Digital Artists Share Their Talents with Vancouver College Students

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Washington State University Vancouver’s Digital Technology and Culture Program is hosting its first DTC Artists-in-Residency program or ARs (“ars” is Latin for art).

Three artists will spend two weeks to one month teaching “Advanced Multimedia Authoring,” a course providing students high level technology instruction. They will also mentor students interested in pursuing a career in digital media, network with faculty, and offer workshops, exhibits or performances to the Vancouver community.

The first artist is animation artist Peter Burr. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Burr has held numerous artist residencies, such as at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work will be featured at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts’ Time Based Media Festival 2007 in September. While a resident artist Burr will teach digital animation and give a talk to the general public at 7 p.m., Aug. 23, at the North Bank Artists Gallery in Vancouver.

The second artist will be Steve Gibson, a Canadian multimedia artist and composer. He completed his doctoral degree at SUNY Buffalo, N.Y., where he studied music composition, and completed postdoctoral research in media and technology with Arthur Kroker at Concordia University in Montréal. While a resident artist, Gibson will teach multimedia performance and installation, emphasizing digital music. He will also give two multimedia, interactive performances Sept. 28 at Clark College –– one for students at 1 p.m. and one open to the public at 7 p.m.

The third artist, Samantha Blackmon, is an associate professor of English at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. She received her doctoral degree from Wayne State University in 2001 and has been working in the area of computer-mediated environments and game development. While a resident artist, Blackmon will teach storyboarding and writing for video games. She will also give a talk Nov. 6 to students at Clark College, and an artist talk to the public at 7 p.m., Nov. 8 at the North Bank Artists Gallery in Vancouver. 

Burr and Blackmon’s talks are co-sponsored by WSU Vancouver and North Bank Artists Gallery. For more information on the WSU Vancouver Digital Technology and Culture Program, visit https://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/programs/dtc/.

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