Faculty

Sasha Petrenko is an interdisciplinary artist from Richmond,Ca. Her work has been presented at numerous venues including Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, NY, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her most recent multi-media performances with the New Urban Naturalists explore the benefits of interspecies relationships.

I'm the Head of Special Collections and Digital Initiatives at the Auraria Library in Denver, CO, a tri-institutional library serving the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Community College of Denver. Prior to my current position, I worked for 6 years as a technologist at the University of Florida Digital Library Center, focusing on optical character recognition operations, audiovisual digitization, and digital humanities. Presently I'm hard at work building a digital library program from scratch and exploring digital humanities projects supported by Auraria's robust special collections department. I'm particularly interested in the enhancement of historic photographs through visual annotation and their integration in larger, more complex digital objects like node-bearing maps and manuscript collections. It is the contextualization of these objects on a familiar, sensuous platform that I find most engaging. On a personal note, I'm also interested in the archiving challenges posed by computer games, which not only present hurdles as obsolete media, but as more complex objects that include ephemera, boxes, and other paper objects now seen as irrelevant to modern gaming tastes.