• Master of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.
  • Awarded a Full Tuition Scholarship, a Mellon Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in Art and Technology, and a Teaching Assistantship in film history and criticism.
  • Programmed software for algorithmic raster image generation through sequential transformations (a precursor of image morphing). Demonstrated the system's artistic applications in animation and installation projects.
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.
  • Admitted through the Filmmaking Department. Focused on film animation, studying both traditional techniques and then-emerging digital tools. Additional coursework in figure drawing and anatomy, holography, performance, and philosophy and criticism.
• Undergraduate studies in the Semiotics Department of the American College of Rome, the International College of the University of Charleston, W.Va., 1982-83.
• Undergraduate studies in the Physics and Engineering departments of the Università di Pisa, Italy, 1975-79.

• Faculty, full-time, Computer Graphics area of the Art Department, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA, 1992-current.
  • Current teaching assignments are digital illustration (vector graphics), digital painting (raster graphics), and introduction to web media. Also teach: survey of computer applications in the visual arts, interactive multimedia authoring, digital animation, and desktop publishing.
  • Ongoing curriculum activities include distance learning development (presently converting two traditional art classes to online teaching: introduction to art, and perspective drawing), and program revision (currently rewriting the entire computer graphics sequence, which comprises orientation classes and advanced courses on 2D and 3D graphics, animation, video, interactive multimedia, and print and electronic publishing). Long-term curriculum research focuses on complementing or replacing commercial applications with open source software.
  • Responsibility for computer lab administration: evaluate and specify hardware and software purchases, and interface new acquisitions with existing assets. Major commercial applications currently managed (i.e. installed, checked for compatibility with operating environment, and integrated into the instructional process) include: Adobe CS Suite (Acrobat, GoLive, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Version Cue), Macromedia MX Suite (Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, FreeHand), After Effects, Cinema 4D, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro, LightWave, Maya, Peak LE, Premiere, Pro Tools Free, QuarkXPress, VectorWorks. Desktop and network system software: Mac OS, Mac OS X, other Unix variants (including various Linux distributions), Mac OS X Server, AppleShare IP.
  • Responsible for maintaining an Internet presence for the computer graphics program. Ongoing web development research focuses on accessibility, with an emphasis on U.S. Rehabilitation Act Section 508 compliance.
  • Previous instructional activities included developing and teaching an interactive computer multimedia job training program, and workshops on computer multimedia for community college faculty.
  • Served in the academic senate as fine arts division representative, and on the campus-wide instructional computing steering committee.
• Faculty, part-time, Learning Tree University, Costa Mesa, CA, 2000-2001.
  • Developed and taught introductory overview of children's book illustration.
• Guest lecturer, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1989.
  • Made presentations regarding the impact of digital media on the visual arts.
• Faculty, full-time, Computer Art, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 1987-1992.
  • Hired to build from the ground up a computer art program. Managed soft/hardware purchases, installed and administered a networked, multi-platform (Apple Macintosh, Sun 3/150, Pixar Image Computer II) teaching lab, augmented with a variety of peripherals. Designed and taught five-class instructional sequence covering: computers in the visual arts, computer art--2d, computer art--3d, computer art--animation, computer art--interactive.
  • Also taught traditional art classes in illustration and in lettering and layout, and foundations classes in design, and in color and drawing.
  • Designed and taught computer art and lab management workshops for high school teachers, and an orientation workshop on computer use for university art faculty.
• Computer graphics consultant, part-time, Northwestern University Medical Library, Chicago, IL, 1987.
  • Set up and operated digital facilities for medical illustration and slide output.
• Animation intern, part-time, David Alexovich Animation, Chicago, IL, 1984-86.
  • Worked in a variety of animation capacities on several films released by Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp. and other clients: The Time Line, Grouping Living Things, Classifying Living Things (Best Instructional Film, Barcelona Film Festival; Cine Golden Eagle), Human Reproduction, Stonehenge, Geological Time.
• Animation intern, part-time, Cioni Artworks, Chicago, IL, 1983.
  • Worked as background artist and animator of cutouts on the film ED.

Astronomia (working title), a 4-volume set with text by Alfonso Pérez de Laborda. Jaca Book, Milano. Forthcoming, 2006.

La vita quotidiana 15.000 anni fa, Jaca Book, Milano, 2003, ISBN 88-16-57193-4.

L'Universo, origine ed evoluzione, Jaca Book, Milano, 1993, ISBN 88-16-57070-9.

