Who We Are: DMI Faculty and Advisors

M.F.A., State School of Art and Design, Lodz, Poland; lectures: University of Western Sydney, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Tongji University in Shanghai, Osaka University of Arts, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Rhode Island School of Design, California Institute of the Arts, Art Center College of Design; articles in: Print, Eye, AIGA-Boston; co-curator: Massaging Media conference, The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press, Makoto Saito: The Art of The Poster; solo exhibitions: Skydoor Gallery, Aoyama, Tokyo; Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Artworks Gallery, Hart  read more »

M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design; president: Jam Design Inc., an interactive and print design studio based in Boston. Jam's clients include The Rhode Island School of Design, Bryant College, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The New York Times, Keane Inc., International Data Group, Andersen Consulting, and The Boston Athenaeum.  read more »

Brian Lucid is a designer, educator, and consultant whose personal and professional work spans from traditional communications in static and temporal media to computational design and physical/digital interfaces.  read more »

BFA, College for Creative Studies; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design.

Gunta has worked for the design departments at WGBH Educational Foundation and Digital Equipment Corporation; and is principal/owner of Kaza Design.  read more »

Colin Owens is the founder and mastermind behind ShapeMix, a patent-pending music mixing application that puts the technical capabilities of a music studio into an intuitive mobile application. Owned by Legion Enterprises and set to launch in Fall 2010 as an iPad app, ShapeMix democratizes the music mixing creative process by enabling aspiring DJs, musicians, and fans alike to remix, create and share original and remixed works with friends.  read more »

Pol Pla i Conesa is a graduate research assistant at the MIT Media Lab. He graduated from Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona) in Computer Science in 2008 and he earned a Masters in Cognitive Science from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) in 2010. He cofounded Multitouch Barcelona; an interactive design group were he developed projects like the Multitouch Space Invaders and the HI Human Interface.

Mara Wagner is a consulting psychoanalyst on the core faculty of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. She teaches a range of courses exploring the psychoanalytic underpinnings of the creative process—dreaming, image-making, and unconscious fantasy—which have application to the design process. As founder of Gallery 1581, housed in the graduate school, she sponsors exhibits and lectures which provide a forum for discussion between artists and psychoanalysts.

Heather Shaw is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Curry College. Prior to teaching at Curry, she was a full-time lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth for both the Design and Digital Media departments. Heather sits on the Board of Advisors for the Dynamic Media Institute, and serves as a thesis advisor and thesis writing advisor. Her scholarship involves lecturing nationally and internationally on the integration of dynamic media with traditional graphic design pedagogy.  read more »