About Us

Fadi Abu-Haltam is a computer graphics and design generalist currently working in the areas of architecture and real estate development. Fadi has worked in both the professional and freelance market as a marketing specialist, 3D architectural designer, and animator. Fadi is also interested in mentoring the next generation of design students to engage them in new technologies.

Stan Alost has over 20 years of experience in the visual communication field and has held positions in management, photo editor, photojournalist and at various newspapers, including The St. Petersburg Times. He has served as a freelance photojournalist and picture editor for the Associated Press and United Press International. He served as project consultant and picture editor on the book Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother's Wisdom by ALysia Burton Steele and Uphill Battle: the Journey to a National Championship by Josh Birnbaum.

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Josh Antonuccio has spent the last two decades in the music and media industry as a producer, engineer, musician, and journalist. He is the owner of 3 Elliott Studio, where he has produced a multitude of signed and independent artists and worked on post-production for film. Josh teaches Recording Industry and Music Production courses and coordinates multiple Place-Based courses, including the OU SXSW trip, the MDIA Production Masterclass, and the newly created Bonnaroo/Forecastle Business Masterclass. Josh is the producer and host of The WOUB Gladden House Sessions, the widely-heralded music and interview video series shot live at the Nelsonville Music Festival and is the creator and host of the Scripps Visiting Artist Series, which brings music industry leaders to campus for interview and performance events. Josh is a GRAMMY-voting member of NARAS, advises the Women in Music Industry student organization and oversees Brick City Records, OU's premier student-run record label.

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Julio Aráuz, PhD, has a passion for advancing telecommunications education toward innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities. Specifically, Dr. Aráuz focuses on the internet of things, machine to machine communication, predictive systems and self-organizing systems. He recently started working in projects related to responsive cities. A responsive city is one in which technology is used to improves people's lives in meaningful, measurable ways. He wants future students to see the real potential that responsible use of technology in cities can have in the world.

Eddie Ashworth is a thirty-year veteran of the music industry and has produced, recorded or mixed a diverse array of albums, EPs, and singles for noted international artists such as Sublime, Pennywise, The Long Beach Dub Allstars, Tommy Shaw, Great White, Unwritten Law, Dokken, Frenzal Rhomb, Eastern Youth, Qiet, and innumerable others. He is the recipient of numerous platinum and gold sales awards and is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Association for the Art of Record Production (ASARP) and, as a songwriter, is affiliated with Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI).

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Tyler Ayres has worked in graphic design but enjoys teaching and experimenting with animation much more. He has worked as an artist and designer on thebakeryshop.org, an educational video game that won two Communicator's Awards in 2010. Tyler's individual short animation production, "RED & blue," was screened in over 30 animation festivals in 2008-2009 including the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival, and the Nicktoons Film Festival, receiving multiple honors.

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Tom Bartel is known for his disturbing and humorous fragmented figures that take cues from a "shotgun blast" of influences ranging from antiquity to popular culture. Tom has lectured, conducted workshops and exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally. His work is included in numerous public and private collections and he has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council, the Kentucky Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. He has numerous publications to his credit, including American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, Ceramics Art and Perception as well as many other periodicals and books.

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Burr Beard's career in public and community radio includes radio features, series and full-length audio documentaries. Burr has managed public radio stations in North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania for 25 years, and has taught at mass communications and media production for a number of years at the university level. He is also a hammer dulcimer player.

New areas of interest: Documentary Video, Information Graphics, and Appalachian Studies.

For more information: www.burrbeard.com

Tim Bearse is a recent fellow at Marpha Foundation in the Lower Mustang region of Nepal, and completed a community design project in 2015. He's been included in exhibitions at NoMinimo Gallery in Guaquil Ecuador, Artisphere in Arlington Virginia, the Pierogi Boiler Room in Brooklyn and Nobile Amundsen in Norfolk Virginia. He's taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, Old Dominion University and The Ohio State University. His exhibition at the New Bedford Museum of Art opened in 2016.

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Merri Biechler is the Assistant Director of the School of Dance, Film, and Theater. She's a playwright, actor, educator, and the Managing Director of Brick Monkey Theater Ensemble, a professional theater company located in Southeast Ohio. She is the recipient of a 2014 Boomerang Fund for Artists award. Her play Tammy Faye's Final Audition was part of the inaugural season on Tantrum Theater. Her plays have been produced, workshopped, and read at Centenary Stage Company, Mortar Theatre Company, Foundry Theatre Works (Los Angeles), Artist's Laboratory Theatre, and Victory Gardens Theater, among others. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity Association, SAG/AFTRA, and is proud to call Athens County her artistic home.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/theater/faculty-staff/directory.cfm

Josh Birnbaum is a photographer who has worked for the Oakland Tribune, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, The Omaha World-Herald, The Peoria Journal Star, and The Dallas Morning News. In addition, he interned at James Nachtwey's studio. Currently, Josh is also a visiting artist with the Athens Photographic Project — a non-profit fine arts program that offers photography classes to community members living with persistent mental illness — where he teaches advanced classes and leads artists in pursuit of their creative and personal recovery goals.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Kellye Blosser was a senior digital strategist for Sandstorm Design in Chicago, recently managing a half-million dollar website build for a global client. Previously she was Producer/Writer for Plum Productions, working for clients such as Visa, Southwest Airlines, and McDonald's. On the flip-side, Kellye also worked for a not-for-profit organization teaching video storytelling to at-risk kids, and was the founder and Artistic Director of The Black Ship Theater Company.

