People

Director

John Fillwalk

John Fillwalk is an Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Ball State University. Fillwalk works and instructs in a variety of time-based and digital media including video, installation, imaging, interactive art and animation. He received his MFA from the University of Iowa in Intermedia and Video Art in 1990 and has since received numerous grants, […]

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Staff

Trevor Danehy

Virtual Worlds Modeler and Animator 3D Modeller and Animator Trevor Danehy graduated from Ball State with a Bachelor of Fine Arts specializing in 3d animation in 2007. Trevor’s primary skillsets are with high detail 3d modeling and texturing with programs like Pixologic Zbrush and Adobe Substance Painter. Trevor also developed methods of quick optimization of […]

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Neil Zehr

Neil earned his B.S. in the Digital Media Arts program at Huntington University in Huntington, IN. During his years there, he studied various traditional animation techniques, computer animation, and computer graphics while also working on several freelance projects and showcasing his films in Huntington’s annual media showcase. Following his graduation in the summer of 2008, […]

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Ina-Marie Johnston

Design and Communications Manager Ina-Marie Johnston is the Design and Communications Manager for Hybrid Design Technologies. She received her Bachelors in Fine Arts with a concentration in Visual Communications from Ball State University, as well as a Certificate in Web Applications. Her main interesting include print design, web design, print making, book making, and painting.

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Adam Kobitz

Virtual Worlds Modeler and Animator 3D Modeller and Animator Adam graduated from Ball State with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2012, then returned to pursue his Master’s of Fine Arts in Animation the following year. After two years with IDIA Lab as a graduate assistant, Adam continued his time with the team as staff […]

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Dr. Michael Rhoades

Dr. Michael Rhoades is a multimedia artist and researcher. He joined the IDIA Lab team in August of 2019 where his role is that of a digital audio researcher creating generative algorithmic systems and configuring venues intended for multi-channel diffusion and stereoscopic projection. In the spring of 2018 Michael received a BFA in Creative Technologies […]

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Affiliated Staff

Research Fellows

Bernard Frischer

Bernard Frischer is a leading scholar in the application of digital technologies to humanities research and education. Frischer has overseen many significant projects, including virtual recreations of sites such as the city of Rome in the time of the emperor Constantine the Great. The works of Frischer and his institute have received international acclaim and […]

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Jeff Berg

Jeff Berg is a user experience expert at IBM Interactive. Jeff has more than 10 years of social computing development experience with expertise in rich internet application programming, community strategy, usability, user experience, 2d design, 3d content creation, and emerging technology adoption. Jeff focuses on community relations projects which use internet technologies to augment museum […]

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Douglas Seefeldt

Douglas Seefeldt is digital historian with teaching and research interests that focus on the intersections of history and memory in the American West. He arrived at Clemson University in the fall of 2020 after spending eight years in the Department of History at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he was founding Research Director […]

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Faculty Fellows

James Connolly

Professor of History James Connolly is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University.. He is the author of An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America (Cornell University Press) and The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston , 1900-1925 (Harvard University […]

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Kevin Nolan

Director, Applied Anthropology Laboratories Kevin is an Ohio Valley archaeologist with a primary research interest in the Late Prehistoric period (ca. AD 1000 – 1600) of the Middle Ohio Valley, particularly how humans interact with the environment. He has published collections based research, results of fieldwork, and theoretical models for the Middle Woodland (ca. 50 BC […]

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Kristen Barry

Kristin Barry is an assistant professor of Architecture at Ball State where she teaches courses in architecture history and theory. She was previously an Instructor at Penn State University, where she taught graduate courses in architectural history/theory, and survey courses in ancient art history and architecture. After receiving her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from […]

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Natalie Yates

Natalie Yates is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Ball State University. Her scholarly work is situated at the intersection of representation and analysis of landscape systems. Her research focuses on dynamic landscape illustration and simulation, sensing methods in design process (including DIY sensing technologies, UAVs [drones], and GIS), post-industrial landscape remediation, and urban […]

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Student Fellows

Derek Bohm

Derek Bohm is a Graduate Assistant pursuing a Master of Architecture degree at Ball State University. Heleads workshops on mixed reality software with a focus on architectural applications for students inCAP’s SimLab. He has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Durham and a BA in Theology from theUniversity of Manchester. He is interested […]

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