Alumni Notes

Eric Robsky Huntley (BFA ’10, performing arts technology) serves as a lecturer in urban science and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They also direct the MIT Spatial Analysis & Action Research Group and are the founder of OGRAPHIES Research & Design, a mission-driven spatial data science consultancy. (1/2025)

Leith Campbell (MA ’17, media arts) was awarded a residency in the inaugural cohort of the Michigan Central x Newlab Art + Technology Residency program hosted by Newlab in Detroit. The residency was formed to celebrate the reopening of Michigan Central Station. Campbell is working on a project combining composition, architectural installation, and machine learning. (1/2025)

The work of Robert Alexander (BFA ’07, performing arts technology; MA ’09, media arts; PhD ’15, design science) was featured in NASA’s Curious Universe podcast. He is currently working with the HARP Citizen Science project to bring the sounds of space to enthusiasts around the world. (3/2024)

In 2023, Ryan Black (BA ’07, performing arts technology; BFA ’07, jazz & contemporary improvisation; MA ’09, media arts) designed and performed his original collaborative sound installation project “Temporal Biomes,” and produced and mixed the experimental NÆ album Isolazen. Black teaches at Columbia College Chicago in audio arts and acoustics and is a sound designer with Rocket Cat Games.

Rob Bisel (BS ’14, sound engineering) served as a producer, songwriter, instrumentalist, engineer, and mixer on SZA’s album SOS, the 2024 Grammy Award winner for Best Progressive R&B Album. The album included two songs also honored: “Ghost in the Machine” by SZA and featuring Phoebe Bridgers won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, and “Snooze” won Best R&B Song.

David Newton (BM ’16, percussion), Jameson Eisele (BFA ’15, performing arts technology), and Patterson McKinney (BM ’15, MM ’17, percussion) launched Sly Pup Productions – a multimedia production company – in 2016. In the Winter 2023 Michigan Muse, Eisele and Newton share how they helped SMTD meet a surging demand for video recording and livestreaming since the pandemic.

Kara Dupuy-McCauley (BM ’04, music technology and piano performance) is now a Mayo Clinic pulmonologist with a specialty in sleep medicine. She is collaborating with her former professor Stephen Rush and performing arts technology students on a research study highlighted in the Winter 2023 Michigan Muse.

In fall 2022, Josephinex Hansis, BFA ’06 (performing arts technology, media arts), released the EP Playing The Victim with their band, Godmother, accompanied by a music video for the song “I’ll Never Learn” and a concert at the Berghain Kantine in their homebase of Berlin.