Our Team

OUR TEAM


Faculty Coordinator

Richard Jochum is a conceptual artist working in a broad variety of media with a strong focus on video, interactive installation, performance, and photography. He is a studio member at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and an associate professor of art and art education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has worked in various media since the late 1990s and has had 200 international exhibitions and screenings. Richard Jochum received his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna (1997) and an MFA in sculpture and media art from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2001). His art practice is accompanied by publications and research in the field of cultural theory, new media, and contemporary art and he has been awarded several grants and prizes. One of his latest large-scale art installations has been a 30,000 square feet collaborative video mapping project onto the Manhattan Bridge.

Joe Cimino
Myers Media Art Studio Fellow

Joe Cimino is an Italian-American time-based media artist, musician, and adjunct professor, currently based in New York City. He is currently a doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds an MFA in studio art from Studio Arts College International (SACI), located in Florence, Italy, and a BFA in studio art from Rowan University. Cimino has exhibited his works in the United States and internationally, with solo and group exhibitions located in Florence, Italy, Gimpo, South Korea, Chelsea, New York City, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Gdansk, Poland. He is also a member of the international artist collective, Teleportal. 

Cece Jiao
Hybrid MMAS/Thingspace Studio Fellow

Yihui (Cece) Jiao (she/her) is a multimedia artist and visual designer. She conveys her philosophical and psychological ideas mainly through drawings, animations and installations. She experiments with the combination of new media and traditional crafts. Her artistic practices thematically focus on mental status, self development, human cognition and visual culture.

She is originally from Shanghai, China and has been living in the United States for more than a decade. She has BA degrees in both Psychology and Studio Art from Indiana University Bloomington. She studied animation and received her post-baccalaureate certificate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and completed her MFA degree in Computer Arts from School of Visual Arts in NYC. 

Presently, she is a doctoral student in Art and Art Education Ed.D.C.T program and hybrid studio fellow at Myers Media Art Studio and Thingspace Studio at Teachers College Columbia University.

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