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Joel Ong

Assistant Professor, Computational Arts

Joel is a media artist whose works connect scientific and artistic approaches to the environment, particularly with respect to sound and physical space. His works have been presented in multiple venues and festivals internationally. He is teaching the blended course Fundamentals of Digital Media Studies.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

Teresa Przybylski

Professor, Theatre

Professor Przybylski is an architect and theatre designer with an international reputation for her work in theatre, opera, dance and film.  Her credits include designs for Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Pacific Opera, Young People’s Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Canadian Stage, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Blyth Festival, Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Theatre Columbus and others. She is a recipient of five Dora Mavor Moore Awards for theatre design and two Gemini Awards for film production design.  She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and Associated Designers of Canada.

Danielle Robinson

Associate Professor, Dance

Danielle Robinson is a dance scholar who researches the cross-cultural movement of Afro-Diasporic popular dances within the Americas. Her research has been recognized with awards from the Society of Dance History Scholars, the Congress on Research in Dance, and the American Theatre focus group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. In addition, during 2011-12, she was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Chichester (UK), sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust. Her course, Senior Projects, is offered as a blended course at York University.

Judith Schwarz

Associate Dean, Academic, Visual Art & Art History

Judith is a co-lead of eLearning @ AMPD with David Gelb and Michael Longford supported by the Academic Innovation Fund at York University. She is a nationally-recognized artist whose work is found in public and private collections across Canada. Judith has taught sculpture and drawing at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has also developed and taught courses in feminist studio. She was awarded the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in Visual Arts by the Canada Council in recognition of her work.

Brett Thompson

Web Developer, AMPD

A Web Developer with 8 years expertise, Brett fuses his unique combination of design and production skills with his training in web development to build and implement successful websites. With a solid understanding of what’s possible online, Brett is uniquely placed to guide AMPD toward practical and viable web strategies. A York staff member since 2008, Brett joined AMPD in 2015.

Matt Vander Woude

Associate Chair, Music

A practicing guitarist, Professor Vander Woude is currently researching the improvisational practices of jazz guitar players in the immediate post-World War II era. He has taught courses on European Art Music and on Popular Music at York University, the University of Guelph, and at the University of Waterloo. His year-long course Rock and Popular Music at York University is fully online.

Holly Ward

Assistant Professor, Visual Art & Art History

Holly Ward is an interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, multimedia installation, architecture, video and drawing as a means to examine the role of aesthetics in the formation of new social realities. Stemming from research of various visionary practices such as utopian philosophy, science-fiction literature, visionary architecture, countercultural practices and urban planning, her work investigates the arbitrary nature of symbolic designation and the use-value of form in a social context.

Ward has produced solo exhibitions at Artspeak, the Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery and the Or Gallery in Vancouver; the YYZ Gallery in Toronto; Volta 6 in Basel, Switzerland; and others. She has participated in group exhibitions in Canada, Chile, England, Mexico, the U.S., Norway and South Korea.

Wendy Siuyi Wong

Professor, Design

Wendy Siuyi Wong has established an international reputation as an expert in Chinese graphic design history and Chinese comic art history. She is the author of Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua, published by Princeton Architectural Press, four books for Chinese readers, and numerous articles in academic and trade journals.