Faculty

Faculty

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First Name:	Tom
Last Name:	Denlinger
Email:	denlinge@lakeforest.edu
Department:	Art
College:	Lake Forest College
Bio:	Tom Denlinger, one of the Faculty administrators of the Corpse Project. Assistant Professor of Art, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois. MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago B.A., California State University, Hayward, CA. Mr. Denlinger is a photographer and videographer who has had solo exhibitions in New York and Chicago, as well as two person and group exhibitions in Seoul, Madrid, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Medellin, Colombia. His latest video work was exhibited by the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in October, 2004, and will be screened again in September of 2005 in Philadephia. He has received grants from the Artadia organization of New York, the Kunstlerhaus, e.V. in Hamburg, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Illinois Arts Council. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Frankfurt Allgemeine, Szene-Hamburg, the New Art Examiner and Art Papers, and he has been collected by Art Frankfurt, the MacArthur Foundation, the City of Chicago, LaSalle Bank, and the Refco collection of photography. He is currently co-editing an anthology on contemporary uses of the Surrealist Exquisite Corpse, The Exquisite Corpse: Creativity, Collaboration, and the World’s Most Popular Parlor Game, with Lake Forest College Professor Davis Schneiderman and University of Washington Professor Kanta Kochar-Lindgren.

First Name:	Davis
Last Name:	Schneiderman
Email:	dschneid@lakeforest.edu
Department:	English
College:	Lake Forest College
Bio:	Davis Schneiderman is Chair of the American Studies Program and an Assistant Professor of English at Lake Forest College. His creative work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been accepted by numerous journals including Fiction International, The Iowa Review Web, Exquisite Corpse, Diagram, 3rd Bed, The Little Magazine, and Gargoyle. He is co-editor of the critical collection Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto Press, 2004). Dr. Schneiderman is currently co-editing an anthology on contemporary uses of the Surrealist Exquisite Corpse, as well as co-editing the new literary journal Potion.
Personal Statement:	The Exquisite Corpse project is an attempt to release the marvelous--to liberate desire--from everyday experience. The changes brought on by the electronic revolution require new methods to compete with the limiting structures of traditional "realist" art making. As a process that introduces chance into the equation, a method that exploits the computer medium to both collapse and complicate distance, this multi-campus Exquisite Corpse project explodes from the paper of the old Surrealist game into surprising critical and creative spaces.

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First Name:	Dan
Last Name:	Raffin
Email:	draffin@coloradocollege.edu
Department:	Art
College:	Colorado College

First Name:	Marjorie
Last Name:	Blackwell
Email:	MBLACKWE@monm.edu
Department:	Art
College:	Monmouth College
Bio:	Marjorie Blackwell did her B.F.A. in Studio Art at Manhattanville College, then worked in various art-related businesses in the United States and abroad before taking her M.F.A. in painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Blackwell has displayed her paintings in juried shows across the country and was one of the artists chosen to participate in the Cow Parade in New York City. In 1999 Blackwell was commissioned by Arts for Transit in New York City to create a series of stained glass panels for a public installation at its Mount Vernon railway station; in 2002 she received the commendation of the City Of Mount Vernon for her work. Blackwell has been an assistant professor of art at Monmouth College since 2000.

First Name:	Cindy
Last Name:	O’Dell
Email:	codell@depauw.edu
Department:	Art
College:	DePauw University
Bio:	Cynthia O’Dell is an Associate Professor of Art and head of DePauw’s photography and video art curriculum. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder. A photographer and video artist, O’Dell explores the intersections of female identity, both personal and public, issues of narrativity, land politics, autobiography and the documentary form. She has had 18 solo exhibitions/screenings including the Viewing Room Gallery in New York. Among her awards are the DePauw Fisher Fellowship and Elftmann Faculty Fellowship and an Indiana Artists Grant. Her most recent video work, Residue of Memory, was debuted at the Mine-Cine Independent Film Center in Louisiana and received Best Experimental Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in the Spring of 2003.

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First Name:	Marcella
Last Name:	Hackbardt
Email:	hackbardtm@kenyon.edu
Department:	Art
College:	Kenyon College

First Name:	Tom
Last Name:	Lopez
Email:	Tom.Lopez@oberlin.edu
Department:	Music
College:	Oberlin College
Bio:	Tom Lopez teaches at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music; Assistant Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts. He is also the Director of the Computer Music Program at The Walden School. Tom has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Knight Foundation, the Disney Foundation, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and a Fulbright Fellowship as composer-in-residence at the Centre International de Recherche Musical in Nice, France. He has appeared at festivals and conferences around the world as a guest lecturer and composer. Tom is on the board of directors of the Living Music Foundation, has served on the executive committee of SCI (Society of Composers, Inc.), and was president of the Texas Computer Musicians Network. He has been a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Copland House, Villa Montalvo, and Djerassi. His compositions have received critical acclaim and peer recognition; including a Grant for Young Composers from ASCAP and CD releases by Vox Novus, SCI, and SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States). His music has been performed around the world and throughout the United States including The Kennedy Center.
Personal Statement:	Tom enjoys listening.

First Name:	John
Last Name:	Bickar
Email:	jbickar@ColoradoCollege.edu
Department:	Art
College:	Colorado College
Bio:	John Bickar is the head honcho of the truncated archipelago that is the Colorado College Art Department Video Lab. He is the mast that students cling to when the hurricane winds of broken timecode threaten to blow their academic career off course. John has been elbow-deep in the entrails of the Exquisite Corpse project since 2002.
Personal Statement:	I won the Caddy Scholarship.

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First Name:	Tom
Last Name:	House
Email:	houset@kenyon.edu
Department:	Art
College:	Kenyon College

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First Name:	Jin
Last Name:	Kim
Email:	jkim@depauw.edu
Department:	Art
College:	DePauw University

First Name:	Susan
Last Name:	Savage
Email:	savage@monm.edu
Department:	Instructional Technology
College:	Monmouth College

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First Name:	John
Last Name:	Talbert
Email:	John.Talbert@Oberlin.edu
Department:	Music
College:	Oberlin College

First Name:	David
Last Name:	Levinson
Email:	levinson@lakeforest.edu
Department:	Library and Information Technology
College:	Lake Forest College

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First Name:	Scott
Last Name:	Prater
Email:	scott@bellver.net
Department:	None
College:	Lake Forest College

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First Name:	Peter
Last Name:	Williams
Email:	peterwilliams@depauw.edu
Department:	Art
College:	DePauw University

Exquisite Corpse Project—A collaboration on the creation of multimedia works of art among undergraduate students from Colorado College, DePauw University, Kenyon College, Lake Forest College, Monmouth College, and Oberlin College

Sponsored by the Midwest Instructional Technology Center, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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