DYING, a pioneering game for social change, which received critical acclaim from experts, won numerous awards, and helped [...]

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Laila Shereen Sakr

Laila Shereen Sakr

Cohort: 2010
Research interests: innovative scholarship, design-based research, moments of emergence, digital compositions in Arabic, cultures of the transnational, diaspora, migration

Laila Shereen Sakr is a media artist known as VJ Um Amel. Her work critically examines cyber ecologies in a post-9/11 world. She is concerned with capturing moments of emergence, particularly within cultures of the transnational and migratory. Her current projects include R-Shief, an Arabic-English archival resource that provides aggregated data and digitized manuscripts for [...]

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Jen Stein

Jen Stein

Cohort: 2007
Research interests: mobile media, ubiquitous computing, urban space

Jen Stein is a design researcher exploring the implications of ubiquitous technologies on the built environment. She is currently a researcher in the Mobile and Environmental Media Lab at USC, working on various projects exploring interactive architecture, ambient storytelling, and mobile experiences. Jen is pursuing a PhD in Media Arts and Practice at the School [...]

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Amanda Tasse

Amanda Tasse

Cohort: 2009
Research interests: mixed reality, memory, consciousness

Amanda Tasse is a PhD researcher in the iMap Media Arts & Practices program at the University of Southern California. She received her MFA degree in Animation and Digital Arts, also from USC, in 2009. Her work investigates the influence of emotion, memory, and attention on perception of visual spatial awareness and the creation of [...]

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Jeff Watson

Jeff Watson

Cohort: 2008
Research interests: transmedia storytelling, alternate reality gaming, ubiquitous computing

Jeff Watson is an interdisciplinary media practitioner with a professional background in screenwriting, filmmaking and experience design. His academic resume includes a BA in Cultural Studies from McGill University, an MFA in Film and Video from York University and a residency at the Canadian Film Centre. His doctoral research focuses on investigating how an increasingly [...]

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