2000 Faculty

Gregory Anderson
Gregory Anderson is an Assistant Professor of education in the Higher Education he Department of Organization and Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University. Mr. Anderson earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York in 1999. He also holds a Masters in Sociology and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto.

While his research interests range from sociology of education, theory, political economy, to studies of race and ethnicity, they are nevertheless bound by a common concern for the democratization of public institutions. His forthcoming book entitled Building a People’s University’s in South Africa, to be published by Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., in year 2000, is representative of this concern. Based on his doctoral thesis and supported by a Spencer Dissertation Foundation fellowship, the book examines post-secondary reform in South Africa and the racial effects of apartheid on the language development and learning processes of Black students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). His latest research project involves an examination of the complex relationship between race, access policies and remediation at CUNY. Part of this research will be presented in a section on access to post-secondary institutions included in the forthcoming Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia published By ABC-CLIO Publishers.

Stanley Aronowitz
Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Union Graduate School in 1975. Long time educator, Mr. Aronowitz has published numerous articles in magazines and written nineteen books. Among his most recent books are: The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning (Beacon 2000), From the Ashes of the Old America’s Future (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), Post Work edited with Jonathan Cutler (Routledge, 1997), Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism (Routledge, 1996), Dead Artists. Live Theories and Other Cultural Matters (Routledge, 1994) and Politics of Identity (Routledge, 1992).

Paul Badger
Paul Badger creates artworks aimed at public venues, in addition to producing works for more traditional gallery settings. He has created billboards, bumper stickers, street signs, covert projections in movie theaters, and media hoaxes. His work has recently been exhibited at Mass MOCA and at Spaces in Cleveland.

Badger considers his work agitprop, which attempts to address a wide audience who, "have not studied art for five years." The work often addresses current political or social issues, and often with a vocabulary borrowed from advertising. His strategy is to "try not to aestheticize or elevate pop imagery to function as high art" preferring to twist imagery or message and put it back into play in an environment similar to the one in which the material originated. Paul Badger teaches courses in electronic media and public art at Brown University.

Terry Barrett
Terry Barrett is author of Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images (Mayfield, 3rd edition),Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, (Mayfield, 2nd edition), Talking About Student Art (Davis), editor of an anthology for art teachers, Lessons for Teaching Art Criticism (ERIC: ART), former senior editor of the research journal, Studies in Art Education, and his chapters and articles on teaching criticism are published in anthologies and journals. He was Visiting Scholar of Education at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, and visiting scholar and critic at Colorado State University, the University of Georgia, and Ball State University. He serves as a critic-in-education for Ohio Arts Council, engaging school and community groups in discussions about contemporary art. Dr. Barrett is Professor of Art Education at the Ohio State University and a recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award for his courses in criticism.

Robert Blake
Robert Blake is Chairperson of the General Studies Program at the International Center of Photography; visiting artist/lecturer at the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles, France. He is cofounder with Susan Jahoda of Hybridaxe, a performance group using media, sound, film, and installation in "live" events. He is a recipient of a 1999 Etant Donnees grant from the French Ministry of Culture.

Natalie Bookchin
Natalie Bookchin is an artist who works collaboratively and independently on and off of the Internet. She is a member of the faculty at California Institute of the Arts. She recently organized a lecture and workshop series at CalArts and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles called <net.net.net> which brought together for the first time in the United States 22 renowned net artists and activists. Her current works have been reviewed in dozens of national and international journals including the New York Times, ArtForum as well as a handful of current books on digital culture. Recent works have appeared in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, the Walker Art Center and numerous other venues. In 1999-2000 she received grants from Jerome foundation (with Alexei Shilgin) Creative Capital and Creative Time.

Deborah Bright
Deborah Bright is an internationally exhibited photographer and cultural critic who currently heads the graduate program in photography at the Rhode Island School of design. for the past twenty years, her work has explored an expanded notion of landscape photography that foregrounds questions of memory, politics, and history. More recently, work such as the Being & Riding project (1996-1999) focuses on childhood and adolescent fetishisms which complicate and question standard psychoanalytic accounts of female sexual development. In 1998, Bright published The Passionate Camera: photography and bodies of desire, a collection of writings and works on photography and sexuality. In Spring 2000, she was visiting lecturer in photography in the Visual and Environmental Studies Program at Harvard University.

Victoria Crayhon
Born New York City, grew up New York and Venezuela BFA Photo NYU, MFA Photo RISD. Her work concerns inserting a physical, individual presence and interference into the spectacle of the media. Based in providence RI , she teaches photography at Marlboro College in Vermont and will be teaching graphic design at Fordham in fall 2000.

Sarah Farsad
Education Coordinator, Visible Knowledge Program. Farsad received her Master of Fine Arts in 1997 from San Jose University and has been at the New Museum for Contemporary Art since 1998. Her main activity as Education Coordinator is to work closely with the Curator of Education to direct VKP partnerships, attend Project Arts Meetings, expand collaborations to other schools in New York City, and replicate the program in selected cities nationally; promote the visibility of the VKP through participation in the larger arts and education and museum education networks.

Bill Gaskins
Bill Gaskins is the author of Good And Bad Hair: Photographs by Bill Gaskins (1997 Rutgers University Press). His work will appear in the upcoming volume Reflections In Black: A History of African Americans in Photography (W. W. Norton ). edited by Deborah Willis. He is also a cultural critic who has contributed to journals such as Afterimage, and New Art Examiner. Bill is currently a lecturer in Photography at Parsons School of Design and a research fellow in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.

Floyd Hammack
Floyd Hammack, Ph.D., is a sociologist teaching in the School of Education at New York University. His research interests revolve around how education, work, and work organizations intersect, including professionalism and other forms of credetialism. He is currently finishing up work on a Spencer Foundation funded project concerning the future prospects of the comprehensive high school.

Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
Born in New York City and presently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Received a BA in photography in 1991 from Hampshire College studying under Carrie Mae Weems and Jerome Liebling and received an MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996 studying under Deborah Bright and William E. Parker. He has taught photography, graphic design and multimedia at Parsons School of Design and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He currently teaches photography and graphic design at Fordham University in New York City and is an artist instructor for the not-for-profit digital media arts center Harvestworks. In 1999 he received a commission from Parts Gallery of Minneapolis to create a site-specific installation for the exhibition Fathers and Sons including the artists Duane Michaels and Larry Sultan. His Autopsy Tools series received the best in show award from the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY. Additionally, 1999 afforded the opportunity to work collaboratively on a number of projects. He and the artist Brian McClave were commissioned to create two multimedia installations for the exhibition series Ruins in Reverse: Time and Progress in Contemporary Arthosted by the Center for Experimental and Perceptual Art (CEPA) Gallery in Buffalo, NY. His third video collaboration with the artist Tom Kehn In the Jaws of Poltergeist Based on the True Story of Rocky Dennis has been screened at MIT, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Artists' Television Access in San Francisco, and in New York at the Knitting Factory. Previously, their installation Fiend Folio was exhibited at the Massachusetts College of Art.

In the Summer of 2000 his collaborative video with Tom Kehn Training: the Basic Question will screen in London, Tokyo, New York and nine additional cities throughout the United States as a part of the Short Attention Span Film and Video Festival 2000 showcase. In the Fall of 2000 he will contribute to the exhibition Wunderkammer, curated by and Geraldine Erman and Eve Andreé Larameé for the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn. Additionally, in the Fall of 2000 he and Brian McClave will begin work on their fifth collaborative endeavor, a commissioned exhibition for the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. The undertaking will focus on fabricating low tech permutations of high tech Hollywood special effects scenes. Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock is presently working with photography, video, sound, book arts and installation as an artist in residence for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Viewsprogram.

Anthony Huberman
Education and Public Program Coordinator, P.S.1. Anthony Huberman was born in Geneva, Switzerland and has lived in the US since 1991. After finishing his studies in sociology of art at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, Anthony worked at the Museum of Modern Art, Exit Art, and the Dia Center for the Arts, before ending up in February 1999 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, where he is currently the Education and Public Programs Coordinator.

Susan Jahoda
Susan Jahoda, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and arts editor for the journal Re-thinking Marxism, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes performance, installation, images/text and photography. She has been the recipient of grants and awards from the N.E.A. and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her work has been exhibited and published widely in both Europe and North America. She is currently working on a public art project in Italy and completing a book of images and texts.

Victoria Law
Board Treasurer, ABC No Rio. I became interested in community outreach in the arts when I realized that arts facilities are often unnecessarily expensive, thus excluding many from participating. My reason for building the darkroom and then having free photography classes for children at ABC No Rio was to provide inexpensive, if not free, resources to those who might otherwise not be able to afford experimenting with the medium.

Joanne Leonard
Leonard’s exhibitions include, among many museums and galleries in U.S. and Europe, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The International Museum of Photography, in New York, The Whitney Downtown in New York and Temple University, Rome. Her work has been recognized for its feminist themes and has been published in Janson’s History of Art, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, The San Francisco Museum’s Women of Photography, Time Life’s Library of Photography, From the Center, Discourses of Sexuality Delicate Subjects, Pictures of Innocence, The Familial Gaze, Women’s Untold Stories, Light Writing & Life Writing. She has won support for her own work and university programs from the NEA and has been generously supported by grants from many funding panels within the University of Michigan.

Nathan Lyons
Nathan Lyons has managed to be an integral part of almost every area of the photographic world: photographer, educator, lecturer, author and curator. From 1957 until Lyons was an important asset to the George Eastman House, serving as Associate Director and Curator of Photography, Editor of Publications, and Director of Extension Activities, among other positions. After leaving the Eastman House, he founded the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, where he is currently Director, serving as Distinguished Professor at SUNY Brockport. In addition, he was a member of the board of Directors of the Center of the Eye in Colorado and the New York Foundation for the Arts in New York City. He was the founder and first chairman of the Society for Photographic Education. An exhibition of photographs from his latest book, Riding 1st. Class on the Titanic (1999, MIT Press and the Addison Gallery of American Art) is touring the country. It is composed of 200 black and white sequenced images, and represents the continuation of an earlier project, "Notations in Passing" (1974), which was organized into an extended sequence. He is the recent recipient of the International Center for Photography’s Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Audrey Mandelbaum
Audrey Mandelbaum is an artist and photographer living in Chicago. She works as Program Director and instructor for the Institute of Art and Design at Robert Morris College, where she teaches photography, computer imaging, and the Senior Exhibit class. This year Mandelbaum exhibited work at Sotheby's in Tel Aviv, Chicago and Vienna as part of the Artlink program, and at Dynamite Gallery Project in Grand Rapids, MI. Recently, She has received grants for her work from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and a fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation

Nicholas Mirzoeff
Nicholas Mirzoeff is Associate Professor of Art History and Comparative Studies at SUNY Stony Brook, where he is currently Acting Director of the Humanities Institute. His publications also include: Silent Poetry: deafness, Sign and Visual Culture in Modern France (1995) and as editor Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews (2000).

Shuichi Murakami
Shuichi Murakami (b. 1969, Osaka, Japan) is an artist / educator living in Michigan. Upon completion of a 1997 MFA degree in Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art, he has been dedicated to pedagogy in the arts, lecturing throughout the United States and working as art adjunct faculty in the Chicago area. Currently, he is faculty at Kellogg Community College instructing courses in art foundations, computer art, and art history. He is reevaluating and reprogramming conventional photography cirrocumuli at the college, and is creating new art theory and digital photography courses ? emphasizing critical thinking with the understandings of basic skills and is using new technologies so that students may access the current job markets. He feels a responsibility to challenge and encourage students, in a small mid-western community, to experience art and to become socially aware to ways in which it effects their lives and futures.

David Najjab
Currently, David Najjab is preparing to transition to a new position. Starting in September he will be the Director of Media Studies and Electronic Arts at the University of Texas, Dallas. In this position Najjab will be developing both undergraduate and graduate curriculum in New Media. For the past seven years he has been at Collin County Community College in Plano, Texas, where he was an instructor and coordinator of their Applied New Media program. Also, for the past three years Najjab has taught as an adjunct professor of digital imaging at Southern Methodist University..

