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Michael J. O’Rourke
Professor
M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ed.M., Harvard
University; artist, author, educator; selected exhibitions
include: Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington, D.C.;
Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Isetan Museum, Tokyo;
Laumont Editions, NYC; Hong Gah Museum, Taipei; Uma
Gallery, NYC.Peter Patchen
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M.F.A., University of Oregon; Peter Frank Patchen is a
digital artist exhibiting and lecturing nationally and
internationally. He grew up in Colorado where the
natural environment had a profound influence on his
perception of the relationships that exist between
nature, humanity, culture and technology. In 1993, he
founded the Cyber Arts (now New Media) program
at the University of Toledo. Recent work includes
interactive artworks, prints, web-based art, and mixed
media pieces.Mira Scharf
Visiting instructor
B.S., University of California, San Diego; M.F.A University
of California, Los Angeles; animated for television
programming including Dilbert, Queer Duck, Assy
McGee, Wonder Pets, Sesame Street shorts and Pinky
Dinky Doo; also animated many webisodes for General
Mills, Postopia, and PBS Kids, and animated computer
games for Dreamworks Interactive, Knowledge
Adventure, and others; illustrated 25 educational
workbooks for U.R.J. Press and has written copy for
computer games and created story and graphic content
for computer game play as well; her cartoons have
appeared in Harvard Business Review, Reader’s Digest,
Funny Times, and Narrative magazine.Claudia Tait
AssociAte Professor
M.F.A., University of Maryland Baltimore County;
B.F.A., Ringling School of Art and Design; Claudia Herbst
is a digital artist and media theorist whose works
explore the meaning of technology in the construction
of gender. Her critical inquiries focus on the social,
political, and economic role of computer programming
and contextualize technology’s languages as a
form of writing and literacy. Herbst joined the Pratt
community in 1999.Top, Bottom Left: Zach Hyer; Bottom Right: Zach Hyer
receiving 2011 Student Academy Award for Animation