Intermedia

The University of Iowa

Intermedia
The School of Art & Art History

Faculty

Jon Winet

Jon Winet is an artist, new media artist, researcher and educator. In 2003, he joined the faculty of The University of Iowa School of Art & Art History as Area Head of the Intermedia Program.
He has previously taught at the California College of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of California, Davis, San Francisco Art Institute, University of Lethbridge, and San Francisco State University.

He is currently in preproduction on "Goal 2006!," a multimedia project focusing on the World Cup in the era of globalization.

Over the past twenty years he worked in the collaboration Margaret Crane|Jon Winet producing projects revolving around politics, art, language and image in the Information Age.

Their work has been shown nationally at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, New York, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, the San Jose Museum of Art and, Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, California, San Francisco Camerawork, Ansel Adams Center/Friends of Photography, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and White Columns in New York City. The artists are represented by Gallery Paule Anglimi in San Francisco.

In January they completed “2004-America & The Globe,” a multimedia project focusing on the US presidential elections and democratic practice in America, with exhibitions at DiverseWorks in Houston, Texas and Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, California. The project’s web site launched on the eve of the national political conventions.

In 2003 they completed “The Street,” a project for the San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street Program. The project featured large image-text works highlighting social service agencies along the City’s main traffic artery.

In 2002, they created “Monument,” a hybrid art, technology and experimental journalism Internet-based multimedia project commissioned by Locus+ in Newcastle upon Tyne in England. The work explores Newcastle and northeastern identity in the contemporary landscape of cultural regeneration and globalization.

From 1994 through 1998, Margaret and Jon were artists in residence at Xerox PARC, the technology think tank, exploring the intersection of art and technology and the impact of the Internet and interactive media on publc space.

Jon serves on the board of NAAO, the National Association of Artists' Organizations in Minneapolis, and the advisory boards of the artist-centered organizations Southern Exposure in San Francisco, Transformer in Washington, D.C. and Arts a la Carte in Iowa City.

Links:

“2004-America & The Globe” http://www.2004atg.net
“The Street” http://www.the-street.net
“Monument” http://www.locusplus.org.uk/monument

Documentation:

http://www.2004atg.net/cw

Jeanine Oleson

(Guest Faculty 2004)

Jeanine Oleson was a visiting professor in the Intermedia area in 2004. She works in performance, photography, video/film, installation and sound. She has shown her work in festivals, galleries and museums internationally including: PS 1, NY; White Columns, NY; Triple Candie, NY; Portland Museum of Art, ME; Bill Maynes Gallery, NY; Galerie Schedler, Zurich; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; Art in General, NY; The Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.. She has curated projects at venues including: Chelsea Art Museum, NY; 2003 Moscow Int'l Film Festival; Havana Biennale/Centro Cinemagrafico, Cuba; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; Art in General, NY; and the New York Underground Film Festival, 2003. She lives in New York.

Graduate Students

Kangying Guo

Kangying Guo is a 2007 M.F.A candidate. She is currently working on video installations that explore cultural identity.

Joshua Haringa

Joshua graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television Production in 1997. He also holds a JD from The University’s of Richmond’s School of Law and passed the New York State Bar in 2001. Joshua is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication Studies and an MFA in Intermedia at The University of Iowa.

Laren Leland
M.F.A. 2005
M.A. 2004

Laren received her B.F.A. in Photography from the University of Oregon. She makes work in various media including: interactive video installation, book arts, drawing, and new media. Main areas of interest include intimacy, communication, and technology.

Much of her work is made in collaboration with Kelly McLaughlin and Mark McCusker. While at Intermedia she taught Intermedia I and II and was a research assistant for the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry.

http://larenleland.org
http://imediate.org
http://stateoftheunion.tv
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Review/index.cfm?article=118

Kelly McLaughlin
M.A. 2004
M.F.A. 2005

Kelly received her undergraduate degree from Transylvania University. She is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies.

While at Intermedia she was a research assistant for the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry.

http://kellymclaughlin.org
http://imediate.org
http://stateoftheunion.tv
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Review/index.cfm?article=118

Mark NeuCollins

under construction

Katherine Parker

Katherine Parker received her B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California, Davis in 1995. After taking graduate coursework in art history and writing papers about aliens and Bob Ross, she left academia and worked as an artists' assistant for five years. Now she is back, pursuing an advanced degree in Intermedia. She is currently working on a body of drawings based on the long, close study of hairloaves.

Shawn Reed

Shawn Reed is a first year intermedia grad who is also the TA for Intermedia Workshop. Shawn received a BFA from the University of Northern Iowa in printmaking. He makes work in a variety of media currently including: screenprint, woodcut, video, performance, sound, altered found object sculpture, textiles, and installation. Shawn collaborates in two musical collectives/bands, Hugs and Raccoo-oo-oon.

