Ray Rolfe
Artist / Researcher / Curator / Creator
Presenting: Soap Factory Simulator
Team: Barbara Brenny, Gage Salyards, Adam Ginsberg, Cheryl Wilgren Clyne

Ray Rolfe is an artist from Northeast Minneapolis. His works have been featured at The Minneapolis Foundation, The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Outsiders and Others Gallery to name a few. He has organized exhibitions for The Soap Factory and is a regular contributor to the Walker/McKnight Mnartists.org forums.

Rolfe has been an avid researcher of new technologies in efforts to create cutting edge new media art projects. His current project is the Soap Factory Simulator which will pull together a diverse range of creative research and content, into a compelling virtual gallery experience.

Pete Border is a researcher in the High-Energy Physics Group at the University of Minnesota, where he also teaches freshman physics. He has developed and taught a course on “Physics for Game Designers” at the U, and has also co-taught (with Prof. Lester Shen) a course on “Visualizing Physics” at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. This year the game designers course will include a section in a MMORPG, which should be interesting. In his spare time, Dr. Border works on simulating physics labs with Java 3D, pov-ray and Vpython, and has been working on a simple cognitive model of dialog for computer-generated NPCs. He has been playing computer games since discovering "Adventure" on the campus mainframe in the late 1970's.

Theresa Tichich, M.Ed has over 21 years experience as an informational technology specialist at the University of Minnesota.  As the technology team lead Theresa provides direction for instructional systems and technology (IST) for the Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach.  She is currently working on her Ph.D. in IST with a focus on mobile technologies and online games for learning.  She joined CPHEO in 2000 contributing her programming and design skills to the center’s web site development and worked to deliver the first online courses for the School of Public Health’s Master's program core courses.

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