MCM Alumni

EVENTS
Lucas Foglia - Photographs from Garden Series will be exhibited at:
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, February 9 - March 30 2008
Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Charlotte, NC
March 6, 2008, 6-9pm

Cameron Martin - exhibition at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY

Seth Price - an exhibition at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery, NY

Ruth Root - exhibition at Andrew Krepps Gallery, NY

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if you are an mcm or art semiotics alum and would like your name to be listed on our webpage please click here or email liza_hebert@brown.edu. If your listing is out of date, please send me your updated bio. Also, i'm creating an email distribution list of all our alums. If you would like to be added to this email list and wish to receive emails from MCM, please contact me.
Joshua Anderson (2002): mfa director american film institute, los angeles, musician (foreign affair)

Kelly Anderson website: an award-winning independent producer and director of documentary and narrative films/videos. her most recent production is every mother's son, a documentary for itvs about mothers whose children have been killed by police officers and who have become national spokespeople on the issue of police brutality, which she produced and directed (with tami gold) and edited. every mother's son premiered at the 2004 tribeca film festival, where it won the prestigious audience award, and aired on pbs' national p.o.v. series, which garnered it a nomination for an emmy award in the category "outstanding individual achivement in a craft: directing." it is distributed by new day films.

Edward Ball: national book award for slaves in the family, columnist, best-selling author.
Rebecca Baron website: full-time teaching film/video at cal arts, award-winning filmmaker (mfa-uc san diego) my new video "how little we know of our neighbours" screening at the new york video festival at the walter reed theater on wednesday, july 27 at 4pm and saturday, july 30 at 6pm.
Joshua Brown (1992): "mfa in film, new york university, award-winning filmmaker and editor, director of the documentary 50,000,000 joe franklin fans can't be wrong. currently preparing to direct the low-budget feature altamont now, based on a play written by david bucci (brown '92)."
Margaret Brown website: produced a catpower video directed by harmony korine
James Buckhouse: media artist, 2002 whitney biennial, buckhouse has become one of the most notable digital artists, based on his works for the computer screensaver and personal digital assistant (pda)
Jeremy Butler (1976) website: professor of telecommunication and film at the university of alabama. founder of screensite.org, a resource for film/tv students/teachers. author of television: critical methods and applications (tvcrit.com), a textbook for tv studies. host of "all things acoustic," a folk radio program on alabama public radio and allthingsacoustic.org.
Nicholas Butterworth website: sonicnet
Ben Collier (2002) website: currently living in beijing, working in advertising account management at www.bbdo.com and photographing (bccimages.com). if any students or other alums would like to connect about advertising, photographing or china please email anytime
Ben Coonley (1998) website: video and performance artist, work shown extensively at international film festivals, Second Moscow Biennale, currently teaching at Parsons The New School for Design
John Corbet: professor at the school of the art institute of chicago, author of extended play, duke university press, 1994, regular contributor to downbeat, option, the wire, new art examiner, articles published in october, semiotext(e) and stanford humanities review.
Christoph Cox: philosophy professor at hampshire college. co-edited a book called "audio culture: readings in modern music." ph.d., uc santa cruz; author, nietzsche: naturalism and interpretation. berkeley: university of california press, 1999.
Laura Davis: independent filmmaker (featured on abc network news as one of a rising generation of digital filmmakers)
Edward Dimendberg website: associate professor of film and media studies at uc irvine and has published the following books: film noir and the spaces of modernity (harvard university press, 2004), & the weimar republic sourcebook, edited by anton kaes, martin jay, and edward dimendberg (university of california press, 1994)
Fritz Donnelly website: filmmaker/performance artist, works include 2 compilations of shorts: "to the hills" and "to the hills 2" distributed in video stores amazon.com
Barry Ellsworth: film producer, works primarily in south america, co-founder of apparatus productions
Rodney Evans: filmmaker and editor, nyc; mfa cal arts; director of the unveiling, a look at the history of striptease.
Matt Fanuele: composer, sound designer, nyc
Russell Fine: professional cinematographer, credits include the cindy sherman feature office killer
Emily Fisher: film and video producer, nyc, documentaries for public television
Madeline Fix: designer nyc

lucas foglia (2005) website: Foglia is a documentary and portrait photographer, collaborating with people and organizations across the country and using photography to promote positive change. To view his photographs and documentary projects online, please visit http://www.LucasFoglia.com. If any students or alumni would like to connect regarding project ideas, call or email anytime.
joey frank (2005) website: won the Grand Jury Prize for his documentary (manda bala) at Sundance Film Festival. He was the assistant director and co-producer of the film.

