Faculty & Staff

Chris Brown
Professor of Music
Program Head
Co-Director, Center of Contemporary Music
Music 43, 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, twenty-first century performance practice, world music

Steven Matheson
Assistant Professor of Video Art
On leave 2007-2008
Art Room C, 510.430.2163, smatheso@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Experimental video and film, interdisciplinary and collaborative art practices, conceptual art, performance art

Visiting Scholars

James Fei
Visiting Assistant Professor of Electronic Arts
Music 33, 510.430.2329, jfei@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:30
Professional Interests: Composition, improvisation, sound installation, live electronic music, recording, intermedia

Samara Halperin
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art Studio
Art 116, 510.430.3289, shalperi@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 4:00-5:00
Professional Interests: Experimental film and video, cinematography, 16mm animation, production design, writing, pop culture

Faculty Who Teach Intermedia Arts

David Bernstein
Associate Professor
Department Head of Music
Music 1, 510.430.2025, davidb@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Theorist, musicologist, author, specialist in early 20th-century tonal theory and analysis, 12-tone theory, set theory, the aesthetics of the avant-garde

Fred Frith
Professor of Music
Luther B. Marchant Chair
On Sabbatical 2007-2008
Music 3, 510.430.2142, frith@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition; the performance of both composed and improvised music; collaboration in the fields of theater, dance and film; improvisational pedagogy

Anna Valentina Murch
Professor of Studio Art
Art Room 116, 510.430.2182, annav@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Sculpture, installation, public art, ecological design, collaborative projects

Maggi Payne
Professor of Music
Co-Director, Center for Contemporary Music
On leave Spring 2008 Music 32, 510.430.2178, maggi@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, recording engineer, music editor, creator of many works for electronic or visual media

Juliana Spahr
Associate Professor of English
W.M. Keck Chair in Creative Writing
On leave Fall 2007
Mills Hall Room 315, 510.430.2289, jspahr@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics, cultural studies, anti-colonial literatures and theory

Ellen Spertus
Associate Professor of Computer Science
On leave 2007-2008
CPM Room 201, 510.430.2011, spertus@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Information retrieval, online communities, social issues, computer architecture, compilers

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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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