Deirdre Boyle
Associate Professor, Media Studies
Panel: Connectivities
MSW, New York University; MA, Antioch College. Media historian, critic, curator, and psychotherapist. Research and teaching focusses on the history and theory of documentary film and video; critical writing about film and media; death-denial in a death-centric, mediated world; trauma, collective memory, and history; and media consumption and the body. She has published eight books including a history of '70s video documentaries and is currently writing on the films of Errol Morris. She has also taught at New York University, City College/CUNY, Fordham University, Rutgers University, and Moscow State University; been guest curator for the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Brussels Video Festival, and The Museum of Modern Art, among others; and programmed independent film and video series for public and cable television.
Paolo Carpignano
Associate Professor, Media Studies and Sociology
Critical Themes Faculty Advisor
Panel: Networked Publics
Doctor in Letters, University of Rome. Coordinator of the Master /Ph.D. program in the Sociology of Media. He previously taught Italian Culture, Sociology and Mass Media at Hunter College and Queens College of CUNY, and at Fordham University. Writer, consultant and producer for production companies in the United States, Brazil, and Italy. Author of several articles in Sociology, Social History and Media Theory. He is the author of the online project Televisuality. He is currently working on a book on the relationship between work and media.
Sumita Chakravarty
Associate Professor, Media Studies; Chair, Cultural Studies, Eugene Lang College
Panel: Re/presentations
PhD, Lucknow University, India; PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Author and editor; essays in several anthologies, including Redirecting the Gaze(SUNY Press, 1998) and Cinema and Nation (Routledge, 2001). She holds a joint appointment with Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, where she is chair of Cultural Studies.
Mike Edwards
Research Faculty, School of Art, Media + Technology, Parsons
Panel: Global Flows
MFA, Design and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design; BA, Anthropology, University of Virginia. A programmer by trade, he came to Parsons to explore the intersection of people and their machine. In the past few years, he collaborated with health care workers in Malawi designing medical devices and interfaces to diagnose malnutrition in children. He is currently research faculty at Parsons, charged with designing social networks and games in the educational and public interest. As an instructor, he teaches his students to bring new technical ideas into their creative practice.
Jeffrey Goldfarb
Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology
Panel: Politics and Performance
PhD, University of Chicago, 1977. Sociology of media, culture and politics. Publications include "The Politics of Small Things, Left and Right" (2006); The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times (2006), Civility and Subversion: The Intellectual in Democratic Society (1998); After the Fall: The Pursuit of Democracy in Central Europe (1992); The Cynical Society: The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in American Life (1991); Beyond Glasnost: The Post- Totalitarian Mind (1989); On Cultural Freedom: An Exploration of Public Life in Poland and America (1982). Research Interests: Comparative study of relationships among media, culture, micro-politics
Jaeho Kang
Assistant Professor, Media Studies and Sociology
Panel: Remote Controls
PhD, Sociology of Media, University of Cambridge. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in the Institut fuer Sozialforschung at the Frankfurt University (Germany). He has published articles on the social theories of Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Michel Foucault and is now investigating Siegfried Kracauer's critical theory of media and politics focusing on film, propaganda, and the mediated public sphere. His current work expands the scope of his research by analyzing the interplay between media and urban spaces in East Asian cities like Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul.
Deborah Levitt
Assistant Professor, Culture and Media
Panel: (Im)materialities
PhD, Film, Literature, and Culture, University of Southern California; BA, English and Film, University of Colorado. The central focus of my research and teaching is on how media-old and new-transform both everyday experience and expanded global, political spheres. As part of my work as a media historian and theorist, I am interested in film, video, digital media, animation, literature, cultural theory, and science and technology studies. My research is motivated by a search for intersections between only apparently divergent domains. Similarly, in my courses, I encourage students to connect their daily engagements with media of all kinds to the archaeologies and larger social structures and forces that inform them. My current project considers cinema-from its pre-history into its digital age-as an animatic apparatus: From eighteenth-century tableaux vivants to early cinema to anime, I investigate how media technologies and texts influence and even create conceptions of life, namely, the ways in which we distinguish animate beings from inanimate ones, organic from inorganic, the lively from the inert. I also consider how media affect contemporary political debates on the proper beginnings, endings, and usages of biopolitical “life.” An essay of mine that examines the convergence of media and biopolitics is forthcoming in a volume on the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben (University of Edinburgh Press, 2008).
