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Profile of Pamela Jennings
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- Pamela Jennings, Ph.D. is a Program Director for the CreativeIT and Human Centered Computing Cluster programs in the Information and Intelligent Systems Division of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Prior to NSF Jennings was the Research Manager and Director of the Advanced Research Technology Labs at the Banff New Media Institute in Banff, Alberta, Canada. She received research support from the iCORE (Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence) Visiting Professor program. She also held an adjunct faculty position at the University Of Calgary Department of Computer Science. Previously, Jennings held a joint professorship at Carnegie Mellon University between the Human Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science and the School of Art in the College of Fine Arts. Her research and curricula at Carnegie Mellon University explored the synergies between digital media, interaction design and design of complex systems, software and electrical engineering. She worked as an Interaction Design Researcher in Human Centered Computing at the User System Ergonomics Research Lab at IBM Almaden Research Center and in Learning Technologies at the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International. Jennings' research policy projects focus on the development of pathways to integrate creative digital media practices with science and technology research. She was commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation to write the report New Media Arts | New Funding Models in 2000. She has advised the National Science Foundation on the development of interdisciplinary funding programs that embrace creativity. She was the curator of the National Science Foundation funded exhibition Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: shared visions between art and technology at the National Academy of Sciences Rotunda Gallery in Washington D.C.. Jennings has presented her research at several ACM conferences including ACM CHI, ACM Creativity and Cognition and ACM Multimedia as well as the ISEA (Inter-society for Electronic Arts) and Interact. Jennings has exhibited her research and creative works at the Science World, Vancouver, BC; Spelman Museum of Fine Arts; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; FE Gallery Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Parsons' School of Design, New York; MIT List Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 707 Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario; and many international film and video festivals. She is a Fellow of the MacDowell Artists Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. In addition to iCORE, she has received support for her research and creative practices from the National Science Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Jennings' received her Ph.D. in Human Centered Systems Design from the Center for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts at the School of Computer Science, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom; M.F.A. in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts; M.A. in Studio Art from the joint International Center of Photography and New York University program; and B.A. in Psychology from Oberlin College.
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- pajennin@nsf.gov
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Pamela Jennings
School of Art and Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon
http://studio416.cfa.cmu.edu/
Presentation: Resources and Models for Creative Digital Media Research
Pamela Jennings is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University with a joint appointment in the School of Art and the Human Computer Interaction Institute. Jennings worked as a research interaction designer and web producer at IBM Almaden Research Center for the Advanced Technology and Software Solutions Group and the User System Ergonomics Research Lab. She also worked as a research instructional designer for the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI international. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. in the Center for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts program; M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts; M.A. from the International Center of Photography and New York University; and B.A. from Oberlin College.
Jennings? digital media art works make visible personal narratives by revealing hidden realities while simultaneously encouraging public discourse. In particular, her research in critical creative technologies is informed by a convergence of critical theories of technology, human centered computing, and contemporary practices in interaction design and digital media art. Resulting in the development of new information technologies and collaborative applications for facilitating face-to-face discourse in public spaces with others in situations where communication may be stifled by societal norms.
Jennings? art work has been cited in Lisa Farrington?s Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists, Oxford University Press and Phyllis Klotman and Janet Cutler?s Struggles for Representation: African American Film/Video/New Media Makers, Indiana University Press. Her papers have been published and presented in the 2005 ACM Creativity and Cognition, 2005 Human Computer Interaction Consortium, several Inter-Society for Electronic Arts symposiums since 1997, several ACM Computer Human Interaction workshops, 2003 Interact Conference, and the 1999 European Union I3Net Symposium. Her journal articles have been published in the Leonardo Journal for Art and Science, Convergence: the Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, and the CAA Art Journal.
Jennings? internationally recognized digital media arts research advocacy work includes the New Media Arts | New Funding Models white paper commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, and co-writer of the Helsinki Agenda documentation of the 2004 Experts Meeting on International New Media Arts Policy sponsored by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA). She is chair for Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: shared innovative visions between art and technology and exhibition to be held at the National Academy of Sciences Gallery in Washington D.C. as part of the 2007 ACM Creativity and Cognition conference. She co-chaired the 2006 ACM CHI conference workshop titled About Face: Interface ? Creative Engagement in New Media Arts and Human Computer Interaction and the first Interactive Art track for the 2004 ACM Multimedia Conference.