New areas of interest: Games and Animation, Virtual Reality, and Social Engineering.

For more information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyeblosser/

John Bowditch is the Director and co-founder of the Game Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. Most recently, he created the Immersive Media Initiative to introduce Virtual and Augmented Reality research and creative projects to Ohio University. Professional research highlights include funded projects from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Labor, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Ohio Board of Regents, Ohio University Innovation Strategy funds and other private entities.

Specializing in Italian Renaissance Art, Professor Bradshaw also studies Ritual Art of New Guinea. Recent publications include Italian Renaissance Art: A Source Book. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Italian Renaissance Art, Northern Renaissance Art, Baroque and Rococo Art, and Research Methods. She also directs and teaches on-site courses in Ancient - Baroque Art for Ohio University's Art History in Italy Program – offered in the summer, bi-yearly.

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Vincent Caranchini is an artist who is interested in the social relationship of paintings and space. His visual work has been presented in both juried and non-juried exhibitions, and his theoretical interests have generated an ongoing body of papers and publications.

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Roger Cooper's research focuses on cross-platform uses of media with articles in issues of Mass Communication and Society, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, International Journal of Sport Communication, and Journal of Sports Media. Roger also focuses on the personality attributes that lead to career success in the creative industries, publishing articles on this topic in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator and Journal of Media Education, and presenting papers/panels at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conferences. Roger has also published in Communication Theory, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and Media Management Review.

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Art Cromwell has worked in production, programming, and administrative capacities in public broadcasting for over thirty-five years – participating in several groundbreaking productions for Nebraska ETV focusing on the black experience on the American frontier. He also edited a companion book for the Black Frontier series. After spending two years as Associate Director of the National Association of Educational Broadcaster's Office of Minority Affairs, Art became Producer of an educational television series for Northern Virginia Educational Television (Gettin' Over!). After a decade in public radio as an on-air programmer and Program/Music director, Art became the Associate Producer of the PBS documentary "Black Boy: Richard Wright." Most recently, Art has been working on a variety of projects involving topics of the arts, Ohio history and World War II.

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Josh Crook's feature film, Salvage, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. He has since written, directed and/or produced eight more features, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, and winning Best Picture at the HBO NY Latino International Film Festival. Josh has produced shows for Cartoon and MTV Networks, and is currently video content producer at Hocking College, where he uses media production as a tool for community engagement.

New areas of interest: Virtual Reality & 360 Video.

For more information: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1154951/

Randolph Damico is a practicing architect and visiting assistant professor. As a teacher, writer, and designer, his work probes architecture's recursive relationship with society, art, politics, and philosophy, focusing especially on the modern subject (individual as well as collective) and the way in which this subject affects and is affected by architecture and space. Damico is particularly interested in the nature of obsolescence within our post-traumatic memorial culture as it is currently being reformulated in the buildings as monuments of the twenty-first century. Damico has engaged in almost thirteen years of professional experience, which spans a variety of project types and scales.

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Julie Dummermuth has participated in solo exhibitions in such venues as Hiro Exhibitions Space, NYC and Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco. Her work has been featured in multiple group and juried exhibitions in both the United States as well as abroad, including International Young Arts in Moscow, Tel-Aviv, and Amsterdam. Her work comprises private collections in Moscow, Amsterdam, Tel-Aviv, and San Francisco.

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Adonis Durado is currently the Knights Fellow in the School of Visual Communication and plans to continue his education in the MFA program. Adonis has worked professionally as a designer and art director for many years. His work has won international honors from the Society for News Design, the Society of Publication Designers, and the Society of Illustrators. He also helped launch and redesigned more than a dozen magazine and newspaper titles around the world.

New areas of interest: Data Visualization and Virtual Reality.

For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonis_Durado

Terry Eiler is a field researcher, magazine photographer, documentary photojournalist and co-founder of Ohio University's School of Visual Communication and an Emeritus Professor. As a publication photographer, he produced material for the National Geographic Society's books and magazines over a 20-year period. His work has been featured in GEO, Sunset, and Paris Match. As a documentary photographer, he has been involved in Project Documerica, funded by the EPA to record the state of the environment prior to major air and water legislation. He has been a field researcher on four Library of Congress American Folklife Center projects, the Calvert Marine Museum project on the Patuxent River Watermen and a project documenting the people of West Virginia's Coal River Valley for the American Folklife Center.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Julie Elman has more than 15 years of experience in the newspaper industry, including designing and picture editing at various daily and weekly newspapers. She has won numerous awards of excellence from the Society for News Design, and is also the Print Publications for the organization. Elman also designed Pete Souza's book The Rise of Barack Obama and the book Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music. She is the co-author of The Newspaper Designer's Handbook, 7th edition. And author of the book Fear, Illustrated: Transforming What Scares Us.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Lori Esposito's work has been collected by private and public collections, including Fidelity and the Embassy of Panama. Her work was featured in the 42nd exhibition of Art on Paper at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Manifest Gallery selected her work for a special exhibition/publication "Botanical" and for their International Drawing Annual 7. In recent years she has had solo exhibitions at the Turchin Center at Appalachian State and SooVisual Arts in Minneapolis and she continues to exhibit her work, curate and facilitate walks throughout the U.S. Esposito has taught studio art and foundations at the University of North Dakota and the Rhode Island School of Design.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff

Neketa Forde is a passionate youth advocate and volunteer with a background in videography and graphic design. She is currently a Civic Engagement Officer at the University of Guyana and works as a communication consultant for various NGOs. She was a videographer for the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report, using video to capture qualitative data in Guyana, and turning community development case studies into documentaries.

