James Rouvelle is an artist and professor of interactive media at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore. He has an eclectic background having received his bachelor of arts in music from Skidmore College and master of fine arts from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, while teaching himself electronics and computer programming. He has also done graduate studies in composition at the Juilliard School of Music and the Aspen Music Festival School. As a composer and performer in classical music, Rouvelle directed a chamber music ensemble and, for 10 years, maintained an active performance schedule focusing on contemporary music. Rouvelle has been a composer-in-residence, visiting artist, and lecturer at numerous schools around the world. He has also exhibited his work locally and internationally. Rouvelle has taught courses in music, interactive media, electronics and programming at Connecticut College, University of Chicago, Parsons School of Design in New York, and the Technisches Universitat (trans. Technical University, or “TU”) in Berlin. Committed to the ideals of collaboration and interdisciplinality, he is co-founder of the Urbantells Collective and earlier this year was invited to give a presentation on the concept and experience of time with Drs. Mario Livio and Dean Moyar of the Hubble Space Observatory, and is presently working with the Maryland Science Center on an upcoming exhibit entitled “the universe of the cell”. For more information about James, visit www.rouvelle.com.