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Personnel

The YOU ARE HERE events coordinators are working closely with Dr. Ellen Dorsey, Director of the Rachel Carson Institute, to integrate all YOU ARE HERE programs and the ecoart symposium "Bridging the Binaries" into the Women Assessing the State of the Environment summit.

Steffi Domike, Director of the Master of Art in Digital Technology (MADtech) program and Assistant Professor of Art at Chatham College, has produced a number of award-winning documentaries that use electronic media to subvert established versions of history and the environment. Steffi received her BA in Economics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Her 1993 production The River Ran Red won the CINE Golden Eagle and was voted "viewers choice" for 1993 on WQED~Pittsburgh Public Television. Topics of her film and video work have ranged from women in industry to eco-histories of brownfield sites to the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892. Along with Michael Mateas and Paul Vanouse, she is marking the new millennium with TERMINAL TIME, an interactive history of the world for the past thousand years. Steffi is also an active member of the subRosa collective for feminist artworks and is a founding member of AARC, a group of Pittsburgh eco-artists. Her work has been broadcast in such diverse regions as Australia and Israel, New York City and Stockholm; performed in Scotland, Germany and the US, and she has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships.

Prior to moving to Pittsburgh in 1996, Ann Rosenthal worked in the computer publishing industry while actively exhibiting her artwork throughout the U.S. In 1993, Ann co-chaired the Women's Caucus for Art National Conference in Seattle. In 1995, she joined the Women's Caucus for Art delegation to the NGO Forum of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing where she co-chaired a panel on environmental art. Prior to the UN Conference, she co-curated a regional exhibition, "Agents of Change: New Views by Northwest Women," in conjunction with the Northwest International Women's Conference, one of several nationwide planning conferences to prepare for the UN Conference. Since receiving her MFA from Carnegie Mellon in 1999, Ann has been teaching art and electronic media in the Pittsburgh area, and she developed a multidisciplinary course in the theory and practice of environmental art at Carnegie Mellon University. Ann is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in the Imaging and Digital Media (IMDA) area. This year, Ann's installations and interactive media have been or will be exhibited at University of Pittsburgh; Coconino Arts Center, Flagstaff; Gallery One, Ellensburgh WA; JFK University, San Francisco; and the Brewhouse SPACE 101 and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh in conjunction with You Are Here. See her work at: (www.studiotara.net

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