July 12, 2004
Turbulence Spotlight: "Influences.org" by Danielle DaCosta
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/influences/ddacosta.html

Turbulence is pleased to announce the launch of "Influences.org," a
non-profit educational website highlighting the historic individuals who
defined new media by the creation and exploration of innovative
concepts, philosophies, projects, and processes. It aims to present new
media innovation in the context of cross-disciplinary connections,
collaborations, conceptual characteristics, medium/genre and timeline.
The goal is to educate and engage the new media community, by providing
a relational viewpoint of historical works and the opportunity to share
contemporary projects within a referential context.

"Influences.org 1.0" is just the beginning and needs YOU, the community,
to provide feedback and contemporary projects. Please participate!

BIOGRAPHY

Danielle DaCosta earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in the area of
design and technology from Parsons School of Design and her Bachelor of
Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts. She is an
Assistant Professor of Visual Communications at Endicott College, and
has previously held teaching appointments at the University of
Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Parsons School of Design, and the Whitney
Museum in New York. While faculty at Parsons, Ms. DaCosta was the
recipient of the New School Faculty Technology Grant to develop one of
the first distance learning pedagogical systems for integrated software
and technology curricula. She was a guest speaker at the Syllabus 2001
Conference, where she presented that work.

Ms. DaCosta has extensive industry design experience, including projects
developed with ThinkWare Inc., CSC Interactive, Intranets Inc., Hookumu
Inc., and U.S. Interactive. Her work has been featured in the I/O
Digital Exhibition in NYC, ResFest Online, Coolhomepages.com, and with
the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council. Ms. DaCosta's
technology-oriented artworks were presented in a solo exhibition in the
J. David Broudo Gallery at Endicott College in September of '03.
Recently she has been the recipient of an ACM SIGGRAPH special projects
grant and a Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship.

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