Austin Gardner
I've been an animation fanatic for as long as I can remember, with a love for Disney, Don Bluth, anime, and many Western animated series. In recent years, I have been working on a web-comic on my deviantArt page and have made a short rotoscope animation on YouTube. Most of the animated programming I watch comes from the eighties and nineties, as I feel that there was a certain level of effort and general appeal that seems to be seriously lacking in most of today's animated programming.
Anne Collins Goodyear (Co-director, Bowdoin Art Museum) is former curator at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. As president of the College Art Association she presided over its first THATCamp in 2013.
Ari Epstein (Terrascope, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT) devises innovative settings for project-based, team-oriented education, from youth radio to exhibition design.
Nicole Starosielski (Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU) focuses on the global distribution of digital media, most recently on how transoceanic cables from telegraph to Internet have affected the geopolitics of islands and coasts. Her new media project Surfacing inspired the conference's title.
Andrew Stauffer (Department of English, University of Virginia) is renowned as a digital historian of 19th-century literature and for his leadership of NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship).
