INSTRUCTORS

Holly Johnson

Holly has previously taught "Immigration and Film" in the Media Study department at UB. She currently works at the New Media Institute at Medaille College where she supports student and faculty projects. She also serves as an Adjunct Instructor at Medaille in the Visual and Digital Arts department. Before coming to Medaille, she worked at the Educational Technology Center at UB, where she led workshops in Database and Web Design. She also has experience as a technology instructor in various non-profit and volunteer organizations.

Jamie O'Neil

is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media Arts at Canisius College and video/multimedia designer. His research interests include corporate culture, postmodern design, tactical media and relational art and aesthetics. He is creator of the mock-motivational speaker Kurt Weibers and Global Point Strategies: http://www.globalpointstrategies.com/

Trebor Scholz

Trebor Scholz grew up in East Berlin and is currently based in New York where he works both collaboratively and individually as an artist, media theorist, activist, and organizer. His interests focus on media theory, art and education.

Scholz has written on media art, networks, education and participatory cultures for many periodicals such as Art Journal, FibreCulture Journal, Afterimage, and C-Theory. He has contributed essays to several books and co-edited "Free Cooperation: The Art of (Online) Collaboration" forthcoming with Autonomedia. Scholz has taught media art, history, and theory at Pacific NW College of Art (Portland), The University of Arizona (Tucson), and Bauhaus University (Weimar) and is currently professor and researcher in the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo.