STAFF


Peter Brun	Peter Brun (b. 1983) is the Fremont Studio Manager for DXARTS. A graduate of the DXARTS and Photography programs at UW, he is actively working to make the Mont as enjoyable and productive as possible for students, faculty and staff. Peter is interested in every part of the fabrication process involved in making digital arts a physical reality. He loves visitors at the studio and helping students utilize our world-class array of equipment for their creative endeavors.

Cynthia Caci	Cynthia Caci joins DXARTS as Assistant Director for Academic Services. Prior to this, she has served in numerous capacities during her tenure at the University of Washington. While completing her graduate degree in Art History, Cynthia was an undergraduate adviser in the School of Art. She then moved to the Undergraduate Advising Center (Gateway Center) as an academic counselor, working primarily with students in the fine and performing arts. While in DXARTS, she will continue to counsel undergraduates as well as coordinate the PhD program. Other roles include curriculum management and development, research and documentation for the Center, outreach to prospective freshmen and transfer students, and development of external partnerships for funding and support.

Billie Grace	Billie Grace is the current Administrative Specialist for DXARTS. She comes to DXARTS after working for the UW Dean of Public Health for seven years in their administration and finance division. She earned her BFA in Art History from the University of Washington in 2001 and is currently working towards a Master's in Library and Information Science. Her areas of expertise are in the visual and performing arts, administration, as well as digital collections. She is thrilled to be working back in the arts and sciences and is looking forward to assisting DXARTs faculty and students purchasing equipment and taking care of their personnel and payroll needs. She hopes to promote creativitiy, learning, and exploring new ideas.

Johnathan Lyon	Johnathan Lyon (b. 1981), currently Senior Computing Specialist and Technical Coordinator at the Center for Digital Art and Experimental Media (DXARTS) and the Center for Advanced Research in the Arts and Humanities (CARTAH) at the University of Washington, received his BFA in DXARTS and BS in Digital Signal Processing (General Studies) at the University of Washington in 2006. He specialized in spatial audio processing, discovering novel ways of treating audio granually in space in order to morph the topology of 3-dimensional sound spaces. While working at the Univeristy of Washington, he is continuing research in Bio-Enhanced Interface Design and Technological Mediation in the Arts. His current artistic exploits have lead him to study vangaurd scientific technology in order develop artistic methodology via biological interventions and posthumanist philosophy to create meta-works that bridge and question the gap between Art and Science.

Anna MacDonald	Anna MacDonald joins DXARTS as an instructional technician. She brings 10 years of experience providing multi-media studios, shops and exhibition teams with technical and instructional support. Most recently Anna has worked for a team of archaeologists in Albania, and with at-risk youth in Baltimore's inner city as the Production Instructor for the Living Classrooms Foundation. Anna received a BA from Dartmouth College, an MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at MICA and a Fulbright to pursue Art in Berlin, Germany. Her own artistic praxis involves adapting serious play into a body of performative research. Strongly influenced by extensive immersion experiences in: Albania, the Laplands and the Solomon Islands, Anna's work has appeared in: Berlin's U-bahn, Amerika Hous, the Universität der Künste and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Rich MacDonald	Rich MacDonald majored in computer science at Dartmouth College and received his MFA for Photography and Digital Imaging at Maryland Institute College of Art. He has worked as a computer security researcher at PKI Labs, a graduate research coordinator at MICA and as a photographer for a bronze-age archaeological excavation in Albania. Rich loves wrapping his head around complex systems and tackling technological puzzles collaboratively, especially those in intersections of science and art. He has recently been exploring photographic parallels to surveying and map-making; he is interested in how such hybrid techniques can capture different models of visual perception than traditionally possible with single-viewpoint photography.

Stacy Waters	Stacy Waters received his Ph.D. in textual studies from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His background in linguistics, literature, and language studies includes research, publication, and experience in instruction at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Waters has been actively involved with computing in the arts and humanities since 1983 and has been at the University of Washington in this capacity since 1985. His recent publication concerns “Computers and Text” and he is involved with setting up a text archive.