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Areas of expertise: Animation, Art, Ethnicity, New Media, Public Art, Theater


Biography, Education and Training

  John Jota Leaños is a Mestizo (Mexican-Italian-Chumash) interdisciplinary artist, documentary animator and social art practitioner concerned with the embattled terrains of history and memory as they relate to nation, power and social justice. Leaños is a Guggenheim Fellow of Film and Media, Creative Capital Artist and United States Artist (USA) Fellow. His practice includes a range of media arts, documentary animation, video, public art, installation and performance introdu... more »


Areas of expertise: Digital Media, New Media, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Animation, Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Activism


Biography, Education and Training

As a first-generation middle school, high school, and college graduate, I was fortunate to attend and earn my B.F.A. from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, an institution with a radically progressive history founded on the belief that advanced education should be free. It was here that my nascent interest in community building conceptually merged with art practice, media-making, and humanities scholarship, thereby laying a foundation for research into creative embodied app... more »

Chris Yonge

Chris Yonge

Continuing Lecturer

Computational Media

Areas of expertise: Animation, Design, Digital Media


Biography, Education and Training

Chris has been involved in technical/creative professions for most of his life. Starting his university studies in pure Math he graduated as an architect, then retrained as a furniture maker and worked for ten years as an independent designer/maker in Scotland. Moving to the US in 1989 he added a Master’s in product design and subsequently pursued a successful design career in North Carolina and California before being hired by Sun Microsystems as a senior digital modeler and animator. In ... more »

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