Our staff includes professionals who specialize in the use of digital media and emerging technologies in the areas of audio, video, photography, graphics, sculpture, web-based, live performance and installation art. We are here to help you bring your ideas to fruition.
-Joan Freedman

Director

Joan Freedman, Director
Joan Freedman

Joan has been involved with art and technology in various ways for the last 20 years. After obtaining her bachelors of fine arts degree in theatre design/technology and working as a scenery and costume designer she became interested in information design and the use of computer interactivity to make learning fun. Throughout the late ‘80s, early ‘90s she worked with multimedia pioneers in the San Francisco bay area creating interactive museum exhibits, educational software, and games. After obtaining her masters of science degree in educational technology she joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Office of Medical Informatics Education where she created technology-based learning resources for students and faculty.

Currently Ms. Freedman is the Director of the Digital Media Center, Instructor in the department of Art as Applied to Medicine, School of Medicine, and an adjunct faculty member in the department of Film and Media Studies. She collaborated with faculty in many departments such as History, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Arts Workshops, Writing Seminars.

Office Manager

Deborah Buffalin, Office Manager
Deborah Buffalin

Trained as an architect, Deborah worked in housing and community development for a decade before taking a detour through the adventurous world of child-rearing. Time spent managing a home and freelance grantwriting business with three kids underfoot prepared her well for re-entry into the professional world as the office manager of the DMC.

Although she tells her student employees that they knew more about digital media in utero than she'll ever learn in her lifetime, Deborah is pleased to have absorbed rudimentary audio, video, graphics and web skills. You will occasionally find her jumping up and down, gleefully chirping "I knew something! I knew something!" after solving a problem in the lab.

On her off time, Deborah coaches several academic chess teams, teaches ethics and values at a local Hebrew school and occasionally competes at amateur powerlifting meets.  When she grows up, Deborah hopes to be a race car driver or an astronaut.

Digital Audio Specialist

Andrew Stella

Andy Stella is an audio specialist, with experience in studio and live music production, broadcasting, distance education and programming.  He holds a MA in Recording and Acoustics from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, as well as a Master’s degree in Sound and Music Computing from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.  In addition, he has collaborated with other artists on installations that have been exhibited as a part of Artscape and the Rotating History Project.  As a musician, he sometimes records covers of Huey Lewis songs.

Graphics Specialist

Cameron Zotter, Graphics Specialist

Cameron Zotter

Cameron is completing his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. At MICA Cameron has developed a wide range of interests such as: Data visualization, programming, hacking, motion graphics, video, 3d fabrication and printmaking.
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Prior to graduate school, Cameron worked as a designer at National Geographic in Washington, D.C. His design work has been published in the Type Directors Club 57th Annual, Feltron’s Blog, Under Consideration, Swissmiss, This is Colossal and Core 77 among others.

Cameron's typographic work has been exhibited nationally at the Savannah College of Art and Design, the Cooper Union and internationally in Iceland, Spain, England, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Taiwan and Vietnam.

 

Instructional Technology Specialist

Milt Reder, Instructional Technology Specialist
Milt Reder
Milt Reder earned a BA in Greek Classics from Hampshire College in 2007. His areas of expertise encompass information technology, audio, and mayhem.

Digital Video Specialist


Jimmy Roche
Jimmy Joe Roche is an American visual artist residing in Baltimore, MD. His videos have screened internationally in venues including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Incubate Arts festival in Holland, Rojo@nova in Brazil, and Baltimore Museum of Art . In 2008 Roche had his first solo show at Rare Gallery in New York, his second solo show was in Colorado at  RMCAD in 2010, and is currently preparing for his third solo show to open Rare Gallery in January of 2011.

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