B.F.A. students

Michael Close
B.F.A. 2004

Michael Close has studied art at the University of Iowa for 2 years and will be graduating in December of 2004 with a BFA in Intermedia and a minor in Spanish.

http://myweb.uiowa.edu/mjclose

Laura Hobson
B.F.A. 2005

Check back for updated info.

Daniel Murphy

Over the past few years Daniel has worked with such groups as The August Art Foundation, The Cirkus Dezod, and The Peoples Republic of Delicious Foods. Interested primarily in the intersection between science and art, his work varies from ‘audio comic strips’ to performance art to website design.

S. Bailey Jacobson

S. Bailey Jacobson is the Undergraduate Research Assistant to Intermedia as well as an Intermedia B.F.A. candidate. She is also pursuing degrees in Art Education and English. This past summer Bailey studied creative writing at the Trinity College in Dublin.

Staff

Steven Strait

Steven Strait is the principle technical consultant in the Intermedia and Time Based Arts Program at the School of Art & Art History. His specialties include digital arts and time based media production

He received his B.S degree in Art Education at Northwest Missouri State University in 1976 and his Master of Arts and Master of Fine Art Degrees from The University of Iowa in 1979 and 1981.

Steven has been a member of The School of Art & Art History’s Professional & Scientific staff since 1982. He has served on the Digital Curriculum Committee and has functioned as a facilities consultant for digital classrooms and studio for the Studio Arts. In 2000 He helped author the SA&AH DVD portfolio initiative (Innovations in Instructional Computing Award, 2001). Today, He continues to serves as production consultant and operate the digital production studios at Intermedia.

His creative pursuits include 2D works, acoustic sculpture, videos, CDs, and stage presentations, many of which are the result of collaborations with his spouse, Juanita Strait and representatives of the Vajrayana Buddhist community. These include:

Technical direction “Wild Life, Tame Mind” Multimedia Tour presented by The Monks of Sera Monastery, Video presentations by Juanita Strait, Photography by Peter Gold

Co-producer;
Audio CD, Sacred Tibetan Chants From The Great Prayer Festival Healing, performed by the Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery, recorded by Lowell Cross
http://www.musicandarts.com/CD735.html

Audio CD, Sacred Music, Sacred Dance for Planetary Healing, performed by the Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery, recorded by Lowell Cross
http://www.musicandarts.com/CD736.html

Sponsor and Local producer for the Iowa City presentation of “Sacred Music, Sacred Dance“ tour by the Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery, with Glen Mullen, June 1989

