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VISITING SCHOLARS

Jon Goldman (pending Fall 2004)
Project Title: Windows to the World: Face2Face

Project Description:
Children from around the world will study, reflect and share their cultures though multimedia and low cost telecommunication technologies. Connections are slated for sites in the USA, UK, Italy, and France. Massart graduate students will work together with an international team of educators to develop and execute curriculum that will challenge children to create projects with the focus of their own meanings of HOME.

Jon Goldman is an environmental artist, sculptor, painter, designer and entrepreneur. His work can be seen in the recent book "The Look of the Twentieth Century", by Michael Tambini and Doris Kindersley. The Boston Globe has called him" a digital renaissance man".

Key Research Areas:
Internet-based education project, community-based arts, new media arts.

Websites:
http://www.goldmanarts.com/jonjournal.html
http://www.goldmanarts.com/resume.html

Ellen Ginsburg PhD (Spring 2005)
eginsburg@mcp.edu

Project Title:
The Turning Point Machine: Messages from South End Artists

Project Description and Student Involvement:

Dr. Ginsberg will be conducting research in the local Boston artist community that will be used in an interactive installation at the Mills Gallery in 2005. She will spend her time at Massart working with graduate students on the action research methods that are unique to this project and will also teach the course, History and Philosophy of Mass Media. Through issues of health care in the artist community the project explores how outside forces, acting in seemingly random ways, can over time incrementally change a community. The forces of change range from economic to social and personal to political. The installation at the Mills Gallery which is co-designed by Professor Jennifer Hall, will reflect and examine these changes.

Dr. Ginsburg is a cultural anthropologist with a focus in contemporary media.

Key Research Areas:
Ethnicity, medical anthropology/sociology, technology, new media arts.

Websites:
http://babel.massart.edu/~eginsburg

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