Vicki Callahan is an Associate Professor in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she founded and designed the theory/practice program, Conceptual Studies in Media Arts Production. This year she is a visiting scholar at USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy, where she is piloting a course with Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Educators initiative. Her class at the IML is investigating the possibilities for remix aesthetics in a documentary context using as its core text Greenwald’s latest film, Rethink Afghanistan. She is also the author of Zones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade (Wayne State UP, 2004), the editor for the forthcoming 2010 collection, Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History (Wayne State UP) as well as the author/organizer of the feminism 3.0 website. Her interests in silent cinema, feminist theory, and digital media intersect around questions of emergent/disruptive technologies, new modes of writing, social justice, and alternative or counter narrative forms.
Lina Srivastava, Principal of Lina Srivastava Consulting LLC and creator of the Transmedia Activism framework, focuses on employing strategy, innovation and media engagement to create social change. She writes the site Strategy for Social Change Initiatives and is the co-author of the site Modeling Global Change and this site. The former Executive Director of Kids with Cameras, and the past Interim Executive Director of the Association of Video and Filmmakers, she has provided strategic support to the Resist Network, films such as Born into Brothels and The Devil Came on Horseback, and a wide-ranging group of organizations dedicated to social change. Trained as an attorney at New York University School of Law, Lina is based in New York, New York.
