Faculty & Staff

James Fei
Associate Professor of Electronic Arts
Program Head, Fall
On sabbatical Spring 2013
Music 33, 510.430.2329, jfei@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition, improvisation, sound installation, live electronic music, recording, intermedia

Samara Halperin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art
Program Head, Spring
Art 116, 510.430.3289, shalperi@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Experimental film and video, cinematography, 16mm animation, production design, writing, pop culture

Anna Valentina Murch
Professor of Studio Art
Joan Danforth Chair
On sabbatical 2012-2013
Sculpture 115, 510.430.2182, annav@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Sculpture, installation, public art, ecological design, collaborative projects

Faculty Who Teach Intermedia Arts

David Bernstein
Professor of Music
Music 264, 510.430.2025, davidb@mills.edu
Professional Interests: John Cage, American experimentalism, avant-garde music and aesthetics, Arnold Schoenberg's tonal theories, post-tonal theory and analysis, 20th-century music literature, the history of late 19th- and early 20th-century harmonic theory

Chris Brown
Professor of Music
Luther B. Marchant Chair
Department Head of Music
Co-Director, Center of Contemporary Music
Music 243, 510.430.2330, cbmus@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition and improvisation, interactive electronic music, musical instrument building and new instrumental resources, sound installations, algorithmic composition, 21st-century performance practice, world music

Ken Burke
Professor of Film Studies
Professor of Art and Art History
Program Head of Film Studies
Mills Hall Room 342, 510.430.3152, ninak@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Film, communication theory, video production, scriptwriting, social effects of mass media

Fred Frith
Professor of Music
Music 135, 510.430.2142, frith@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition and songwriting; the performance of both composed and improvised music; collaboration in the fields of theater, dance, and film; improvisational pedagogy

Pauline Oliveros
Darius Milhaud Visiting Professor of Music
Music Room 6, 510.430.2200, paulineo@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition, the advancement of women in music and all the arts, frog ponds

Maggi Payne
Professor of Music
Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Music
Music 32, 510.430.2178, maggi@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Interdisciplinary electroacoustic composition and performance; the creation of works for electronic and visual media; music recording and editing

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Staff

Patrice Scanlon
Technical Director
Fine Arts Annex 102, 510.430.3197, pscanlon@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Computer and experimental music composition, interdisciplinary and collaborative performances, motion-tracking and interactive software

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