Faculty

Bob Kaputof is Chair and Associate Professor of the Kinetic Imaging Department. He teaches video and animation and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Bob received his BA from Chico State and his MFA in Sculpture from the University of California at Berkeley.

Bob Paris is a video artist whose work has screened at the Whitney Biennial, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Image Forum in Tokyo, and a variety of other venues around the world. Many of his videos use appropriated imagery to form critiques of mass media and popular culture.

Rachele Riley is an artist and graphic designer who received her MFA in Visual Communication from Virginia Commonwealth University in May 2005. She combines drawing, collage, lettering and video to make work that responds to representations of violence in our everyday. She has exhibited and screened her work in Dublin, Richmond, Washington, D.C., and Amsterdam. She had the pleasure of designing this website with Patrick Power. See Rachele's thesis project or website.

Semi Ryu is Assistant Professor in Kinetic Imaging. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and BFA from the Korean National University of Arts. Her 3D-animations and virtual interactive puppetry has been widely presented at international festivals in over 14 different countries, including the Annecy Animation Festival, France; Transmediale, Germany; Netmage, Italy; Videobrasil, Brasil; ISEA 2002, Japan; and SIGGRAPH 1999 & 2OO1. Her animations have won numerous awards, including Best Young Animated Film at the 11th International Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart, Germany, which is the second-largest event of its kind. In 2004 Semi presented her paper “Ritualizing Interactive Media,” which merges the boundaries between art, science and philosophy, at the International Whitehead Philosophy Conference in Korea, and in Bejing, China.

Pam Turner began her creative inquiry in photography and in the mid-1980’s expanded into the realm of the moving image: video, film, and computer animation. Since 1995 she has taught studio and lecture courses in 3D-computer and experimental animation. Pam encourages interdisciplinary approaches—thinking, and getting the work, outside of the box. Natural forms and spaces, and a mythical experience of those forms inspire much of her work, which has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at galleries and film festivals, including the Ajijic Festival Internacional de Cine 2000, Ajijic, Mexico; Microcinema’s Independent Exposure; the Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY; Nashville Independent Film Festival; Worldfest Houston; and the Mill Valley Film Festival. Her animation Falling Back to Earth: Tomatillo (2000) won a Director’s Citation at the 21st Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival, a Gold Award in Experimental Video and Film Animation at Worldfest Houston, Best Animated Narrative Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival, and the CiNY (Cinewomen New York) Award for Outstanding Filmmaking in Animation. Pam is currently completing research on the late animator Adam Beckett, who was the head of animation and rotoscoping for Industrial Light and Magic’s 1977 Star Wars. Her educational background includes a BFA in Art History/Studio and a MFA in Visual Communication, both from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Stephen Vitiello is Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinetic Imaging. He is a renowned sound and media artist whose work—sound installations, CDs, and performances—has been presented internationally and resides in such permanent collections as the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has been a guest media curator for the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, and the Knitting Factory. Visit Stephen's website.

Adjunct Faculty

Matt Flowers received his BFA in Sculpture from VCU in 2003. His video work has recently screened at the Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum in Naples; The Anthology Film Archive in New York; and Museum 52 in London. He is currently working on a project of great importance. Visit Matt's website.

Alumni

Patrick Power is pursuing his MFA in Electronic Imaging at Alfred University in New York. He taught web design and video as Adjunct Faculty in the Kinetic Imaging, the Communcation Arts and the Design Departments. Patrick received his BGS in Film Studies and a minor in Philosophy from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995. Visit Patrick's website.