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The Broadcast Electronic Media Arts (BEMA) Department has a three-fold MISSION:
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Mark I Altin |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Misha James Antonich Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department A.A., University of Maryland (European Division - Munich Campus) |
Professor Antonich has been teaching at CCSF since Fall of 2007.
He grew up and spent his teens and tweens between Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin, Germany. After spending an intermittent teen year in Ft. Collins, Colorado, he got serious about stage acting in the early 90's, returning to Berlin for a three-year Theater Arts education. Then, after a stint as a roof and shipwright carpenter journeyman, he dove into media production (specifically audio/visual media) and related studies in the mid '90's. Moving to San Francisco, he managed to still struggle financially as a student while seemingly new (web) economists enjoyed the internet boom concurrently. Nonetheless, he remained committed to the craft of video production and editing in the BECA program (Broadcast and Electronic Media Arts) at San Francisco State. He thoroughly enjoyed working on his BA there, but completely relished the MA program and was deeply grateful to be honored as the outstanding graduate student. Next to his academic pursuits he consistently worked in a long-term position (6 years) as a video assistant and later full editor for Production/Postproduction house MX Entertainment (San Francisco), cutting his teeth and videos on jobs and acts such as the Rolling Stones, the Who, Ween, Rush, Usher, (lil) Bow Wow, Herbie Hancock, Kiss, Los Lobos, Reggae on the River (Various artists) and many others. Despite all this fun, in early 2006, Misha, along with his son and wife, headed off to South Korea to teach video editing, visual effects and video production as a visiting guest professor at Kyungsung University in Busan (South Korea) for 3 semesters. Professor Antonich returned to San Francisco joining the faculty at City College's Broadcast and Electronic Media Arts Department (BEMA). There he is currently engaged and overjoyed to be working with and alongside many talented media students.
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Karyn J Beyer Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department B.A., Communications (University of California, San Diego); M.A., Radio/Television (San Francisco State University) |
Ms. Beyer has taught at City College of San Francisco since 1994. Her primary focus in her own study of media has been the evaluation of how media and society interact from various critical perspectives. Her research on female self-representation in music videos earned her a top research award from San Francisco State University as well as recognition in the California State University Research competition.
Prior to teaching at CCSF, Ms. Beyer was a teaching assistant at both UC San Diego and San Francisco State University. She spent significant time in the early 1990s working with the writers and producers on the television show "Roseanne" while researching her masters thesis, which led to some independent projects for the writers, including a retrospective evaluation of the 1991-1992 season for use by the producers. In 2003, she worked with the production team and did research on the set of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". She also worked briefly in radio while in San Diego.
In 1999, Ms. Beyer was part of the original pilot group that developed the online course program at CCSF, and currently teaches all distance learning courses – Introduction to Electronic Media (BCST 100) and Mass Media & Society (BCST 103) are both offered as online courses, and Mass Media & Society is additionally offered as a telecourse. In addition to her current classes, Ms. Beyer has also taught Critical Television Viewing, Writing for Electronic Media and Women & Mass Media.
In addition to teaching at CCSF, Ms. Beyer is a private civil litigation instructor, training secretaries and support staff in litigation skills for state and Federal Courts throughout California.
In her spare time, she trains and shows Bernese Mountain Dogs.
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Malcolm K Cecil |
Biography is unavailable at this time.
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Donna Marie Eyestone Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department BA cum laude Clark University MFA Mills College MFA Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Prof. Eyestone has been teaching at CCSF since 1996
Teach students basic computer skills so they can apply their knowledge to many different applications/fields of study. Takes a general approach rather than teaching specific applications. Enjoys teaching online.
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Cecil Hale Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department M.A., International University of Communications |
Dr. Hale has been a tenured professor at City College of San Francisco since 1986. During this time, he has served as the acting Department Chair (1995), the General Manager of KCSF ('87-'94), AFT representative, Academic Coordinator, member of the college-wide equivalency committee and a member of the Faculty Mentor Program.He is also a teaching faculty member in the CCSF Honors Program.
His company, Hale Media/Communications Consultancy, served as an evaluator to Nigeria's network television, and is a consultant to many artists and companies involved in music production. To name the artists for which he has been either the producer or executive producer is like reading the Who's Who of Black Music .
Dr. Hale worked with Capitol Records for 3 years as Vice President/Artist & Repertoire, for Phonogram/Mercury Records-Ploygram Inc. as National Album Promotion Manager and National Publicity Manager. He has served as announcer, program & music director, operations manager, morning drive announcer, and assistant general manager for a variety of Radio Stations including WVON, WNOV, X-PRS and WMPP.
Dr. Hale has been published in various books and scholarly journals and he is a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He has served as National President of the National Association of Television and Radio Artists and has affiliations with the Black Music Association, Black American Magazine, National Bar Association,Harvard Club of San Francisco board member, and 100 Black Men of America.
