Carlos Guedes

Instructor, School of Music and Performing Arts, IPP

Electronic and acoustic musical composition for performing arts and multimedia

Homepage:  www.esmae.ipp.pt/comp/carlosguedes.html
Instituto Politécnico do Porto/Polytechnic Institute of Porto
School of Music and Performing Arts
Rua Alegria, 503
4000-045 Porto
Portugal
Phone: 351 22 519 37 60

Tomás Henriques

CESEM

Tomás Henriques is a researcher at the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is currently on a post-doctoral research leave and teaching in the Music Department at Buffalo State College. He collaborates with Carlos Guedes and Bruce Pennycook in the CoLab-funded research project "Kinetic Controller Driven Music Systems". He is a composer for both acoustic and electronic instruments and conducts research on real-time interactive music composition and interfaces for real-time speech synthesis.

Henriques won the 2010 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition for his Double Slide Controller, an electronic instrument featuring two slides inspired by the trombone.

Personal page

Double Slide Controller video

Thomas J. R. Hughes

Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics; Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair III

Computational mechanics, isogeometric analysis: integration of computer aided design and finite element analysis; variational multiscale methods for complex fluid flows and turbulence; patient-specific cardiovascular modeling and simulation technologies; phase-field methods

Hompeage:  http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~hughes/

University of Texas at Austin

Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences

1 University Station C0200

Austin, TX 78712-0027

USA

Phone: 001 512 232 7774

Stuart Kelban

Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Karen Kocher

Lecturer, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Matt Lease

Assistant Professor, School of Information

Research interests: Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml/

Phone) +1 512 471 9350

Richard Lewis

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Richard Lewis has worked as an editor, producer, director, and/or writer for companies including National Geographic Television, Channel 4 (UK), A&E, PBS, Sierra Club Productions, and Devillier-Donegan Enterprises. Most recently, he worked on The Living Weapon, an episode of American Experience for PBS. His last production, Chimp Rescue, premiered on National Geographic Explorer and won a Genesis Award for Best Cable Documentary. Richard primarily teaches producing and screenwriting.

Michael Mackert

Assistant Professor, College of Communication, Department of Advertising

Dr. Mackert's current research focus is on health literacy, with a particular interest in the best ways to design health messages to reach low health literate populations. This work applies to both new digital media (e.g., e-health interventions designed specifically for low literate and low health literate audiences) and traditional media (e.g., health literacy issues in direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising). Other research interests include telemedicine implementations to provide healthcare services at a distance, the role of trust in communication and advertising, and mass media/interpersonal impacts on healthy behaviors.

Phone) +1 512 471 8558

João Magalhães

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science

Research interests: the different aspects of Web and multimedia search and data mining, including exploratory search and recommendation systems, machine learning methods for information extraction,  high-dimensional indexing and ranking algorithms, and graph-based analysis of social-networks. 

http://ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/~jmag/

Geoff Marslett

Lecturer, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Pedro Medeiros

Associate Professor of Informatics, FCT/UNL

Homepage: http://asc.di.fct.unl.pt/~pm/
Phone: +351 21 294 85 36 Ext. 10738

Mónica Mendes

PhD student, Digital Media

Assistant at the Multimedia Arts degree of the University of Lisbon [FBA/UL]

Mónica Mendes has a Masters in Multimedia Educational Communication, degree in Communication Design. She is a member of the CIEAM Research Center on Interactive Environments, and an altLab member on experimentation in alternative media. Additionally, she developed projects as a free-lancer, as a designer at Atelier B2, and as an interface design consultant.

PhD Abstract: RTiVISS – Real-Time Video Interactive Systems for Sustainability – proposes innovative ways of conceiving both digital media arts and cutting edge environmentally sustainable practices through critical research and experimental approaches. Multiplatform devices will provide access to real-time networked video for users to "adopt" selected forests. The interactive system feeds a broad community sharing “the emotion of real-time” and the challenge of uncertainty, remotely monitoring natural environments for forests protection and aesthetic exploration. Assuming this surveillance metaphor, can we design a project that is both artistic and functional?

Homepage: www.monicamendes.info

Steve Mims

Lecturer, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Austin filmmaker Steve Mims’ award-winning short films have screened widely in festivals and on television, and he has extensive experience in writing, directing and editing. The New York Times' Vincent Canby called his film AUNT HALLIE "A treasure...which belongs on everybody's list of the top ten funniest films ever made." His feature film THE PERFECT SPECIMEN premiered at SXSW and on SHOWTIME. His music videos include work for Webb Wilder, Stephen Bruton, Los Straitjackets, the Austin Lounge Lizards, and Billy Joe Shaver and have aired on MORE MUSIC, TNN, CMT, GAC, CMT EUROPE, M2 and MTV. Mims’ newest short film, HONORARIUM, premieres at SXSW 2010. He is currently working on a feature length documentary.

Mims completed his graduate work in film at the University of Texas in 1987, and his teaching career spans over two decades.

Departmental page: http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/smims.html

Personal page: http://www.stevemimsfilms.com/

José Carlos Ferreira Maia Neves

Professor, Dept. of Computer Science

http://www3.di.uminho.pt/~jmn/

Verónica Costa Orvalho

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science

Research interests include applied computer graphics for the medical and entertainment industry: computer animation, geometric modeling and deformation, and human-computer interaction.

http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~veronica.orvalho/

Jorge Peña

Assistant Professor, College of Communication, Department of Communication Studies

Jorge Peña examines the cognitive, emotional and behavioral foundations of computer-mediated interaction. He is interested in how people communicate and develop impressions when interacting through recreational and instrumental technologies (video games, email, instant messenger, etc.).

http://commstudies.utexas.edu/faculty/jorge-pena.html

Phone) +1 512 475 7074

Bruce Pennycook

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film; Professor of Composition, Butler School of Music

José Carlos Fernandes Pereira

Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

https://fenix.ist.utl.pt/homepage/ist11668

Keshav Pingali

Professor of Computer Sciences

Homepage: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pingali/
Phone: +1 512-232-6567

Russell Pinkston

Professor of Composition, Butler School of Music

Director, Electronic Music Studios

Russell Pinkston, Professor of Composition, Director, Electronic Music Studios, holds degrees in music composition from Dartmouth College (BA) and Columbia University (MA, DMA). He has written music in a wide variety of different media, ranging from concert works and sacred anthems to computer generated tape pieces and live electronic music for dance. His compositions have been played throughout Europe, South America and the United States, including recent performances by such noted ensembles as the Smith Quartet (London), the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, and the Danish Royal Ballet Company. Dr. Pinkston has received numerous awards for his compositions, including two prizes from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a senior Fulbright Fellowship in Composition and Computer Music to Brazil. Dr. Pinkston is also active in computer music research. His work in the area of real-time performance interfaces for modern dance has recently attracted international attention, leading to interviews on BBC radio and NPR, as well as a feature article in New Scientist magazine. Dr. Pinkston’s music is recorded on Boston Skyline, Centaur, Finnadar, Folkways, and Summit Records and published by Galaxy Music, E. C. Schirmer, and Columbia University Press.

Personal page

Electronic Music Studios

The University of Texas at Austin
School of Music
1 University Station, E3100
Austin, TX 78712-0435