Jolene Rickard
Jolen Rickard, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Art and Art History at SUNY Buffalo. She is an artist, curator and writer about the issues of First nations and Indigenous peoples.

Her photographic installations have been exhibited at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, Barbican Art Center in London, England, Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ansel Adams Center For Photography, San Francisco, the Houston Center for Photography, C.E.P.A. Buffalo, Light Work, Syracuse, Exit Art, New York City and many more.

Rickard co-curated an international travel exhibit, Crossing Borders: Beadwork In Iroquois Life, which will be in western New York the summer of 2000 at the Castellani Art Museum. The exhibit will travel to the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City and the Royal Ontario Museum of Art in Toronto.

Publications include; Native Nations, Aperture "Stronghearts," Lucy Lippard’s edited text Partial Recall and Lure of the Local to mention a few. Rickard is on the Board of the New York State Historical Association, is a member of College of Art Association, Native Art Association and the Society for Photographic Educators and is a founding Board member of the Ostewo Institute of Native American Art History.

Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone
Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is Associate Professor and Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) at UT Austin, Resident Senior Artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and Resident Fellow during Fall 1998 at the Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine. In various incarnations she has been a filmmaker, rock 'n roll music engineer, neurologist, social scientist, cultural theorist, and performer. She is the author of numerous publications including "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto" and "The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age", both available in Swedish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese translations. She lives in Austin, Texas and Santa Cruz, California.

Mary Virginia Swanson
Mary Virginia Swanson is a leader in the fields of licensing and marketing fine art photography. After receiving an MFA in photography from Arizona State University (ASU) she served as workshop coordinator for The Friends of Photography, Special Projects coordinator for Magnum Photos and in 1991 founded Swanstock, an alternative agency managing licensing rights for fine art photographers, She left Swanstock in 1999

and founded M.V. Swanson and Associates, a company dedicated to bringing photography to new markets. Swanson frequently lectures and conducts workshops for photographers on today’s marketplace, and is a Faculty Associate in the MFA program at ASU. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson and the Board of the ASMP Educational Foundation.

Sue Wrbican
Born in New Kensington, and grew up in Creighton, PA. Lives in Montclair, NJ. Received BA in English Writing from University of Pittsburgh and MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design. She was Video Artist In Residence at Experiments in Art and Technology, (E.A.T.) Berkeley Heights, NJ from 1997-98. She has taught photography at Pratt Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art and Graphic Design at Fordham University in NYC. Currently Manager of Streaming Media at Morgan, Stanley, Dean, Witter. Her video "Back Roof" has been screened and broadcast in various venues such as VideoSpace in Boston, MA, NO-TV '97, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, Axlegrease in Buffalo, NY, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, in L.A., Artists Television Access in San Francisco, the Midnight Special Bookstore's (L.A.) series Documental and at The Knitting Factory's (NYC) Alterknit Theatre. "Back Roof" was part of the single-channel viewing during The World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam. "The Dog Poem," produced in 1998, was broadcast as part of WNET Channel 13's Reel New York and at The Avignon Film Festival's presentation of The Pixeled Narrative. In 1997 Wrbican was awarded second prize in experimental video in the NAP Video Festival at the New Arts Program in Kutztown, PA, juried by Beryl Korot, Tony Oursler, and Ann Sargent Wooster.

Her professional activities include work on a series of eleven documentaries on the 1966 series of performances "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering," produced by Experiments in Art and Technology. She completed a short documentary on "The American Moon," a performance by the artist Robert Whitman, screened at the Whitney Museum in NYC during the exhibition The American Century Part II. In the summer of 2000 she and artist Mary Carothers will work together near Buffalo, NY on a large project inspired by tourism and travel. It is being funded by a grant from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and scheduled as part of a series of exhibits entitled Unlimited Partnerships: Collaboration in Contemporary Art curated by CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, New York.