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Karola Lüttringhaus Karola Lüttringhaus is artistic and executive director of alban elved dance company and the artistic and project director of the Free Space collaborations. For alban elved dance company member bios please visit the biographies page Jennifer Burg Jennifer Burg holds Masters degrees in English and French and taught these subjects at the college level before returning to school to earn her PhD in Computer Science in 1992. She has been a faculty member of Wake Forest’s Department of Computer Science since 1993 and is currently the Chair of the Department. Dr. Burg has found a place to bring together her interests in computer programming, poetry, literature, and art in the realm of digital media. She has brought these interests to the classroom in a Digital Media course offered to Computer Science majors and a first-year seminar entitled “Creative Discovery in Digital Art Forms,” exploring the relationship between computer technology, mathematics, visual art, and literature. She is currently working under an NSF-funded grant in digital media curriculum development, and she is founding editor of The IMEJ of Computer-Enhanced Learning, an interactive multimedia electronic journal dedicated to innovations in educational technology. Yue-Ling Wong is a faculty member with a joint appointment in the Computer Science and Art Departments at Wake Forest University. Her title is Lecturer in Digital Media. The digital media courses she teaches include digital media, digital art, photography and digital imaging, 3D modeling and animation, and advanced Web programming. Her research interests are in the areas of 3D animation, stereoscopic viewing, interactive design, human-computer interaction and scientific visualization. For this Fibonacci & Phi dance production, she created the 3D stereo snow animation, interactive mannequins, and poetry tree. Andy Turner is the designer of the movement to midi converter. As the co-owner of Mojo Musical Supply in Winston-Salem he enjoys a unique view of the past and present states of the audio electronic industry. Over the past 3 years his support behind the scenes has become invaluable to alban elved and the movement to MIDI converter has been one of the most successful assets to alban elved dance company, leading to extensive touring from Florida to Alaska. visit www.mojotone.com ! Wake Forest University Information Systems Members of the Wake Forest University Information Systems staff are providing multimedia equipment, wireless internet services, PocketPCs, access and programming services on the Linux computing cluster, and other support for this production. Information Systems has been working with handheld computers in classrooms for more than two years in conjunction with various academic departments and has found them valuable for many tasks. Two of the IS Research & Development staff’s programs for PocketPC are available for free download at http://classinhand.wfu.edu and http://datainhand.wfu.edu. Annie Lausier is a junior at Wake Forest from Durham, NC. She is a computer science major and art minor and has an interest in digital media, graphics, and photography. She created the Fibonacci spiral and, with fellow student Victoria Strokanova, the opening digital movie for the performance. Victoria Strokanova is a computer science major and Reynolds Scholar at Wake Forest University. Originally from Russia, came to the United States in 19.. with her parents, who now reside in Vermont. Victoria is interested in digital media and digital art and spent the past summer preparing on-line interactive tutorial programs to teach concepts of sound and image processing. She prepared digital images and the digital movie for the performance with fellow student Annie Lausier. Timothy E. Miller received his PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2002. He came to Wake Forest University's Computer Science and Information Systems Departments in July 2002 to design, construct, and maintain the university's centrally managed, Linux-based supercomputing initiative. In addition to local efforts, he participates in the state level supercomputing efforts on behalf of the university. His current professional interests are systems management design, grid computing education and implementation. Dr. Miller splits his time at Wake Forest University between the supercomputing initiatives, teaching Computer Science courses, and his research in high-energy nuclear physics. Fred Howard is a professor of mathematics at Wake Forest and President of the International Fibonacci Society. For the performance, Dr. Howard lent his voice to the explanation of the golden ratio in proportions of the human body. |