instructors

course overview Camille Baker Lorna and Students	movinglmages07 Instructor + TA Camille Baker - Sessional Instructor (course lead) Camille has been developing courses, working in media creation and /or teaching in some capacity at TechBC and now SFU SIAT since 2001, this is the third time she has taught IAT 242 Moving Images and also teaches Intro to New Media Aden Web Design at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and Kwantlen University College, for over a year. Currently, Camille is beginning a PHD at SMARTlab (www.smartlabphd.com) at the University of East London (UK) in Networked Performance Media. Her research interests include: mobile devices, video art, live cinema, performance and interactive media, responsive environments, media art installation, telematics, new media curating and networked communities. For more on her academic and artistic pursuits see her portfolio at www.swampgirl67.net. Camille's background ranges from music composition, singing and performance (ultrapuss + Spiritual Heroine www.spiritualheroine.com), to Executive Director/Curator of The Escape Artists Society T.E.A.S. (www.escapeartists.ca), to documentary and online video and animation, to media art instructor (Emily Carr, Kwantlen and SFU), to new media and web design /development, Lead Curator, Co-Performance Art Curator and Conference Director for New Forms Festival (2002-2004 www.newformsfestival.com), to web editor-in-chief of a pop-culture relationship support magazine, Tales of Slacker Bonding (www.slackerbonding.com – 2000-2003, offline now), to visual arts curating, to sculpture and modern dance performance. She is an artist/researcher within various forms of art practice including installation, experience design, video art, web animation, as well as music and photograph, including working in the SIAT ILAB with the whispers research group (whisper.iat.sfu.ca)on wearable technologies. Camille is currently the Executive Director of the local performance media society, The Escape Artists Society or T.E.A.S. (www.escapeartists.ca), focusing on media arts, wearables and performance events in unusual spaces in Vancouver. As an curator/artist/researcher within various forms of art practice (installation, experience design, video art, web animation, performance and music), Camille continues to redefine her practice, both conceptually and practically. She sees her work about creating experiences using technology, not necessarily about manifesting her own creative vision or aesthetic per se, a creative facilitator, using art, performance, music, social science, philosophy and other disciplines as sources of tools to borrow from. As Lead Curator / Performance and Installation Producer for the New Forms Festival, Camille was involved in producing and curating large performance, exhibition and conference events. In that role, she explored new media arts exhibition and performance issues extensively, as well as researched the wealth of media-based art, such as digital installation artists, net art and new media art history, arts funding and administration, art curation, exhibition and production. She is a Masters graduate in Applied Science - Interactive Arts, from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, April 2004. Her thesis project was an immersive media installation that conceptually explored the idea of initiating a mind/body to computer communication or interaction via telepathy, through the use of biosensors to trigger media as a mind-quieting technique. Lorna Boschman - Sessional Instructor Lorna Boschman has been an award winning media artist and documentary director since 1986, after working in children's theatre and touring as a stand-up comic earlier in her career. She has taught at Emily Carr Institute, Video In Studios and the University College of the Okanagan. She's a BFA graduate of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, was awarded the UBC Certificate in Multimedia and Web Development in 2004, and is currently writing her MA thesis at SFU SIAT. Her research website is at http://www.sfu.ca/~lboschma/index.html and lists the recent screenings of her work. Highlights include two videos which are part of the collection at the National Gallery of Canada and two early career retrospectives of her work. During the 1990's, Lorna worked at Video In Studios, an artist run media centre in Vancouver. Called "the jewel in the crown of Canada Council", Video In incorporates video and new media production, exhibition and distribution services, providing an excellent resource for artists who need access to equipment and training. Since February 2005, Lorna has worked with Chris Tanner from the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion and the participants in This Ability Media Club, a media workshop for people with developmental disabilities. She has just completed a half hour film with the National Film Board based on the films created in the Media Club. The short films are online at http://citizen.nfb.ca/onf/info?did=1581. As a diversion, Lorna has teamed up with collaborator Jill Mandrake to create Jill & Lorna‚s Kitchen, a cooking show screening on YouTube. Check out Laura's Ice Cream Sundae at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UldiBkMcaPM or Vegetarian Lasagna at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwKGFMFZsvU. More episodes are now cooking, including a Triple Layer Cake disaster. Kirsten Johnson - TA Kirsten is currently enrolled in the SIAT Graduate program working towards her Masters Degree in Interactive Arts. She recently graduated from the SIAT program at Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Science in Interactive Arts. With a full range of skills, personal attributes, academic qualifications and working experiences, Kirsten is well-positioned to contribute to the learning experience of the undergraduate students in the SIAT program. Her working experience, includes developing websites for different departments within the SFU, researching film techniques, filming and editing video work and student recruitment in the university. Last semester, Kirsten was a teaching assistant for IAT 100 Systems of Media Representation. She has in-depth knowledge of film and considerable experience with various narrative projects, developing narratives and storyboards for past film and animation projects, as well as for various non-linear narrative interactive installations and multimedia web projects. Kirsten has gone from the process of brainstorming, to fully developing her ideas into film productions. Samples of her work can be found on my portfolio at www.motionpieces.ca. The thesis for Kirsten's graduate studies will focus on interactive film narrative and film techniques, as such she is interested in reviewing linear and non linear narrative as TA in this course. She hopes to expand her knowledge and to be creative along side students this semester. Kirsten feel, that with her strong record of achievement, experience and knowledge, she has a great deal to offer to the benefit of the students in the course.

