FACULTY: B

ADAM BEHAR : Animator; technical director; Web designer; chief information officer, School of Visual Arts
BA, Adelphi University; MFA, School of Visual Arts. Clients include: Artbyte, Sony PlayStation Magazine, Six Flags Great Adventure, Popeye's Chicken, Nicorette, AMC Theatres, LG Electronics, WorldCom, Pixel Generation, Def Jam Records, MTV, VH1

BENJAMIN BOBKOFF: Designer
BFA, Cornell University, MPS School of Visual Arts 2008. Graphic Design Clients include: Tom Ring Interior Design, Citibank, KPMG Peat Marwick, Ernst and Young, Fitness Magazine,  Keepsake Diamond Jewelry, Trilogy Diamond Jewelry, SMART, and Miksue Cosmetics. Fashion Clients include: Paper Magic Group, Brownstone Studio, Ecko Unltd., Davide Cenci, Baby Togs. Exhibitions inlclude: Hudson Guild Gallery and Olympia and York Gallery. Publications: Woman's Day Magazine, The New York Times.

FACULTY: C

ALEX CHEPAREV : Modeling supervisor, Charlex Inc.
BFA, School of Visual Arts. Clients include: Cingular, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, Rockstar Games, M&Ms, Samsung, Visa, Nextel, America Online

STUART CUDLITZ: Fine Artist, Writer, Designer & Director
Formerly the creative director for digital media and new media at (Colossal)Pictures and Media Concrete in San Francisco. His many film and television credits include The Twilight Zone, Top Gun, Tucker, MTV/Liquid Television, The Cartoon Network and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Past writing, design and direction clients across media include: Hewlett-Packard Labs, IBM, Warner Bros. Records, Silicon Graphics, Electronic Arts, The National Geographic Society, MTV Networks.

Exhibitions and screenings include: SIGGRAPGH, Mill Valley Film Festival, The Conservatory of Music at the Hague and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Publications include articles, design and illustrations for: Contact Quarterly, MACWORLD  and  WIRED magazines. Awards include: Massachusetts Council for the Arts Grant, N.E.H. Grant, International Monitor Awards, CINE Golden Eagle, Interactive Media Awards.

FACULTY: D

JOSH DAVIS: Artist, Author, Technologist
Joshua Davis is a New York artist and technologist producing both public and private work on and off the Web. His site : http://www.praystation.com was the winner of the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category Net Excellence, the highest honor in international net art and design. Honored as one of the IPPA's 2000 / 2001 Ten Most Creative People. He lectures globally on his work, inspirations and motivations. Josh has been interviewed in diverse media ranging from broadcast television, CNN to MTV – print magazines GQ, appeared on the cover of Shift in Toronto, the BBC, Creative Review, Create Online, IdN, the New York Times.

Josh has recently collected his inspirations, musings and thoughts on design in his first effort at authorship - Flash to the Core: An Interactive Sketchbook published by New Riders. (http://flashtothecore.praystation.com)

Clients include : Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Bad Boy Records, Sony, Puff Daddy, Eminiem, VW, Barney's New York, Motown Records, Skyy/Miller Brewing, Nike, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Diesel.
Gallery shows and Museum exhibitions/ installations: PS1 Moma Queens, NY, Eyebeam Museum, NY, the New Museum, NY, Princeton Art Museum, Design Museum, London, ICA London, Whitney Museum, NY, Ars Electronica Center, Linz Austria, and Bitforms, NY.
studio@praystation.com


ERICK DEMARTINO: President, Creative Director, Co-Founder, DeMartino Design
Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Corporate Trainer:
Pan American Art School. Clients have included: American Express, Chase, Chemical Bank, Dean Witter Realty, Forbes magazine, Kiplinger's magazine, Macmillan McGraw-Hill, Merrill Lynch, Veronis Suhler and USA Today. Publications included: Graphically Bold, The Big Book of Logos, American Corporate Identity Annuals. He has received over 200 awards including two Direct Marketing Leader Awards, DMA (Direct Marketing Association) Bronze ECHO, Print Annual, Graphic Design USA/DESI, American Corporate Identity.

STEPHAN DICKINSON
Steve graduated in 1994 from DeVry Woodbridge with a degree in Computer Information Systems. After 18 months as a manager in the support decision of Quantex Microsystems, Steve returned to his first true love, computer graphics and animation. Relocating to Pompano Beach, Florida he began a six-month tour as an animator before returning to the Northeast. Here he took up the mantle of Technology Trainer for the School of Visual Arts. After 15 months of supporting the staff of the school, Steve turned his attention to the scholastic side of educational process, and took over as the Windows network administrator for the BFA Computer Art department. When not up to the elbows in networking protocols, Steve spends his time animating, swordfighting, writing, watching anime, or attempting to educate the students on the deeper meanings held within Transformers, the Motion Picture.

FACULTY: E

KATRIN EISMANN: Artist, Author, Educator
Katrin Eismann is the chair of the MPS in Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts. She is the author of Photoshop Restoration & Retouching and  Photoshop Masking & Compositing and co-author of: The Creative Digital Darkroom and Real World Digital Photography. She received her BFA degree in Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her MFA degree in Design from the School of Visual Arts.
http://www.katrineismann.com

MARION ENGELBACH-ENNIS: Digital VFX Artist
Clients include : Blue Sky Studios, Moondog Edit, Consulate Films,  HBO, RIOT, MTV, Psyop, Madhouse, Manic, Brand New School, Autodesk Training, the Center for Advanced Digital Applications at NYU, Pratt Institute, Alias-Wavefront
Film Credits: Ice Age The Meltdown. Horton Hears a Who.
Software : Smoke, Flame, Combustion, Shake, Photoshop, Digital Fusion, Mokey, Monet.
Autodesk Certified Instructor.
Education : Architecture Graduate (D.P.L.G.), Paris, France.
20 years  experience covers industries such as : On-line Editing and VFX Post-Production for video and film, 3D Modeling & Animation, Architecture & 3D Design Visualization.

FACULTY: F

VIC FINA: Computer graphic technical director
BFA, School of Visual Arts. Clients include: Sci-Fi Channel, CBS News, Golf Channel, Bear Stearns, Johnson & Johnson, Disney, Ford, Foster Medical Communication, Nickelodeon, VH1, MSG Network, New York Stock Exchange, New York University Medical Center, USA Network

LYNN FISCHER: Senior Producer, Fortune.com.
BA, New York University. Clients include: IBM, iVillage, Joan Rivers Worldwide, bluemercury.com, American Express, Yvonne Force, Inc.

SHARON FLEISCHMANN: Computer/Fine Artist
BFA, with honors, MFA, School of Visual Arts; SUNY at Buffalo. Clients include:  BIACORE Inc., Evergreen Media, Hello World Inc., Home Aid Inc., Home Box Office, Jehan Kamal Enterprises, Kids Cuts Inc., Manhattan Marketing Inc., Sony, The New York Post, The New York Times, The New York Typographical Union, WNEW FM. Group exhibitions include: 20/20 Gallery, Felitti, The Edge Lounge, L.H.S. Alumni Art Show, Visual Arts Gallery

TINA FONG: Computer Graphic Artist
BA, Columbia University; School of Visual Arts. Clients include: JBRH advertising, ABC News.com, Prudential Securities,
Newsweek, Young & Rubicam.
She is also currently a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® instructor.