Jessye McDowell
President
Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Animation, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Officers
Jim Jeffers
Treasurer, Finance Committee
Assistant Professor, Indian River State College
KT Duffy
Chair of Communications Committee
Assistant Professor of Art & Technology, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Liat Berdugo
Chair of Events & Exhibitions Committee
Assistant Professor, Art and Architecture, University of San Francisco
Johanna Gosse
Executive Editor, Media-N Journal
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, University of Idaho
Mat Rappaport
Immediate Past President 2017 - 2020
Associate Professor, Columbia College Chicago
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