Dan Frazier website: pop secret / no depression

Coco Fusco: a new york-based interdisciplinary artist. she has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated throughout north and south america, europe, south africa, australia, new zealand, korea and japan. she is the author of "english is broken here" (the new press,1995), "the bodies that were not ours and other writings" (routledge/iniva, 2001) and the editor of "corpus delecti: performance art of the americas" (routledge, 1999). fusco is a recipient of a 2003 herb alpert award in the arts for her work as a performance artist.
Alex Galloway website: artist and computer programmer. assistant professor at the steinhardt school at nyu and he recently published a book called protocol (mit press), director of content & technology at rhizome.org, a leading online platform for new media art. as the founding member of the radical software group (rsg), he is the creator of carnivore, a networked surveillance tool based on the notorious fbi software of the same name. carnivore has been exhibited internationally and won a golden nica at ars electronica 2002.
Munro Galloway: painter in nyc. represented by murrayguy gallery. mfa candidate at bard college
Liz Garbus: one of america's most celebrated young voices in documentary filmmaking. she is the co-founder of new york city's moxie firecracker films and has created award-winning documentaries for lifetime, a&e, showtime, hbo, mtv, disney, discovery ch
ira glass (1982) website: Creator and director of 'This American Life'. To read his bio click here
Brian Goldberg: co-founder of avalanche web design company, former director of drift distribution independent media distributor, graduate of risd architecture masters program
nate goodman (1984) website: director of photography for nbc's "hereos." contact him at: uomobuono@sbcglobal.net
Sara Grady
Jacqueline Goss (1989) website: recently named recipient of the 2007 Alpert Award in the Arts, Film and Video. teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College in the Hudson Valley of New York. Currently Goss is working on "Stranger Comes to Town" -- an animated documentary about the US-VISIT biometric system.
Sabrina Gschwandter website: film artist living in nyc, an mfa candidate at bard college, and the founder of an artist's publication called knitknit
Mark Haffenreffer: media artist, mfa cal arts
rachel harper website: novelist; author of Brass Ankle Blues. Fiction Faculty, Spalding University's MFA in Writing Program.

Todd Haynes: internationally acclaimed director, our most famous graduate! films include poison, safe, velvet goldmine, far from heaven. academy award nomination for best director, 2003
Robin Hessman: producer, wgbh; creative director and producer, russian franchise of sesame street; also won the american student academy award for her film "boy with dog."
Michelle Higa (2004) website 1 & website 2: chaise dvd magazine
Celia Imrey (1987) website: principal of imrey culbert lp museum design firm in nyc current projects: louvre lens museum in lens france; kuwait national museum, kuwait city; the pierpont morgan library, nyc; the toledo museum of art, toledo ohio; the smithsonian american art museum, washington dc; the new york public library, nyc
Nina Jacobson: vice president, disney productions
Steven Johnson website: feed
darren jorgensen (2002) website: ba in art semiotics from brown university, rue student, mfa video production, university of michigan, ann arbor
Karen Jones: recently curated the exhibition "exceeding painting/expanding painting" at pratt institute in new york. This exhibition focused on contemporary artists who reject the formalist notion of painting as a self-referential activity by integrating other media into their practice or by investigating painting's institutional, social and political roles.
Ben Kafka: ssistant professor, department of media, culture, and communication, new york university. fellow, new york institute for the humanities. former fellow, princeton society of fellows. writing on the history and theory of paperwork.

sarah kessler (2003): ma candidate in modern studies at the university of wisconsin-milwaukee

