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Lee Adcock
Hands-On Workshop: Intro to VoiceThread
Wednesday and Friday, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions
Friday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Lee Adcock holds a B.A. in history from the University of Florida and is a former secondary social studies teacher in Savannah, GA. He is currently in his second year as a Ph.D. (Ed.) student in the Culture, Curriculum and Change program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Adcock has been a presenter at the North Carolina Social Studies Conference, the College and University Faculty Assembly “Research into Practice” sessions and the National Council for the Social Studies. His research areas are American Indian education, social studies pedagogy and digital equity.

Steven Aldrich
Panel: Entrepreneurship & Collaboration
Tuesday, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
Steven Aldrich is president and CEO of Posit Science, the leader in delivering clinically-proven brain fitness software. The company combines breakthrough research and a focus on great customer experiences to create products that are engaging and help users think faster, focus better and remember more.  Before Posit Science, he spent 13 years in many roles at Intuit creating significant growth by finding innovative solutions to unmet customer needs. Aldrich was president of Quicken Insurance, a business he co-founded and sold to Intuit.  He completed his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and he holds an AB in Physics from the University of North Carolina. Aldrich is an avid supporter of the arts, president of the Board of the Bay Area Glass Institute and member of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Advisory Board. He enjoys spending time with his wife Allison and their son, Jackson.

Casey Alt
Panel: Game as Medium
Friday, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Interactive Exhibitions: Things Fall Apart
Tuesday-Friday, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Casey Alt is an artist whose work explores how interface mediates power and culture. Though primarily engaging in problematics and processes of computational media, his works often span multiple media, including software, design, installation and performance. Currently based in Durham, North Carolina, Casey is a visiting assistant professor of the practice in the department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University as well as the founder and CEO of the social media corporation VacilLogix™.

Janice Anderson
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions
Wednesday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Janice L. Anderson is an assistant professor of science education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education.  A former high school science teacher, she completed a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Science and Technology at Boston College in 2008. Her current research explores the use of 3-D virtual environments (e.g., Quest Atlantis) to teach concepts related to water quality and ecosystems to elementary and middle school students. The catalyst for her professional efforts has been the notion of improving students’ engagement with science and technology, particularly among populations that are underrepresented in science, with particular attention to gender and race.

Stephen Anderson 
Festival on the Hill Electro-Acoustic Events Coordinator
Performance: War Peace
Tuesday, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Composer and pianist Stephen Anderson’s works have been performed by the West Point Military Academy Band, the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Lynn Seaton and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the Crested Butte Chamber Orchestra, the One O’ Clock Lab Band, Two O’clock Lab band, North Carolina Central University Percussion Ensemble, UNC-Charlotte Percussion Ensemble and the UNC Wind Ensemble, Duo XXI. His music also has featured in a film score broadcast nationally on PBS.  Anderson has received two awards from the Barlow Endowment—most recently a commission to compose a piano concerto for Steven Harlos (pianist, Dallas Symphony) to be premiered by the UNC Symphony Orchestra (April 13, 2010). As a pianist, Anderson is a recording artist for Summit Records.  His recent Forget Not (2008) trio CD received 4.5 stars out of 5 from the All Music Guide and was nominated by for best jazz “Debut CD” (3rd Annual Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll 2008).  Anderson serves as assistant professor in the composition and jazz studies areas at UNC.   

Len Annetta
Panel: Pedagogy and Games
Thursday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
An associate professor of science education at North Carolina State University, Len Annetta’s research focuses on distance learning and the effect of instructional technology on science learning with teachers and students in rural and underserved populations. With his programming experience, Annetta built a virtual environment that became the platform for his current research. He has been awarded more than $5 million in grants to support his work on distance learning and the use of teacher and student created video games as a vehicle for learning STEM content and STEM career awareness. In 2008, Annetta won three awards for his work teaching K-12 teachers and students video game design: the College of Education Outstanding Extension Service Award, induction into the NC State University Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension and the Distinguished Alumni Engaged in Extension and Outreach award.

Robbie Bach
Keynote: The Future of Entertainment
Tuesday, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
As president of the Entertainment & Devices (E&D) Division at Microsoft Corp., Robbie Bach, a Carolina alum, drives the company's Connected Entertainment vision, offering consumers new and compelling, branded entertainment experiences across music, gaming, video and mobile communications. Bach's responsibilities include guiding software, services and hardware innovation throughout Microsoft's entertainment and mobility platforms, and bringing those solutions to market with retailers and partners. Bach also manages Microsoft's worldwide retail relationships as well as media and entertainment partner relationships.

Bach has worked on a variety of Microsoft products, including managing the global launches of Xbox and Xbox 360 in his dual role as chief Xbox officer and head of the Home and Entertainment Group - a global division that was responsible for Xbox, Games for Windows, the Microsoft TV platform, and consumer hardware and software products.

Bach has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from Stanford University.

Adam Blumenthal
Panel: Music and New Media
Wednesday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Adam Blumenthal is the founder of Curious Sense, digital experience designers, based in the Research Triangle of North Carolina. Curious Sense develops innovative digital media products for rock bands and entertainment brands. For almost 20 years Blumenthal has been an interactive media producer and strategist. He began his career in 1993 with a coveted one-year appointment to the prestigious Kodak Center for Creative Imaging. Subsequently, Blumenthal has held leadership positions at elite communications agencies including R/GA, Burson-Marsteller, and McKinney, working with clients such as Nike, Sony, Southern Comfort, Azoff Music Management, Lollapalooza, Phish, Atlantic Records, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ford Foundation, and dozens more of the world’s most-recognized brands. His work has earned numerous awards for creative excellence and business effectiveness.