Shannon Mattern
Assistant Professor, Media Studies; Director of Graduate Studies
Panel: Visual Constructs
PhD, Culture and Communication, New York University. Her teaching and research address relationships between media and spatial theory and practice -- particularly the links among mass media, architecture and urban planning -- and connections between media and contemporary art. Her work is motivated by a desire to look "beyond the screen" or page, to the larger arena in which media operates, and to the fruitful convergences between media and other fields of creative production and scholarship. Recently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, she has also taught at NYU, Parsons The New School for Design, and Rutgers University. She is the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing With Communities (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), which was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Other work has appeared in the Journal of Architectural Education, Invisible Culture, The Senses & Society, In the Site of Sound, and Public Culture.
Jane Pirone
Assistant Professor, Media Design; Director of the Communication Design program at Parsons, The New School for Design
Panel: Embodiments
MS Polytechnic University, BFA University of Michigan. Jane's research has focused on the creation of multi-sensory mediascapes, as well as on location based/mobile media projects exploring our relationship to the built environment, specifically relating to the urban condition. She is a founding member of the Global Exchange Laboratory (http://Globalexlab.info), which develops courses and projects that facilitate transdisciplinary collaborations exploring participatory forms of new physical and virtual tactics of design, intervention and activism and teaches studios in Sound Design, Synaesthetics, Physical Computing, and Radio (http://newschoolradio.org). Jane is also the founder/creative director of Not For Tourists, (http://www.notfortourists.com) and the award winning design firm, Happy Mazza Media, which specializes in information and interactive design for clients such as Nickelodeon, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, IBM, Columbia Presbyterian, Engender Health, and In The Life.
Paul Ryan
Associate Professor, Media Studies
Panel: Mediated Ecologies
Former McLuhan Fellow; his mentor in cybernetics was Gregory Bateson. Author of Cybernetics of the Sacred and Video Mind, Earth Mind: Art, Communications and Ecology. His video art has been shown in Japan, Turkey, Germany, Holland, France, Ecuador, and throughout the United States. Projects include the cybernetic design of a television channel dedicated to monitoring the ecology of a region, which was presented at MoMA and at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Cities. The Smithsonian Institute is archiving his papers and tapes.
Barry Salmon
Associate Professor, Media Studies
Panel: Embodiments
MA, The New School; BM, Berklee College of Music. Composer of scores for numerous films as well as music for dance, theater, radio, and video art. Festivals, installations, honors and awards include CINE Golden Eagle, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Sundance, Telluride, and Toronto film festivals; Chicago Museum of Broadcasting, Museum of Modern Art. Performing and recording guitarist and record/CD producer.
Associate Professor, Media Studies
Panel: Connectivities
MSW, New York University; MA, Antioch College. Media historian, critic, curator, and psychotherapist. Research and teaching focusses on the history and theory of documentary film and video; critical writing about film and media; death-denial in a death-centric, mediated world; trauma, collective memory, and history; and media consumption and the body. She has published eight books including a history of '70s video documentaries and is currently writing on the films of Errol Morris. She has also taught at New York University, City College/CUNY, Fordham University, Rutgers University, and Moscow State University; been guest curator for the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Brussels Video Festival, and The Museum of Modern Art, among others; and programmed independent film and video series for public and cable television.
Paolo Carpignano
Associate Professor, Media Studies and Sociology
Critical Themes Faculty Advisor
Panel: Networked Publics
Doctor in Letters, University of Rome. Coordinator of the Master /Ph.D. program in the Sociology of Media. He previously taught Italian Culture, Sociology and Mass Media at Hunter College and Queens College of CUNY, and at Fordham University. Writer, consultant and producer for production companies in the United States, Brazil, and Italy. Author of several articles in Sociology, Social History and Media Theory. He is the author of the online project Televisuality. He is currently working on a book on the relationship between work and media.
Sumita Chakravarty
Associate Professor, Media Studies; Chair, Cultural Studies, Eugene Lang College
Panel: Re/presentations
PhD, Lucknow University, India; PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Author and editor; essays in several anthologies, including Redirecting the Gaze(SUNY Press, 1998) and Cinema and Nation (Routledge, 2001). She holds a joint appointment with Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, where she is chair of Cultural Studies.
Mike Edwards
Research Faculty, School of Art, Media + Technology, Parsons
Panel: Global Flows
MFA, Design and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design; BA, Anthropology, University of Virginia. A programmer by trade, he came to Parsons to explore the intersection of people and their machine. In the past few years, he collaborated with health care workers in Malawi designing medical devices and interfaces to diagnose malnutrition in children. He is currently research faculty at Parsons, charged with designing social networks and games in the educational and public interest. As an instructor, he teaches his students to bring new technical ideas into their creative practice.
Jeffrey Goldfarb
Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology
Panel: Politics and Performance
PhD, University of Chicago, 1977. Sociology of media, culture and politics. Publications include "The Politics of Small Things, Left and Right" (2006); The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times (2006), Civility and Subversion: The Intellectual in Democratic Society (1998); After the Fall: The Pursuit of Democracy in Central Europe (1992); The Cynical Society: The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture in American Life (1991); Beyond Glasnost: The Post- Totalitarian Mind (1989); On Cultural Freedom: An Exploration of Public Life in Poland and America (1982). Research Interests: Comparative study of relationships among media, culture, micro-politics
Jaeho Kang
Assistant Professor, Media Studies and Sociology
Panel: Remote Controls
PhD, Sociology of Media, University of Cambridge. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in the Institut fuer Sozialforschung at the Frankfurt University (Germany). He has published articles on the social theories of Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Michel Foucault and is now investigating Siegfried Kracauer's critical theory of media and politics focusing on film, propaganda, and the mediated public sphere. His current work expands the scope of his research by analyzing the interplay between media and urban spaces in East Asian cities like Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul.
Deborah Levitt
Assistant Professor, Culture and Media
Panel: (Im)materialities
PhD, Film, Literature, and Culture, University of Southern California; BA, English and Film, University of Colorado. The central focus of my research and teaching is on how media-old and new-transform both everyday experience and expanded global, political spheres. As part of my work as a media historian and theorist, I am interested in film, video, digital media, animation, literature, cultural theory, and science and technology studies. My research is motivated by a search for intersections between only apparently divergent domains. Similarly, in my courses, I encourage students to connect their daily engagements with media of all kinds to the archaeologies and larger social structures and forces that inform them. My current project considers cinema-from its pre-history into its digital age-as an animatic apparatus: From eighteenth-century tableaux vivants to early cinema to anime, I investigate how media technologies and texts influence and even create conceptions of life, namely, the ways in which we distinguish animate beings from inanimate ones, organic from inorganic, the lively from the inert. I also consider how media affect contemporary political debates on the proper beginnings, endings, and usages of biopolitical “life.” An essay of mine that examines the convergence of media and biopolitics is forthcoming in a volume on the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben (University of Edinburgh Press, 2008).
Shannon Mattern
Assistant Professor, Media Studies; Director of Graduate Studies
Panel: Visual Constructs
PhD, Culture and Communication, New York University. Her teaching and research address relationships between media and spatial theory and practice -- particularly the links among mass media, architecture and urban planning -- and connections between media and contemporary art. Her work is motivated by a desire to look "beyond the screen" or page, to the larger arena in which media operates, and to the fruitful convergences between media and other fields of creative production and scholarship. Recently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, she has also taught at NYU, Parsons The New School for Design, and Rutgers University. She is the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing With Communities (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), which was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Other work has appeared in the Journal of Architectural Education, Invisible Culture, The Senses & Society, In the Site of Sound, and Public Culture.
Jane Pirone
Assistant Professor, Media Design; Director of the Communication Design program at Parsons, The New School for Design
Panel: Embodiments
MS Polytechnic University, BFA University of Michigan. Jane's research has focused on the creation of multi-sensory mediascapes, as well as on location based/mobile media projects exploring our relationship to the built environment, specifically relating to the urban condition. She is a founding member of the Global Exchange Laboratory (http://Globalexlab.info), which develops courses and projects that facilitate transdisciplinary collaborations exploring participatory forms of new physical and virtual tactics of design, intervention and activism and teaches studios in Sound Design, Synaesthetics, Physical Computing, and Radio (http://newschoolradio.org). Jane is also the founder/creative director of Not For Tourists, (http://www.notfortourists.com) and the award winning design firm, Happy Mazza Media, which specializes in information and interactive design for clients such as Nickelodeon, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, IBM, Columbia Presbyterian, Engender Health, and In The Life.
Paul Ryan
Associate Professor, Media Studies
Panel: Mediated Ecologies
Former McLuhan Fellow; his mentor in cybernetics was Gregory Bateson. Author of Cybernetics of the Sacred and Video Mind, Earth Mind: Art, Communications and Ecology. His video art has been shown in Japan, Turkey, Germany, Holland, France, Ecuador, and throughout the United States. Projects include the cybernetic design of a television channel dedicated to monitoring the ecology of a region, which was presented at MoMA and at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Cities. The Smithsonian Institute is archiving his papers and tapes.
Barry Salmon
Associate Professor, Media Studies
Panel: Embodiments
MA, The New School; BM, Berklee College of Music. Composer of scores for numerous films as well as music for dance, theater, radio, and video art. Festivals, installations, honors and awards include CINE Golden Eagle, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Sundance, Telluride, and Toronto film festivals; Chicago Museum of Broadcasting, Museum of Modern Art. Performing and recording guitarist and record/CD producer.