Stephen Belovarich • sjbelova@syr.edu • InstallationSpace.com

Education
MFA Computer Art 2010, Syracuse University
BS Electronic Arts 2004, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Research Interests
My work focuses on issues found in Mass Media Practice, Astrophysics, the Holographic Paradigm, Surveillance, and Suburban America. I often imagine works that tackle issues Americans face in everyday experience. I often take an amateurish and humorous approach to the work.

Computer Art is derived from a combination of cinema, photography, graphic design, and music histories: a multimedia smorgasbord that is ripe for anyone with a computer to begin creating. Therefore, I believe it is my responsibility to teach and mentor others in Computer Art practice.

Current Research
Current work involves the selective process of reading the news. "Installation Hunter/Gatherer" allows the installation participant to act as virtual caveman, to spear and collect news headlines from large scale video projection. Future works will involve Physical Computing, Telepresence, and Live Video Performance.

Exhibitions
2004
EMAC Capstone Show, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

Blake Carrington • mail@blakecarrington.com • www.blakecarrington.com

Education
MFA Computer Art 2009, Syracuse University
BA Digital Media 2003, Indiana University - Bloomington

Blake Carrington is an artist exploring the interstices between geography and phenomenology. He recently completed an artist residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts under Carsten Nicolai. He was co-founder of Urban Video Project, a public arts initiative that used the post-industrial landscape of Syracuse as context for multimedia projections. He is also one-third of the artist group Avalanche Collective, with whom he has exhibited most recently at Rochester Contemporary Art Center.

Exhibitions
2008
FREEWAVES FESTIVAL OF NEW MEDIA ART, Los Angeles, CA
INVENTORIUM, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach FL
THE MIRROR STAGE, NeMe Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Cyprus
404 FESTIVAL, Teatro Miela & Parco San Giovanni, Trieste Italy
2007
VIDEO SCREENING SERIES, Gallery Lambton, Ontario
IN-FEED, University of Toronto Blackwood Gallery, Ontario
2006
REEL SHORTS, Saratoga County Arts Council, Saratoga Springs NY
2005
T-10 VIDEO FESTIVAL, 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland CA
FRESH WORK, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA

Bret Malley • bbmalley@syr.edu • www.externalmind.com

Education
MFA Computer Art 2010, Syracuse University
BA Film and Digital Media major, Electronic Music minor 2007, University of California Santa Cruz

Research Interests
Exploring the interaction between digital arts, public awareness, and ecology.

Through the use of video, animation, photo-manipulation, audio and music production, photography, and programming, I am focusing on the abilities of technologies and digital arts as viable tools to inspire, influence, and engage people and communities with their own local environmental issues, as well as other broader and overarching concerns.

From the experience of growing up within a small and rapidly expanding mountain town in California, I realize that I have been witness to a lack of awareness, or rather, a growing disconnection between people, industrial/modern technologies/advancement, and the natural world. This in turn parallels not only similarly "progressive" towns, but also a larger national and global situation. Through my work, I engage, reconnect, or bring another level of consciousness or awareness to the general public, certain communities, and key policy/stewardship contributors.

Selected Works
"Clavey Reflections," 22 minute educational/environmental documentary
"Creek Community," interactive Flash program, community based, environmental

Exhibitions
2007
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk tribal gathering, Council Hall, Tuolumne, CA
Eye Candy, Film exhibition, Santa Cruz, CA
Film thesis screening, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA
2006
Annual Electronic Music Concert, Santa Cruz Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA

Ryan Patrick Marchand • rpmarcha@syr.edu • www.leperaffinity.com

Education
MFA Computer Art 2010, Syracuse University
BFA Graphic Design and Fine Arts 2007, Bridgewater State College

Research Interests
My body of work spans multiple interests and technological disciplines. I see computer programs as objective functional cogs in a machine, but the computer code it is written in, as a subjective poetic language. In the past I have created generative, autonomous, and interactive works and have organized interdisciplinary projects between departments at Bridgewater State College. I have written papers on how tech-oriented corporations advocating freedom in their advertising, use technology to create restrictions for their less technically savvy consumers thus created a bottle neck of power and control. I have a curiosity for how technology is used socio-culturally. I am interested in the computer's organizational power.

Current interests include studying the organizing power of relationships people build in on-line gaming communities in a society that gives praise to high production. I am also exploring methods of juxtaposing the rigidly produced computer generated works of 3D animation with the fluid evocative personal writings of poetry. Having worked for a company that tracked it's users information through the Internet, I am interested in the way we interact socially on the Internet leaving artifacts of past conversations, but also how that information is used, tracked, and manipulated. I have taken recent fascination in the spatial and performative play of physical computing and the beautiful rawness of hand crafted technology. I plan to produce some work in the physical computing realm in the future.

I have a love for work that is intense and brief or enduring and droning, but generally subversive.

Publication Exhibitions
2006 Author of Control Denied.
-An Emerging Technologies submission, accepted by NCUR, and presented April 2006.

Conference, Exhibition and Presentation Experience
2006 Presenter in Paper Proceedings, NCUR 2006
-Presented a paper on copyright law and emerging technology
2006 CART presentation at Bridgewater State College
-Presented a game colaborative that organized computer science and computer art
2006 The Adrian Tinsley Program Seminar
-Presented a paper on copyright law and emerging technology
2005 Presenter at Compute Art Show for 2005 at Bridgewater State College
-Produced content and presented in a workshop on computer gaming and development in Torque game Engine and Maya
2004 Presenter at Compute Art Show for 2005 at Bridgewater State College
-Produced content and presented in a workshop on computer gaming and development in macromedia flash

Freelance Experience
2006 Geerwade.com
2007 Soundscape2007.com
2007 JohnHookerArt.com