The 2012 ADAA Board Members will be announced in January of 2012. The 2011 ADAA Board Members included:

An Assistant Professor of Media Design at the School of Art, Media & Technology at Parsons the New School for Design, David Carroll has taught more than 40 studio courses to nearly 500 students since 2001 as a full-time faculty member of the BFA and MFA Design & Technology degree programs. Carroll's pedagogical style blends the art school studio critique model with creative technology development and traditional critical discourse. His primary research includes interaction design, especially related to desktop and mobile contexts.

Recently, Carroll founded the Center for Mobile Creativity at Parsons as a research and development facility to support application design for mobile devices and situations in partnership with the Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto. During the summer of 2008, Carroll exhibited his mobile media installation "1000 Cellphones" at the Synthetic Times: 2008 media art exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. The artwork playfully visualizes discovered Bluetooth devices on video monitors by interpreting each device's identification number as a unique color, reminding us of the tracking devices we carry around. "1000 Cellphones" runs on a custom Bluejacking server and visualizes the real-time data with an ActionScript 3.0 application.

Carroll's presence in China began as a visiting scholar to the Academy of Art and Design at Tsinghua University during the summer of 2007, where he conducted a special project workshop designing a mobile visitors' guide for the 2008 Olympiad with Flash Lite on Nokia devices.

Carroll's preferred learning environments for creative technology include the Adobe Creative Suite, especially Flash, Device Central, and Flex, as well as Flash Media Server. Carroll also employs Processing to teach interaction and computation fundamentals. As the authorized agent of Apple's iPhone Developer University program at the New School, Carroll provides curricula, support and infrastructure to faculty and students working in the Cocoa Touch SDK.

Carroll's students were finalists of the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards in the Mobile Design category.

Richard Doust is a senior tutor in graphic design at the Royal College of Art in London. He currently is developing new media as well as virtual and online learning initiatives at the RCA and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He also teaches and supervises the work of graduate research students. Doust, who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom, continues to practice as a graphic designer. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Art and the Royal Society of Arts.

A native of the Sonora desert of Mexico, Rafael Esquer has made New York City his home for more than a decade. As Creative Director at @radical.media, his group's work in communication design received the National Design Award in 2004 from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Esquer now runs Alfalfa Studio, his own design studio which was established in 2004. Clients have included The New York Times Magazine, Nike, Björk, AIGA, The Philip Johnson Glass House, The Houston Rockets, Tommy Boy Records, Target, IBM, Scholastic, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., Museo del Barrio, and MTV. Some of his work is contained in the Library of Congress poster collection, the Museum of Fine Art in Montreal, the Poster Museum in Poland and the Olympic Museum in Switzerland.

In 2007, Taschen named Esquer one of the world's 100 most influential graphic designers working today. (Charlotte and Peter Field, eds. Contemporary Graphic Design).

Rafael teaches at the School of Visual Arts, and he has taught at the Art Center College of Design and NYU. He has been a visiting artist in the graduate graphic design program at Yale and served on the board of directors for the American Institute of Graphic Arts/New York.

Esquer currently sits on the Advisory Board for AIGA's Diversity Archives, curating the first exhibition of minority graphic designers over the last 100 years. Esquer received his BFA in graphic design from Art Center College of Design. He frequently serves as judge and speaker at national and international design events.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Bryony Gomez-Palacio is a graphic designer and writer now living in Austin, Texas. She is co-founder of UnderConsideration—a graphic design firm and publishing enterprise all rolled into one—where she manages the behind-the-scenes of the online network compromised of Brand New, FPO, Quipsologies and the soon to be re-launched Design Encyclopedia. Bryony has co-authored four books with her husband and partner, Armin Vit—their most recent efforts being Graphic Design, Referenced and the self-published Flaunt. Most recently, they conceived and presented the Brand New Conference in New York City and the upcoming 2010 Brand New Awards. Bryony enjoys conducting workshops and lecturing when not tending to her two young daughters.

Jean-Benoit Lévy is a visual communicator who has been active since 1983 in Switzerland after his studies at the Basel School of Design with teachers such as Wolfgang Weingart and Armin Hofmann. Jean-Benoit is now living and working in San Francisco.
Jean-Benoit is a highly creative individual designer whose journey started in Basel, Switzerland and led him to San Francisco, California. From logo to corporate identities, from postage stamp to coin design, from street posters to book design, from private projects or for clients assignments, his professional experience is wide. His work has been awarded in international competitions and published in books and magazines.
Jean-Benoit received his green card in 2001 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008. Since 1991 Jean-Benoit has taught regularly, including courses at San Jose State University and Academy of Art University. He also lectures about his work in various schools in Europe, Japan, and USA. I n 1988 he opened his studio “A N D”. T his studio, located in Basel have been active in Switzeralnd until 2006. He is a member of AI GA and AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale ).
Born in 1959 in Switzerland, Jean-Benoit speaks French, German and English. He is married and father of one boy.
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Peter Frank Patchen is a digital artist exhibiting and lecturing nationally and internationally. He grew up in Colorado where the natural environment had a profound influence on his perception of the relationships that exist between nature, humanity, culture and technology.

After graduating from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs he earned a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Oregon in Eugene Oregon. In 1993, he founded the Cyber Arts (now New Media) program at the University of Toledo. Currently, he is Chair of Pratt's Department of Digital Arts.

Peter's recent work includes interactive multi-media installations that utilize alternative interfaces like light sensors, bar code scanners, water and motion detectors. He has exhibited at the Beecher Center for Technology in the Arts at the Butler Institute of American Art, International Digital Art Awards (Melbourne), Siggraph Art Exhibitions, Luco Film Festival (Rome), Kalisaar Computer Art Exhibition (Tel-Aviv) and various other solo and group exhibitions.

McAllister currently manages the creative computing environment at OCAD, from student and faculty computing to leading innovative web development.

As a practicing artist, McAllister creates video, audio, interactive and photographic works, some of which have been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. McAllister's videos and photographs have been shown at the International Biennale of Contemporary Art (Prague), the CONTACT Festival of Photography (Toronto), the imagineNATIVE media arts + film festival (Toronto), Century Gallery (London) and Sis Boom Bah (Toronto) in Out and About, GARDENfresh (Chicago), Oxo Tower (London) in Response/Ability and at FotoFestival Naarden (Netherlands). McAllister holds a Master's degree in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

Find out more about Andrew McAllister at www.andrewmcallister.ca/

Stacie Rohrbach is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. She teaches studio- and seminar-based communication design courses at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. Her research investigates the ways people perceive and process information and how their ability to learn may be improved by translating complex, abstract information into concrete, experiential forms. Rohrbach also studies design pedagogy in professional and general education settings and explores the relationships that exist between print and dynamic media.
Prior to her current academic appointment that began in 2003, Rohrbach worked professionally in both print and digital media and conducted her graduate studies from 2001-2003. As an art director and designer for Partners Design from 1997-2001, Rohrbach developed identity systems, corporate standards manuals, interactive websites, and product packaging. She was also a designer and researcher for North Carolina State’s Extension and Engagement program in 2002, and a designer for Landesberg Design Associates from 1996-1997. Rohrbach is a member of the AIGA Design Educators Community Steering committee since 2007 and currently serves as its vice-chair. She is also the faculty advisor for Carnegie Mellon’s AIGA student chapter.
Stacie Rohrbach earned a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon
University in 1996 and a Master of Graphic Design degree from North
Carolina State University in 2003 under the advisement of Professor
Meredith Davis.

Since 1984 her films have been screened internationally, including Anima Mundi, Hiroshima and Ottawa international animation festivals. She has exhibited at group and solo exhibitions such as the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Conservatorio di Santa Maria degli Angioli in Florence, Italy and at the Australian National Gallery, Canberra. Smith has independently created 13 animated films including traditional and experimental mixed media animations, and since 1994, digital animated films.

Smith's work has been shown at SIGGRAPH, the Sundance Film Festival and was documented in Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, as part of the Ninth New York Digital Salon.

Smith's animation and installation work is currently featured in "Animation Now" a world-wide publication by Taschen Press. In 2005 she was awarded the USC Phi Kappa Phi Honor Award in the Creative Arts for her work on Indefinable Moods and in the same year she was awarded a Zumberge Research Grant for her current project Slippages a multimedia digital animation and installation exploring three dimensional time and consciousness.

Smith's full CV and bio can be viewed at: www.kathymoods.org