Authors' and Contributors' Bios
Co-Authors
Dene Grigar is Director and Professor of the Creative Media & Digital Technology Program at Washington State University Vancouver, where she works in the area of electronic literature, emergent technology and cognition, and ephemera. She is the author of “Curlew," "Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts” and “The Jungfrau Tapes: A Conversation with Diana Slattery about The Glide Project,” and co-author of When Ghosts Will Die with Canadian multimedia artist Steve Gibson. Other projects like The "24-Hour Micro-Elit Project" experiments with micro-fiction and participatory literary art forms. She serves as Associate Editor for Leonardo Reviews and is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. Her website is located at http://nouspace.net/dene.Stuart Moulthrop is an award-winning designer of electronic fiction and art projects, a veteran teacher of computer game design, and author of multiply-anthologized writings on digital art and culture. From 1995-99 he served as Co-Editor of Postmodern Culture and still serves on its advisory board. He was also a charter member of the Electronic Literature Organization in 1999, and currently serves on its Board of Directors. He is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Research Assistants
Madeleine Brookman, who has served as Research Assistant on the project from fall 2014, is a junior in the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver majoring in Digital Technologies & Culture. She has been awarded the 2014-5 Auvril Fellowship and a 2015 College of Arts & Sciences Summer Mini-Grant.
Amalia Vacca, who served as Research Assistant from summer 2013-fall 2014, is a 2015 graduate of the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver. While at WSUV she was the managing director of Nouspace Gallery and assisted Grigar at electronic literature exhibits, Electronic Literature and Its Emerging Forms for the Library of Congress (April 2013) and Avenues of Access at the Modern Language Association 2013 conference. She was the recipient of the 2013-4 Norma C. Fuentes and Gary M. Kirk Undergraduate Research Scholarship for iSci and awarded a “Gray” at the 2014 Student Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities (SURCA). She also served as the Project Manager for "Life Renewed," the interactive exhibit created for the Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center at Coldwater Station.
Technical Support
Greg Philbrook is the Instructional and Technical Support Specialist for the Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver and a 2013 graduate of the program. He is co-author with Grigar on "Curlew" and has contributed to Fort Vancouver Mobile, an app developed by Brett Oppegaard and Grigar for the Fort Vancouver National Historical Site.
Design
Will Luers Will Luers, a digital media artist and writer, has been on faculty in the Creative Media & Digital Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver since the fall of 2010. In 2008, he was invited to the university as an artist-in-residence to work with students on location-based media projects. At the CMDC, he teaches "Digital Publishing," “Multimedia Authoring”, “Advanced Multimedia Authoring”, and “Digital Storytelling.” His current research and artistic interest is in designing and publishing multimedia books as mobile apps. In general, his interests are in the proliferating forms and expressive possibilities of web-based and digital cinema, including database documentaries, multimedia hypertext, networked video and locative storytelling. In 2010, he was awarded the The Vectors-NEH Summer Fellowship to work on his database documentary, The Father Divine Project. His video art has been selected for the Media Arts Show at the 2010 and 2008 ELO Conferences. In 2005, he won Nantucket Film Festival and Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay. Will has over 20 years experience making and teaching about digital media and the moving image.
Production
Many professionals contributed to the production of the video, sound and other elements of Pathfinders. These include:
John Barber, PhD, Creative Media & Digital Culture, Washington State University Vancouver: Sound
Aaron Wintersong, formerly a CMDC student, now Web and Graphic Designer at Evergreen Public Schools: Videography
Troy Wayrynen, formerly a CMDC student, now Pictures by Troy: Video Editing
Skizz Cyzyk, from Zinniafilms: Videography