Name:

Dave Wolfenden

Title:

IAEP Faculty

Biography:

David Wolfenden is the Executive Director of Outward Bound Canada. Outward Bound is dedicated to the cultivation of resilience, perseverance, courage and servant leadership in its participants. Outward Bound uses both the wilderness and traditional classrooms in its teaching methods and has been at the forefront of experiential education for over 60 years.

Prior to joining Outward Bound as Executive Director, Mr. Wolfenden was the Director of Operations for DMB, a real estate development company, located in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mr. Wolfenden's career has also included being Senior Consultant and Practice Manager for RSM McGladrey's Organizational Effectiveness and Family Business Groups. His consulting practice focused on organizational design and performance coaching to family owned, and closely held companies, as well as to a range of Fortune 500 and not-for-profit businesses throughout North America.

Prior to joining RSM McGladrey, he was a Senior Consultant with Innovation Associates, best known for Peter Senge's work in the area of learning organizations and systems thinking. He has also worked extensively in the area of industrial psychology, senior executive selection, and held the position of Organizational Development Specialist at Mountain Equipment Co-op in Vancouver. In that role he designed and implemented a comprehensive management development and leadership program and coached the top management team on strategic business issues.

Mr. Wolfenden has a Master's in Behavioral Science and has studied and taught systems thinking applications to business teams throughout the world.

Name:

David Latner

Title:

IAEP Faculty

Biography:

David Latner is a partner XDL, a Toronto based venture capital firm focused on information technology investments. Prior to joining XDL Capital in 1997 as a director and officer, Mr. Latner served as General Counsel of Delrina Corporation, the leading developer and publisher of electronic forms and communications software, and its spin-offs, SoftQuad Inc. and MGI Software Corp. during their rapid growth phases.

Before Delrina, David was in private legal practice, with a particular focus on the law relating to computer issues, and financing transactions, was a contributing editor to several computer industry publications and has taught negotiation skills to lawyers as part of the Law Society Bar Admissions Course.

Mr. Latner is a graduate of the University of Toronto, a member of the Computer Law Association, and a Fellow of the I.C.S.A. Mr. Latner is currently a lecturer at Habitat's Interactive Art & Entertainment Programme, and was formerly an adjunct lecturer at the University of Waterloo Computer Science Department. He is a member of the advisory board of RT Communications, a digital health care communications agency, and a director of Ideaca Inc., NOVATOR INC. and is an active member of a University of Toronto alumni committee devoted to enhancing public policy debate.

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Name:

Ilona Posner

Title:

IAEP Faculty

Biography:

Ilona Posner is a Usability Consultant, working towards improving the user experience by making technology usable and useful. A lecturer at the University of Toronto she teaches ©¯Design of Interactive Computational Media©˜ to 200 3rd year Computer Science students. She has consulted for Visa Canada Association, Human Factors International, National Research Council of Canada, Apple Canada, Sympatico.ca, Efficient Networks, Excite Canada, TVO and other companies in Canada and the U.S. She worked as a Senior Research Analyst at Digital 4Sight investigating the impacts of the convergence of internet, wireless, broadband, and pervasive computing on business strategies. At Expresto Software she helped develop and market Java based multimedia authoring software. She was a Research Associate at the University of Toronto working on usability, multimedia and collaborative technologies for over a decade.

Ilona holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

Name:

Jerry Durlak

Title:

IAEP Faculty

Biography:

Jerry is the Director/Coordinator of the Communication Studies Program at York University and Director of the Program's Collaboration Lab. Currently he directs courses and seminars on the social impact of new media technologies, networks, e-business and new media design. He writes extensively about new media, communication networks, new communication technologies, computer gaming and simulation, distributed learning and urban design.

Jerry has conducted applied research and assessment tasks, and supervised large-scale interdisciplinary research projects in Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Currently he is a member of a team developing a project "From Portal to Policy " which links digital infrastructures in visual arts and theatre research to larger communities while collecting data relevant to cultural and intellectual property policy.

Name:

Martha Ladly

Title:

IAEP Faculty

Biography:

Martha returned to Canada in January last year, having spent the last two decades in the UK, working in music and design. On her return she worked with Toronto-based Immersion Studios as Director of Design where she oversaw the graphic design and marketing, new corporate identity, educational and internet campaigns for the launch of the new Immersion Cinema at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. This followed a long and productive association with Peter Gabriel's UK-based Real World Group, where she was the Design Manager and Editor of Real World Notes magazine and E-CD. During her time there, she oversaw the design of the entire Real World artists roster, the WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) campaigns and worked closely with Peter Gabriel and leading artists and directors on a number of award winning projects including the 'Xplora 1' CD-ROM, the 'EVE' CD-ROM and book (winner of the Milia d'Or), the 'Ceremony of Innocence' CD-ROM and the Grammy Award winning 'Secret World Live' CD and video. She oversaw the design and art direction for Gabriel's most recent project 'Ovo; Music for the Millennium Dome'.

The move back to Toronto brings Martha full circle in a 20-year career in entertainment and education, which includes stints as a recording artist, performer, singer, songwriter, graphic and interactive designer, producer and lecturer. She has performed and recorded with The Associates, Robert Palmer and Roxy Music. In a previous life Martha was keyboard player and b/vox with legendary Toronto new wave band Martha and the Muffins. Martha is now teaching graphic and interactive design at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and has joined the Interactive Project Lab as a faculty mentor with CFC Media Lab.

