PEOPLE

Geoffrey Shea
Faculty

An assistant professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design, where he has taught new and emerging media for artists and designers since 1986. Currently he is co-leading a research team developing a Broad Locative Environment, a streetscape virtual theatre triggered by mobile users. Shea's artwork has been exhibited and collected widely and he recently released a DVD/CD of his musical work with Gigi Minor.

Paula Gardner
Faculty

Works in the areas of Communication/Media Studies research, video documentary and mobile design, addressing the relationship between new media technologies and democratic practices of culture. She is the Co-Principal Investigator on the project, PORTAGE: A Canadian Mobile Experience, which is creating a virtual, interactive street theatre on John St, Toronto. Gardner is completing a manuscript entitled Recovery, Inc.: Depression, Power, Democracy, and a full-length documentary film entitled Eyes That Don't See, Hearts that Don't Feel, tracing families fleeing global conflicts during the 1990's, and their ongoing displacement due to the American asylum system.

Sara Diamond
President

President of the Ontario College of Art & Design, Canada's largest and most diverse art and design university. Before moving to OCAD in 2005, she was the award-winning Director of Research at The Banff Centre and Artistic Director of Media and Visual Arts for fourteen years. She founded the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) in 1995 and since then, with her team at Banff and a number of national and international partners, has built the BNMI into a globally recognized content incubator, workshop and think tank. Diamond's network reaches from Asia to Eastern Europe, Brazil, and the Arctic; from research labs to Silicon Valley; from television to software development.

David McIntosh
Faculty

Associate Professor, Media Studies, at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He holds a Ph.D. in Communications and Culture from York University. His research interests include: globalization and the political- economies of audiovisual spaces; network theories and practices; new media narrativity; rapid prototyping; Latin American media studies; queer media; and insurrectional media history. He is faculty researcher with MDCN and, with Michael Longford, is Research and Creative Director of the mobile media game The Haunting. His critical writing on new media has been published extensively in books and periodicals, and he has curated programs of new media for the National Gallery of Cuba, the National Gallery of Argentina and Cinematheque Ontario.

Martha Ladly
Faculty

Mobile Nation Conference Leader, and an Associate Professor of Design at OCAD, specializing in interactive communication. Martha is a senior researcher with the Mobile Digital Commons Network, and engages in teaching and mentorship outside of the OCAD community with the Canadian Film Centre's Interactive Project Lab and Interactive Art and Entertainment Programs. In previous lives, Martha directed Horizonzero.ca at the Banff New Media Institute, worked with Peter Gabriel as the Head of Design for his Real World Group in the UK, and played keyboards with Toronto new wave band, Martha and the Muffins. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in the joint Communication and Culture Program at York University.

Bruce Hinds
Faculty

Assistant Professor of Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design where he teaches Design Process, Interaction Design, Design Drawing, Think Tank (co-chair) and Biomimetics (curriculum leader). As a licensed Architect, Bruce maintains an active practice addressing issues of sustainable community structures in the Third World. Current projects include working with a multidisciplinary team of physicians and specialists in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania to construct a sustainable community for children affected and infected with HIV. Bruce is an active member of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, The Ontario Association of Architects, The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Associate of the Architectural Institute of America, member of Architects for Humanity and the Toronto Society of Architects and an associate of the Ontario College of Art. Bruce holds degrees in Psychology, Architecture and Painting.

Judith Doyle
Faculty

A filmmaker and new media artist; she is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Integrated Media at OCAD. Doyle's 'Warmware' research in collaboration with Baycrest and the Virtual Communities class (team taught with Martha Ladly) was presented recently in Toronto, Oulu Finland and Beijing China.

Patricio Davila
Researcher

Toronto-based artist, designer and researcher. His multi-disciplinary practice includes design, photography and video, writing and research, curation, and new media. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design and a Master's candidate in the Communication & Culture Programme at Ryerson/York Universities.

Jennie Ziemianin
Project Coordinator

Toronto based artist, writer, editor, researcher, conceptual consultant and bush-league entomologist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Integrated Media from the Ontario College of Art & Design. Her work and research revolves around the Canadian telecommunications industry, North American politics and media theory.

Ken Leung
Interface & Software Designer

Multidisciplinary designer and artist residing in Toronto. While at the Ontario College of Art & Design, he has worked on various locative media projects with the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN), and served as a teaching assistant for the first-year Principles of Interaction Design course. Ken holds a Bachelor of Psychology from the University of Toronto, has an extensive background in software programming and is currently completing a degree in Industrial Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design.

Rob King
Software Engineer

Peter Todd
Research Associate

A fourth year Integrated Media student at OCAD who creates electronic artworks that explore the behavior of systems and time through an integration of electrical engineering, computer science and art. For Portage, he is actively designing and building display hardware, control software and EMF detectors, as well as a number of other projects.

Bryn Ludlow
Research Assistant

In her third year of studies in Integrated Media at the Ontario College of Art & Design.

Yvon Julie
Research Assistant

A senior Fine Arts student at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD).