Chair, Media Arts
Professor of Media Arts

Miriam is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. She is committed to spreading the word of interaction through microcontrollers, and improving her italian by using the Arduino. She has guest lectured in Switzerland and Italy, presented annually at Musems & the Web, and is determined to teach artists to write code. Miriam is newly converted to the un-conference model of everything.

Professor of Media Arts.

Megan Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of Media Arts at New Mexico Highlands University. She earned her MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico and a BA from Smith College with a concentration in fine art and philosophy. Jacobs' artwork is a meditation on the relationship of things in flux: bodies, relationships, and memory. The materials that she works with: photographs, video projections, time-based media, glass, and ice, function metaphorically to illustrate the ambiguity of the body as well as the mutability of memory and identity.
Jacobs' lectures and exhibitions have been included at Photo Eye Gallery, Saatchi Gallery [online], Museum of New Art (MONA), Chinese International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea, and Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

Professor of Media Arts

Kerry Loewen earned a B.A. at The Evergreen State College and a M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. He has worked in the film industry as a Producer, Assistant Director, Casting Director, and Location Manager. He has previously taught Filmmaking and Photography at Eastern Oregon University, San Francisco State University, City College of San Francisco, Foothill College and Diablo Valley College. His work is in the permanent collections of The Evergreen State College, the di Rosa Preserve (Napa, California), and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His current research involves live-action stereoscopic 3D filmmaking.

Program Coordinator and Faculty, Communication Design Studies

BA Kenyon College, MFA Savannah College of Art and Design

Andy has over 10 years of experience teaching in the field of art and design, having taught at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, New Art Center, Newton, MA, and MIT’s LIST Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA. His experience is rooted in fine arts, having his paintings collected on the east coast and represented for 6 years by Conner Contemporary Art in Washington, DC. Andy was awarded a full Chinese Government fellowship at the China Academy of Art. He has also won a Silver Medal CASE Award and a Drench Award for his design and recently selected into the juried show for the 2010 AIGA New Mexico Showdown Competition in Santa Fe, NM.
Now serving on the AIGA, New Mexico board as the Communications Director, Andy continues to run his own independent design studio and has designed for clients such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern Bioinformatics Center, Suffolk University, Kenyon College, and Tacoma Contemporary. Andy is dedicated to the art of bringing information to life through effective, compelling design, both in print and on the web.