Mat Rappaport
President
Associate Professor, Columbia College Chicago
Officers
Rachel Clarke
Secretary
Professor, California State University, Sacramento
Jim Jeffers
Treasurer
Assistant Professor, Indian River State College
Jessye McDowell
Chair of Communications
Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Animation, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Kevin Hamilton
Chair and Editor-in-Chief of Media-N
Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Byron Rich
Chair of Events & Exhibitions Committee (Interim)
Assistant Professor of Art, Director of Art & Tech., Allegheny College
Vagner Whitehead
Immediate Past President
Professor, Texas Woman's University
Past Presidents
Doreen Maloney
Founding President 2003 – 2006
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington
Gwyan Rhabyt
President Emeritus 2006 – 2009
Associate Professor, California State University, East Bay
Paul Catanese
President Emeritus 2009 - 2014
Associate Professor, Columbia College Chicago
Paul Catanese is a hybrid media artist whose diverse range of works include installation, performance, printmaking, video, sculptural objects, handmade paper, artist books, code, net.art, and projections which have been exhibited internationally, notably at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, La Villette and the China Academy of Art; with screenings at the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Stuttgart Filmwinter, FILE, ANIMAC, ExUrban Screens, New Forms Festival, and ISEA2014 Dubai. He has received commissions from Rhizome and Turbulence, and was awarded a 2014 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship. Catanese is Director of Graduate Study and Associate Professor of Art & Art History at Columbia College Chicago.
Vagner Whitehead
President Emeritus 2014 - 2017
Professor, Texas Woman's University