Staff & Volunteers
Debora Bernagozzi - Co-Founder & Executive Director
Debora Bernagozzi works primarily with the mediums of video, photography, and fiber. She creates her work through a hybrid analog/digital method utilizing real-time video and audio processing techniques. She has exhibited widely nationally and internationally and her video performance work was referenced in the National Endowment for the Art publication Tech as Art: Supporting Artists Who Use Technology as a Creative Medium.
She serves as Executive Director at Signal Culture, providing training and technical expertise for the residents, curating work of alumni, and facilitating community building while continuing to make and exhibit her own artwork.
Javier Sanchez - Artist in Residence - Mexico City, Mexico
Eliza Miller - Volunteer
Eliza Miller (she/her) is a video artist and filmmaker based in Northern Colorado. She strives to push the boundaries of storytelling, utilizing experimentation and surrealism to explore complex emotions, the sense of self, and human connection. At the Signal Culture studio, Eliza assists Debora with a variety of essential work, including maintaining the artist studio equipment, learning about how to explain the gear to residents, library organization & data entry, and producing content for future Patreon projects.
Jason Bernagozzi - Co-Founder, Head of Research
Jason Bernagozzi is a video, sound and new media artist living and working in northern Colorado and is a co-founder of Signal Culture. His artworks have been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the European Media Art Festival; the Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques; the Ilman Museum of Art and the Currents New Media Festival. Jason designed the analog/digital conversion workflow in the Signal Culture studio, creates modular software applications, and facilitates the larger research program for the organization in his role as a board member for the organization. He is also Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Colorado State University.
Board of Directors
Hank Rudolph - Co-Founder & Board Member
Hank Rudolph is an experimental media artist living in Owego, NY. He was Program Coordinator at the Experimental Television Center for 25 years, where he provided individualized instruction to the hundreds of artists that came through its residency program under the direction of Ralph and Sherry Hocking, and co-taught the ETC's International Student Residency workshops as part of Alfred University's curriculum. He credits his experiences at the Center for his understanding of both how to think about moving images and how to make work, and for the importance of building community through education about, and access to, machines, systems, and environments for creative practice.
Alan Powell - Chair, Board of Directors
Working in video since 1971, Alan Powell was a founding member of the Electron Movers, Providence, Rhode Island’s first Media Arts Center. His video work in collaboration with his partner Connie Coleman spanned thirty years and has been exhibited at The Kitchen; The Museum of the Moving Image in New York; The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Musee d’Arte Moderne in Paris, among others. Today, Alan donates his expertise as the Board Chair of Signal Culture. He is also on the board of Termite TV, a media art collective in Philadelphia. He is Professor Emeritus at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA.
Eric Souther - Board Member
Eric Souther holds an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and an BFA in New Media from the Kansas City Art Institute. His creative research draws from a multiplicity of disciplines, including new materialism, anthropology, ritual, deep time, and toolmaking. His work has been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Art and Design, NYC, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, and the Museum of Art, Zhangzhou, China. Souther is Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging in the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University.