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Panelists & Moderators, R - Z
Kimerly Rorschach Dr. Rorschach held curatorial positions at the Rosenbach Museum & Library and the Philadelphia Museum of Art before becoming the Dana Feitler Director of the Smart in 1994. She is a specialist in 18th-century British art and has published many exhibition catalogues, articles, and reviews. She serves on the University of Chicago's Committee on the Visual Arts and the faculty steering committee of the Cultural Policy Center. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and a Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, where she teaches a course in art law. See The Smart Museum home page.back to menu Andrew M. Rosenfield, an economist and a lawyer, was educated at Kenyon College, Harvard University, The University of Chicago and The University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Rosenfield is Chairman and CEO of UNext, an internet education firm that he founded in 1998. UNext is bringing high-quality education to employed people throughout the world. Prior to forming UNext, Mr. Rosenfield was President and Chairman of Lexecon Inc., a firm that he co-founded in 1977 with Richard A. Posner (now the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit) and William M. Landes (The Clifton R. Musser Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago). Mr. Rosenfield also is active in the Chicago community and is a member of the Board of Trustees of The University of Chicago and of The University of Chicago Hospital System, a member of the Board of Directors of The Lyric Opera of Chicago and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago. See The UNext web site.back to menu Lawrence Rothfield Lawrence Rothfield is Associate Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Cultural Policy Program at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1992) and editor of Unsettling Sensation: Arts Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy (Rutgers Press, 2001). back to menu Ellen Sandor, an MFA graduate from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is the founding artist and director of (art)n. In 1983, in Chicago, she produced the first large scale, digitally immersive environment entitled PHSCologram '83. This compelling installation opened a dialogue in new media circles for what would later become known in the digital era as "Virtual Reality." Sandor's work sketched the potential for fine arts applications of virtual reality and opened doors for artists to collaborate with scientists, working with NASA, JPL, the Scripps Institute and others. (art)n's works have been commissioned by many museums, and private and corporate collections. Ms. Sandor's works are in the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, International Center of Photography NYC, The Smithsonian Institution, The US Art in Embassies Program and various private collections. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has co-authored juried papers on (art)n's computer interleaving process, and has lectured by invitation in Europe, Canada and the United States. Her award winning web site was the first in 1993/94 to show on-line exhibitions and galleries that present art history with computer graphics in a salon environment. She is a co-inventor of PHSColograms and the primary inventor of computer interleaving and improvement patents. J. Mark Schuster Mark Schuster is Professor of Urban Cultural Policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The University of Chicago Harris School’s 2001-2002 Visiting Professor of Cultural Policy, Schuster is a public policy analyst who specializes in the analysis of government policies and programs with respect to the arts, culture, and environmental design. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and reports including: Preserving the Built Heritage: Tools for Implementation, with John de Monchaux and Charles Riley (University Press of New England); Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy, with Michael O’Hare and Alan Feld (New York University Press); Supporting the Arts: An International Comparative Study (National Endowment for the Arts); Who's to Pay for the Arts? The International Search for Models of Arts Support, with Milton Cummings (American Council for the Arts); The Audience for American Art Museums, and The Geography of Participation in the Arts and Culture (Seven Locks Press). Schuster is a founding member of the Association for Cultural Economics and is co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics. He also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Policy. Geoffrey Stone Geoffrey Stone attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Law Review, and was awarded his degree cum laude. Following graduation in 1971, Mr. Stone served as law clerk to Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He spent the next year as law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Stone was admitted to the New York Bar in 1972 and has been a member of the faculty since 1973. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Stone served as dean of the Law School. Mr. Stone has served on the Board of Governors of the Chicago Council of Lawyers, on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union, Illinois Division, and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently a member of the National Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory. Mr. Stone has taught courses in constitutional law, civil procedure, evidence, criminal procedure, contracts, and regulation of the competitive process. Mr. Stone has written a casebook with Mr. Sunstein in the area of constitutional law. He has also written numerous articles concerning such matters as the freedom of speech and press, freedom of religion, the constitutionality of police use of secret agents and informants, the privilege against self-incrimination, the Supreme Court, and the FBI. Mr. Stone is the editor, with David Strauss and Dennis Hutchinson, of the Supreme Court Review.