Camille Baker

Lorna and Students

movinglmages07 Instructor + TA

Camille Baker - Sessional Instructor (course lead)

Camille has been developing courses, working in media creation and /or teaching in some capacity at TechBC and now SFU SIAT since 2001, this is the third time she has taught IAT 242 Moving Images and also teaches Intro to New Media Aden Web Design at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and Kwantlen University College, for over a year.

Currently, Camille is beginning a PHD at SMARTlab (www.smartlabphd.com) at the University of East London (UK) in Networked Performance Media. Her research interests include: mobile devices, video art, live cinema, performance and interactive media, responsive environments, media art installation, telematics, new media curating and networked communities. For more on her academic and artistic pursuits see her portfolio at www.swampgirl67.net.

Camille's background ranges from music composition, singing and performance (ultrapuss + Spiritual Heroine www.spiritualheroine.com), to Executive Director/Curator of The Escape Artists Society T.E.A.S. (www.escapeartists.ca), to documentary and online video and animation, to media art instructor (Emily Carr, Kwantlen and SFU), to new media and web design /development, Lead Curator, Co-Performance Art Curator and Conference Director for New Forms Festival (2002-2004 www.newformsfestival.com), to web editor-in-chief of a pop-culture relationship support magazine, Tales of Slacker Bonding (www.slackerbonding.com – 2000-2003, offline now), to visual arts curating, to sculpture and modern dance performance. She is an artist/researcher within various forms of art practice including installation, experience design, video art, web animation, as well as music and photograph, including working in the SIAT ILAB with the whispers research group (whisper.iat.sfu.ca)on wearable technologies.

Camille is currently the Executive Director of the local performance media society, The Escape Artists Society or T.E.A.S. (www.escapeartists.ca), focusing on media arts, wearables and performance events in unusual spaces in Vancouver. As an curator/artist/researcher within various forms of art practice (installation, experience design, video art, web animation, performance and music), Camille continues to redefine her practice, both conceptually and practically. She sees her work about creating experiences using technology, not necessarily about manifesting her own creative vision or aesthetic per se, a creative facilitator, using art, performance, music, social science, philosophy and other disciplines as sources of tools to borrow from.

As Lead Curator / Performance and Installation Producer for the New Forms Festival, Camille was involved in producing and curating large performance, exhibition and conference events. In that role, she explored new media arts exhibition and performance issues extensively, as well as researched the wealth of media-based art, such as digital installation artists, net art and new media art history, arts funding and administration, art curation, exhibition and production.

She is a Masters graduate in Applied Science - Interactive Arts, from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, April 2004. Her thesis project was an immersive media installation that conceptually explored the idea of initiating a mind/body to computer communication or interaction via telepathy, through the use of biosensors to trigger media as a mind-quieting technique.

Lorna Boschman - Sessional Instructor

Lorna Boschman has been an award winning media artist and documentary director since 1986, after working in children's theatre and touring as a stand-up comic earlier in her career. She has taught at Emily Carr Institute, Video In Studios and the University College of the Okanagan.

She's a BFA graduate of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, was awarded the UBC Certificate in Multimedia and Web Development in 2004, and is currently writing her MA thesis at SFU SIAT. Her research website is at http://www.sfu.ca/~lboschma/index.html and lists the recent screenings of her work. Highlights include two videos which are part of the collection at the National Gallery of Canada and two early career retrospectives of her work.

During the 1990's, Lorna worked at Video In Studios, an artist run media centre in Vancouver. Called "the jewel in the crown of Canada Council", Video In incorporates video and new media production, exhibition and distribution services, providing an excellent resource for artists who need access to equipment and training.

Since February 2005, Lorna has worked with Chris Tanner from the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion and the participants in This Ability Media Club, a media workshop for people with developmental disabilities. She has just completed a half hour film with the National Film Board based on the films created in the Media Club. The short films are online at http://citizen.nfb.ca/onf/info?did=1581.

As a diversion, Lorna has teamed up with collaborator Jill Mandrake to create Jill & Lorna‚s Kitchen, a cooking show screening on YouTube. Check out Laura's Ice Cream Sundae at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UldiBkMcaPM or Vegetarian Lasagna at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwKGFMFZsvU. More episodes are now cooking, including a Triple Layer Cake disaster.

Kirsten Johnson - TA

Kirsten is currently enrolled in the SIAT Graduate program working towards her Masters Degree in Interactive Arts. She recently graduated from the SIAT program at Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Science in Interactive Arts.

With a full range of skills, personal attributes, academic qualifications and working experiences, Kirsten is well-positioned to contribute to the learning experience of the undergraduate students in the SIAT program. Her working experience, includes developing websites for different departments within the SFU, researching film techniques, filming and editing video work and student recruitment in the university.

Last semester, Kirsten was a teaching assistant for IAT 100 Systems of Media Representation. She has in-depth knowledge of film and considerable experience with various narrative projects, developing narratives and storyboards for past film and animation projects, as well as for various non-linear narrative interactive installations and multimedia web projects. Kirsten has gone from the process of brainstorming, to fully developing her ideas into film productions. Samples of her work can be found on my portfolio at www.motionpieces.ca.

The thesis for Kirsten's graduate studies will focus on interactive film narrative and film techniques, as such she is interested in reviewing linear and non linear narrative as TA in this course. She hopes to expand her knowledge and to be creative along side students this semester. Kirsten feel, that with her strong record of achievement, experience and knowledge, she has a great deal to offer to the benefit of the students in the course.