Ann Kugler: media artist, installation and web artist, writer and regular columnist for online and hardcopy independent music magazines. frequent gallery shows in new york and elsewhere.
Damien Kulash: composer, musician (ok go)
Ivano Leoncavallo: executive, mtv
Natasha Leonnet: 2004-present efilm, hollywood senior digital intermediate colorist for feature films; selected credits: sin city, dir. & dp robert rodriguez, thank you for smoking, dir. jason reitman & dp james whittaker, casanova, dir. lasse hallstrom & dp oliver stapleton, cursed, dir. wes craven & dp tom priestley, the life aquatic, dir. wes anderson & dp robert yoeman, the great raid, dir. john dahl & dp peter menzies jr. 2001-2004 industrial light & magic, san rafael senior digital intermediate colorist for feature films; credits: episode ii: attack of the clones, the empire strikes back, re-release, thx 1138 re-release, dir. george lucas and once upon a time in mexico, dir. robert rodriguez
jessica levin (1996.5): Independent film producer Jessica Levin produced the Cannes Film Festival Quinzaine des Realisateurs Youth Prize and Independent Spirit Award-winning feature film DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT (IFC Films, 2007.) She associate produced the 2008 Sundance Waldo Salt Screenwriting award-winning feature film SLEEP DEALER (Official Selection - 2008 Berlin Film Festival Panorama, New Directors/New Films), co-produced the 2007 Sundance Audience Award and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award-winning GRACE IS GONE starring John Cusack, and associate produced DEDICATION starring Billy Crudup, released by the Weinstein Company. Other film producing credits include Aaron Woodley's RHINOCEROS EYES (Toronto Film Festival Discovery Award 2003) and the Sundance-winning short film "Gina, An Actress, Age 29." She is currently working on Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, and is based in NYC.
Sam Levy: cinematographer, nyc
Asa Mader: filmmaker, video-tv producer. "le maladie du mort" accepted into the venice biennale 2003
Xander Marro: arts activist, filmmaker, media curator and founding member of dirt palace, providence, ri
Cameron Martin: painter, whitney bienniale 2004

Jen meerow (1998) website: Jen is a television writer / producer who works mostly on
documentaries and cable series. Recent credits include "Get Fresh" a
show about organic living for Discovery Health Channel, and "Small
Space Big Style" for HGTV. She's also worked for Bill Moyers on a
project for PBS and in 2004 wrote and produced a program about
anti-Semitism in the modern age for PBS for which she traveled to
Israel, Egypt and France. It aired nationally and was well reviewed
by the NYT. Other projects include programs for Discovery, A&E, CBS
and CNN. Jen's also an amateur photographer.

Eve Meltzer: phd art history post-doc stanford
joe milutis website: Writer and media artist, author of _Ether: The Nothing That Connects
Everything_. Professor of sound art, University of South Carolina.
Jon Mortsugu: award winning independent filmmaker. shows at moma, the whitney and many international festivals
Susan Motamed: susan motamed helms jumbo films-- a non-fiction feature film production company-- with partner melanie judd. susan produced, “enron: the smartest guys in the room,” which was an official selection at the 2005 sundance film festival and was released theatrically by magnolia pictures. "enron" is a semi-finalist for the 2006 academy award for best documentary. susan co-produced “lightning in a bottle,” a blues tribute documentary with director antoine fuqua and executive producer martin scorsese. susan served as the supervising producer for the “blues” series for pbs, which featured films by directors including martin scorsese, mike figgis and wim wenders. she also co-produced “the trials of henry kissinger.” in addition to numerous documentaries for pbs, cable tv and theatrical distribution, susan’s credits include nick jr.’s “blues clues,” as well as various television commercials and music videos, some made with visual artist, doug aitken. susan graduated magna cum laude from brown in 1989 with an honors degree in modern culture and media. she can be reached at: susan@jumbofilm.com
Carrie Murphy: television producer, nyc
Kevin Murphy: currently in berlin
Lisa Oppenheim (1997): mfa, bard university, 2 year artist residency in amsterdam, currently teaching at suny binghamton, cinema department.
Sarah Oppenheimer website: http://www.foldingenterprises.com
scott pagano (2000) website: Scott Pagano & Jochem Paap: Hi-Fi Fusion
Put together the mixed and mashed art of Scott Pagano and the multifarious music of Jochem Paap and you get something the likes of which you’ve never experienced before. [Mar 02, 2007]
Aimee Papazian: mfa, bard university
Jenny Perlin website: filmmaker, currently teaching full time at mount holyoke and the five colleges. taught at sarah lawrence college for 5 years (mfa chicago art institute). lives in brooklyn ny.
Seth Price: featured artist at 2002 rotterdam film festival, one person show at moma, technical director, electronic arts intermix, top distributor of video arts in nyc
Rebecca Ratner: mfa in film, university of texas at austin
Elisabeth Reinkordt (2005): producing film and video art, running no coast films, and working as the multimedia specialist and video producer for the nebraska department of education, lincoln, ne. reinkordt@gmail.com
Rob Reynolds: post-doc teaching fellowship at harvard university, visual artist, nyc
Thomas Rizzo (1999): brown class of '99. writer and producer of vh1's "i love the" series. has written and produced documentaries for the history channel, a&e, and bravo.
Kent Rollins: graphic designer, mfa harvard
Ben Russell website: an experimental film/videomaker presently living in providence, rhode island. work has screened at moma (nyc) and in such exotic locales as tokyo, cologne, rotterdam, toronto, and iowa city. programs magic lantern, an on-going series of experimental film and video in providence (www.magiclanterncinema.com) and is currently at work on a feature-length western about the uncertain mythology of billy the kid.
Catherine Saalfield-Gund: video artist, activist, nyc
Deborah Scranton website: internationally acclaimed film director, new hampshire & nyc, films include "stories from silence, witness to war"(2003) and "the war tapes"(2006) winner of best documentary feature at the 2006 tribeca film festival and winner of best international documentary at the 2006 britdoc film festival. scranton will be a senior visiting fellow at the watson institute for international studies at Brown University for spring and fall 2007
Kevin Segall website: essential media
Davina Semo: mfa candidate, uc/san diego