New areas of interest: Non-fiction Video Production and Animation.

For more information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neketa-forde-62020630/

Mark Franz's exhibitions and primary research projects involve the creation of interactive installations that reflect on issues of violence, dislocation, and other social constructions important in contemporary cultures. This work explores the boundaries between visual art, interaction design, and serious games. The foundations of graphic design, especially regarding considerations concerning form and the composition of formal elements, play an essential role in this practice, as time-based elements, interaction, and sound, take this work in new directions. Franz's secondary research involves creating custom hardware and software for audiovisual performance and installation, and references the art historical current of visual music commonly discussed as part of animation history.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Andrea E. Frohne has a joint appointment in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and the School of Art. She is an affiliate faculty of African Studies. Her book manuscript under review for publication is entitled Space, Spirituality, and Memory: The African Burial Ground in New York City. She was a co-editor of Postcolonial and Transnational Exchanges: African and Diasporan Literature, Film and the Visual Arts in the 21st Century. The book is based on the 37th annual African Literature Association conference, for which Frohne was a co-convener at Ohio University in 2011. She recently curated the exhibition Wax and Gold: Contemporary Transnational African Art at the Kennedy Museum of Art.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Rajorshi Ghosh is interested in the interaction between image and architecture and his installations often define a uniquely perceptual and phenomenological relation of the two. The Los Angeles Times described his recent solo show at Steve Turner Contemporary gallery in Los Angeles as "zen touch to video," pointing out Ghosh's interest in the transfiguration of the commonplace into the "miraculous everyday." Ghosh has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. His recent videos and installations have been shown at the final screening of the World One Minute Video Art Festival in Belgium and at the international juried Freewaves Festival of New Media Arts in Los Angeles.

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Sam Girton has more than 15 years of professional experience as a photographer, web and print designer. He has worked for numerous clients, including The American Bar Association, PBS, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Electronic Data Systems, Clear Channel Communications, Foam Magazine, GigBot.net, David Hostetler, Marietta Memorial Hospital, Lineberger Cancer Center, Rocky Boots and World Book Marketing. He has also led many workshops, including The Ohio Arts Council Summer Media Institute, and has experience in conducting study programs: Design in Asia, Design at the University of Guyana (a USAID-funded workshop), and Documentary Filmmaking in Letterkenny, Ireland.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Tim Goheen is an illustrator, designer and infographics specialist with 30 years of professional experience. He began his career as a newsroom artist at The State (newspaper) in Columbia, S.C. He later joined the newswire service Knight-Ridder Tribune Information Services (KRT) in Washington, D.C., as senior illustrator for the company's European graphics startup. In 1997, he was promoted to art director of KRT Graphics and supervised artists and freelancers in the U.S. and Europe. He has won Society for News Design (SND) awards for infographics and South Carolina Press Association Awards for news graphics, illustration and feature page design.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty

Dori Griffin's primary research centers around the history of popular visual culture and the role that type and image play in creating cultural identity. Her 2013 book, Mapping Wonderlands, explores the role that illustrated maps played in creating the tourist identity of Arizona. Griffin's secondary research is focused on design education, particularly the intersections between design history and studio practice. She has presented her research on this subject at a number of national conferences, including AIGA Design Educators and the College Art Association, and her writing on the subject has appeared in the graphic design journal Visible Language.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Dr. Mario Grijalva is the director of the Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute. As a part of his life-long goal of irradicating Chagas disease, Mario oversees the Healthy Living Initiative: a long-term initiative that aims to support socioeconomic development of rural communities as the main tool for the control of Chagas disease in southern Ecuador. With a holistic approach, this public health strategy looks to prevent the transmission of Chagas and other diseases "associated with poverty" by facilitating participatory processes of human development that are sustainable and sustained by the people involved.

For more information: https://people.ohio.edu/grijalva/research.htm#HLI

John Grimwade runs his own infographics business (johngrimwade.com) and previously worked for 14 years in newspapers (including six years as Head of Graphics at The Times, London). John has also produced infographics for numerous magazines, books, and corporate clients. He was graphics director of both Condé Nast Traveler and Condé Nast Portfolio magazines, and graphics consultant to Popular Science magazine. He is currently consulting infographics director for Eight by Eight – the Society of Publication Design’s 2015 Magazine of the Year. He’s an instructor at the annual Malofiej workshop for professionals in Pamplona, Spain, and has run workshops around the world.

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Karla Hackenmiller's recent research has been focused on the limitless and ever-evolving results of the thought process as it relates to the physical brain and its abstract outcomes. Her detailed artworks have primarily taken the form of linear etchings, drawings, collages, collagraphs and monoprints that have been exhibited internationally as well as across the United States. Her work can be found in the public collections of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, CA; Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; and the Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY; among others.