Martha is an alumna of The Ontario College of Art and a Member of the Chartered Society of Designers and the Designers and Art Directors Associations in the UK.

Name:

Matt Gorbet

Title:

IAEP Faculty

Biography:

Matt Gorbet is an interdisciplinary technologist, researcher and artist who specializes in physically interactive technology experiences. He is a co-founder of Gorbet Design Inc., a research and design firm devoted to public interactive installations. Prior to founding Gorbet Design, Matt was a researcher at PARC, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where his team created an award-winning museum exhibit called XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading.

Matt earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from MIT and a Master of Science from the MIT Media Lab, where he developed Triangles, a magnetic, geometrically tiling physical computer interface. He has seven patents (some pending) on novel interaction technologies. Other projects Matt has worked on include: interactive television systems for NYNEX and SGI; a digital holography system; and a materials-science experiment for NASA that is bound for Mars in 2006.

Matt has exhibited technology artwork at the Ars Electronica festival in Austria, the InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, the Burning Man festival in Nevada and the Kitchener Contemporary Art Forum. As part of the faculty of the CFC's TELUS Interactive Art and Entertainment Program, he teaches physical computing and non-traditional interaction techniques.

More info

http://www.gorbet.com/matt

Name:

Siobhan O'Flynn

Title:

IAEP Faculty

Biography:

Siobhan O'Flynn completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, theorizing a new genre of literature, autotopographic metanarrative (a term she's coined that is much too long and definitely not sexy). Her work examined the interrelation of place and identity in this emerging genre, created in the intersection of postmodern autobiography and travel writing. She currently teaches courses in genre and narrative at the University of Toronto. She brings her expertise in narrative theory and the fundamentals of story structure to CFC Media Lab.

A participant in the Toronto alternative music scene from its beginning, Siobhan was one of the first grrrl djs (long before the invention of the term). Siobhan was the co-founder, dj and installation artist of the legendary Pariah. She also spun at the Phoenix, running the city's first fusion night of alternative and hip hop music, as well as playing at the Bovine, Whiskey, Domino's, and too many other clubs to name. She was also co-creator of the ultra-cult clothing and accessory line, Grrrl Gear. On alternate evenings, she carved a path through Toronto's cooking community, working in many well-reviewed restaurants, her favourite being a year at Centro (imagine the meals!).

Name:

Susan Gorbet

Title:

IAEP Faculty

Biography:

Susan LK Gorbet is a creative technology designer, researcher and manager. She has been turning cutting-edge technology and research prototypes into real products for the last twelve years. She is a co-founder of Gorbet Design Inc., a research and design firm specializing in public, physically interactive technology experiences.

Before moving to Canada in 2001, Susan was the User Experience Director at Snapfish.com, a San Francisco-based online photo service with over five million registered users. Before Snapfish, Susan was the Director of User Interface Design for www.excite.com. As an engineering manager and producer at Silicon Graphics, Inc., she led Russian and American technical and design teams in experimental 3D graphics projects.

Susan is a pioneer in the design of 3D navigation interfaces. Her interaction design work includes: SGI's award-winning Cosmo Player 2.0 web-based 3D browser; Japanese interactive television applications; and an ITV installation at Disney's Epcot Center. Susan was also a researcher in Excite@Home's advanced web technology group. After earning undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in Computer Science and Psychology, Susan spent 2 years in the Stanford Computer Science graduate program, where she was the recipient of a fellowship sponsored by Xerox PARC. As a member of the faculty of the CFC's TELUS Interactive Art and Entertainment Program, she teaches experience design for emerging media.

More info

http://www.gorbet.com/susan

Name:

Suzanne Stein

Title:

IAEP Faculty

Biography:

Suzanne has been with habitat since its inception in 1997, where she is the course leader for Interactive Media and Narrative Theory. Her passion for interactive media began at an early but non-specific time. In fact, she has always found interactions with computers fascinating (sadly this enthrallment extended to the least expressive of forms - like the advent of microwave ovens). Later, she would be one of the first amongst her peers to have and use email. Those were the days when you emailed people simply because you could - no particular purpose beyond connecting, really.

Formally, she has been working in the interactive media sector since 1994. Her work in the industry has spanned academic research and teaching, as well as industry involvement in both not-for-profit institutions and across the business sectors. For the last two years, she has worked in the Interactive Project Lab (IPL) that runs across Canada, mentoring innovative interactive products. And is also putting either the finishing or rudimentary touches (this year will tell us which one) on her PHD from the London School of Economics. She is involved in several Boards around the world, founding many of them, including, The Global Alliance for Bridging the Digital Divide (GABDD), Blood, part of the UK's Contemporary Arts Society that promotes new art forms, and Applied Ethnographic Studies of Practice (AESOP), a corporate-academic research alliance. Over the years, she has made a point to speak at conferences around the world on the state and future of interactive media, including Hong Kong's ICT Summit, EuroITV, and the Digital Storytelling Festival. She has also been guest lecturer at the University of Brighton, Ryerson, and Toronto. She was head of Sapient's User Experience Department in London and now is a research and design consultant through the company, Everyday Life. This is dedicated to the idea that what ever technology does, it should be at the service of our human needs, desires and routines.