Cass Sunstein Cass Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law School and the Dept. of Political Science. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects including the marketing of video games, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sunstein has been Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia, visiting professor of law at Harvard, a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC, and a member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. He is author of many articles and a number of books, including republic.com (2001), Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech (1993), Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict (1996), and Free Markets and Social Justice (1997). He is now working on various projects involving the relationship between law and human behavior.
Yuri Tsivian Yuri Tsivian is professor in the Departments of Art History, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies. He was born in Riga, studied film at the Institute for the History of Arts in Moscow and received his Ph.D. in film studies from Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema in Leningrad in 1984. Before joining the University of Chicago in 1996, Tsivian worked as a senior research fellow at the Latvian Academy of Sciences in Riga and has taught at USC. His books include Silent Witnesses: Russian Films, 1908-1919, and Early Cinema in Russia and Its Cultural Reception (Routledge 1994). Tsivian is also involved in the restoration and video mastering of silent films; see his running voice-over audio essay for the music version of Dziga Vertov's The Man with the Movie Camera recorded on a recent laser disk version of this film (Image Entertainment, 1995). His most recent publication is available in electronic form as a fully bilingual (English and Russian) CD ROM called Immaterial Bodies: Cultural Anatomy of Early Russian Films (due this year from the University of Southern California Electronic Press). Tsivian is now working on a book on Sergei Eisenstein's film Ivan the Terrible, and co-editing with Tom Gunning and Richard Abel a book to be called International Anthology of Early Film Literature (Princeton University Press).
Hamza Walker Since 1994, Hamza Walker has served as Director of Education for The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago -- a non-collecting museum devoted to contemporary art. Prior to his position at the Society, he worked as a public art coordinator for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. He has written articles and reviews for such publications as Trans, New Art Examiner and Parkett and recently co-edited the Raymond Pettibon Reader. For several years before its closing, he served on the board of Randolph Street Gallery and is currently on the boards of Noon, an annual publication of short fiction, and Lampo, a non-profit presenter of new and experimental music. He has served on numerous panels, locally, nationally, and internationally and is the recipient of the 1999 Norton Curatorial Grant. back to menu David Walsh David Walsh, Ph.D., founded the National Institute on Media and the Family in 1996. As President, Dr. Walsh spearheads the Institute's efforts to provide information about media to parents, teachers, and other concerned adults-through education, research, and advocacy. Psychologist, educator, family therapist, author, speaker, husband, and father of three, David Walsh is one of the leading authorities in North America on family life, parenting, and the impact of media on children. He is also a leading voice in addressing the issues of media's impact on brain development in children. Dr. Walsh is the spokesperson for the American Medical Association's media violence campaign, and a participant in the "Safe From the Start" summit hosted by the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services. He is the author of several books including, Selling Out America's Children: How America Puts Profits Before Values and What Parents Can Do (Fairview Press, 1994). Walsh is also a frequent guest on national programs such as "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," "Dateline NBC," and National Public Radio. His editorials have appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times. Dr. Walsh is on the faculty of University of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota and is active in many professional associations. Dr. Walsh is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1999 Minnesota Council on Family Relations' Friend of the Family Award, and the Harriet Burns Award for Professional Psychology presented by the University of St. Thomas to the outstanding Minnesota Psychologist in 1992. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Minnesota Psychological Association. Eric is co-founder and CEO of gameLab, a New York-based game developer. gameLab's first title, BLiX, is available on Shockwave.com. Pre-gameLab titles include the critically acclaimed SiSSYFiGHT 2000 (www.sissyfight.com, created with Word.com). Eric's non-computer game projects include the interactive paper book Life in the Garden; Organism, a board game published by ArtByte in 2000; and game installations for gallery and museum spaces. Eric has taught game design and interactive narrative design at MIT, New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and Parsons School of Design. He has published and lectured extensively on the design and culture of play and games and is currently co-authoring a book with Katie Salen about game design to be published by MIT Press in 2002. |