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Larry Hamel-Lambert has 25 years experience working in the industry as a photographer and picture editor. Past employers include The Cleveland Press, Cincinnati Post, (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Washington (D.C.) Times, Providence (R.I.) Journal, USA Today, and the Associated Press Washington, D.C., bureau. His photographs have received recognition from The Ohio News Photographers Association, Society of News Design, Associated Press and the Atlanta Seminar – appearing in magazines, books, and exhibitions. He is a regular contributing photographer to Woodcraft Magazine. His main areas of interest involve creating an architectural series of large-format, black-and-white images of country churches in Ohio; making environmental portraits using vintage camera lenses; and documenting community health and wellness projects.

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Dr. Lynn Harter is co-director of the Storytelling Institute and Professor in the School of Communication Studies in the Scripps College of Communication. Guided by aesthetic and narrative sensibilities, her work focuses on the communicative construction of possibility as individuals and groups organize for survival and social change amidst profound vulnerability. Her research and creative activity encompass a range of issues including pediatric cancer care, disability-related concerns, and organizing healthcare for underserved populations. She is co-producer of the Emmy award-winning documentary initiative The Courage of Creativity including the feature-length film A Beautiful Remedy. She has published over 75 journal articles and book chapters in interdisciplinary outlets and has edited three award-winning scholarly books.

For more information: https://www.ohiocommstudies.com/people/administration/harter

Melissa Haviland is an artist whose work straddles the boundaries between printmaking and installation-performance. She explores family lineage, ritual, and daily practice within objects that are gendered and classed, like fine china. Though she is, by nature, a printmaker, she creates work from textiles, food—especially sweets, performance, photography and video, sculptural and drawing materials, as well as ink and paper. Since 2010, she has spent a considerable amount of time collaborating with video artist, David Colagiovanni. Recent projects, "Music for Teacups" and "Dinner Music," bring together the focuses of both individual bodies of work—etiquette and class meet gravity and flight.

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As a young man, Tom Hayes worked as a deckhand, shipping out of New York on cargo ships. While seafaring started as a strategy to pay for film school, trips into third and fourth world ports became a profound formative experience. Since then Hayes has been running his own film production company, producing long-form documentaries and providing production services on hundreds of commercial projects. His personal documentary work has, for the last two decades, focused on issues of identity.

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Alex Hibbitt is a British Artist. Her work has been exhibited widely both in the U.S. and abroad, including The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, De Witte Voet gallery in Amsterdam, and the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. She has been a visiting artist and speaker at, among others, Minerva Art Academy in the Netherlands, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Ohio State University. Hibbitt's work is in private and public Collections both in Europe and the U.S.

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John Hoag, PhD has played a leadership role in establishing a multi-university effort to pursue external funding in parallel with the Smart Cities Columbus project. He is also a subject matter expert in priority topics including microgrid for OU Dublin Campus and embedded systems development for In-Vehicle Infotainment. Additionally, Dr. Hoag is empaneled by the Ohio Department of Education on new cybersecurity education career technology programs.

Tom Hodson is co-director of the Storytelling Institute and Director of WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University. He also is the Joe Berman Professor of Communication in the Scripps College of Communication and a regular tutor for the Honors Tutorial College on the Future of Media and First Amendment law issues. Formerly, he was director of the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University from 2003-2010. He currently hosts the "Spectrum" podcasts. "We interview celebrities, authors, filmmakers, photographers, journalists, scholars, scientists, professionals and just plain people who have fascinating stories to tell," said Hodson. Tom also co-produces three other nationally distributed podcasts.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/ucm/media/experts/ohioexpert.cfm?formid=1822088&pageid=2058357

Josh Hoffman is the co-owner of a Suspect 7 – a video production company in Chicago – where he oversees the 3D animation pipeline. Josh is stepping away from Suspect 7 to use his 3D animation skills to reengage with a passion of his: game development. Josh is specifically interested in developing video games for the LGBTQ community as a way to empower the audience through better character representation and approaches to storytelling.

New areas of interest: Game Design, Interactive Design and Virtual Reality.

For more information: http://suspect7.com/

Steve Howard is a sociologist by training whose work focuses on social change in Africa and social movements in the Muslim world. His published articles include "Getting Ready to Vote: Youth, Democracy and the Media in Election Cycle Nigeria," "Africa's Languages: an ancient and 'open source' of intelligence," "Children and Media in Muslim Africa: Sudan, Senegal, Nigeria," and "Communicating Islamic Transformation: the Campaigns of Sudan's Republican Brotherhood." Steve has been African Studies Director at Ohio University since 1991 and in 1999 founded the Institute for the African Child. He speaks French and Arabic, using both in his research and networking.

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Russell James has been a professional photographer for three years, and works as a Digitech and Photographer for Overstock.com. His most recent project "Saints and Sinners" has gained significant attention. Russell has taught many wet plate collodion (Tintypes) workshops at Northwest College in Wyoming, and is passionate about teaching. Artistically, he is interested in bridging his tintype work into his commercial photography.

New areas of interest: Commercial Photography, Interactive Design and Virtual Reality.

For more information: http://www.russelljamesphoto.com/

Haiyun Jiang completed her Photojournalism MA degree in the School of Visual Communication, and was recently selected as a participant in the 7th Annual New York Times Portfolio Review with top editors and photographers in the industry. Haiyun has worked on Capital Hill, initiating the documentary "A Lonely Journey" about Syrian refugees resettling in Annapolis, Maryland.

