Mariah Mills
I am a Studio art and New Media double major looking forward to a career in the film and video gaming industry. My primary talent reflects very well in my ability to create conceptual creatures and character concepts. I have talent in most traditional and digital mediums, a mastery in photoshop, and strong understanding of design concepts.
I would love to learn how to 3D sculpt, and I think it would inspire my artistic creativity if I had the opportunity to be able to create one of my concepts and view it in 3dimensional form.
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).