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Delicia A Kamins Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department Double BA: International Economics and French, UC Davis (1992) Masters of Arts: Broadcast & Electronic Communications, SFSU (2000) |
Prof. Kamins has been teaching at CCSF since 2005.
For the past ten years, Delicia Kamins has accumulated a diverse background in communications – from Emmy award-winning producer and international documentary filmmaker, to magazine writer, corporate communications specialist, and motivational speaker. Her video work has been seen and heard on television and in film, while her writing has been published in magazines, newsletters, and on the Web.
Delicia has written about a variety of subjects from education, health, jobs, lifestyle and entertainment, and travel, as well as business proposals, marketing plans, and sales proposals. She has been interviewed and featured on several Web sites, magazines, and television programs (Cornell.edu, powerstudents.com, San Francisco magazine) and on several Bay Area local news stations. She has also interviewed a diverse range of people, from celebrities (Willie Brown, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Al Gore) to the everyday man on the street.
A natural public speaker, Delicia has 15 years of teaching, training, and motivating (as Training Director of AMIGOS de las Americas; Trip Leader for Backroads; Guest Speaker at UCB’s Haas School of Business; Associate Professor, Broadcast and Electronic Media Arts at City College of San Francisco).
Delicia work has been recognized with a Student Emmy (KTVU), Outstanding Service (Peace Corps), Outstanding Graduating Senior (UCD), Outstanding Graduating Woman (UCD), Outstanding Service in African American Community (UCD), Outstanding Service (Google), and Houston Film Festival (Carnaval). She speaks four languages and has traveled to 17 countries and 38 states (by train, plane, bus, boat, car, donkey, and foot).
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Dana J Labrecque Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department B.A., University of California - Berkeley |
Professor Labrecque has been teaching at CCSF since 2001
Dana Jae (Labrecque)'s career as an audio engineer spans 22 years from the first day she began to wreak havoc on her Tascam PortaStudio in the early 80's while attending college at UC Berkeley. Jumping away from the stage where she fronted her own bands and into the "behind-the-scenes" tech realm, she began a career as sound engineer in earnest in 1987 and has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe as front-of-house live sound engineer for a multitude of bands on various record labels. She has maintained a live sound production company since 1989 called dcj Productions that has provided sound to the Bay Area community in both large outdoor sound events as well as nightclubs and music halls. In 1991, she started recording bands on an 8-track Tascam TSR-8 analog deck and moved into the digital realm in 1993 to 16-tracks of Alesis ADAT in her home studio. In 1995, she advanced to Pro Tools and has been working exclusively digital ever since combining audio skills in sound for film as a location recordist as well as in post-production sound design and mixing. One particular short film for which she engineered production and post-production sound, "One Weekend A Month", took a jury prize in short-filmmaking at Sundance in 2005. She continues to record music and engineer live performances at Bottom of the Hill nightclub in San Francisco as well as other events that require production sound. In 2001, she was hired to the part-time faculty at City College of San Francisco in the Broadcast Electronics Media Arts department where she teaches basic audio production (BCST120), sound for video (BCST126) and sound reinforcement (BCST128). She has also taught classes in sound design, audio for animation and games, and computer applications at Art Institute of California-San Francisco and currently teaches a sound for video/film/games course at Globe Recording Institute in S.F.
Professor Labrecque is a member of the Women's Audio Mission, a member of Audio Engineering Society; and on the advisory board for Bay Area Girls Rock Camp.
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Marla Leech Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department Women's Studies Department |
Ms. Leech has been teaching at CCSF for 11 years.
Her educational goal is to give her students the highest level of inquiry and skills as appropriate to the class. To both give to and learn from the students. To integrate student individual experience and history into curriculum choices, To engender respect and teamwork amongst us all. She was Faculty Advisor to the CCSF GLBT Student Club for 3 years and Department Chair GLBT Studies for 1 year. She has also put on two plays at Laney Community College in Oakland. Ms. Leech is a member of the Film Arts Foundation and is on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Women in Film and TV. She is a member of Theatre Bay Area and the Bay Area Video Coalition. Some of the extracurricular activities Ms. Leech enjoys are kayaking, acting, directing, swimming, surfing (falling), speaking Spanish, teaching, putting on plays, guitar and drums and meeting new people here and around the world.
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Sheila A McFarland Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., San Francisco State University |
A teacher at CCSF since 1991, Professor McFarland has also been active in the Bay Area music scene for 20 years. From D.J.'ing at all night warehouse parties in the early '80s (the first raves) to mixing sound for local bands at S.F. and Peninsula clubs, she has paid her dues. She also worked at KTVU Channel 2, and produced a talk show at KSFO hosted by the Bay Area's own Noah Griffin. After earning her M.A., she worked as a recording engineer at Russian Hill Recording Studios in San Francisco. At Russian Hill, she created numerous radio and television spots and was part of a team that produced complete soundtracks for several motion pictures including True Stories and The Thin Blue Line .