Dr. Laeeq Khan is the Director of the Social Media Analytics lab in the Scripps College of Communication. He has extensive professional experience as a social media strategist; and his research concentrates on online user engagement, data analytics, communication for development, and digital literacies. Dr. Khan has published in major refereed journals of international repute, authored book chapters, and presented at prominent conferences in the field of media, communication and information systems. He has also worked on various funded research projects from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Gary Kirksey has more than 25 years of commercial photography experience with numerous clients including Proctor & Gamble, the Washington Post and The Cincinnati Reds. His photographs have been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, and are part of the permanent collection at the Dallas African-American Art Museum in Texas. Additionally, his art is included in more than forty public, private and corporate collections, and has been published in books, including "Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers" and publications, such as Life magazine.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Professor Jennie Klein teaches a variety of courses included Contemporary Art, Gender and Representation, Modern Art, History of Photography, Performance Art and Theory, and Queer Theory and Visual Representation. Professor Klein also chairs the Art History Area. Her primary areas of research lie in contemporary art, art criticism, feminist art, and performance art. She is a contributing editor for Art Papers and a member of the editorial board of Genders. Professor Klein has presented nationally and internationally on her work. She was recently a presenter at the MACAA Conference in Detroit, the 10th anniversary of the ANTI Festival in Finland, and the UAAC Conference in Montreal.

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Brian Koscho was recently the marketing director for Stuart's Opera House and the Nelsonville Music Festival. He is also the co-founder of Aquabear Legion – an organization promoting Ohio music and art, with a dedication to developing a creative network across the state. Brian has worked professionally in the music industry for 12 years – releasing more than a dozen albums. Brian is also the host of The Western Reserve podcast, focusing on all things musical in Ohio.

Hans Kruse, Ph.D., is the director of the J.W. McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies. Dr. Kruse has conducted research on a number of regulatory issues, network design problems, and data communication protocols. He has also been involved in research and commercialization projects using eye movement tracking in the diagnosis of cognitive impairments. His research interests include data communications protocols, network performance, satellite communications, and telemedicine.

Jeff Kuhn, Ph.D., has more than five years of game design and development experience, and more than a decade's experience teaching computer-assisted language learning (CALL), developing online/distance education courses, and consulting on issues of technology integration in education. Dr. Kuhn works with teachers (domestically and internationally) on the implementation of technology as a whole, and games specifically, into their classroom practice. Research interests include distributed cognition, online interaction, learning in transmedia spaces and communities of practice.

David LaPalombara has been the Director of the School of Art since 2007. His classroom work includes a variety of collaborative teaching experiences within the arts, art & environment, and across the liberal arts curriculum. Professor LaPalombara is a contributor for the tour guide City Secrets: Rome, and reviewed Joel Sternfeld's Campagna Romana for Aperture Magazine. He returned recently to Rome as a visiting artist at the American Academy, continuing a body of work focused on spatial perception. His art has been exhibited and reviewed in Canada, Italy, and a variety of cities in the United States.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

The assumption of objectivity that continues to haunt photography—the desire to trust our eyes—is a central concern of Laura Larson's work. Mining the intersection between documentary and poetic practices, her subjects range from dollhouses to dirty hotel rooms to the paranormal. Her work poses questions about the medium and its terms of representation: its materials, histories, and social meanings. While she identifies as a photographer, her work encompasses film, video, digital media, and writing. She sees her photographs as a product of her skepticism and desire to believe in the medium of photography.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Issues of materiality and reception have informed Marion Lee's teaching and research, due partly to her experience of working in museums. Her research interests are in the art of late imperial China and contemporary art. Current interest areas include the artist Fei Danxu and how the historical dimension of his paintings of women and male portraiture may contribute to the understanding of gender relationship and the practice of collecting in early nineteenth-century China.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Dr. Charles P. ("Chip") Linscott works in the Immersive Media Initiative, where he teaches a series of classes on virtual reality theory, history, criticism, and production. Chip has been exploring audio production and experimental sound in various capacities since the late 1980s, and his writing deals principally with the implications of sound, image, technology and mediation for blackness (and vice versa). His book project, Sonic Overlook: Blackness between Sound and Image, examines the ways in which sonicity intervenes in black visuality. Chip's writing has appeared in Black Camera, In Media Res, liquid blackness, ASAP/J, and the anthology At the Crossroads. He is on the editorial board of liquid blackness journal.

Owen Lowery worked for years making content for Second City and Conan. He won the Best Documentary award at Tribeca Cinema's Visionfest in 2008, and was adjunct faculty at Columbia College for four years. Owen currently works as a freelancer in motion design and video production, and authors online motion graphics courses for Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning. He also volunteers for a rock and roll day camp for girls and transgender youth.

New areas of interest: Animation, Interactive Media, and Museum Studies cognate.

For more information: www.owenlowery.com

Nicki Mazzocca has a background in theatre and narrative filmmaking. She has worked in Chicago's creative community since 2011 and is passionate about using new media to tell stories differently. Specifically, Nicki is interested in telling the stories of Appalachia in unique and captivating ways. An Appalachian herself, Nicki said "we often have our stories told for us or at us... I would love to use media [to tell those stories] from within."

New areas of interest: Animation, Interactive Media and Virtual Reality.

For more information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicki-mazzocca-50800714/

Dr. Drew McDaniel has worked as a broadcast journalist and, for many years, served as Staff Consultant at the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Dr. McDaniel has written extensively on media in Asia and on technology in communication. Among his book publications are Electronic Tigers of Southeast Asia: The Politics of Media, Technology, and National Development; Broadcasting in the Malay World; Fundamentals of Audio Production; and Fundamentals of Communication Electronics. He has organized training courses for the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) and the Voice of America, as well as numerous other radio and television organizations.