Phaedra Boinodiris
Panel: Pedagogy and Games
Thursday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Phaedra Boinodiris is a Serious Games program manager at IBM, where she is helping craft IBM’s serious games strategy in technical training, marketing and leadership skill building. She is the founder of the award-winning INNOV8 program, a series of games that teaches and evangelizes Business Process Management. INNOV8 is being used in more than 1,000 schools worldwide and is now available for public consumption. Boinodiris has been an entrepreneur for 10 years, and prior to joining IBM, she started two companies in custom application/social network development and videogame consulting. She co-founded WomenGamers.Com, a popular women’s gaming portal on the Internet, and started the first scholarship for women to attain degrees in game design and development in the US. She was honored by Women in Games International as one of the top 100 women in the games industry. Boinodiris received her MBA and her Bachelor’s degree in math and computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Cheryl Mason Bolick
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions (coordinator)
Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions (participant)
Wednesday and Friday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Cheryl Mason Bolick is an associate professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the coordinator of the Elementary Education program, director of the Research Triangle Schools Partnerships and a member of the Curriculum, Culture and Change graduate division. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the integration of technology into teacher education and into K-12 social studies classrooms. She also investigates how digital libraries can be used to foster student learning.

John P. Bowles
Interactive Exhibitions: Internet Archive of African-American Performance Art
Tuesday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
John P. Bowles is assistant professor of African American art in the department of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Adrian Piper: Race, Gender and Embodiment (forthcoming from Duke University Press). His articles have appeared in American Art, Signs, The Art Journal and elsewhere.

Madison Bullard/Hidden Cat 
Festival on the Hill: DJ/VJ Dance Party
Thursday, 9:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Hidden Cat is Madison Bullard—a producer, DJ and sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2009, Hidden Cat made a name for himself on the Internet, receiving favorable track reviews from Rolling Stone, The FADER and numerous other blogs. His original productions and remixes have gotten international support from DJs such as Boys Noize and Erol Alkan. Hidden Cat organizes a monthly party at Talulla’s in Chapel Hill called Prime Time of Your Life and regularly DJs for WXYC.

Mark Butler
Festival on the Hill: The Art and Culture of the DJ
Friday, 1:15 to 6:15 p.m.
Mark J. Butler is a music theorist whose research addresses popular music, rhythm and technologically mediated performance. He is associate professor in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University and a 2009-10 Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow and visiting associate professor at UT-Austin. His book Unlocking the Groove focuses on rhythm in electronic dance music (EDM), drawing upon ethnography as a means of addressing music-theoretical questions. His current book project, under contract with Oxford University Press, explores relationships between technology and improvisation in EDM performance.

Suzanne Cadwell
Hands-On Workshop: VoiceThread: Multimedia Projects Made Simple
Tuesday-Thursday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
After beginning her academic career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a graduate Teaching Fellow in the writing program, Cadwell joined Information Technology Services as an instructional technologist in 2000, serving as campus Blackboard administrator for five years. Cadwell currently works with both ITS-Teaching and Learning, investigating emerging instructional technologies, and with the Center for Faculty Excellence, assisting with its faculty development programs.

Sarah Carrier/DJ Misty Touch
Festival on the Hill: DJ/VJ Dance Party
Thursday, 9:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Sarah Carrier (DJ Misty Touch) is a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A veteran club and radio DJ, Misty Touch got her start at UNC’s student-run radio station, WXYC. She has been collecting records since her mother bestowed the family collection upon her when she was an adolescent. Carrier lives in Raleigh with her three-legged dog.

Melissa Church
Interactive Exhibitions: Then/Now: 3-D Virtual Space as Temporal Telescope
Tuesday 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Melissa Church is a Master of Art + Design candidate at North Carolina State University. Her focus of study is interaction design, specifically the exploration of innovative technologies, with an emphasis on user experience and learning. She received her undergraduate degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jonathan Cox
Panel: Changing Forms of Publication
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Jonathan Cox oversees external and internal communications for Lulu, which he joined in August. Previously, he worked for more than a decade as an award-winning business journalist for Bloomberg News in Washington and The News & Observer in Raleigh. Cox holds a B.A. in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.B.A. from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC.

Helen Crompton
Workshop Seminar: Using Vodcasts and Podcasts in the Math Classroom
Wednesday, February 17, 9:00 to 9:50 a.m.
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions
Wednesday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Helen Crompton is a Visiting International Faculty from Manchester, England. She has worked in schools in England for 13 years and in North Carolina for the last 3 years, teaching all ages from pre-kindergarten through to student teachers at university.  She has also been awarded numerous awards, including three significant awards for outstanding contributions to e-learning in the classroom, another as outstanding mathematics teacher of the year for the Chapel Hill school district and VIF’s very own International Educator of the Year for 2008-2009. Crompton has a keen interest in the use of technology to support the learning across the curriculum. She has shared her knowledge of educational technology through international magazines and at national conferences. Crompton is now studying for her Ph.D. in Culture, Curriculum and Change at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a focus on technology and elementary math.

Richard Dansky
Panel: Games and Storytelling
Wednesday, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
The Central Clancy Writer for Ubisoft and Manager of Design for Red Storm Entertainment, Richard Dansky has worked in video games for over a decade. Named one of the Top 20 Video Game Writers by Gamasutra in 2009, Dansky has written for series including Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Far Cry and Splinter Cell. He is also the author of five novels, most recently the critically acclaimed Firefly Rain. Dansky lives in Durham with his wife and their inevitable cats. You can find him online at http://www.richarddansky.com.

Rene Daughtry
Panel: Pedagogy and Games
Thursday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Rene Daughtry, a 14-year veteran at Cisco Systems, is a technical project manger overseeing testing of Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) and IP Switched Digital Video for Time Warner Cable and Cablevision. As the leader of Cisco’s Black Employees Network (CBEN), he has inspired hundreds of students across North Carolina to pursue higher education and consider a career in science and technology through an aggressive outreach effort that brings students to Cisco’s campus and takes Cisco employees into public schools. CBEN has established Cisco Network Academies at Halifax Community College, Elizabeth City State University, North Carolina Central University and North Carolina A&T State University. The Networking Academies offer students an educational foundation in information technology, which can be used to enter the field immediately or as a platform for higher education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Cathy Davidson
Soundbyte: The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Cathy N. Davidson is the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. She has published some 20 books and is the co-founder (with David Theo Goldberg) of HASTAC (pronounced “haystack,” Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory).  A network of networks, HASTAC now has some 3,800 members dedicated to rethinking the design of new learning technologies, participatory learning and the role of technology in social live and learning. HASTAC administers the annual $2 million MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. The 2010 Competition, “Reimagining Learning,” is a collaboration with the White House Educate to Innovate Initiative as well as with Sony, EA and ESA. Along with Goldberg, Davidson is the author of The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.  Her Now You See It: The Science of Attention in the Classroom, at Work, and Everywhere Else will be published by Viking Press in fall 2010.

