- Dene Grigar, Digital Technology and Culture Program, 360/546-9487, grigar@vancouver.wsu.edu
- Sheri Byrd, Office of Marketing and Communications, 360/546-9602, byrds@vancouver.wsu.edu
Vancouver, Wash. - The Digital Technology and Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver and North Bank Artists Gallery are co-sponsoring two Artists Talks during this fall, featuring the 2007 DTC Artists-in-Residence.
Aug. 23, Peter Burr will talk about his work with digital animation. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Burr has held numerous artist residencies, such as at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and he has been awarded several fellowships, such as the Vera Heinz Endowment Fellowship. His work has been exhibited at Animatron 2007 in Vancouver, Canada, Simutan2 in Romania, Version 06 in Chicago, Ill. His work will be featured at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts' Time Based Media Festival 2007 in September.
Nov. 8, Samantha Blackmon will talk about her work with video game design. Blackmon, an Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, received her Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 2001 and has been working in the area of computer-mediated environments and game development.
Both talks take place from 7 to 8 p.m. at North Bank Artists Gallery, 1005 Main Street, downtown Vancouver. For more information on the 91³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏÍø Digital Technology and Culture program, visit
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Photos: Samantha Blackmon, Peter Burr. Click thumbnails for high resolution images.