Faculty

Craig Hickman

Professor, Digital Arts
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Office: 101 Millrace 1
(541) 346-3605
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Craig Hickman is a Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Oregon. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Washington, Seattle. Hickman is a photographer, software designer and expert at physical computing. He is a co-founder of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, creator of the Kid Pix art program, and Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Oregon. He was recently honored as a pioneer who has made a profound impact as part of Apple’s 30th anniversary of the Macintosh.

Colin Ives

Program Director
Associate Professor, Art & Technology

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Office: 103 Millrace 1
(541) 346-0072
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Professor Ives’ creative practice operates within a nexus of overlapping cultural categories, including art, technology, and ecology. The tools central to his work, digital media and the computer, are themselves representative of a hybrid discourse. They intersect with and have implications for almost every sector of our society. He uses technology never an end in itself, never an unexamined tool, but a chance to reflect, examine, and reveal aesthetic and cultural substructures. In other words, the tool is also always IDEA; the implications, complex and intractable. Across a diverse range of work, including media installation, kinetic video sculpture, sculptural objects, and interactive screen-based work, he explores how our digital tools are not only changing our capabilities, but also our worldview.

Clearly the nearly insatiable demand for progress that has shaped our technology driven culture has had a devastating impact on the environment. Ives’ projects increasingly address ecological issues, not only in regard to technologically driven questions, but also in regard to broader questions about our broader sense of our place in the natural world. His project Nocturne was chosen for exhibit at the International Symposium of Electronic Art 2006, and later exhibited at the Microwave International New Media festival in Hong Kong (2008). The project focuses specifically on the nocturnal lives of opossums, mice and kit foxes, animals that have found successful niches in sub/urban landscapes. The project asked viewers to re-envision urban spaces in terms of animal habitat, reconsidering what we think of as nature and wilderness.

Current projects include an event-based work addressing Salmon habitat in Oregon rivers; A robotic video camera project addressing location/dislocation and our constructed sense of place in the landscape; and a project that focuses on the world of ants to contemplate the notion of The Gloryland.

John Park

Career Instructor, Art & Technology
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office 121 Millrace 2
(541) 346-2683

John Park works at the intersection of creative pedagogy and technology. With communities migrating to an increasingly digital-dependent lifestyle, Park stresses the social, environmental and economic implications of this shift to the students in his classrooms and in the content of his own work. Through interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues in other creative fields, Park has also been developing a vocabulary that merges the disciplines of dance and music with his own practice of algorithmic art and experimental animation. These endeavors to liaise between performing arts fields plays a role in Park’s vision of an evolving creative practice where cultural and creative barriers will blur and crumble to the point where an artist will simply be someone who understands movement, timing, narrative and gesture with a fluidity in any medium.

Park received his M.F.A. in Computer Art from SUNY Buffalo in 2006, and his B.A. in Multimedia Design from the University of Oregon in 2003. Park’s diverse background in photography, 3D modeling, experimental animation, computer programming and electronics hacking has led to a larger investigation of what the most appropriate uses of these technologies should be in today’s cultural climate.

Michael Salter

Full Professor, Art & Technology

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Office: 114A Millrace 1
(541) 346-2636
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Michael Salter is an Associate Professor of Digital Arts/New Media and is currently the Digital Arts Program Director. Salter received his BFA from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His BFA is a double concentration in sculpture and graphic design. He received his MFA in studio art from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Salter’s art work has shown nationally and internationally in Brussels, New York, L.A., Portland, London, Amsterdam, Miami, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Seattle, Atlanta and Chicago. His work has been featured in Art In America, Best Art NY 2009, Dot Dot Dash, Pictoplasma2, Grab Magazine, Arkitip Magazine, Repellent Magazine, and LoDown Magazine. In 2004 he had his first major museum solo exhibition at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2005, he received an Individual Artist Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. He has exhibited solo installations at Charles de Jonghe gallery, Brussels, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Jeff Bailey Gallery, NYC, The University of Texas, Arlington, and Black Market Gallery in Los Angeles, California. Salter has lectured at the Adidas Corporation (Portland and Nuremburg), Wichita State University (in conjunction with the Ulrich Museum show ‘Robots’), the 2010 IDSA “DIY Design” Conference in Portland, The Gallery at UTA, UT Arlington, Texas, and Rice University, Houston.