Patrick Davison
Soundbyte: Storytelling in Multimedia
Thursday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Patrick Davison is an associate professor of visual communication and the director of documentary projects at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Davison teaches photojournalism and multimedia classes and leads international and domestic documentary multimedia projects, most recently in the Galapagos Islands. Davison has been a photojournalist for more than two decades for newspapers and magazines. He shared in The Pulitzer Prize for News Photography in 2000 at the Rocky Mountain News, and he and his students have won hundreds of photojournalism, multimedia and writing awards.

Chad Dezern
Soundbyte: The Ubiquity of Games
Wednesday, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Chad Dezern is the studio director at Insomniac Games’ new office in Durham, North Carolina. He oversees all aspects of development and content creation. Dezern started in the games industry in 1995. Prior to heading up the North Carolina studio, Dezern served as an art director, environment art director, senior artist and production artist during 11+ years at Insomniac. His credits include 15 shipped titles from Insomniac, DreamWorks Interactive and Disney Interactive. Dezern serves on the Advisory Board of the Triangle Game Initiative. He graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1994 with a B.F.A. in illustration.

Sheila Dillon
Panel: WIRED! New Representation Technologies for Historical Materials
Wednesday, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Sheila Dillon is associate professor in the department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She has been involved in archaeological excavations in Greece and Turkey since 1989 and is currently working at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace in the north Aegean.  Dillon studies the fragmentary remains of Greek and Roman sculpture and is particularly interested in reconstructing the statuary landscapes of ancient cities and sanctuaries.
 
Phillip Edwards
Panel: Changing Forms of Publication
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Phillip M. Edwards is a member of the faculty at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He conducts research on scholarly communication practices, particularly with regard to how scholars make decisions about where they publish or how they distribute their work. He is also interested in the impact that these production and sharing practices have on collection development and management activities in academic libraries. He teaches courses at the undergraduate- and graduate-levels on search strategies, collection development and management, scholarly communication, and information sources in science and technology. Additional information is available via his home page.

David Ellis
Panel: Games and Storytelling
Wednesday, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Dave Ellis began his career in the game industry in 1992 at MicroProse Software in Hunt Valley, Maryland, working his way from customer service representative to game design role. In 2000, Ellis assisted in the startup of Vicious Cycle and, after working on other projects, including design for several Microsoft game products, returned to Vicious Cycle/Monkey Bar Games as a game designer, his current role. With a degree in mass communication (television and film production) from Towson University in Maryland, Ellis writes background fiction and voiceover scripts for games. His script for Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, won the 2009 Spike VGA award for Best Comedy Game, and Dead Head Fred won the first ever Writers Guild of America award for video game writing in 2008. Ellis is a published author with 16 books to his credit and writes a monthly column for GameRoom magazine.

Patrick FitzGerald
Interactive Exhibitions: Then/Now: 3-D Virtual Space as Temporal Telescope
Tuesday 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Patrick FitzGerald is the director of the College of Design Advanced Media Lab at North Carolina State University and lead professor in the animation and new media graduate program at the College of Design. FitzGerald received his M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and is currently an associate professor of art and design. FitzGerald's research and teaching span the full range of multimedia research and production. In collaboration with design teams (including the EAT Collective), his work has been shown at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design and the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut and the Other Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Canada.

Todd “T.J.” Fixman
Panel: Games and Storytelling
Wednesday, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Todd Jeffrey Fixman is the senior writer at Insomniac Games and has worked on several titles including all three Ratchet & Clank Future games (Tools of Destruction, Quest for Booty, A Crack in Time) as well as Resistance 2. On each project, Fixman has been entrenched in all levels of game production, including cinematic scripts, level dialogue, casting, voice direction, design and more. He also has several film projects in development, as well as a graphic novel with DC Wildstorm.

Rayvon Fouché
Festival on the Hill: The Art and Culture of the DJ
Friday, 1:15 to 6:15 p.m.
Rayvon Fouché is an associate professor of history, research associate professor at the Information Trust Institute, and Center for Advanced Study resident associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work explores the multiple intersections and relationships between cultural representation, racial identification and technological design. His first book Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation produced a broader understanding of black inventive experiences. He has co-edited Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power and edited the four-volume Technology Studies. His current book project examines how sport governing bodies use technoscientific power and authority to authenticate athletic performances.

Kip Frey
Panel: Entrepreneurship & Collaboration
Tuesday, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
Kip Frey is president and CEO of Zenph Sound Innovations, Inc., transitioning in late 2009 from his partnership at venture capital firm Intersouth Partners in conjunction with Intersouth’s investment in Zenph. Frey has taught at Duke University for the past 15 years. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy and previously taught entrepreneurial management with joint appointments from Duke Law School and the Fuqua School of Business. Frey has been the leader and architect of three of Research Triangle Park's most notable entrepreneurial ventures, Ventana Communications Group, Accipiter, Inc. and OpenSite Technologies, Inc. In 1999, Digital South Magazine named him the Southeast's top CEO. Frey is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California Film School and of Duke Law School.

David Garcia
Festival on the Hill: Charanga Carolina with DJ Radar and Raúl Yañez
Open rehearsal: Thursday, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Performance: Friday, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
David Garcia is an ethnomusicologist, the director of Charanga Carolina and an assistant professor in the music department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music (2006) and is preparing a book on African American and Afro-Latino music in the mid-twentieth century.

Deborah Gerhardt
Panel: Music and New Media
Wednesday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Deborah Gerhardt is an assistant professor in the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gerhardt served as director of the intellectual property initiative and taught courses in copyright law and trademark law at UNC from 2005-09. She concurrently served as scholarly communications director for the UNC University Libraries from 2005-08. Gerhardt teaches courses in her research area of intellectual property. She earned her A.B. degree from Duke University and her J.D. degree cum laude from Case Western Reserve School of Law. She received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support empirical copyright research in May 2008.

