Faculty Biography

James Petrillo - Director of the Multimedia Graduate Program and Professor of Art. Professor Petrillo is a practicing fine artist whose career includes gallery and museum exhibitions of media art, book art, video and story telling theater works. He has presented at many national and international conferences and his current project explores the effects of electronic technology on culture making.

Teah Graham - Lecturer, B.F.A. (2000) University of New Mexico, Master's Degree in Science and Education with a concentration in Online Teaching and Learning (2005) California State University, East Bay. Currently, Ms. Graham is the Media Director for Safeway Stores Inc.

Janet Green - Assistant Professor of Art, Masters of Arts (Multimedia), California State University, East Bay (2002), Master of Arts (Communications), Monash University, Australia (1997) and Bachelor of Arts (Graphic Design), Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia (1982). She is currently working on wirelessly connected, interactive, handheld museum guide prototypes for institutions that have included Chabot Space & Science, The Exploratorium and Moss Landing Marine Labs.

Teresa Hardy - Lecturer of Art, Teresa Hardy is a developer for interactive educational applications and commercial websites. She has contributed to educational installations that are currently exhibiting at museums and exploratoriums around the world. Her website development work focuses on emerging small businesses that need a web presence and leverages  Product Management skills from over 20 years of new product introduction in the technology sector. She still enjoys traditional media of pastel or acrylics and exhibits at several locations in Fremont. Teresa graduated with an Electronics Engineering degree from The College of New Jersey and a Multi-media Master of Art degree from CSU East Bay. She is a Guest Lecturer at CSUEB, teaching web design in the Art Department.

Rafael Hernandez - Assistant Professor of Music, D.M. Indiana University (2005). Prof. Hernandez leads music technology instruction at Cal State East Bay through offerings in Computer Music and Audio Production within the Department of Music. Recent research includes work on multimedia learning applications for traditionally taught music composition subjects. Creatively, his recent works have included non-standard performance techniques on acoustic instruments melded with real-time synthesis driven sounds which feature execution through intuitive, non-traditional control.

Phillip Hofstetter - Associate Professor of Art, with a Master of Art, Multimedia from California State University, Hayward (1997). Professor Hofstetter is Chair of CSUEB Art Department. His career in the arts includes works in the theater, documentary television, and major stints at Bay Area art museums. He produced the definitive multimedia website on the ancient Maya. Currently he is internationally exhibiting his large scale photographic work of Greek and Maya ruins.

Scott Hopkins - Associate Professor of Art, M.F.A. University of Arizona (1997). Professor Hopkins coordinates the photography program at Cal State East Bay. His interests are in multimedia and all aspects of imaging, theoretical and practical and application in the single image or a multimedia environment. His current projects include photo documentaries on the interface areas of Northern Ireland, Israel/ Palestine, U.S./Mexico and North/South Korea.

John MacWillie - Lecturer. John MacWillie has nearly twenty-five years of experience in the business of high-technology as a Chief Technology Officer, a Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Vice President of Business Development. He is currently a Managing Director for the Berkeley Group which provides strategy and corporate development consulting to high-technology companies. He has his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and did his graduate studies at New York University.

Ray Mitchell - Lecturer, holds a Masters Degree (1994) and Bachelors of Science (1989) in Computer Science from California State University, Hayward, and two Associate degrees--one in Computer Science (1986) and the other in Electronics Technology (1987) from Chabot College. Mr. Mitchell has worked in industry for about a decade as an R & D software engineer. He is currently teaching computer science and multimedia electronic application development courses at Cal State East Bay, and Stanford University.

Gwyan Rhabyt - Associate Professor of Art, MFA in Sculpture (1997), California College of Arts and Crafts, BA in Philosophy (1986), UC San Diego. Professor Rhabyt's focus is on tangible interactive art. He has been working with digital art since experimenting with prototype GUIs at Xerox PARC in 1980. He teaches classes in interactive authoring, electronic sculpture, and off-the-screen multimedia.