revised: 17 June 2005

Intermedia
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Intermedia The School of Art & Art History
Faculty
Jon Winet	Jon Winet is an artist, new media artist, researcher and educator. In 2003, he joined the faculty of The University of Iowa School of Art & Art History as Area Head of the Intermedia Program. He has previously taught at the California College of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of California, Davis, San Francisco Art Institute, University of Lethbridge, and San Francisco State University. He is currently in preproduction on "Goal 2006!," a multimedia project focusing on the World Cup in the era of globalization. Over the past twenty years he worked in the collaboration Margaret Crane\|Jon Winet producing projects revolving around politics, art, language and image in the Information Age. Their work has been shown nationally at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, New York, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, the San Jose Museum of Art and, Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, California, San Francisco Camerawork, Ansel Adams Center/Friends of Photography, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and White Columns in New York City. The artists are represented by Gallery Paule Anglimi in San Francisco. In January they completed “2004-America & The Globe,” a multimedia project focusing on the US presidential elections and democratic practice in America, with exhibitions at DiverseWorks in Houston, Texas and Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, California. The project’s web site launched on the eve of the national political conventions. In 2003 they completed “The Street,” a project for the San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street Program. The project featured large image-text works highlighting social service agencies along the City’s main traffic artery. In 2002, they created “Monument,” a hybrid art, technology and experimental journalism Internet-based multimedia project commissioned by Locus+ in Newcastle upon Tyne in England. The work explores Newcastle and northeastern identity in the contemporary landscape of cultural regeneration and globalization. From 1994 through 1998, Margaret and Jon were artists in residence at Xerox PARC, the technology think tank, exploring the intersection of art and technology and the impact of the Internet and interactive media on publc space. Jon serves on the board of NAAO, the National Association of Artists' Organizations in Minneapolis, and the advisory boards of the artist-centered organizations Southern Exposure in San Francisco, Transformer in Washington, D.C. and Arts a la Carte in Iowa City. Links: “2004-America & The Globe” http://www.2004atg.net “The Street” http://www.the-street.net “Monument” http://www.locusplus.org.uk/monument Documentation: http://www.2004atg.net/cw
Jeanine Oleson (Guest Faculty 2004)	Jeanine Oleson was a visiting professor in the Intermedia area in 2004. She works in performance, photography, video/film, installation and sound. She has shown her work in festivals, galleries and museums internationally including: PS 1, NY; White Columns, NY; Triple Candie, NY; Portland Museum of Art, ME; Bill Maynes Gallery, NY; Galerie Schedler, Zurich; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; Art in General, NY; The Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.. She has curated projects at venues including: Chelsea Art Museum, NY; 2003 Moscow Int'l Film Festival; Havana Biennale/Centro Cinemagrafico, Cuba; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; Art in General, NY; and the New York Underground Film Festival, 2003. She lives in New York.
Graduate Students
Kangying Guo	Kangying Guo is a 2007 M.F.A candidate. She is currently working on video installations that explore cultural identity.
Joshua Haringa	Joshua graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television Production in 1997. He also holds a JD from The University’s of Richmond’s School of Law and passed the New York State Bar in 2001. Joshua is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication Studies and an MFA in Intermedia at The University of Iowa.
Laren Leland M.F.A. 2005 M.A. 2004	Laren received her B.F.A. in Photography from the University of Oregon. She makes work in various media including: interactive video installation, book arts, drawing, and new media. Main areas of interest include intimacy, communication, and technology. Much of her work is made in collaboration with Kelly McLaughlin and Mark McCusker. While at Intermedia she taught Intermedia I and II and was a research assistant for the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry. http://larenleland.org http://imediate.org http://stateoftheunion.tv http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Review/index.cfm?article=118
Kelly McLaughlin M.A. 2004 M.F.A. 2005	Kelly received her undergraduate degree from Transylvania University. She is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies. While at Intermedia she was a research assistant for the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry. http://kellymclaughlin.org http://imediate.org http://stateoftheunion.tv http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Review/index.cfm?article=118
Mark NeuCollins	under construction
Katherine Parker	Katherine Parker received her B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California, Davis in 1995. After taking graduate coursework in art history and writing papers about aliens and Bob Ross, she left academia and worked as an artists' assistant for five years. Now she is back, pursuing an advanced degree in Intermedia. She is currently working on a body of drawings based on the long, close study of hairloaves.
Shawn Reed	Shawn Reed is a first year intermedia grad who is also the TA for Intermedia Workshop. Shawn received a BFA from the University of Northern Iowa in printmaking. He makes work in a variety of media currently including: screenprint, woodcut, video, performance, sound, altered found object sculpture, textiles, and installation. Shawn collaborates in two musical collectives/bands, Hugs and Raccoo-oo-oon.
B.F.A. students
Michael Close B.F.A. 2004	Michael Close has studied art at the University of Iowa for 2 years and will be graduating in December of 2004 with a BFA in Intermedia and a minor in Spanish. http://myweb.uiowa.edu/mjclose
Laura Hobson B.F.A. 2005	Check back for updated info.
Daniel Murphy	Over the past few years Daniel has worked with such groups as The August Art Foundation, The Cirkus Dezod, and The Peoples Republic of Delicious Foods. Interested primarily in the intersection between science and art, his work varies from ‘audio comic strips’ to performance art to website design.
S. Bailey Jacobson	S. Bailey Jacobson is the Undergraduate Research Assistant to Intermedia as well as an Intermedia B.F.A. candidate. She is also pursuing degrees in Art Education and English. This past summer Bailey studied creative writing at the Trinity College in Dublin.
Staff
Steven Strait	Steven Strait is the principle technical consultant in the Intermedia and Time Based Arts Program at the School of Art & Art History. His specialties include digital arts and time based media production He received his B.S degree in Art Education at Northwest Missouri State University in 1976 and his Master of Arts and Master of Fine Art Degrees from The University of Iowa in 1979 and 1981. Steven has been a member of The School of Art & Art History’s Professional & Scientific staff since 1982. He has served on the Digital Curriculum Committee and has functioned as a facilities consultant for digital classrooms and studio for the Studio Arts. In 2000 He helped author the SA&AH DVD portfolio initiative (Innovations in Instructional Computing Award, 2001). Today, He continues to serves as production consultant and operate the digital production studios at Intermedia. His creative pursuits include 2D works, acoustic sculpture, videos, CDs, and stage presentations, many of which are the result of collaborations with his spouse, Juanita Strait and representatives of the Vajrayana Buddhist community. These include: Technical direction “Wild Life, Tame Mind” Multimedia Tour presented by The Monks of Sera Monastery, Video presentations by Juanita Strait, Photography by Peter Gold Co-producer; Audio CD, Sacred Tibetan Chants From The Great Prayer Festival Healing, performed by the Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery, recorded by Lowell Cross http://www.musicandarts.com/CD735.html Audio CD, Sacred Music, Sacred Dance for Planetary Healing, performed by the Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery, recorded by Lowell Cross http://www.musicandarts.com/CD736.html Sponsor and Local producer for the Iowa City presentation of “Sacred Music, Sacred Dance“ tour by the Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery, with Glen Mullen, June 1989 revised: 17 June 2005