Cheryl Goldstein
Hands-on Workshop: Create Wikis Using PBWorks
Wednesday-Friday, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions
Thursday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Cheryl Goldstein is the coordinator of Instructional Technology at the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In that role, she supports the School of Education faculty, teaching assistants and teacher education candidates in using technology in innovative and effective ways to enhance instruction, collaboration and student learning. This academic year (2009-10) will be her fourteenth year in this position and her twenty-ninth year as an educator. She received her master’s degree in Instructional Technology from Barry University in 1986. Prior to moving to North Carolina, she worked in the Broward County School System in Florida for 15 years, during which she taught at the elementary and middle grade levels and worked at the district level as a computer education coordinator and curriculum supervisor. Goldstein has presented at state and national educational technology conferences, including the Florida Educational Technology Conference and the National Educational Computing Conference. She has also appeared as a panelist on the UNC-TV Education Forum series.

Julia Sprunt Grumbles
Panel: Entrepreneurship & Collaboration
Tuesday, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
Julia Sprunt Grumbles has retired as corporate vice president of human resources, public relations and corporate marketing resources for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.). She is the recipient of the National Cable Television Association’s Vanguard Award for Marketing, one of the cable industry’s most prestigious honors.  She was named Woman of the Year by the Atlanta Chapter of Women in Cable and Television (WICT) and was given the same honor by the group’s national organization. She currently serves on the boards of trustees for Highlands Biological Foundation, Atlanta Landmarks, Inc. (Atlanta’s Fox Theatre), University of North Carolina’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and UNC’s Health Care System. Grumbles, a native of Memphis, TN, holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina and is married to Bill Grumbles.

Suzanne A. Gulledge
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions (coordinator)
Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Suzanne A. Gulledge, Ph.D., is on the faculty of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is vice-chair of Teaching and Learning. Recently named a “University Engaged Scholar” at Carolina, her research and scholarship is in the areas of curriculum and instruction in teacher preparation, social studies and international education. Active in university faculty governance, she serves on the Faculty Council and Faculty Executive Committee and has chaired numerous faculty committees.  Gulledge is coordinator of the Middle Grades Education Program at UNC and is a leader in international initiatives in the teacher education program. She teaches a study abroad course in Scotland and has developed a new professional studies program in education that will be offered in fall 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa, in the Burch Honors Program. Gulledge received undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees from Duke University.

Katherine Hayles
Soundbyte: Transforming Narratives
Wednesday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
N. Katherine Hayles, professor and director of graduate studies in literature at Duke University, teaches and writes on the relations of science, technology and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her book How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory for 1998-99, and her book Writing Machines won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. She is presently writing a book entitled How We Think: The Transforming Power of Digital Technologies.

Jerry Heneghan
Panel: Pedagogy and Games
Thursday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Jerry Heneghan is the founder and CEO of Virtual Heroes, Inc. Most recently, Jerry served as an executive producer for the America’s Army Game Project focusing on the creation of training applications based on the game. Prior to starting Virtual Heroes, Jerry was a program manager in the Technology Assisted Learning division of the Research Triangle Institute (RTI). Before his work at RTI, Jerry was a Game Producer at Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Entertainment. Prior to work in the interactive entertainment industry, Jerry served as a U.S. Army Aviator (AH-64 pilot) in assignments all over the world. Heneghan holds an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a B.S. in engineering from the U.S. Military Academy. Heneghan is the president and co-founder of the North Carolina Advanced Learning Technology Association and Advanced Learning Technology Summit. He is a published author, most recently appearing in The Design and Use of Simulation Computer Games in Education.

Eric Hirsh
Panel: Capturing Performance vs. Capturing Sound
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Eric Hirsh is director of Instrument Research at Zenph Sound Innovations, where he is working on next-generation virtual musical instruments. Hirsh is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2006, physics and music) and is an accomplished jazz pianist and composer outside of his work at Zenph. He is a three-time winner of the ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composers Award and was a 2009 artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center with the Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead program.

Steve Hockensmith
Keynote Conversation: Collaborative Authorship: Writing Zombies into Austen
Wednesday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Panel: Games and Storytelling
Wednesday, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Steve Hockensmith is the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, a prequel to the bestselling horror/martial arts/Regency romance mash-up. He also writes the Holmes on the Range mystery series, which stars two cowboy brothers who set out to solve crimes using the methods of their hero, Sherlock Holmes.

Daniel C. Howe
Interactive Exhibitions: The Architecture of Association
Tuesday-Friday, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Daniel C. Howe is a digital artist and researcher whose work explores the intersections of literature, computation and procedural art practice. He recently received his Ph.D. (on generative literary systems) from the Media Research Lab at New York University and was awarded a Computing Innovations fellowship from the National Science Foundation for 2010. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he teaches at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, and is a resident artist at AS220.

Daren Hunnicut/DJ One Duran
Festival on the Hill: DJ/VJ Dance Party
Thursday, 9:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
A two-time graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a lifelong beat junkie and Chapel Hill DJ for the past 10 years, DJ One Duran (Darren Hunnicut) has helped throw the Disco Inferno, Dyssembler and 1200 Problems parties, blending hip-hop and club tunes with experimental bass music from across the globe. He also co-hosts WXYC’s New Science Experience mix show, focusing on dubstep, minimal techno and UK funky house.

Jennifer Jenkins
Panel: Music and New Media
Wednesday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Jennifer Jenkins is a senior lecturing fellow teaching intellectual property and director of Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, where she heads its Arts Project, which analyzes the effects of intellectual property on cultural production. She is co-author of Bound By Law, a comic book about copyright, fair use and documentary film, and several short pieces on intellectual property issues. Jenkins received her B.A. in English from Rice University, her J.D. from Duke Law School, and her M.A. in English from Duke University.

Paul Jones
Panel: User-Driven: Does Size Matter?
Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Paul Jones is on the faculties of the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the co-chair of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference, a contributing editor to the Heath Anthology of American Literature, and has had poetry featured in Poetry, Cold Mountain Review, Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 - Present (Scribner, 2008) as well as in a large circulation regional newspaper (News  & Observer).

Jesper Juul
Keynote: Gaming and the Future of the Arts and Humanities
Friday, 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.
Panel: Game as Medium
Friday, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Jesper Juul is an influential theorist in the field of video game studies. A visiting professor at the New York University Game Center, Juul hold a Ph.D. in video game theory from IT University Copenhagen, where he held a position as an assistant professor until mid-2007. Though his early work concerned the rejection of narrative as a useful tool for understanding video games, and though Jesper Juul is often considered a ludologist, his more recent work deals with the fictional aspects of video games as well. Juul published a book on video game theory, Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds (MIT Press 2005) and runs a blog on video game theory, The Ludologist.

