Alumni

Wray Bowling

Wray is living in Raleigh currently working for a small contracting company – Intuvoe.  They build e-learning courses and develop online course engines, and websites for clients.  His latest projects developed were: http://schoolofants.org; http://bjac.com; and http://vertexbuildingsolutions.com.

On the side Wray does freelance web design and in his free time is still pursuing multimedia art/science.  A few of his 2011 art installations/research were:

  • SPARKcon: a grant from Visual Art Exchange to build an installation called “The Occlusion Photo Booth.” This was a complex optical illusion that combined 3D scanning and projection mapping.  It actually received equal amounts of buzz from computer science geeks and artists. Once the documentation is complete the link will be at http://rgbk.org/occlusion-photo-booth
  • {Re}Happening:  made into a videogame.  Link at:  http://rgbk.org/endless-lair-rehappening

schoolofants.org

The School of Ants project is a citizen-scientist driven study of the ants that live in urban areas, particularly around homes and schools.  Participation is open to anyone interested in contributing.  Teachers, students, parents, kids, junior-scientists, senior citizens and enthusiasts of all stripes…

Caroline Dougherty

Caroline is still in Asheville working at NEMAC (National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center) on UNC Asheville’s campus. Their work includes working closely with the US Forest Service’s Southern Research Station and NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center to create data visualizations and tools including several outreach projects with the community to provide decision support. Caroline is currently NEMAC’s Science Information Designer and also does the interface design for their web applications, branding for projects as well as web development and management.

John Kerr

John is living in D.C. working as a Motion Graphic designer and Asst. Editor at Half Yard Productions. He was responsible for all in-house graphics for the History Channel’s “How the States Got their Shapes.” He is currently working on graphics for the upcoming season of “Modern Marvels.” John misses Asheville!

Susan Buck

After graduating from UNC Asheville Susan earned her Masters Degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications department. While at NYU she did web development fo Photojojo.com and is still working for them remotely.

Susan then took a position at the University of Miami in their Visual Journalism department teaching web design.

She soon tired of the Florida heat and moved up north to her current teaching position at University of Pennsylvania in the Fine Arts department teaching Web 1 (client-side + design) as well as Web 2 (server-side). Susan has also launched an organization focussed on getting more women departmentming, designing and building web based endeavoers called WebStartWomen.com.

Susan states that she dearly misses UNC Asheville!