Institute for New Media Studies - University of Minnesota

Season 2

April 2004

Sauman Chu
Sauman Chu (Sue) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel at the University of Minnesota.

Chu teaches courses in graphic design and multimedia. Her current discovery focuses on multiculturalism and its impact on design education. Research projects include cross-cultural comparison of visual perception and understanding of symbols, design variables in multilingual printed materials, and design of symbols in computer games.

Chu will present students' work from DHA 5381 Digital Illustration and DHA 5383 Animation Design.

Brad Bittner, Melinda Hobbs, Jennifer Graham, and Cheryl Wilgren Clyne. A student group presented their interactive film project "Uma Ofensa" to Project 2 Wounded City students from the University of Minnesota while visiting Baruch College in New York. The group will be discussing the process and project which involved the concept of wounded city and their specific choice of city Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Cedric Bolton
Born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, raised in Paterson, New Jersey, and a graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA., Cedric Bolton currently resides in Minnesota where he is a Student Personnel Worker for the African American Learning Resource Center at the University of Minnesota.

Bolton has created a community organization, Poetic Black Fusion, as a way of connecting black poets to literary resources. He has been published in the Spokesman Recorder, the Saint Cloud Times and Western Washington’s Ethnic Student Center Newsletter. Bolton has compiled and self published a few of his poems in chapbook and can be heard on his self-released CD entitled, “The State of the Ghetto Address".

Bolton will present his work using Reason, an infinitely expandable music workstation on a CD-ROM, complete with its own real-time sequencer that is affordable for the average person toiling to save for those “thousand dollar music racks.”

Jamason Chen
Radio/TV Broadcast Technician in the Department of ADCS/Video and Networking Services, University of Minnesota and Graduate Student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Through his professional career in visual technology and content creation, Chen realizes that visual communication is playing a major role in the new media era. As a graduate student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Chen is doing a research project on digital stereoscopic video and its application in visual communication under the support of the Institute for New Media Studies and SJMC.
Chen's research focus is examining and experimenting the functions and applications of stereoscopic imaging with digital technology in educational, journalistic and commercial fields. His research includes digital stereoscopic video acquiring, editing, exporting and presentation, from technology to methodology. As well, he is redefining the cultural impact of stereoscopic imaging on our perspective to the social reality and change. As a staff in the Office of Information Technology, he is working with cross-departments to technologically optimize digital stereoscopic imaging and content presentation with different medium formats and potentially apply his research project to different disciplines.

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