Mark Katz
Panel: Capturing Performance vs. Capturing Sound
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Festival on the Hill: All Art & Culture of the DJ Events Coordinator
Mark Katz is associate professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  His research and teaching focus on music and technology, popular music and performance practice. He is the author of Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music and is currently working on a new book, Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ, which is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Katz is a long-time violinist, a beginning turntablist and a DJ at UNC’s radio station, WXYC 89.3 FM.

Julie Thompson Keane
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions
Thursday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Julie Thompson Keane is a Ph.D. candidate in the Culture, Curriculum and Change program at the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been a researcher, designer and curriculum developer in the field of educational technology for more than 15 years. As a project director at the Center for Children and Technology, EDC, she conducted national evaluation studies to investigate the impact of federal education technology policy as well as privately funded technology initiatives in K-12 schools. Her dissertation research focuses on middle school students’ multimedia autobiographies. This work will contribute to the growing body of research that is studying youth, new media, and its relationship to notions of identity.

Greg Klaiber
Hands-On Workshop: Digital Video
Wednesday, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.; Thursday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Greg Klaiber’s background is in audio and video production. He has managed the Digital Media Lab in the Undergraduate Library's Media Resources Center at UNC since the lab's creation in 2002. He also leads one-on-one and small group instructional sessions on the software available in the Lab, as well as leading class sessions to teach video editing software to undergraduate classes.

Jamie Lathan
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions
Thursday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Jamie Lathan is a doctoral student in the Curriculum, Culture and Change program in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His current interests include technology in education, educational leadership and social studies education. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History and his Master of Teaching degree in Secondary Social Studies from the University of Virginia. Jamie has taught a variety of social studies/humanities classes for the last nine years at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, NC.  At UNC-Chapel Hill, he teaches senior teaching fellows preparing to teach in high schools.

John Lee
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions
Friday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
John Lee is an associate professor of social studies and middle grades education North Carolina State University. He conducts research on digital history and is specifically interested in the development of innovative ways for supporting teachers and students as they make use of online historical resources. He is also involved in efforts to theorize and develop tools and materials related to new literacies. For more information, visit his faculty page at N.C. State, http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jklee/, and http://dhpp.org/.

Ming C. Lin
Interactive Exhibition: Virtual Painting
Wednesday, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Interactive Exhibition: Virtual Symphony
Wednesday, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Ming Lin received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently the Beverly Long Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She leads the research efforts on physics-based modeling, multi-sensory interaction (including interactive auditory display and haptic rendering), and robotics and geometric computing. She also co-directs the GAMMA Research Group at UNC.

Julian Lombardi
Soundbyte: Readymade Digital Tools and the Potential of Creating New Tools
Friday, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Julian Lombardi is a virtual world architect who serves as assistant vice president with Duke's Office of Information Technology, research scholar with the Duke ISIS program and adjunct faculty member in Duke's department of computer science. Lombardi’s work has been focused on the design of computational systems that support deep collaboration and resource sharing across large numbers of users. He receives support from both the National Science Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop OpenCobalt, an open source and multi-platform virtual world browser and construction toolkit designed primarily for educational/scholarly communities. Lombardi also teaches about virtual worlds at Duke.

Alexander Macris
Soundbyte: The Ubiquity of Games
Wednesday, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Alexander Macris is co-founder, president and CEO of Themis Group. During his time at Themis, he has served as publisher and editorial director of its Themis Media division, editor-in-chief of its Themis Report series, contributor to the books MMORPGs for Dummies and Business & Legal Primer for Game Development, and designer of the award-winning game Heroes Mini. In addition to his work at Themis, Macris is co-founder and president of Triangle Game Initiative and conference director of the Triangle Game Conference.

Paolo Mangiafico
Panel: User-Driven: Does Size Matter?
Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Paolo Mangiafico is the director of Digital Information Strategy in the Office of the Provost at Duke University, where he leads planning in support of broader and longer term access to the digital information outputs of the university. He previously worked in Duke University Libraries for 14 years, founding and directing a digital scholarship center called the Digital Scriptorium and leading early digital library projects and the library’s Web services department. He has served as a consultant for digital projects at Duke University Press, the State Library of North Carolina, HASTAC and elsewhere, and as a fellow in the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke. Before coming to Duke, Mangiafico was a humanities computing consultant at the Center for Text & Technology at Georgetown University, where he helped develop some of the earliest Web-based digital humanities projects and full-text databases for humanities research.

Larisa Mann/DJ Ripley
Panel: Music and New Media
Wednesday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Festival on the Hill: The Art and Culture of the DJ
Friday, 1:15 to 6:15 p.m.
Larisa Mann has degrees from Oberlin College and the London School of Economics and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in jurisprudence and social policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work uses ethnography to explore how creativity, technology, law and rights come together in the practices of Jamaican music-makers. She is also a professional DJ who performs as DJ Ripley and a journalist on technology and rights issues.

John McGowan
Soundbyte: The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
John McGowan is the Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities and the director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of five books, most recently American Liberalism (UNC Press, 2007) and an editor of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.

Laurie McNeil
Panel: Capturing Performance vs. Capturing Sound
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Laurie McNeil is a professor of physics and has been a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1984. Although her laboratory research is in semiconductor physics, she maintains a parallel interest in musical acoustics. She teaches a first-year seminar on that topic with Professor Wissick of the music department, and in her spare time she sings with the Choral Society of Durham.

Joseph Megel
Interactive Project Exhibition: The Virtual Performance Factory
Thursday-Saturday, 8:00 p.m.
Joseph Megel is in his sixth year as artist in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in performance studies where he runs the “Process Series: New Works in Development” for the Executive Director of the Arts. He has spent the last 25 years focusing on the direction and development of new works, for theatre, film and video. Megel is a member of SDC (Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers) and co-artistic director of StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Megel directed his multi-award winning production of Guillermo Reyes’s Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown in its Off-Broadway production at the 47th Street Theatre (Outer Critics Circle Award), Los Angeles (Ovation Award Winner) and elsewhere. He also recently directed Jennifer Maisel’s The Last Seder (winner of numerous awards including the Kennedy Center New Play Award) in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.  

