Technology, Arts & Media Program

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Fall'09 Office Hours

Ian Hales ATLS225E M 2–3PM by appointment R 9–1000AM
Dave Kalahar ATLS225A MTR 8AM–4PM W 10AM–4PM or by appointment
Aileen Pierce ATLS225E TR 12:30–1:30PM or by appointment
David Schaal ATLS225B R 10:30 - 12:30 or by appointment
Joel Swanson ATLS225C TR 2:30–3:30PM or by appointment
Appointments are recommended.

Advising

Dave Kalahar, TAM Advisor
Kalahar@colorado.edu Students interested in TAM meet with Dave, who advises students and tracks their progress in the program. He creates the teaching schedules, gets the courses onto the University system, and registers students into the ATLS courses. Dave also coordinates student access to the ATLAS Building, ATLAS Registration Open House, Graduation Receptions, TAM @ the Movies, and schedules campus courses into the ATLAS classrooms. Dave has been employed at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1983. Prior to coming to ATLAS, Dave was the undergraduate academic advisor in Aerospace Engineering Sciences for 14 years. In that time, he was the recipient of Outstanding Advisor awards from both the University of Colorado at Boulder and the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and garnered additional advising accolades from the Minority Engineering Program, Athletics Department, and Air Force ROTC.

Faculty

Aileen Pierce, Instructor
E-mail: Aileen.Pierce - at - colorado.edu
ATLAS Building, Room 225E
Aileen Jaitin Pierce has been an instructor for the Technology, Arts, and Media program at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 2004. Aileen teaches courses focusing on the intersection of technology and society, as well as the integration of programming into new media. Aileen holds a B.S. in Math/Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University. She spent nine years in Silicon Valley working at Oracle and two startups in product marketing and technical support before moving to Boulder.

Kathie Broyles, Adjunct Instructor
ATLAS Building, Room 225F
Kathie Broyles is a CU grad and has recently returned to Boulder after 25 years in the entertainment advertising and promotion business. Formerly Senior Vice President and Creative Director CBS Marketing Group, CBS Network, she has created successful and award winning campaigns in all aspects of entertainment—music, movies and television, across all platforms--print, outdoor, web, digital, film and the outer net. Before joining CBS she ran her own boutique agency where her clients included Disney, Warner Bros, Sony, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks, Fox Television, The WB, E! and HBO among others. In addition to her professional responsibilities she served on several advisory boards and taught and guest lectured at many respected institutions. Currrently she is teaching at the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado and is a member of their advisory board.

John Flynt, Adjunct Instructor
E-mail: John.Flynt - at - Colorado.EDU
John Flynt has a doctorate from the University of Colorado and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. His formal areas of study have led to degrees in computer science, language and literature, and the social sciences . He teaches for both the ATLAS TAM effort and in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and over the past three decades, he has taught courses in his areas of study at various colleges in the Rocky Mountain region and at NYU. His publications include Teaching Using Computer Game Development (2009), Beginning Pre-Calculus for Game Developers (2007), In the Mind of a Game (2006), and Software Engineering for Game Developers (2005), in addition to short fantasy and science fiction published in such media as Tomorrow

Ian Hales, Instructor
E-mail: Ian.Hales - at - colorado.edu
ATLAS Building, Room 225E
Ian Hales is a graphic artist and designer who is currently an instructor at the University of Colorado, Boulder,in the Technology, Arts, & Media Program. Ian is a CU graduate from the School of Fine Arts who teaches courses focusing on digital art, 2D and 3D animation, new media design, as well as gaming and virtual societies. Ian’s work strives to push the standard conception of digital art and graphic design and establish new methods of conveying themes and ideas in visual mediums.

David Schaal, Lead Multimedia Instructor
E-mail: David.Schaal - at - colorado.edu
ATLAS Building, Room 225B

Joel Swanson, Director
E-mail: Joel.Swanson - at - colorado.edu
Office Phone: 303.735.2933
ATLAS Building, Room 225C

Joel Swanson is an artist and writer who is currently the Director of the Technology, Arts & Media Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He teaches courses on digital art, media theory, and the history of design. He received his MFA in digital art at the University of California, San Diego. His art work is motivated by literary theory and exists as a series of installations, both real and virtual, that explore the nature of language and its embodiment. Swanson's work has been shown in various national and international venues. His work can be seen online at joelswanson.net.