Dafna Lemish
Jay Needham's radio documentary Listening at the Border aired on Feb. 12th on Australia's ABC National Radio program 360 Documentaries.
Jay presented several of his sound works and a lecture titled Several Alternate Histories of Place in Chicago to The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology on Feb. 18th
Cologne based curator Wilfried Agricola Cologne is featuring Jay Needham's piece OPENED during the month of February as a part of “Horror Vacui? - What is Happening Next?” along with eight other US based artists.
The nomination made by Associate Dean Deborah Tudor and Dafna Lemish of Amy Goodman, (an independent American broadcast journalist and investigative reporter one of the founders and principle hosts of Democracy Now! The War & Peace Report) for the University Honorary Degree was approved by the university. Amy Goodman has been invited for the May Commencement Ceremony of MCMA.
Lisa Brooten gave an invited presentation entitled: Democratization in Thailand: The Role of the Media in Asia to the Peoria Area World Affairs Council, Peoria, Illinois. Thursday, February 17, 2011.
David Burns was awarded a $3,000.00 William A. Minor Grant, for his research-creative project Chrysalis.
David Burns exhibited his 3D animation, Rebirth, at the Allen Priebe Art Gallery's National Juried Exhibition, Systems.
David Burns' 3D computer animation student, Will Roberts, was selected and participated as a student ambassador at SIGGRAPH Asia in Seoul, Korea.
John Hochheimer was invited to join the editorial board of research materials Spirituality of a Personality, methodology, theory and practice.
Decemeber 2010 Radio-Television Faculty news updates.
Radio-Television - Phylis Johnson and Jan Thompson
Phylis Johnson and Jan Thompson have been recognized in an award ceremony for their years of service to SIUC in the Provost and Vice Chancellor area, on Friday December 3rd. Phylis has been with SIUC for 20 years and Jan for 10 years.
Radio-Television - David R Burns, Wago Kreider, HD Motyl, Jacob Podber
Four members of RT are presenting their creative work in the SIUC museum faculty exhibit: David Burns, Wago Kreider, Howard Motyl, and Jake Podber.
Radio-Television students Gabrielle Ntsimi and Brittney Edwards
Two RT students in the media industries sequence from this Fall's programming class have been accepted as interns for the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE) international conference in Miami this coming January. Gabrielle Ntsimi and Brittney Edwards were selected from among hundreds of applicants who are studying the electronic media at universities throughout the nation. Interns help with information distribution, registration, seminar seating, publications distribution and other assignments that make the meeting go smoothly. The NATPE Educational Foundation pays the cost of conference registration, provides meals and covers the cost of housing at the Fontainebleu, Miami Beach for one week in January 2011, but the students are responsible for their own travel arrangements. The conference is not open to the public thus the student interns receive a unique, behind-the-scenes view of the television industry. Interns put in long hours but each student has an all access pass to the conference.
Radio-Television - Jacob Pobder
Jacob Podber attended the Oral History Association National Conference in Atlanta, GA, in October, where his article “Television’s Arrival in the Appalachian Mountains of the US: An Oral History," published in the journal Media History, was recognized as the 2010 Outstanding Article of the Year Award - Honorable Mention.
We get various faculty updates with publications and conference presentations. Here is a list of some events from November of 2010.
Radio-Television - RT Chair Dafna Lemish
Dafna Lemish gave a keynote address about media in the lives of immigrant families and children at a European Union Network of Communication Researchers in Lisbon
Radio-Television - H.D. Motyl
H.D. Motyl latest video work, Nudes Descending a Staircase # 2, was selected for the 8th Annual PPP [Process Performance Projection] exhibition at the Surplus Gallery at SIUC. The show, which ran Nov 2-5 is curated by faculty members from the School of Art and Design, SIUC. This piece is also in the annual Combined Faculty Exhibit at the University Museum, running until Dec 14.
Radio-Television - H.D. Motyl
H.D. Motyl was selected to participate in the Faculty Seminar, presented and coordinated the Emmy Foundation, a branch of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He, along with 19 other faculty members from colleges and universities across the country, had direct access to the movers and shakers of the Los Angeles television industry, including showrunners, network program schedulers, writers, directors, editors and producers of current TV programming.
Radio-Television - David R. Burns
David R. Burns was invited to present his paper, Borders, surveillance, and control in the digital age, and digital animation, Visit-US, at "Soft Borders Conference & Festival – Upgrade! International 2010" in São Paulo, Brazil. “Soft Borders” is an international conference and festival for new media art, and art related technology under umbrella of the Upgrade! International network of new media artists and curators.
Radio-Television - David R. Burns
David R. Burns exhibited his digital animation, Visit-US, at the SIUC Museum Combined Faculty Exhibition.
Radio-Television - Eileen R. Meehan
Eileen R. Meehan presented a paper on “A Legacy of Neoliberalism: Transindustrial Conglomeration in the Entertainment-Information Sector of the U.S. Economy” at the Historical Materialism Conference hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London on 12 November 2010.
Radio-Television - John Hochheimer
John Hochheimer attended the annual convention of the National Communictaion Association in San Francisco November 14-17.
He chaired two sessions:
Download David R. Burns's CV3D computer animation; media arts theory; technology, culture, and society; memory and post-memory.
Associate Professor David R. Burns holds a MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design. After practicing digital media art in New York City for nearly a decade and teaching at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute in Manhattan, David joined the faculty of Southern Illinois University. David developed Southern Illinois Universitys first 3D computer animation sequence of courses and its first 3D computer modeling and animation lab. David specializes in teaching 3D computer modeling, animation, and media arts theory and practice.