Luke Miller
Festival on the Hill: DJ/VJ Dance Party
Thursday, 9:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Luke Miller is a finishing an MS in information science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been working with video since 1996 and is a DJ at WXYC Chapel Hill.

Kevin Oliver
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions
Wednesday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Kevin Oliver is assistant professor and program coordinator of Instructional Technology and co-coordinator of the new Certificate in E-Learning at North Carolina State University. He received a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Georgia and an M.Ed. in Educational Media and Instructional Design from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Oliver conducts research on student thinking skills and processes supported by Web-based tools and on teacher intentions for using Web-based tools, particularly in distance and K-12 virtual learning environments.

Mark Olson
Panel: WIRED! New Representation Technologies for Historical Materials
Wednesday, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Mark Olson is visiting assistant professor of Visual Studies in the department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. He teaches courses on media (new and old, covering theory, practice and history) and medicine and visual culture. Olson is the former director of New Media & Information Technologies for HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Sciences & Technology Advanced Collaboratory).

Thomas Otten
Performance: Maurice Remembered
Tuesday, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Pianist Thomas Otten has performed in Europe, Australia, the Caribbean and throughout the U.S., including venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. His debut CD, Tristan und Isolde: Piano Transcriptions of Franz Liszt, was released by MSR Classics in 2005. He has been on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2002, where he serves as area head of piano in the department of music.

Jon Paquette
Panel: Games and Storytelling
Wednesday, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Jon Paquette has been making games since 1996. Since receiving an M.F.A. in screenwriting from the University of Southern California, he has served as a producer, designer, creative director and writer on a variety games for DreamWorks Interactive and Electronic Arts. Paquette is now a writer for Insomniac Games based in Burbank, California.

Eric Peterson
Panel: Entrepreneurship & Collaboration
Tuesday, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
Eric Peterson is president and CEO of Vicious Cycle Software, Inc., a D3Publisher development studio. Peterson has been in the game industry since 1996 and is trained as an artist with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland. Prior to co-founding Vicious Cycle, he was an art director at MicroProse. Peterson strives to assist and encourage all of the imaginative employees at Vicious Cycle to create their best work. He is also responsible for business development and day-to-day operations, and he serves as the company liaison to publishers, licensors, contractors and vendors. Peterson’s passion and dedication for creating games combined with his entrepreneurial spirit has created a successful company that has been prosperous since 2000.

Russ Pitts
Panel: User Driven: Does Size Matter?
Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Russ Pitts is the editor-in-chief of The Escapist and director of video content for Themis Media. Pitts is a 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry, with experience in television, theater, film and the Internet. He was a producer of the groundbreaking TechTV television series The Screen Savers and is executive producer of The Escapist’s “Zero Punctuation” videogame review Web series.

Raquel Salvatella de Prada
Panel: WIRED! New Representation Technologies for Historical Materials
Wednesday, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Raquel Salvatella de Prada is a computer artist and visiting assistant professor of the practice in the department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She focuses on motion graphics, 3-D modeling and animation and digital design. Prior to joining the Duke faculty in 2008, she was creative director at HG Media, a multimedia design company in Princeton, NJ. She also worked and studied in Madrid, London and New York.

Jason Rekulak
Keynote Conversation: Collaborative Authorship: Writing Zombies into Austen
Wednesday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Jason Rekulak is associate publisher and creative director of Quirk Books, where he conceived, acquired, and edited the novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. The book has spent more than 40 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and is currently in development as a motion picture starring Natalie Portman. He lives in Philadelphia.

DJ Radar
Festival on the Hill: The Art and Culture of the DJ
Friday, 1:15 to 6:15 p.m.
Festival on the Hill: Charanga Carolina with DJ Radar and Raúl Yañez
Open rehearsal: Thursday, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Performance: Friday, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
DJ Radar is a world-renowned turntablist, known for his inventive and virtuosic performances using vinyl records and styli. He has premiered several new compositions for turntables by music partner Raúl Yañez, including the groundbreaking 2001 work, Concerto for Turntables, for which he has developed a new type notation known as “scratch notation.”

Adam Rogers
Festival on the Hill: DJ/VJ Dance Party
Thursday, 9:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Adam Rogers is a student of library and information science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He got his start making video art for warehouse parties in Charlottesville, VA, under the name Videonics. There, he also co-produced a public access TV show called Tesseract. His visual style is heavily influenced by the obsolete and circuit-bent video gear he performs with.

Joyce Rudinsky
Panel: Game as Medium
Friday, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Interactive Exhibitions: Psychasthenia: Game Engine as Artistic Medium
Tuesday-Friday, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Joyce Rudinsky is an electronic media artist. Her work focuses on the cognitive and perceptual shifts induced by the use of electronic communications. She creates both spatial and virtual interactive, immersive environments. Rudinsky is an associate professor in the department of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also the domain scientist for Arts and Humanities at the Renaissance Computing Institute and the associate director for Digital Arts and Humanities at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

Laura Ruel
Soundbyte: Storytelling in Multimedia
Thursday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Assistant Professor Laura Ruel teaches visual communication and multimedia journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before coming to UNC in 2004, she was inaugural director of the Estlow Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver. She coordinates the Society for News Design’s Best of Multimedia Design competition. She was project leader for the Poynter Institute’s Eyetrack III research and is co-founder of DiSEL, the Digital Storytelling Effects Lab.  Before joining the academic world she worked for more than 15 years at a number of publications including the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Omaha World-Herald and the Rocky Mountain News.

Bill Seaman
Soundbyte: Readymade Digital Tools and the Potential of Creating New Tools
Friday, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Interactive Exhibitions: The Architecture of Association
Tuesday-Friday, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Bill Seaman received a Ph.D. from the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts, University of Wales, 1999. He holds an MSvisS degree from MIT, 1985. His work explores an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means. Seaman’s works have been in many international shows. He is currently working on a book in collaboration with the scientist Otto Rössler surrounding the concept of Neosentience; collaborating with artist/computer scientist Daniel Howe on works exploring AI and creative writing/multi-media; working with neural scientist and artist Timothy Senior on the development of a biologically inspired “Thought Module” (a novel approach to neural nets); collaborating with computer scientist and experimental writer Patrick Herron and Howe on a transdisciplinary “insight engine”; and collaborating with Gideon May and Rachel Brady on re-articulating “The World Generator / The Engine of Desire” a virtual world building system. He is currently a professor in the Art, Art History and Visual Studies Department at Duke University.

