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DCC Staff Hasan Elahi Hasan Elahi is the Director of DCC and Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland. He is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders and frontiers. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions at venues such as SITE Santa Fe, Centre Georges Pompidou, Sundance Film Festival, Kassel Kulturbahnhof, The Hermitage, and at the Venice Biennale. Elahi was recently invited to speak about his work at the Tate Modern, Einstein Forum, the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, and at TEDGlobal. His awards include grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, Art Matters, Ford Foundation/Phillip Morris National Fellowship, and an artist grant from the Asociacion Artetik Berrikuntzara in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. His work is frequently in the media and has been covered by The New York Times, Forbes, Wired, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, Al Jazeera, Fox, and has appeared on The Colbert Report. He was a 2010 Alpert/MacDowell Fellow and in 2009, he was Resident Faculty and Nancy G. MacGrath Endowed Chair at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  Krista Caballero Krista Caballero is the Associate Director of DCC. As a new media artist and sculptor, her work unpacks cultural myths relating to the "American" West, technology, gendered land use, and ideas of the sublime. Her current project, Mapping Meaning, provides a forum for artists, scientists and scholars to engage topics of the environment through interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange. She received her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University and has exhibited both nationally and internationally.  Jarah Moesch Jarah Moesch is a Graduate Assistant for DCC. She is a digital media and performance artist activist whose current research and creative practice investigates and disrupts concepts of normativity in public spaces. Her work lies at the intersection of gender performance, queerness and everyday life. She has an MFA in Integrated Media Art from Hunter College and is currently a PhD student in American Studies. Prior to returning to school, she taught media theory and practice at Hunter College for a number of years. Jarah's work has been exhibited internationally at museums, galleries and festivals. She can be found at The Jarah Tree, or on Twitter @jarahmoesch, and she blogs at HASTAC, where is is currently a scholar.  Leah Flake Leah Flake is a Graduate Assistant for DCC. She is pursuing a Master's degree in Engineering and Public Policy. She holds a BS in Engineering from Smith College, and has previously worked with NASA Goddard and Smith College researching and designing for improvements in ecosystem modeling. Other research interests include urban planning and transportation policy DCC Faculty and Fellows  Jason Farman Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of American Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Digital Media and Performance Studies from UCLA. Farman's research includes mobile technologies, social media, videogames, digital storytelling, digital performance art, surveillance, and embodiment. He has published in the journals New Media & Society, Communication Quarterly, and Contemporary Theatre Review. His most recent project is a book titled Mobile Interface Theory (Routledge, 2011), which investigates the changing conceptions of embodiment and space in pervasive computing culture. This work focuses on the uses of mobile technologies for the creation of performance art, site-specific narrative, and gaming. Website: www.jasonfarman.com Twitter: @farman  Evan Golub Evan Golub, Ph.D. is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland and an Assistant Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. His research interests include children and technology, educational classroom technologies, ubiquitous computing, and creativity support tools. He has co-authored a textbook on Information Technology, and authored a Visual C++ workbook and Student Response System faculty guidebook, and is an avid photographer. Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~egolub/  Kari Kraus Kari Kraus is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies and the Department of English. Her research and teaching interests focus on new media and the digital humanities, textual scholarship and print culture, digital preservation, and game studies. She has taught at the University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music, and in the Art and Visual Technology program at George Mason University.  Tara Rodgers Tara Rodgers is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and a Faculty Fellow in Digital Cultures & Creativity. She has a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University and an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College. Her work spans media history and sound studies, feminist theories, electronic music and sound art practice. Her book, Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound, was published by Duke University Press in 2010. website: www.pinknoises.com/ Digital Cultures and Creativity | 0103 Queen Anne's Hall | 301.405.2866 | dcc-honors@umd.edu |
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