Animation

Amanda Almon

Title Associate Professor / Chair of Biomedical Art / Chair of Animation
Department Animation
Phone 216.421.7454

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Courses  3D Bioforms: Intro to 3D Modeling | 3D Texture Mapping, Lighting, and Rendering | BFA Thesis Research | Biomedical Art: BFA Thesis | BMA: Intro to 3D Animation | Intro to Digital Biomedical Illustration

Degree MFA, University of Michigan; BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology

Amanda Almon, C.M.I., is associate professor and chair of the Biomedical Art Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in anatomy at Case Western Reserve University.She also operates, completing animation and illustration work for publishers, pharmaceutical companies and medical device firms.

Knut Hybinette

Title Assistant Professor/Chair of Game Design
Department Animation
Phone 216.421.7945

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Courses  3D Bioforms: Intro to 3D Modeling | 3D Texture Mapping, Lighting, and Rendering | Game Media Production I | Game Media Production III | Game Production II | Game Testing & Level Design | Intro Game Design

Degree MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; BFA, University of Georgia

Knut LSG Hybinette was born in Enkoping, Sweden and is an Assistant Professor at The Cleveland Institute of Art where he teaches game design and digital foundations. He works in multiple mediums including game design, photography, animation, video and sound. Knut has exhibited his work at galleries in Sweden, Portugal, Germany and the United Sates. Additionally, Knut has been published in the American publication Oculus and others. In 2003, he was sponsored/commissioned by January to create a portfolio of the Night Chicago. Knut has shown a series of photographs that tell us of the process of aging through examining each individual story at Arts Atrium Gallery in New York and at Jet Artworks Gallery.

Sarah Paul

Title Assistant Professor/Chair of TIME-Digital Arts
Department Animation
Phone 216.421.7945

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Courses  Experimental Video | Freshmen Environmental Elective | Introduction to Media Production and Integration

Degree MFA, University of New York at Buffalo; BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology

Sarah Paul is chair of the TIME-Digital Arts Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Courses  Freshmen Environmental Elective | Visual Organization & Media

Courses  Advanced 3D Animation | Layout Rendering Techniques

Degree BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art

Kristen Baumliér-Faber

Title Associate Professor
Department Animation
Phone 216.421.7938

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Courses  BFA Thesis and Exhibition | Hybrid Approaches to Drg & Ptg: Digital Media | Moving Images in Space: Media Installation | String, Felt, & Thread | Video Basic Tools I

Degree MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts

Kristen Baumliér-Faber’s work spans the full spectrum of mixed media practice, often incorporating performance, video, installation, sculptural objects, and audio. Her work has shown throughout the U.S, in Serbia and in New Zealand. She was the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship in performance and interdisciplinary art in 2004, and an ArtsLink project grant in 2005.

Kasumi

Title Associate Professor
Department Animation
Phone 216.421.7945

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Courses  BMA: 2D/3D Compositing for Animation | BMA: 2D/3D Compositing for Animation | Experimental Video | Intro to Animation | Narrative Production I & II | Sound Design | Video Basic Tools I | Video II | Video/Digital Cinema II

2011 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Kasumi is internationally celebrated as a leading innovator of a new art form synthesizing film, sound and video. She has won global acclaim for her experimental films, videoart and installations in venues worldwide: from Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic to collaborations with Grandmaster Flash and DJ Spooky. She performed and exhibited work at Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart and at the Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual in Guadalajara, Mexico, and her work, BREAKDOWN, the Vimeo Remix Award winner, premiered at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra. She was awarded an EMPAC Dance Movies Commission 2009-2010 by The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts and has created videoart for performance with The Cleveland Orchestra. She won a 2011 Creative Workforce Fellowship and was named one of Cleveland Magazine’s “Most Interesting People” of 2011. Kasumi executive-produced AARDVARK, a feature film awarded “Critic’s Pick” in the “L.A. Weekly”, and screened at Reykjavik IFF, Warsaw IFF, the Viennale, Goteborg IFF, Thessaloniki IFF, BAFICI, AFI Fest , Las Palmas, Krakow, Copenhagen, and many others. As a musician, she has twice been soloist at Carnegie Hall and has recorded four LP albums; in Japan, her soundtrack performance for OGINSAMA, starring Toshiro Mifune, was nominated for an Academy Award. She received the Adriano Asti Award for Best Experimental Film at Montecacini, Italy; Director's Citation at the Black Maria Film Festival; Seoul Film Festival's Special Jury Award; IFP Chicago and Sapporo International Film Festival Best Experimental Film, and others. Her film "The Free Speech Zone," cited in The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies, was featured at the Nemo Festival at the Forum des Images in Paris, the Milano Film Festival, Expresión en Corto, Mexico City, and the Sapporo International Short Film Festival where it won First Prize. Her work has been screened at festivals in Iran, the Slovak Republic, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Romania, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Holland, France, England, the US and Canada, and displayed at distinguished institutions including Muzeul Florean, Romania; Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo; The Butler Institute of American Art; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; San Diego Museum of Art; Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; Anthology Film Archives among others and has received the Adriano Asti Award for Best Experimental Film at Montecacini, Italy; Director's and Program Staff Citation at the Black Maria Film Festival; the Seoul Film Festival's Special Jury Award; IFP Chicago's Best Experimental Film award and many others.

Courses  Environmental Sculpture | Experimentation in Electronic Arts II | Image, Narrative, & Sequence | Image, Narrative, and Sequence | Intro to Electronic Arts: Coding, Hacks, & Space | Sound Design | Video Basic Tools I

Degree MFA, University of Oklahoma; BFA, University of North Carolina

Nicholas Economos is an artist and educator living in Cleveland, Ohio. His art practiceincludes work in interactive media, sound, video, animation and prints. In addition to his art practice, he has contributed as a writer to Net Art Review, The Squealer and Aspect Magazine. He was a Site Editor for Rhizome.org at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC for 6 years, editing content for the web site and the Rhizome Rare email list earning the title of Editor Emeritus. His awards include an Individual Artist Project Grant in Film, Media, and New Technology Production, from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Newcomer Award at the Darklight Film and Video Festival in Dublin.