People
Dr. Barbara Crow is currently the graduate programme director of the joint graduate programme in Communication and Culture at York/Ryerson Universities and past-president of the Canadian Women’s Studies Association. In the last five years, she has presented, published, and organized events in national and international venues on digital technologies with a forthcoming edited collection with Kim Sawchuk and Michael Longford, The Wireless Spectrum, with the University of Toronto Press, and is Co-Director of the Mobile Media Lab.
Prof. Gabriele Falciasecca is Full Professor of Microwaves and Radio-Propagation at the University of Bologna. His main fields of research are mobile radio systems, microwaves, optical systems, millimetre waves, radio propagation, radio navigation and landing aids. He is the author of more than 150 technical papers. He has been the chairman of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation since 1997 and in this role he has also been engaged in several projects for exhibitions and for scientific culture diffusion. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Ugo Bordoni Foundation and the chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Consortium “Elettra2000″, devoted to the study and to the diffusion of scientific results in the field of health issues related to electromagnetic waves. He is the president of Lepida S.p.A., the operating tool promoted by the Emilia-Romagna Region for the planning, development and management of the Partners’ Telecommunication infrastructures and for the development and supply of ICT services.
Dr. Seth Feldman has served as Associate Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, as chair of the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans, and on the board of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans. He is currently Director of York’s Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies.
Dr. Elena Lamberti teaches American and Canadian Literature and Culture at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her areas of research include: Anglo-American Modernism, Literature and Technology, Cultural Memory, War Literature. She has published several essays on English and Anglo-American Modernism (Ford, Joyce, Pound, Hemingway), as well as Anglo-Canadian culture of the late 20th Century (Coupland, Cronenberg, McLuhan). She is the author of Marshall McLuhan: tra letteratura, arte e media (Bruno Mondadori, 2000); the editor of Interpreting/Translating European Modernism. A Comparative Approach (Compositori, 2001); she has co-edited the forthcoming collection Memories and Representations of War in Europe: the Case of WW1 and WW2, (Rodopi). She is currently working at the volume Marshall McLuhan’s Critical Writing. Exploring the Literary Origins of Media Studies (UT Press).
Prof. Michael Longford is the Associate Chair in the Department of Design at York University. His creative work and research activities reside at the intersection of photography, graphic design, digital media, and wireless and mobile communication technologies. He was the co-principal investigator for the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN). He has organized numerous workshops, artist talks, exhibitions and conferences devoted to design and new media. He was a founding member of Hexagram, served as the Director for the Advanced Digital Imaging and 3D Rapid Prototyping Group and currently, is a Co-Director of the Mobile Media Lab (Toronto).
Dr. Kim Sawchuk is a scholar in the digital media arts with numerous publications to her name. She is a co-founder of Studio XX, a feminist digital media collective. She has been the director of the MA in Media Studies Program, the Joint Doctoral Program in Communications, and is the current editor of the Canadian Journal of Communication and co-editor of WI: Journal of Mobile Media. She has worked collaboratively for many years on numerous projects related to wireless communications, digital archiving, and communication and embodiment. Dr. Sawchuk has supervised a generation of graduate students. She is currently a Co-Director of the Mobile Media Lab (Montreal).
Dr. Martin Stiglio is a cultural attaché and has organized Italian cultural events in the sectors of visual arts, architecture and design, fashion, music, publishing, theatre and cinema. He has collaborated with visiting scholars, academic representatives, and arranged academic exchanges between Italian university professors and their local counterparts. He has coordinated European cultural projects with the support of other European Union cultural attachés in the host country.
Dr. Barbara Valotti is curator of the Marconi Museum and coordinates the museum activities of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation. In 1995, she graduated from the University of Bologna with a thesis in the History of Science on Guglielmo Marconi. She has published several essays and has co-edited three books on Marconi and early wireless history. Her role enables her to consolidate the collaboration with the international museums networks, vocational agencies and to consolidate the establishment of international programs of internships for students.
Research Assistants
Sara Cwynar is an undergraduate student in the York University/Sheridan College Joint Program in Design. Prior to joining the design program, she studied for two years in the English department at The University of British Columbia. Her main focus is on print work and photography with an emphasis on bringing conceptual thought to design problems both simple and complex. Her design work makes use of many of the thought processes she developed in her literature studies. Sara’s design work has been published in the New York Times Magazine and her design writing has appeared in Verso Magazine.
Mél Hogan is a doctoral student in the Joint PhD in Communication at Concordia University, Montréal. Her research revolves around copyright issues as pertain to online archives, video art and the preservation of queer women’s histories. As a fan of all things digital, Hogan dabbles in her own intermedia projects–the latest of which was featured at the entzaubertfest queer filmfest in Berlin. Hogan is also involved in various queer community and media arts organizations, such as contributing to ArtThreat.net, founder of Nomorepotlucks.org (2003), and as a sound technician and co-host for Dykes on Mykes Radio (since 2005). As a research assistant for the MML, Hogan is involved in Biomatrix (creating the project interface, and working collaboratively to develop Drupal as a content management tool for archiving) and the Illustrating Medicine Archive Project (to document the process of tracking copyright ownership and archiving medical illustrations done by women for the Grant’s Atlas).
Christopher Moorehead is currently a Master of Design (MDes) student at York University. He holds degrees in graphic design from the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) and mechanical engineering from Queen’s University, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario. Before returning to design school, Chris worked in the areas of industrial engineering and the development of manufacturing systems, both in industry and as a consultant. As a designer, he is particularly interested in typographic legibility, navigation, and the visual depiction of complex information streams.
Sanja Obradovic is a Ph.D. student in the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities. Her research interests include the study of intermediality, popular and cyber cultures, and the examination of the body, fluidity and mobility in relation to digital media. Sanja has previously worked and taught at Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University.
Andrea Zeffiro is a doctoral candidate in Communication at Concordia University and is senior editorial assistant for the Canadian Journal of Communication (www.cjc-online.ca). She worked with the Mobile Digital Commons Network (www.mdcn.ca) on Interactive Parks and Evaluation, Mobility and Usability (EMU). She is managing editor of the on-line journal, WI: Journal of Mobile Media (www.wi-not.ca).