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Duane McDiarmid's work engages social strategies wherein he functions as a social critic, forum facilitator and mediator as he makes use of the elaborate objects and costumes to serve as discursive or contemplative prompts. He constructs sculptures, performances, and initiates social intersections in fine art venues, digital communities and within remote landscapes. For instance: he created a blanket dispenser for the homeless in New York City. McDiarmid claims, "My most important work appears through happenstance in landscapes, boutiques, websites and back alleys, in public parks, deserted real estate and hard to reach canyons here I share conversation ritual and absurdity with an activated public on an intimate scale."

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Hans Meyer worked as general manager of The Desert Dispatch in Barstow, Calif., overseeing employees and operation of the 6,000-circulation daily newspaper, where he refocused the newspaper's coverage on local news. He was also the editor of The Hesperia Star (Calif.), where he created a 15,000-circulation weekly newspaper from the ground up, including layout design, editorial content, and day-to-day business operations. He has always loved technology and dabbled in new storytelling forms. He continues to apply this interest to his research and teaching, supervising student projects that use 360-degree video to examine the impact of place on the news and the community.

For more information: http://scrippsjschool.org/faculty/

Marina Modi recently completed her "Women in Transformative Spaces" residency project as part of the East Africa Media Lab Collaboration. Marina has worked in public relations and broadcast journalism since 2013. She is also an experienced screenwriter. Marina currently works for Visual South Sudan as a content writer, blogger, and podcast producer. She is a media mentor in her community and was a teaching assistant at the University of Juba.

New areas of interest: Documentary, Film and Social Change

Hope Moore has worked as an instructional designer for eight years, and currently works as an AR/VR developer in the Games Research and Immersive Design (GRID Lab). One of her most recent project was the Open OHIO interactive art and science installation where she created a series of three interactive pieces that replicate psychological symptoms that many people deal with daily.

Dr. Jenny Nelson started the PD/MS Narrative Project, a collective repository of stories and videos by people living with Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis: from the brain scan image at the moment of diagnosis to the scramble for information in books, websites, and blogs, to the unbidden images in film and TV. Using the theoretical approaches of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, and Michael Polanyi, Nelson maps out the overlapping areas in an interactive and entertaining way: a group of 80 Physical Therapy students called it, "the best (or worst) thing to happen to PD since Michael J. Fox!"

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Greg Newton's research includes radio/TV programming and promotion; free speech and the regulation of electronic media; and management and leadership in media businesses. He has published journal articles in the International Journal on Media Management, Journal of Media Business Studies, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Radio Studies, Journal of Communication, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Journal of Promotion Management. He has also authored or co-authored textbook chapters on programming and promotion; prepared comments in Federal Communications Commission proceedings; and has frequently been invited to speak on the regulation of offensive media content.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Dr. Eve Ng has authored refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers examining cultural and political formations of gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation, considering how identities and communities are defined and contested through media and culture. One major focus is on television and new media, both as significant forms of visual culture and as sites of ongoing economic, cultural, and technological transformations. Her research on LGBT media and activism, with a current focus on Southeast Asia, takes a transnational approach drawing on media studies, development studies, and feminist scholarship.

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Marcy Nighswander is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who has extensive experience in the industry. She was a staff photographer for the Washington Bureau of The Associated Press, The Cincinnati Post, Akron Beacon Journal and Review Times (Fostoria, Ohio). While working for The Associated Press, she was one of a group of photographers who won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for their coverage of the 1992 presidential campaign. Nighswander's work has been published in numerous newspapers, books, and magazines including Life magazine, Newsweek, Time, People and Fortune.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

After stints as an interface designer with the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and America Online, Beth Novak rediscovered her love of visual effects while studying at the Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design. Her creative work ranges from digital game interface design for children to broadcast graphics for film.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Medrine Nyambura has spent the last eight years in the entertainment business in Nairobi, Kenya, including as producer and host for both a daily live television show and a two-hour live radio talk show. Medrine is also a blogger and YouTube host where she tries to share positive messages with everyone. Her ambition is to nurture the next generation of media practitioners through teaching and creating a space for them to practice.

Delia Palmisano has worked as a professional photographer for twelve years (both photojournalism and commercial). She is also passionate about conservation and environmental issues. Recently, she worked on a project funded by the NIH to create a stock library of underrepresented populations participating in healthy behaviors. Delia is currently part of the Viscom Management program, where she has TA-ed for advanced photography courses.

New areas of interest: Documentary, Print/Web Design and Virtual Reality.