Molly Shapiro website: writer and editor, author of "eternal city"
Lincoln Shlensky website: assistant professor of english, university of south alabama. ph.d., 2003, uc berkeley (comparative literature)
Brad Simpson: film producer, numerous major credits, head of, leonardo dicaprio's production company, appian way
Justin Slosky (2003) website: currently living near the beach in santa monica, ca. advertising pays my bills. working on short films, one of which was screened at the cambridge film festival in england.
Carlos Solis Jr.
Emily Spivak (2001) website: founder, shop well with you, helping women with breast cancer
James Thomas: director of in-house media, general electric; film in the new york film festival,
Kerry Tribe (1997) website: media artist living and working in los angeles
Mark Tribe (1990) website: artist and curator whose interests lie at the intersection of emerging technologies and contemporary art. he is assistant professor of modern culture and media studies at brown university, where he teaches courses in the theory and practice of digital media. he is the co-author, with reena jana, of new media art (taschen, 2006). his art work has been exhibited at the zkm center for art and media in karlsruhe, the ars electronica festival in linz, and gigantic art space in new york city. he has organized curatorial projects for the new museum of contemporary art, mass moca, and insite_05. in 1996, he founded rhizome.org, an online resource for new media art. mark now chairs the rhizome.org board of directors and also serves on the board of isea, the inter-society for the electronic arts. he speaks widely on art and technology and frequently participates in grant selection panels and award juries. mark received a mfa in visual art from the university of california, san diego in 1994 and a ba in visual art from brown university in 1990. he lives in new york city.
David Udris (1990) website: currently working at brown university in the modern culture and media department as the media facilities manager, david udris and michael udris are the principal designers and owners of amedia. their work has appeared in venues as diverse as galleries, screening rooms, and national television, and in publications from rolling stone and art in america to the washington post. they are joined by a team of designers and production personnel from diverse backrounds including film and broadcast production, web, and multimedia design.
Michael Udris (1991) website: mfa, center for 20th century studies, university of wisconsin/milwaukee, producer/director, providence, ri
Christine Vachon: producer of independent films (far from heaven, boys don't cry, one hour photo, a dirty shame, happiness, velvet goldmine, safe, poison, i shot andy warhol, go fish, and swoon). christine, along with partners pamela koffler and katie roumel, runs killer films, which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary. killer is currently in post-production on mrs. harris, the story of the scarsdale diet doctor murder directed by phyllis nagy; mary harron's new film the notorious bettie page; and douglas mcgrath's every word is true. upcoming projects on the killer slate include i'm not there, todd haynes' new film concerning bob dylan; savage grace, which will be directed by tom kalin; and then she found me, helen hunt’s directing debut. in 1994, christine was awarded the frameline award for outstanding achievement in lesbian and gay media and in 1996 was honored with the prestigious muse award for outstanding vision and achievement by new york women in film and television. she received the ifp’s 1999 gotham award for producing. most recently christine was honored by the new york film critics circle for her work on far from heaven, and received the producer of the year award from the national board of review. christine's book, shooting to kill: how an independent producer blasts through barriers to make movies that matter, was published in the fall of 1998 by avon, and was a los angeles times bestseller. she is currently at work on her second book, which will be published by simon and schuster in this winter.
lindA zacks (1995) website: brooklyn-based artist, illustrator, designer dabbling in all things creative...
Jeff Zimbalist (2000) website: directing and shooting a documentary for the un on economic development programs in northern india. tribeca film festival: best new documentary filmmaker jeff zimbalist (art semiotics dec'00), matt mochary, favela rising (brazil/usa)
Pete Zuccarini: leading underwater cinematographer, working for national geographic and on many hollywood productions