Storia degli antichi astronomi, text by Alfonso Pérez de Laborda. Jaca Book, Milano, 1984, ISBN 88-16-57014-8. Published in Spanish by Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid, ISBN 84-7490-099-9.
Storia dell'astronomia moderna, text by Alfonso Pérez de Laborda. Jaca Book, Milano, 1984, ISBN 88-16-57015-6. Published in Spanish by Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid, ISBN 84-7490-100-6.
Storia dell'universo, text by Alfonso Pérez de Laborda. Jaca Book, Milano, 1984, ISBN 88-16-57016-4. Published in Spanish by Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid, ISBN 84-7490-101-4.

The three volumes listed above were also issued in additional languages by the following publishers:

French

Collection "Histoire du ciel et de la terre", Librairie Classique Eugène Belin, Paris, 1984.

• Les Premiers astronomes, ISBN 2-7011-0490-4
• L'Astronomie Moderne, ISBN 2-7011-0491-2
• Depuis le Big Bang, ISBN 2-7011-0492-0

Japanese

Librio Shuppan, Tokyo.

The first book relates the early history of mankind's expanding knowledge about the cosmos; the second presents modern astronomers and their theories concerning celestial bodies; the third attempts a conjectural history of the universe since its inception, based on the opinions of contemporary scientists. This wide range of subjects called for stringent accuracy in the presentation of scientific facts and hypotheses, and for lively depictions of historical events.

L'antico Testamento, Jaca Book, Milano, 2001, ISBN 88-16-57178-0.

La Creazione, text by Enrico Galbiati. Jaca Book, Milano, 1982. Published in English as The Creation, Winston Press, Minneapolis, 1983, ISBN 0-86683-191-6.

Also issued in other languages by the following publishers:

Croat

Krscanska Sadasnjost, Zagreb.

French

Le Centurion, Paris, ISBN 2-227-61037-9.

German

Verlagsgesellschaft Gerhard Kaffke, Regensburg.

Hungarian

Agape, Novi Sad.

Slovene

Ognjisce, Koper.

Spanish

Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid, ISBN 84-7490-084-0.

This volume, the first of seven on the history of the Bible, posed challenging problems related to a correct yet vivid rendition of events and concepts occurring in the Book of Genesis and in other cosmogonic accounts.

Also issued in other languages by the following publishers:

Albanian

Krscanska Sadasnjost, Zagreb.

Croat

Krscanska Sadasnjost, Zagreb.

Dutch

N.V.Orbis Boekhandel, Antwerpen.

French

Le Centurion et Hachette, Paris.

German

Patmos, Dusseldorf, ISBN 3-491-79246-0.

Japanese

Daughters of St.Paul, Tokyo, ISBN 4-7896-0116-1.

Slovene

Ognjisce, Koper.

Spanish

Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid, ISBN 84-7490-067-0.

This volume relates factual events of the 14th and 15th centuries, and required extensive study to ensure a faithful description of period costumes and environments.

I Discepoli del Signore, Jaca Book, Milano, 1984, ISBN 88-16-56007-X. Published in English as The Lord's Followers, Winston Press, Minneapolis, 1985, ISBN 0-86683-197-5. Published in Spanish by Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid, ISBN 84-7490-123-5.
Esilio, ritorno, Giudaismo, Jaca Book, Milano, 1983. Published in English as Exile and Return, Winston Press, Minneapolis, 1984, ISBN 0-86683-195-9. Published in Spanish by Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid, ISBN 84-7490-124-3.
Nella Terra Promessa, Jaca Book, Milano, 1983. Published in English as In the Promised Land, Winston Press, Minneapolis, 1983, ISBN 0-86683-193-2. Published in Spanish by Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid, ISBN 84-7490-095-6.

The above three books were also published in the additional languages listed for La Creazione.

Ai nostri giorni, Jaca Book, Milano, 1982. Published in English as The Church Today, Winston Press, Minneapolis, 1982, ISBN 0-86683-160-6. Published in Spanish by Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid, ISBN 84-7490-062-X. Published in Japanese by Daughters of St.Paul, Tokyo, ISBN 4-7896-0120-X.

Also published in the additional languages listed for Nasce l'uomo moderno.

Educational Art and Design Slide Set, SIGGRAPH, Chicago, 1992

Click 1: The Brightest in Computer-Generated Design and Illustration, North Light Books, Cincinnati, OH, 1990, ISBN 0-89134-348-2.

Digital Image-Digital Cinema: SIGGRAPH '90 Art Show Catalog, Supplemental Issue 1990 of Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, Berkeley, CA, ISSN 0024-094X.

The job required the translation of verbal accounts of schedules and procedures into visual concepts which could enhance the instructional value of the manuals.