Throughout his career as an artist Salter has made a commitment to the support and success of Lump Gallery/Projects. This gallery is an alternative art space dedicated to exhibiting challenging work by emerging artists. Lump acts as a cultural hub for artists from all disciplines, showcasing conceptual art. Michael Salter’s work is a massive and in-depth response to visual culture. A self proclaimed “obsessive observer” he culls through the avalanche of mass media and corporate branding to find poignant, absurd and baffling pieces which become part of his work. His work bridges all disciplines from product and toy design, to kinetic sculpture, logotypes, animation, and signage. He is currently interested in cognitive behavior and its relationship to particular visual stimuli, and the continued construction of styrofoam robots.

Rick Silva

Assistant Professor, Art & Technology
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Office: 121 Millrace 2
(541) 346-3610
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Rick Silva is an artist whose recent videos, websites and images explore notions of landscape and wilderness in the 21st century. Silva’s art has been shown in exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including Transmediale in Germany, Futuresonic in the U.K. and Sonar in Spain. His projects have been supported through grants and commissions from organizations such as Rhizome and The Whitney Museum of American Art. Recently WIRED called his videos “glitchy, curious things; some mesmerizing, some arresting.” He frequently works with the experimental gallery spaces TRANSFER Gallery (NYC) and Ditch Projects (Springfield, OR). More at ricksilva.net.

Ying Tan

Associate Professor, Digital Arts
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Office: 102 Millrace 1
(541) 346-1416
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Associate Professor Ying Tan joined the UO Art Department in the Fall of 1996. Her extensive creative practice both as an artist and a designer has resulted in a wide range of work including film, video, animation and digital imaging, landscape painting, and communication design of all shapes and forms.

Tan’s work has been exhibited or screened nationally and internationally including venues such as Mediarama 2002 (Spain), Sydney Film Festival (Australia), transmediale Berlin (Germany), Technoimage Festival (Brazil),Bauhaus-University Weimar (Germany), Cinematheque Ontario (Canada), Dream Centenary Computer Graphics Grand Prix (Japan), Triennale diMilano (Italy), Circulo de Bellas Artes (Spain), Museum of Modern Art(NY), The National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Harvard Film Archive (Cambridge, MA), The Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Cyberarts Festival (Boston). SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater (San Antonio), Visual Arts Museum (NY) and Anthology Film Archives (NY).

Professor Tan’s recent work explores the relationship between vision and sound in time-based design. In both her teaching and practice she advocates design without boundaries, and interdisciplinary collaborations. She is active in developing academic exchage programs with institutions in China where she used to work and live.

Ken O'Connell

Professor Emeritus
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Office: 1479 Moss Street
(541) 484-4511

Ty Warren

Career Instructor, Art & Technology
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Office:  103 Millrace 1
(541) 346-8225

Mike Bray

Career Instructor, Digital Arts
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Office: 215 Wilkinson House
(541) 346-3628
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Mike Bray creates investigations into a self-inflicted cinematic space, his work recontextualizing time, frame-by-frame, while collapsing and expanding the spectacle through the idiom of cinema. Select group exhibitions include Sometimes You Get Nowhere, Grammar Center, Medford, OR; Dumb Angel, 12128 Boatspace, Portland, OR; We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; Lumber Room, Portland, OR; and Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA. Bray has held solo exhibitions at Portland State University, Portland, OR; and Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR. Bray is a 2013 Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts and received the Joan Shipley Award in 2012. He is a founding member of Ditch Projects, an artist-run space in downtown Springfield, Oregon and Coast Time Artist Residency in Lincoln City, Oregon. He is represented by Fourteen30 Contemporary in Portland.

Isami Ching

Career Instructor, Core
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Office: 187 Lawrence Hall
(541) 346-2105

With a practice that spans the left and the right, the hardcore center and the gummy soft edge, self described as a, ‘banal paradigm, a gentle lowing in the twilight of twilight, a techno-shaman gibbering in a hall of mirrors, in short a man of our time, for our time, timeless, less, mmmh’, Isami Ching exploits the intersection of the arbitrary, the formal, the engineered and the mystic. 

Isami Ching has shown at a diverse range of spaces from High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, CA, Real Art Ways in Hartford CT, LA><ART in Los Angeles CA, and regionally in the Pacific Northwest. He has been a member of Ditch Projects in Springfield OR, since 2011. 

He received an MFA in sculpture from Columbia University in 2002, and a BFA in Fine Arts 3-D from Massachusetts College of Art in 1998. He has taught at Columbia University and Parsons the New School for Design. Currently he is Senior Instructor at the University of Oregon and teaches in CORE, Art & Technology, and Printmaking.