David takes an interdisciplinary approach to art combining a variety of mediums including 3D computer modeling and animation, digital video, sound design, and physical computing to push the boundaries of artistic expression. David's creative work has been exhibited internationally at art galleries, museums, film festivals, and public screenings. Most notably, his digital animation work has been screened at the National Film Theater in London, the National Media Museum in England, the Red Stick International Animation Festival in Baton Rouge, and the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City. Davids research has been presented at numerous international conferences including ISEA 2008 - the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Singapore, ISEA 2009 in Ireland, and the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) 2010 international conference in London.
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees, meeting in Edwardsville, today (April 8) ratified academic promotions and granted tenure for SIUC faculty members. Promotions take effect July 1, while tenure awards are effective Aug. 16.
Following is list of those promoted (grouped by rank, with academic units and places of residence, where available, noted). Those receiving tenure have a "t" in parentheses after their names.
From associate professor to professor:
Cheryl L. Anderson, law (Carbondale); Andrew D. Carver, forestry (Carbondale); Peter M. Chametzky, art and design (Carbondale); Frank M. Chipasula (t), black American studies (Makanda); Eric Ferre, geology (Carbondale); Timothy J. Fink, music (Carbondale); James E. Garvey, zoology (Makanda); Qingfeng Ge, chemistry and biochemistry (Murphysboro); Scott E. Ishman, geology (Carbondale); Karen L. Jones, animal science, food and nutrition (Carbondale); Patricia R. McCubbin, law; Walter C. Metz, cinema and photography (Makanda); Daniel V. Overturf, cinema and photography (Murphysboro); Stephen C. Shih, information systems and applied technologies; S. Alan Walters, plant, soil and agricultural systems (Carbondale); John T. Warren (t), speech communication (Murphysboro).
From assistant professor to associate professor:
Shaikh S. Ahmed (t), electrical and computer engineering; Craig K. Anz (t), architecture; Xiaoxin W. Beardsley (t), finance; Lowell W. Berentsen (t), aviation technologies (Carterville); Douglas L. Berger (t), philosophy (Carbondale); David R. Burns (t), radio-television; George W. Burruss (t) criminology and criminal justice (Makanda); Sandra K. Collins (t), allied health (Carterville);
Saran Donahoo (t), educational administration and higher education (Carbondale); Asghar Esmaeeli (t), mechanical engineering and energy processes (Carbondale); Matthew J. Giblin (t), criminology and criminal justice (Carterville); Andrea Imre (t), library affairs; Michelle Y. Kibby-Faglier (t), psychology; J. Thomas Kidd (t), theater; Andrei A. Kolmakov (t), physics (Carbondale); Rhonda K. Kowalchuk (t), educational psychology and special education; Junghwa Lee (t), music;
Eric Lenz (t), music (Carbondale); C. Sebastian Loh (t), curriculum and instruction; Kanchan Mondal (t), mechanical engineering and energy processes; AKM M. Morshed (t), economics (Carbondale); Frackson Mumba (t), curriculum and instruction (Carbondale); Olusegun A. Ojewuyi (t), theater (Carbondale); Julie Partridge (t), kinesiology (Carbondale); David A. Rakowski (t), finance; Ulrich H. Reichard (t), anthropology (Carbondale);
Patrick J. Rottinghaus (t), psychology; Laurie R. Ryznyk (t), allied health (De Soto); Yanyan Sheng (t), educational psychology and special education; Stacy D. Thompson (t), curriculum and instruction (Carbondale); Mesfin Tsige (t), physics (Carbondale); John K. Voges (t), aviation management and flight (Goreville); Catherine Wagner (t), library affairs (Carbondale); Juliane P. Wallace (t), kinesiology (Cambria); Anthony K. Webster (t), anthropology; Belle S. Woodard (t), information systems and applied technologies; Shai Yeshayahu (t), architecture (Carbondale).
In addition, Judith A. Green, an associate professor of educational administration and higher education (Carbondale), and Benjamin Komnick, an assistant professor of automotive technology (Herrin), received tenure.
Also, Melissa Marlow and Sheila Simon (Carbondale), clinical associate professors in the School of Law, earned promotion to clinical professor.
Assistant Professor David R. Burns' creative research on memory and post-memory "Digital Media, Memories and Representation: Rebirth," was presented at International Society of Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2009 conference in Belfast, Ireland.  Burns' also screened his animation work, "Visit-US" at the International One Minute Film & Video Festival in Aarau Switzerland.
Dr. John Downing conducted a video interview via the Deep Dish TV network on the multiple terms used to define alternative media, shot at the July OurMedia conference near Medellin, Colombia.  The interview is online at the Deep Dish site, Waves of Change.   Downing also conducted an interview concerning his alternative media research by Patricia Wittenberg Cavalli, of the Federal University of Pernambuco, in the Brazilian Communication Studies journal FAMECOS.
Assistant Professor Sarah Lewison was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, a bi-annual award for artists whose work shows promise but who have not yet achieved widespread critical or commercial recognition.   Lewison collaborated with the Midwest collective Compass Group on "Region from Below: Power Plants," an installation at the Smart Museum in Chicago until January 17, as part the international exhibition "Heartland".
Associate Professor Jake Podber's book "The Electronic Front Porch" was awarded 3rd prize from the Appalachian Book of the Year Awards.
Graduate Student Achievements
MFA student Josh Gumiela presented a paper "Net Gain/Net Loss: the Googlization of Net Art in the Era of Neoliberalism" at the International Society of Electronic Arts 2009 conference in Belfast, Ireland.
MFA student Estefanía Martínez was selected to be a student volunteer at SIGGRAPH 2009 this year in New Orleans.
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