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Kristy H.A. Kang is an award winning media artist and a Creative Director with The Labyrinth Project—a research initiative on interactive narrative and database documentary at USC that collaborates internationally with experimental artists, scholars, scientists and cultural institutions to produce a range of digital media projects. These works have been exhibited at the Getty Center, Ars Electronica, ACM Siggraph, at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and received numerous awards including the Jury Award for New Forms at the 2004 Sundance Online Film Festival. Kang has lectured at universities in Asia, Europe and the Middle East and is an Adjunct Faculty at USC’s Division of Animation and Digital Arts in the School of Cinematic Arts where she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Inter-divisional Media Arts and Practice. She intends to synthesize her experience in animation and digital arts with scholarly practice to explore the intersections of animation and interactive media in East Asia.
[ See USC's Graduate School's profile on Kristy here ]
Veronica Paredes received her BA and MA degrees from the Critical Studies division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. As a first year PhD student, Paredes has distinguished herself as a highly motivated and prolific scholar-practitioner engaged in the study and creation of interactive and moving-image based media. While a graduate student at USC, she has also been a key organizer of several events that demonstrate her commitment to an expanded conception of academic practice as something that can and should reach beyond the boundaries of traditional education. These include the USC Provost funded TransFormations series, an ambitious four-part series of conferences, screenings, workshops and explorations that took place during the 2006-07 academic year. In 2007 she was also a co-founder of the Deaths of Cinema conference, the School of Cinematic Arts’ first annual graduate student conference. Her current work is devoted to the exploration of technology and culture through the topics of immigration, travel, labor and unlikely global networks.
Jen Stein completed her masters degree in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College at the University of London in 2002. For the past three years, she has worked as the program coordinator of the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, while doing graduate coursework in Architecture, Geography and mobile media design, which resulted in the acclaimed mobile phone-based project, Tracking Agama, an alternate reality experience set in Downtown Los Angeles. Stein's MA dissertation, Popular Technoculture, presented her research on the popularization of information communication technology at the intersection of postmodern culture and the information age. Her background in media design and theory makes Stein uniquely positioned to think critically about the meaning of space and place in the urban landscape, while practically exploring how ubiquitous computing will affect our experience of everyday life in the physical world.