For more information: http://deliapalmisano.com/

Dr. Saumya Pant is a global expert in strategically integrating entertainment-education programs with community-based group listening and locally available health care services. She is also an activist, a teacher, a mother and a woman who loves to teach and engage with students. Saumya has a Ph.D. and Masters from Ohio University, focusing on communication for social change and interpersonal communication. She has scholarly interests in gender and health communication, communication for social change, critical cultural inquiry, transnational feminisms, and entertainment-education. Currently, she is working on a manuscript for a book on narrative of surrogate mothers in India who are part of a multi-billion fertility industry.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/saumya-pant

Brian Plow's passions lie in documentary, social justice and cinematography. His work as a producer, director and cinematographer has exhibited in festivals throughout North America and Europe, national/international conferences, as well as top 25 television markets and PBS affiliates. Parallel to his creative work, Brian has worked to develop interdisciplinary programs in media, social justice and community outreach. He co-founded/taught an interdisciplinary service-learning seminar on homelessness in Baltimore; co-founded and fostered a media infusion program for faculty in various disciplines; and continues to serve as the visual media consultant on the National Science Foundation-funded program, Anthropology by the Wire.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Kate Raney's current creative interests primarily involve combining live action and animation to investigate representation, performance, and process in the digital age. Her work has screened at numerous festivals such as SXSW Film Festival, the Croydon International Film Festival, the Big Muddy Film Festival, and the Wisconsin Film Festival. In summer 2011, Kate was a Sponsored Artist at High Concept Laboratories in Chicago where she shot Cleo from 5:41 to 5:43. She worked with Ohio University students on a grant-funded stop-motion short, geared toward getting K-3rd graders excited about nanoscience. She recently completed Lingua Absentia a cut-paper, animated documentary.

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Jeff Redefer has been involved in hundreds of recording projects during his 30 years in audio production focusing on music projects and in recent years many audio post-production projects for film and TV. Prior to pursuing an academic career Redefer worked with artists Pure Prairie League, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Earl Scruggs Review, Nancy Wilson, Robert Kline, Firefall, Pablo Cruise, Jerry Jeff Walker, Vassar Clements, America, Steve Goodman and John Hammond among many others. Redefer has received two Emmy Awards in addition to four nominations and two Telly Awards for his work in sound design for moving image for productions that have aired nationally on PBS. Jeff is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences as well as the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Chad Reich is an experienced hard news reporter and public affairs interviewer on radio – with recent work airing on NPR's Morning Edition headlines in January 2018. Having worked at KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte) since 2005, a wide variety of his stories have aired on stations throughout Colorado. Chad aims to broaden his production experience into the visual realm. His main interest lies in how communities interact with the “land of many uses.”

New areas of interests: Photojournalism, Non-fiction Video, and Virtual Reality.

For more information: www.CJRWorldwide.com

Terrance Reimer's career started as a photojournalist, but he has been a master printer near Yosemite National Park for almost two decades. His photography exhibition The Third California recently opened at the Fresno Art Museum and was also included in a group show at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, with the museum acquiring "Karaoke Night, 2000" for their permanent collection. He has served as adjunct of photography and digital imaging at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

New areas of interests: Documentary and Virtual Reality.

For more information: http://www.terrancereimer.com

Dr. Karen Riggs devotes her time and knowledge to the study of the introduction of new technologies into society and the resultant effects on communication – with a specific focus on social media. Riggs has published two books Granny @ Work: Age and Technology on the Job in America and Mature Audiences: Television in the Lives of Elders. Her most recent book, Groovin': Baby Boomers, Identity, and Marketing explores media and age, progress, resistance and what the future holds.

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Steven Ross has had an active career as a cinematographer and filmmaker for over thirty years. His documentary, Liberia: A Fragile Peace (2006), told the story of this once proud West African nation as it tried to refute a quarter century of bloodshed, corruption, and collapse. It is being distributed by California Newsreel domestically and TVF International worldwide. Most recently, he was the co-Director of Photography of Socrates of Kamchatka: Story of a Horse (2017) which blends documentary and fiction to tell the story of Russia from the 1980s to today. Mr. Ross has compiled an impressive list of cinematography credits, including independent features and television. He is currently Artistic Director/Head of the Film Division at Ohio University's School of Dance, Film, and Theater.

For more information: http://ousof.com/faculty/

John Sabraw is an activist and environmentalist, Sabraw's paintings, drawings and collaborative installations are produced in an eco-conscious manner, and he continually works toward a fully sustainable practice. One of his current collaborations involves creating paint and paintings from iron oxide extracted in the process of remediating polluted streams. Sabraw's art is in numerous collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, the Elmhurst Museum in Illinois, Emprise Bank, and Accenture Corporation. Sabraw is represented in Chicago by Thomas McCormick, and is Board Advisor at Scribble Art Workshop in New York. He has recently been featured in Smithsonian, New Scientist, London, and the Discovery Channel.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Brandon Saunders has always had an interest in computers and computer networking. "Getting a broad section of things working together to do interesting tasks is always what I've done," says Saunders. Brandon provides an advanced understanding of the technologies needed to deploy computer networks for small businesses and internet service providers. Brandon has also created an E-commerce software development and computer consulting organization with his wife Carrie.

Brad Schwieger has participated in more than 300 exhibitions including: The Seto Ceramics and Art Glass Center, Seto Japan; American Shino, Babcock Galleries, New York, New York; A Solo Exhibition at George E. Ohr Cultural Art Center in Biloxi, Mississippi; and the International Ceramics Symposium/Exhibition in Halle, Germany. He was an Artist in Residence at The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana and the Watershed Center for Ceramics in Maine, and is affiliated with several galleries including: Artifacts Gallery in Indianapolis, and Fifth Element Gallery, Portland, Oregon. He has conducted more than 50 workshops and lectured across the United States, Europe and Asia.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Becky Sell is a multimedia producer, editor and photojournalist. She has worked as a multimedia editor and staff photographer at The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., and has also interned at The Herald in Jasper, Ind., and The Courier-Press in Evansville, Ind. Her work has been published on time.com, usatoday.com, The Washington Post, National Geographic Short Film Showcase and others.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Wolfgang Suetzl is a philosopher, media theorist, and linguist. His research focuses on critical theory, media phenomenology, and media and social change. Before coming to Ohio University, he was principal investigator of a three-year research project on media activism at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He was Chief Researcher of World-Information.Org, a six-year international collaboration of scholars, artists, and technologists researching critical perspectives on the information society. Wolfgang Suetzl is a faculty member at the Transart Institute's MFA program (New York/Plymouth, UK), and has taught in Austria, Spain, Germany, and Central America.

