| Assistant Professors
Irina Patkanian
Assistant Professor
 B.S. in English Philology, University of St.Petersburg
MA in Linguistics, University of Iowa 1995
MFA in Film and Video Production, University of Iowa, 1999.
Russian born, Irina Patkanian graduated from the University of St. Petersburg, Russia in 1991 with a BA in Philology of Germanic Languages. She received a Master of Art's degree in Linguistics and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film and Video Production from the University of Iowa in 2000. Patkanian's films and videos were shown at various festivals and at the Tenement Museum in New York City. Patkanian founded a non-for-profit film and theater company "In Parenthesis" of which she is a president.
Most recently Patkanian wrote/directed and produced a digital poem "Armenian Lullaby", an experimental documentary "My American Neighbor" about the perception of America "at a distance" and a digital short "Second Egyptian", based on a novella by Marina Palei. Irina Patkanian is an Assistant Professor of Media Production at the Department of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
Web site http://www.inparenthesis.org/irina
Classes for Fall 2008:
TVR 27.1 Elements of Television Field Production, Tuesday 2:15pm-6:25pm
TVR 76.1 Elements of Television Studio Production, Monday 2:15pm-6:25pm
Office hours:
Mon. 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Turs. 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Room: 406s
Tel: (718) 951-5000 ext. 2795
ipatkanian@brooklyn.cuny.edu
David Grubbs
Assistant Professor of Radio and Sound Art
Conservatory of Music, Department of Television and Radio, PIMA
 B.A. Georgetown University
M.A. and Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago
David Grubbs has recently completed a Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, The Sixties, and Sound Recording.” He regularly contributes music criticism to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and his criticism has appeared in Conjunctions, Bookforum, Texte zur Kunst, and Purple.
As a recording artist, Grubbs has released nine full-length solo albums and appeared on more than 100 commercially-released recordings. In 2000, his album The Spectrum Between was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times.
Grubbs has performed extensively in North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, including appearances at the Centre Pompidou, the Fondation Cartier, the Vienna Jazz Festival, the Toronto Jazz Festival, Steirischer Herbst (Graz), Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville), SONAR (Barcelona), Music Merge Festival (Tokyo), and What Is Music (Melbourne/Sydney).
David Grubbs was a founding member of the group Gastr del Sol. He has participated in the Red Krayola since 1993. With Jim O’Rourke, Grubbs co-directed Dexter’s Cigar, an acclaimed label that specialized in reissuing out-of-print recordings. At present Grubbs directs the Blue Chopsticks record label, which releases both new and archival recordings.
Grubbs contributed music with Matmos for Thierry Jousse’s 2005 feature film Les Invisibles. He composed the soundtracks for Angela Bulloch’s film installations Z Point and Horizontal Technicolour. His music appears in two installations by Doug Aitken. Grubbs’s sound installation “Between a Raven and a Writing Desk” was included in the 1999 group exhibition “Elysian Fields” at the Centre Pompidou. He created the radio piece “Coney Island, July and October, 2001” for ORF Kunstradio (Austria) and the radio program “Hit the Trail” for WPS1.
He has also contributed music to the Red Krayola’s soundtrack to Norman and Bruce Yonemoto’s film Japan in Paris in LA as well as to the soundtrack of Braden King and Laura Moya’s film Dutch Harbor: Where theSea Breaks its Back, and to John Boskovich’s film North. Music by Gastr del Sol appears in the P.B.S. television series The United States of Poetry, Hal Hartley’s film The Book of Life, and Doug Aitken’s film The Diamond Sea, which premiered at the 1997 Whitney Biennial.
Grubbs has been profiled in the Arte television documentary Lost in Music: Chicago Connections and the NHK (Japan) television documentary The Red Krayola.
Classes for Fall 2008::
- See Department of Conservatory of Music 421 Whithead Bldg.
Office: 407s or 376 Gershwin
Office telephone: (718) 951-5000 ext.1186
E-mail: DGrubbs@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Office hours: See Music Department
http://www.bluechopsticks.org
Mobina Hashmi
Assistant Professor
 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2006
Mobina Hashmi was previously appointed at Middlebury College in Vermont. Her research interests include the following: science fiction and the cultrual politics of labor; technology and citizenship; critical media; new media and cyberculture.
Recent publications: "Outsourcing the American Dream? Representing the Stakes of IT Globalizaion in America" in Economic and Political Weekly (May 2005).
Teaching interests: Media criticism and history, new media technologies and society, globalization and media, gender and media, race and media, cultural studies, meda and national identity and science-fiction film and television.
She is currently an assistant professor in the department of Television and Radio teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.
Classes for Spring 2007:
TVR 701 Introduction to the Study of Television and Radio, Monday 6:30pm-9:15pm
TVR 701 Introduction to the Study of Television and Radio, Tuesday 6:30pm-9:15pm
TVR 18.1 TVR Television Genres( Sci Fi), T. Th. 3:40pm-4:55pm
Office Hours:
Monday. 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuesday. 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Office is located at 405 Whitehead Building. Phone 718-951-5000 ext. 1961
For specific appointments please contact Professor directly.
MHashmi@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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