Advisory Committee

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Bernardi, Joanne

Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies

Head, Japanese Program

Project Director, Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th C. Visual and Material Culture

Office Location
409 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4251
Web Address
Website

Interests: Japanese cinema and culture, especially popular culture; film and media studies; visual and material culture; moving image archiving and preservation; travel and tourism studies; nuclear culture; digital humanities; ephemera studies; object-based learning

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Bernardo, Nancy A.

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Professor of Digital Media Studies (Instruction)

Office Location
213 Morey Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Graphic Design; History of Graphic Design (1850-1995); Typography; Collage; Victorian ephemera; Dada; Punk culture; Letterpress printing; RISO printing; Motion Design

Mark Bocko

Bocko, Mark

Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Director, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS)

Director, Audio & Music Engineering

Office Location
709 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-4879

Interests: Audio and acoustic signal processing; Computer audition; Sensors and transducers

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Burges, Joel

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
413 Morey Hall

Interests: Media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; 20th and 21st century film and television; Critical and cultural theory; Digital humanities, especially digital annotation, data visualization, and videographic criticism; Labor and culture; Audiovisual histories of race, class, gender, and sexuality

George Ferguson

Ferguson, George

Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program

Office Location
2103 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents; Agent communication languages; Agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems

Joseph Loporcaro

Loporcaro, Joseph

Assistant Professor of Digital Media Studies and Computer Science (Instruction)

Office Location
206B Morey Hall

Interests: Video game design, development, theory, and culture; digital media theory and production; mass media and pop culture; technology/media ethics; design thinking, research writing; social media studies; web design and development

Allen Topolski

Topolski, Allen

Associate Professor

Chair, Department of Art and Art History

Office Location
Sage Art Center
Telephone
(585) 273-5994
Web Address
Website

Interests: Studio production that incorporates found materials and a variety of processes to explore nostalgia and memory in technologies of domesticity and convenience.