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Virtual Reality and 3D Technologies for the Arts and Humanities Classroom

Justin Berry
Justin Berry is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA artist’s fellowship.  His work has been exhibited internationally in various venues, with work recently on view at Essex Flowers in New York, CAVE in Detroit, CUAC in Salt Lake City, and at the University of Richmond Art Museum.  Recent issues of Frieze, Pin-up magazine, Media-N, and Prattfolio included features on his work and Bomb Magazine commissioned the piece i-would.com from him as part of their portfolio series in 2013.  Currently he is a member of the gallery collective Essex Flowers based in New York, and from 2007 to 2008 he was co-director of the artist run curatorial space Alogon, in Chicago, IL. He holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago.


John Eberhart
John Eberhart is a licensed architect and critic at the Yale School of Architecture.  His research focuses on surface, parametric, and building information modeling (BIM) as it relates to fabrication, visualization, and rapid prototyping.  His interests lie at the intersection of the digital and the physical – as it relates to creating and making. Mr. Eberhart’s teaching specialties include 3D modeling, 3D printing, 3D scanning, fabrication, rapid prototyping, robotics, Arduinos, and visualization technologies.

As the Director of Digital Media, Mr. Eberhart oversees the technology needs of the school including workstations, laser cutting, desktop and wide-format printing, 3D printing, servers and infrastructure, and the fabrication facilities.  He also evaluates emerging technologies and is responsible for integrating this technology into the curriculum and teaching mission of the school. Within the School of Architecture, Mr. Eberhart is an area coordinator for the design and representation study area and serves on the School’s curriculum committee.  At the University level, Mr. Eberhart chairs a number of university-wide committees that focus on the arts and technology areas.

Mr. Eberhart maintains an architectural firm in Woodbridge Connecticut, specializing in residential and light commercial work.  In addition, the firm operates a fabrication facility designing and fabricating building components as well as custom cabinetry.  Mr. Eberhart is also a design collaborator for C-Studio located in New Haven Connecticut, designing large scale office and residential buildings across Latin America.  He has worked at a number of design firms, including the offices of Beeby Rupert and Ainge Architects in Chicago and Pickard-Chilton Architects in New Haven.  Mr. Eberhart has a bachelor’s of Arts and Science in Architecture from the Ohio State University and a Masters in Architecture from Yale University.


Marta Figlerowicz
Marta Figlerowicz is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, and an affiliate of the Film and Media Program, at Yale University. She is the author of two books, Flat Protagonists (2016) and Spaces of Feeling (2017, forthcoming), and is currently drafting a third project about the phenomenology of our rapidly developing digital environments. Work related to this new project has appeared or is forthcoming in academic journals such as Poetics Today, Room One Thousand, and Camera Obscura, as well as in more popular venues including Jacobin, Logic, Cabinet, n+1, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Figlerowicz is also a principal coordinator of “Internet Cultures,” and “Utopia after Utopia,” two Yale research initiatives that take a more global view of the political and aesthetic impact of contemporary media. The course she co-developed with Ayesha Ramachandran, which will be discussed during this NERCOMP workshop, introduces some of these topics and questions into undergraduate teaching.


Ayesha Ramachandran
Ayesha Ramachandran is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and an affiliate of the Program in Renaissance Studies. A literary and cultural historian of early modern Europe, she pursues interdisciplinary research on literature, philosophy, cartography, visual culture and the history of science, focusing on the long histories of globalization and modernity. Her prizewinning first book, The Worldmakers(University of Chicago Press, 2015) provides a cultural and intellectual history of “the world,” showing how it emerged as a cultural keyword in the west. With a recently awarded Mellon New Directions Fellowship (2016), she hopes to expand this work and pursue research on cross-cultural contacts between Europe and the Indo-Islamic world in the early modern period; as a preliminary step, she is currently co-organizing a series of workshops on Early Modern Techne that aim to initiate cross-cultural dialogues on material culture across the arts and sciences that develop her interest in the long, entwined histories of the “two cultures.” Her new book manuscript in progress tentatively entitled, On Lyric Thinking considers the cognitive possibilities of poetry and its role in the shaping of the self as a moral subject. Her undergraduate teaching emphasizes the intersections between humanistic and scientific thinking and their socio-cultural force.


Randall Rode

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