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Scott Roberts Associate Professor // Animation
School of Cinema and Interactive Media
Scott Roberts received his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His sculptures, video installations and animations have been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions in New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago, and screenings in Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival. He also has over ten years of professional experience in television art direction, post-production, animation and 3D game art, and was the production designer for the independent film 'Making Revolution.' He most recently was Associate Professor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, where he taught animation and motion graphics for five years and helped establish a Time Based Media BFA program.
Scott Roberts was the Art and Story Advisor for Devil's Tuning Fork, one of ten winners of the 2010 Independent Games Festival Student Showcase.
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Gary Novak Assistant Professor // Screenwriting
School of Cinema and Interactive Media
Gary has been at DePaul since 2002 and is one of the founding members of the Digital Cinema Program. He has worked as a producer, writer, and director. The projects have included commercials, documentaries, and independent feature films. Gary has a M.F.A. in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute.
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Doris Rusch Assistant Professor
School of Cinema and Interactive Media
Doris C. Rusch is game designer, researcher, play aficionado and holds a position as assistant professor for game design at DePaul University in Chicago. Before that she did post doctoral work at GAMBIT Game Lab, MIT, co-founded the Austrian game prototyping company 'Game Gestalt - play for change', acted as interims head of the Applied Game Studies Department at Danube University and taught several game related courses at University of Technology, Vienna, and Vienna University.
Rusch's work is focused on the theory and practice of game design and investigates game's potential as 'conceptual tools' that tackle the 'human experience'. She is an expert in modeling abstract ideas in games (e.g. games about love, addiction, trust etc.) via metaphors. Having completed studies in Literature, Philosophy, Comparative Media Studies and English at Vienna University, she received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Interactive Systems in 2004.
Rusch's publications include academic papers, conference talks, workshops as well as games. She has presented her research at international conferences such as DIGRA, SIGGRAPH, Futureplay and Future and Reality of Gaming (FROG). Her game on addiction ('Akrasia') has been featured at the prestigious IndieCade Festival in Culver City, L.A.. Her latest game on depression ('Elude') was runner-up for the 'people's choice' award at the 2010 'Meaningful Play' conference in Michigan and won in the category 'most meaningful game'. She has given invited lectures at Nordic Games Conference, Dartmouth College and the Games for Health conference.
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Dolores Wilber Professor
School of Cinema and Interactive Media
Dolores Wilber is a Professor and has taught at DePaul since 1997. She received her M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute and has operated her own graphic design and multidisciplinary art practice for over twenty years. Her multidisciplinary approach embraces print, installation, video, performance and radio. Her work has been exhibited widely including in Chicago, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, London, Estonia, Portugal, Germany, and China. She has received many awards including Illinois Arts Council Fellowships, an American Embassy Travel grant, and a Peabody Award for her work for the national public radio program This American Life. Her short film, Chests, was premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
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