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Akbar Sultanov is a communications specialist who is specifically interested in transforming the way communication is practiced in developmental organizations, and making information more accessible. He intends to develop an open source web service for reading news materials online in a 3D environment and explore new ways of interactive information delivery.

Dr. Rachel Terman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio University and is a core faculty member of the Wealth and Poverty Theme as well as an affiliate faculty member of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She specializes in the sociology of Appalachia and the rural U.S. Rachel is primarily a qualitative researcher who has worked with youth and young adult community organizers in central Appalachia for over ten years and is the author of "Intersections of Appalachian identity." In R. Fletcher & W. R. Schumann (Eds.), Appalachia Revisited (University Press of Kentucky). Before moving to Ohio, she also worked with the Pennsylvania Women's Agricultural Network and is a co-author of The Rise of Women Farmers and Sustainable Agriculture (University of Iowa Press). Terman earned her Ph.D. in rural sociology and women's studies from Penn State University and her MA in Appalachian Studies from Appalachian State University.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/cas/about/directories/profiles.cfm?profile=terman

Juan Thomassie is a visual journalist and interactive storyteller specializing in immersive, interactive information graphics. His work combines data, design and front-end developer skills. He builds interactive apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, including data visualization libraries like d3, Mapbox Studio, Leaflet, jQuery and many others. For more than 30 years, Juan worked in newsrooms producing information graphics for print, animated graphics for television, and interactive graphics for websites. He also worked for tech startups developing data visualization software.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Zulhiczar Tinarbuko is a Fulbright scholar from Indonesia, with a background in documentary production. He worked with organizations such as EngageMedia and the Eliminate Dengue Project, both using media and participatory video as part of a strategy for community empowerment. His main interest is helping marginalized communities explain and solve complex issues. Zulhiczar has taken apart in an exchange program between two vocational high schools in Indonesia and Sweden, and taught multimedia classes in both.

New areas of interests: Animation, Interactive Media, Virtual Reality, and Media and Social Change.

For more information: https://vimeo.com/zoulord

Andie Walla has spent the majority of her career producing videos for clients in higher education and the private sector. Her ability to produce, shoot, and edit projects from start to finish has created a group of satisfied clientele over the years. Andie's Media Production for the Community course pairs students with local non-profit organizations that have video needs. She also produces multi-camera live music videos for Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch. Every summer, she takes students to direct and shoot live content for the jumbo screen as part of a multi-camera crew at the main stage for the Nelsonville Music Festival.

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Art Werger studied illustration and painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, after which he switched to the field of printmaking. Over the last thirty years, he has focused on etching, aquatint and mezzotint and has become an internationally renowned artist in those media. Werger has works in the collection of the Guanlan Printmaking Base in China, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Boston Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Trenton Museum in New Jersey and over three hundred corporate and private collections.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Megan Westervelt is a former Fulbright scholar who recently worked in the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador to create a museum exhibition about biodiversity and traditional cultures. Megan is dedicated to a vision of using the power of community-based storytelling to have an educational impact on international audiences, and being able to offer vulnerable cultures the opportunity to have their voices heard.

Eric R. Williams works in 360-degree Virtual Reality video and Transmedia storytelling. His most recent projects focus on the use of VR Video for healthcare training, as well as developing bleeding edge narrative techniques for these new media. Prior to academia, Eric worked in television and film for more than twenty-five years, including clients such as Universal Studios, American Movie Classics and Fox Online. Eric has published two books on screenwriting for Focal Press and released a twenty-four lecture Great Courses series on the topic of Film Appreciation.

Dr. Lawrence Wood's scholarship areas include the digital divide; rural and regional development policy; indicators used to measure socioeconomic conditions; health disparities between urban and rural areas; grassroots level E-government; and discursive constructions of poverty in the media. His work has appeared in highly ranked journals that include Environment and Planning A; Government Information Quarterly; Learning, Media, and Technology; Public Administration Review; Regional Studies; and Telecommunications Policy. He has also written or co-authored policy reports for the Appalachian Regional Commission; the Center for Rural Pennsylvania; the Economic Development Administration; the Economic Policy Institute; and the United Nations Population Fund.

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Matthew Ziff's areas of interest include design philosophy, design process, aesthetics and the role of materials in the expression of ideas in the built environment. Mr. Ziff is an architect by education, training, and practice, using photography as a way to explore the production, representation, and deterioration of architectural surfaces. These surfaces function as a communicative interface between structure and skin and serve as a subject of architectural design. Construction methods and technologies, material characteristics, and design decisions each contribute to the form and character of an architectural surface. The surface, in turn, reveals or conceals. In a built context, architectural surfaces communicate the modalities of participatory or autonomous relations with their surroundings.

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