Professor McFarland has had the pleasure of working not only with world class artists, such as David Byrne, Linda Ronstadt, John Lee Hooker, Keith Richards and Dave Brubeck, but also with many local legends and first class musicians, such as Roy Rogers, Norton Buffalo, Pamela Rose, Ed Bogas,and Scott Mattews
She has recorded many musicians from the San Francisco Symphony and other "first call" classical and jazz musicians. Although music recording gets most of the glory, she specializes in audio for video and film.
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Arthur M Pines Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara |
Professor Pines has enjoyed teaching part-time at CCSF since Fall 2000. His career path has led him into the exciting world of television news. Currently, he works as a video news editor and video producer at KPIX-Channel 5 in San Francisco.
Along with his video editing experience, Professor Pines has worked in television as a producer and videographer. He has assisted in the production of documentary films. He also has designed and produced web content.
Professor Pines completed his B.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991. After taking BEMA courses at City College of San Francisco, he earned his M.A. in Journalism from the University of Nevada in 1999.
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Francine Podenski Chair, Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department San Francisco State University - Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts - BA & MA |
Professor Podenski provides leadership and student advising for Broadcast Electronic Media Arts media studies, digital media skills, video production/editing, sound recording, video journalism, and digital radio instructional programs, supervises Broadcast Media Services and San Francisco's Educational Access Television Cable Channels 27, 31, and 75, and serves as an advisor for Multimedia Studies Rich Media Production Program.
This semester Professor Podenski is teaching College and Industry Internships online. She began teaching at City College of San Francisco in 1978 and has taught critical television viewing, video production and editing, audio production, radio production/performance, radio news/public affairs, radio management, broadcast writing, introduction to electronic media, media literacy and analysis, and integrative communication at San Francisco State University, College of San Mateo, and City College of San Francisco.
Professor Podenski currently serves on the Academic Senate Executive Council and actively participates in the college's shared governance committee system. She serves by appointment on the statewide California Community College Satellite and Broadband Network Advisory Board, and, on the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Board of Directors by election from 2004-2007.
Sabbatical leave and special projects include an executive internship at Disney/ABC KGO-TV, conflict resolution from an indigenous tribal perspective, application of enneagram studies and NLP to teaching, learning, and group process, and extensive travel throughout Costa Rica's forests, preserves, and beaches. Professor Podenski's graduate thesis, "Changing Cultural Assumptions: A Framework for Media Analysis", examined how media violence effects audience perception of everyday reality.
Personal time is focused on family, friends, world music, movies, reading, civic engagement, gardening, indigenous studies, internal martial arts, weight training, yoga, camping, creek channel habitat restoration, learning to play a mountain dulcimer, and hiking.
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Michele R Sieglitz Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Department B.S. Television-Radio-Film Production, Syracuse University |
Prof. Sieglitz has been teaching at CCSF since 2000.
I believe that teaching is a collaborative process. The voice of the student is one that is important and one that I honor in the term 'pedagogy.' There is no worse crime in education than to rob students of their own passion, desire and creativity by mandating a 'truth' that has been set down prior to their arrival. To this end, I remain a student to the end of my days.
Director, video shoot of Midsummer Night's Dream with Theatre Dept. 2005, on-going production for the Chancellor.
BAVC, FAF, BAWIFT, Final Cut Pro Bay Area Users Group, SFMOMA, SF Asian Art Museum
Landscaping/gardening, animal advocacy, photography & writing
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Terri L Winston |
Winston is a tenured professor at City College of San Francisco where she has coordinated a successful sound recording program within the Broadcast Electronic Media Arts department. She teaches Audio Production, Sound Recording Studio and advanced Studio Recording courses. Winston is also the Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Audio Mission (http://www.womensaudiomission.org) a non-profit dedicated to advancing women in the recording arts. She has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
Winston’s love for music and the recording arts spans 20 years as a songwriter, composer, recording engineer, and producer. Winston was signed as a recording artist, engineer and producer by Polygram and BMG subsidiaries, and has shared the stage with such acts as P.J. Harvey, Pixies, Throwing Muses, Flaming Lips, Fugazi, Cake, and Third Eye Blind. She has collaborated with Lenny Kaye of the Patti Smith Group and Greg Hawkes of The Cars and worked as a recording artist and producer for MainMan whose roster also included David Bowie, John Mellencamp, Lou Reed, & Iggy Pop. Winston has composed and produced theme music for KRON-TV's "First Cut" series, Banana Republic and for various films that have shown on BRAVO’s Independent Film Channel, French Television’s Cine Cinemas and major festivals all over the world. She is a two-time National Lilith Fair Tour finalist for solo performance, has received numerous awards, and has been invited to sit on panels for the National Academy of the Recording Arts and Sciences. She is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (the GRAMMY’s), the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and is active in the Producer’s and Engineer’s wing of NARAS.