Season 1

APRIL 7, 2003

Steven McCarthy
Associate Professor of graphic design in the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel at the University of Minnesota.

McCarthy has an MFA in design from Stanford University, a hybrid program between the Departments of Art and Mechanical Engineering, and a BFA in sculpture and drawing from Bradley University. McCarthy 's graphic design work has been published in—among others—Graphis Poster, the AIGA annual and in Provocative Graphics: The Power of the Unexpected in Graphic Design. His professional work has been in numerous juried and invitational exhibitions. McCarthy 's recent investigations with narrative structure have been in interactive media. Performances and exhibitions of McCarthy's digital works have been held in Germany, France and Poland. His digital creativity was lauded in How magazine (August 2001) in an article titled Digital Expressions.

Mauricio Arango
Graduate Student, University of Minnesota, MFA with emphasis in Multimedia, Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel

Mauricio will present some of his illustrations, interactive projects, and current photographic work. His aim is to create work that despite its technological signature, radiates warmth, mystery, and a childlike illusion.

See Mauricio's Web site: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~aran0013/

Michael Berkowski
University of Minnesota, Teaching Assistant for Electronic and Computer Music

Michael Berkowski is pursuing a Master’s degree in Music Composition at the University of Minnesota, where he has been a student of Alex Lubet and Douglas Geers. Currently, he is developing a 16 channel performance-installation work and although he mainly composes for recorded media. Berkowski also creates and performs works for live electronic devices, in which commonly available sound manipulation devices are used instead as sound sources and instruments themselves. His research for summer 2003 will involve the design and construction of several wearable devices capable of controlling musical parameters via a software interface.

Tony Lam and Mamun Rashid
Both Tony and Maman are graduate students in the department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.

Tony and Mamun will be presenting "MovieLens" a web based project, which was created within the Computer Science department: http://www.movielens.umn.edu/

The "movielens" research group web-page is: http://www.grouplens.org/
Mamun Rashid's home-page is: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~arashid

"The GroupLens Research Project is a research group in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Members of the GroupLens Research Project are involved in many research projects related to the fields of information filtering, collaborative filtering, and recommender systems. The project is lead by professors John Riedl and Joseph Konstan. The project began to explore automated collaborative filtering in 1992, but is most well known for its world wide trial of an automated collaborative filtering system for Usenet news in 1996. Since then the project has expanded its scope to research overall information filtering solutions, integrating in content-based methods as well as improving current collaborative filtering technology."

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