Sarah Hatton
sarah dot hatton at asu dot edu
home address upon request
Education
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, expected 2009
MFA Candidate in Digital Technology with a concentration in Arts, Media and Engineering
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh PA, 2003
BFA Fine Arts with a concentration in Electronic Media
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon HK, 2002
Exchange Student in the School of Creative Media
Professional Experience
Research Assistant, Experiential and Mediated Education Group, Arts, Media and Engineering Program, ASU, 2006 - Present
-Developer of visual and audio feedback for the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab, Kauffman awardee
Project Leader and Interaction Designer, SMALLab in Residence at Coronado High School, Phoenix AZ, Fall 2007-Present
-successfully raised student awareness and enthusiasm for learning, metaphor, poetry, and short stories through the development of original mutlimedia and interactive learning games
-insured multimedia scenarios were in line with freshman English curriculum
-created original visuals and audio in collaboration with high school students
Technology Consultant, COMPUGIRLS Program, ASU and Sierra Vista Middle School, Fall 2007
-Developed technology curriculum and trained students, teachers and staff in multimedia production
-Created an original multimodal creative workshop for a one day field trip in the SMALLab
Web Designer, compugirls.asu.edu, 2007
-Developed original design and composition for the COMPUGIRLS homepage, created original graphics and implemented pages in Flash
Multimedia and Interaction Designer, Connectivity Stage I Interlab, ASU Art Museum, 2007
-created custom software and videos for an interactive museum exhibit
-developed original multimodal environment: One More Rack For Peto in collaboration with high school students
Interaction Designer, SMALLab in Residence at Herrera Middle School, Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
-developed original multimedia, interactive scenarios to be used in an experiential learning workshop
Interaction Designer, Whittier Elementary School in Partnership with Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the 21st Century Grant Program, Phoenix AZ, 2006
-developed original multimedia scenarios for an elementary after school enrichment program that culminated in a multimedia and interactive "informance" of Peter and the Wolf
Research Artist, Stage 3 Research Group, Carnegie Mellon, 2000-2003
-Worked with Dr. Randy Pausch and his team of PhD students, HCI researchers, and staff members on the research and development of Virtual Reality
-Created original 3D models and textures for the Alice Software to be used by students of programming in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and universities
Teaching Experience
Mentor Teacher, ASU Art Museum and Metro Arts High School, Phoenix AZ, 2007
-Worked with a team of three students in the design and implementation of an original interactive art piece displayed for six months at the ASU Art Museum
-Instructed students in video production and stop motion animation
Mentor Teacher, COMPUGIRLS Summer Camp, ASU in partnership with PUHS District and Roosevelt District, 2007
-trained other mentor teachers on multimedia and video production
-Mentored a group of high school girls in an original documentary production on social justice issues
Teaching Artist, Whittier Elementary School in Partnership with Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's 21st Century Grant Program, Phoenix AZ, 2006
worked with elementary school students on interaction, design, multimedia, audio recordings, drawing, animation, and production of their final "informance" of Peter and the Wolf, performed in the SMALLab
Web Design and Flash Animation Instructor, iDTech Camps, Carnegie Mellon location, summer 2007
-Mentored students in the development of original web pages with dynamic Flash interactivity and animations
Creative Director and Senior Teacher, English Excel, Hong Kong, 2003-2005
-worked as curriculum designer, teacher, and leader of creative arts, drama and computer projects for a local, private extra-curricular activity center in Hong Kong
-worked with students ages three to fifteen
Art and Multimedia Performances and Exhibitions
2007
Twernt No Thing..., The Stop n' Look: A Visual Community Resource, Phoenix AZ
Rapunzel You Are Just Like a Melody, First Studio, Phoenix AZ
Rapunzel You Are Just Like a Melody, Paper Heart, Phoenix AZ
Pull My Hair and Tell Me You Love Me, First Studio, Phoenix AZ
Pull My Hair and Tell Me You Love Me, in Wave Forms at The Step Gallery, Phoenix AZ
Birdbath Peep Show, in No Festival Required! at the Modified Arts Gallery, Phoenix AZ
One More Rack For Peto, part of Connecitivty Stage I Interlab at the ASU Art Museum, Phoenix AZ
2003
Shadow Gnomes at Flux Pittsburgh: Oakland!, The Oakland Beehive, Pittsburgh PA
Here We Go in Like, Intense, The Regina Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh PA
2002
Shared Dreaming, presented at Carnegie Mellon
2001
You Are (Not) Here, The Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
Final Question in Building Virtual Worlds Show, Carnegie Mellon
Peter Pan in Building Virtual Worlds Show, Carnegie Mellon
Audience Interaction Games, presented before movies at McConomy Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon
Scholarly Posters, Publications and Presentations
S. Hatton, Hybrid Media Environment Storytelling Tasks that Promote Reflection: The Story Map and The Metaphor Game, poster of paper presented at the NSF Creative IT Workshop, ASU, Phoenix AZ, January 18-20, 2008
A. Cuthbertson, S. Hatton, G. Minyard, H. Piver, C. Todd, D. Birchfield, Mediated Education in a Creative Arts Context: Research and Practice at Whittier Elementary School, to appear in Proceedings of Interational Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Aalborg, Denmark, June 6-8, 2007
S. Hatton, M. McGurgan, XJ Wang. Using Sound Maps in Multimodal Environments to Promote Interactive Narrative. presented at the Narrative and Multimodality Conference at UCE Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. April 27-28, 2007. (in review for conference proceedings)
S. Hatton, D. Birchfield, Creating Student-Authored Games in Hybrid Media Environments: Realizing Embodiment and Aesthetic, presented at iDMAa 2007: Beyond Boundaries, Philadelphia, Nov 10-11 (in review for conference journal)
S. Hatton, Angels vs Demons OR How Students Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Collaborating in the SMALLab, presentation for the Arts, Media and Engineering Friday Afternoon Club on Sept 28, 2007
Awards
2007-2008
-Kauffman award for student excellence
-Funded Research Assistantship for the Arts, Media and Engineering program's SMALLab project
- GPSA travel grant
2006
-Funded Research Assistantship for the Arts, Media and Engineering program's SMALLab project
2003
-Carnegie Mellon Small Undergraduate Research Grant for Project Phonebooth
2002
-Ethal Kirk and Mary Murdock Scholarship for Art
Technical Expertise
2D Design
Photoshop, Illustrator, The Gimp, Inkscape
Video and Animation
Premiere, Final Cut, iMovie, Jitter, Flash, After Effects
Audio
Max/Msp, Sound Forge, Pro Tools, Audacity
Scripts and Languages
Java, Javascript, Actionscript 2.0, Python, Processing, Max/Msp/Jitter, NodeBox
Electronics
Arduino
3D
Maya, 3D Studio Max, Deep Paint, texturing, low poly modeling for real time graphics
Web
CSS, Javascript, XHTML, PHP, FTP, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash
Operating Systems
Mac and Windows savvy