Shelby Shanks
Panel: Changing Forms of Publication
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Shelby Shanks is a lawyer librarian and the director of the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Center (DSPC) at the North Carolina State University Libraries. The DSPC supports a dynamic program of service to the N.C. State community in copyright, scholarly communications and advocacy for cost-effective access to information in all formats. The DSPC also sponsors digital publishing initiatives that advance the use of new media and digital technologies in research and scholarly communication.

William Shaw
Panel: User Driven: Does Size Matter?
Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Interactive Exhibitions: The William Blake Archive
Tuesday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
William Shaw is technical editor of the William Blake Archive, where he has worked since 2004. In addition to designing and developing the software behind the Archive, Shaw has presented papers and lectures on digital humanities, electronic archives and the Blake Archive at a number of scholarly conferences. He is completing his Ph.D. in digital humanities and 19th century British literature at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Wenhua Shi
Interactive Exhibitions: Future Talk
Tuesday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Wenhua Shi is a filmmaker and media artist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Shi earned his B.A. and B.F.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. His teaching and research interests include experimental film and animation, moving images and sound installation, and interactive art. Shi’s works integrate new media, sounds, installation and sculpture. His films have been screened at Pacific Film Archive, Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television (UK), Denver Contemporary Museum of Art, Beijing Film Academy, The Jack Kerouac School of Naropa University and dozens of international film festivals, including Rotterdam, Hamburg, Bradford, and Mexico City, where his works have been recognized with top honors. He works on the poetic approach to art making and crossing the boundary of narrative and experimental style while engaging with new media and art/ game play.

Mark Simpson-Vos
Panel: Changing Forms of Publication
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Mark Simpson-Vos has some 15 years experience in academic journal and book publishing. Since 2003, he has been acquisitions editor at the University of North Carolina Press, where he develops scholarly, reference and general-interest books in a variety of fields. Previously, as editor for special projects, Simpson-Vos also played a key role in charting the Press’s participation in a variety of digital publishing initiatives. Before beginning his publishing career, he earned a graduate degree in English from UNC-Chapel Hill. He lives in Durham, N.C., with his wife and daughter.

Adriana de Souza e Silva
Panel: Game as Medium
Friday, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.
Adriana de Souza e Silva is an assistant professor at the department of communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), director of the Mobile Gaming Research Lab, affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center, and a faculty member of the Science, Technology and Society Program at NCSU. Her research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape people’s interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She teaches classes on mobile technologies, location-based games and Internet studies. De Souza e Silva is the co-editor (with Daniel M. Sutko) of the book Digital Cityscapes—Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces (2009) and the co-author (with Eric Gordon) of the forthcoming book, Network Locality: How Digital Networks Create a Culture of Location (2011).

Hiller Spires
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions
Friday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hiller Spires is a professor at North Carolina State University’s College of Education, where she served as the founding director of The William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and currently serves as FI Senior Research Fellow. Her research focuses on the effects of digital literacies on learning, including literacies associated with gaming environments and Web 2.0 applications. She co-directs the New Literacies Collaborative at the FI and directs the graduate program, New Literacies & Global Learning for the Department of Curriculum & Instruction.

Victoria Szabo
Panel: Games and Storytelling
Wednesday, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Victoria Szabo is an assistant research professor in visual studies and new media in the department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She is also the director of the Information Science + Information Studies program. Her work focuses on digital media, especially virtual worlds and multimedia maps, as new forms of scholarly and creative expression.

Francesca Talenti
Interactive Exhibition: The Bathysphere
Tuesday, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.; Thursday, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.; Friday 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.; and Saturday, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Francesca Talenti is a filmmaker and animator who has exhibited her work from Sundance to PBS National, by way of Mumbai, Göteborg, Casablanca and several other festivals and venues. She has won a number of awards and has received grants from the Independent Television Service, Latino Public Broadcasting and the Kauffman Foundation. In the past two years, Talenti has been trying to explode the rectangle to which the moving image is usually confined, and this has led her to creating media for live theater as well as making installations.  Talenti is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mayron Tsong
Panel: Capturing Performance vs. Capturing Sound
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Currently associate professor of piano at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Mayron Tsong is a Steinway Artist whose performances have taken her around the globe to almost every state in the continental United States, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. She performed a debut recital at Carnegie Hall and after the release of her first CD, rave reviews in American Record Guide and Fanfare called her “a genius, pure and simple… perhaps, a wizard” and compared her to Horowitz, Pollini, Andsnes and Laredo.

Jeff VanDrimmelen
Hands-On Workshop: Create Simple Web Sites
Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.    
Jeff VanDrimmelen is an instructional technologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a B.A. in German and Music, an M.A. in Germanic Literature, and an M.B.A. with an IT Management Emphasis. He spends most of his day teaching teachers how to use technology in the classroom. He also runs the campus Wordpress instance, which provides simple Web sites for faculty, staff and students across campus (http://web.unc.edu).

Joseph Viscomi
Interactive Exhibitions: The William Blake Archive
Tuesday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Joseph Viscomi, the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a co-editor with Morris Eaves and Robert Essick of the William Blake Archive, with whom he also co-edited volumes 3 and 5 of The William Blake Trust’s William Blake's Illuminated Books. He is the author of Prints by Blake and his Followers, Blake and the Idea of the Book and numerous essays on Blake’s illuminated printing, color printing and reception and reproduction throughout the 19th century.

John Q. Walker
Panel: Capturing Performance vs. Capturing Sound
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Dr. John Q. Walker is the chairman and founder of Zenph Studios, now Zenph Sound Innovations. He was a co-founder of Ganymede Software in RTP, which was acquired by NetIQ in 2000. At IBM, he managed teams influential in the creation of the IEEE 802 LAN and high-speed networking standards. Walker holds Bachelor degrees in piano and mathematics and a Master’s degree in computer science from Southern Illinois University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a focus on natural behavior and software engineering.

Oliver Wang
Festival on the Hill: The Art and Culture of the DJ
Friday, 1:15 to 6:15 p.m.
Oliver Wang is a journalist and assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach.  He is editor and co-author of Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide and is author of the forthcoming book, Legions of Boom: Mobility, Identity and Filipino American Disc Jockeys in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also a long-time DJ who performs as O-Dub and runs the audio blog Soul Sides.

Ken Weiss
Panel: Music and New Media
Wednesday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Ken Weiss is a music publisher, music producer, film and television music supervisor, as well as a concert producer and a principal owner and executive of a sports and music production company. His career has brought him lifelong relationships with music artists and groups Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Byrds, Firefall and others. With Gold Hill Music, he led one of the industry’s most successful independently owned music publishing companies. He co-owns and controls rights to a number of Broadway hits, including The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War, Dracula and the forthcoming Havana. Weiss has been awarded 20 Gold and Platinum record awards and numerous industry achievement awards. 

Greg Welch
Interactive Exhibition: The Bathysphere
Tuesday, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.; Thursday, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.; Friday 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.; and Saturday, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Greg Welch is a research associate professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to UNC, he worked on the Voyager Spacecraft Project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on airborne electronic countermeasures at Northrop-Grumman’s Defense Systems Division, and briefly at a sound and light production company in New York City. His current research interests include human motion tracking systems, human-computer interaction, 3-D telepresence, projector-based graphics and computer vision. He has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in these areas and is a co-inventor on multiple related patents.

Michael Wesch
Keynote: From Knowledge to Knowledge-able
Thursday, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. 

His videos on culture, technology, education and information have been viewed by millions, translated in more than 15 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Click here to view Wesch's "The Machine is Us/ing Us" on YouTube.

Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities.

Frances White
Performance: Maurice Remembered
Tuesday, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Frances White composes instrumental and electronic music. A 2004 Guggenheim fellow,  her music is performed around the world, and can be heard on CD on the Wergo, Centaur, Mode, and Bridge labels. It has also been featured as part of the soundtrack of three of Gus Van Sant's award-winning films: Elephant, Paranoid Park and Milk. Much of White's music is inspired by her love of nature, and her electronic works frequently include natural sound recorded near her home in central New Jersey. 

Ross White
Panel: User Driven: Does Size Matter?
Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Ross White is the editor of Inch, a magazine of short poems and microfiction, and the publisher of Bull City Press. He also works in the School of Education at Carolina and sometimes teaches creative writing in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. His poems have appeared in New England Review, Poetry Daily, Carolina Quarterly and others.  He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was a North Carolina Teaching Fellow, and the M.F.A. program for writers at Warren Wilson College. 

Markus Wust
Panel: Changing Forms of Publication
Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Markus Wust is the digital collections and preservation librarian at the North Carolina State University Libraries' Digital Scholarship and Publishing Center. He is the product manager for North Carolina Architects and Builders: A Biographical Dictionary (with Catherine W. Bishir, editor-in-chief), the Libraries’ first digital publication. He also works on mobile initiatives and digital curation projects.

Raúl Yañez 
Festival on the Hill: The Art and Culture of the DJ
Friday, 1:15 to 6:15 p.m.
Festival on the Hill: Charanga Carolina with DJ Radar and Raúl Yañez
Open rehearsal: Thursday, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Performance: Friday, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Raúl Yañez is a composer, pianist, bandleader and teacher based in Phoenix whose work draws on jazz, Latin and classical music, rock and hip-hop. He founded the 10-piece big band, the Chicano Power Revival Orchestra, 1998, and continues to lead and compose for a variety of Latin ensembles. He is a long-time musical collaborator with DJ Radar, for whom he has composed many works for the turntables, including Concerto for Turntables (2001), the first such work of its kind, which was performed at Carnegie Hall and throughout the world.

Dajuin Yao
Interactive Exhibitions: IdeoRhythm - Real-time software/video installation
Tuesday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Dajuin Yao is a sound artist, media artist, curator, art historian, music producer, radio host and software designer. Yao earned his Ph.D. ABD and M.A. from the department of the history of art at University of California, Berkeley. Yao previously was a professor of computer music and executive manager at the Center for Art & Technology at the Taiwan National University of the Arts and currently serves as a professor of new media art at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China. For decades, Dajuin has been promoting experimental music through radio shows, Web sites and teaching. He has curated large-scale international new media events, including Sounding Beijing 2003, Sounding Taipei 2004 and the opening ceremony concerts for the 2008 Shanghai eArts Festival. In 1997, Yao founded China Sound Unit, which is devoted to documenting and recontextualizing Chinese urban sound phenomena with a series of recordings, performances and installations. His work crosses over sound art, installation art, net art, and performance and has been performed, shown and released worldwide.

Carl Young
Hands-on Workshops: K-12 Teacher Translational Sessions
Wednesday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Carl A. Young a former middle grades and high school English teacher, is associate professor of English and middle grades education in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at North Carolina State University. He earned his Ph.D. in English education from the University of Virginia. At NC State, he teaches courses in English methods, teaching composition, content area reading and writing, and new literacies and emerging technologies.  He conducts research on new literacies, participatory media, eportfolios, and other technology applications in English education. In addition, Young serves as chair of the CEE Commission on Technology and Teacher Education and as co-editor for the English language arts section of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education. He is a member of the New Literacies Collaborative and co-facilitator for the annual New Literacies Teacher Leader, a summer professional development initiative aimed at supporting teachers’ innovative integration of technology. He is currently co-editing a book highlighting research in technology and English education, and he lives with his family in Raleigh, NC.

Michael Young
Soundbyte: Transforming Narratives
Wednesday, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
R. Michael Young is an associate professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, where he leads the Liquid Narrative Research Group and is co-director of the NCSU Digital Games Research Center. His work focuses on the computational modeling of interactive narrative, especially in the context of computer games and virtual worlds. He teaches courses on game design and development and interactive narrative. In 2000, Young received a CAREER Award from the US National Science Foundation, NSF’s highest award for young scientists and engineers. He has received awards from NCSU for both outstanding teaching and outstanding activities in engagement/economic development. In 2010, Young was awarded a GlaxoSmithKline Faculty Fellowship for Public Policy and Public Engagement.