Visiting Faculty

Tracy Cornish - Lecturer
Quarter: SPRING Quarter
Course(s):
Contact Info: tcornish@ucsd.edu
Nicole Holland - Lecturer
Focus Area: Art_History
Quarter: FALL Quarter
Course(s): VIS 128C
Contact Info: nickyholland4@gmail.com
Jay Johnson - Lecturer
Quarter: SPRING Quarter
Course(s):
Contact Info: jsjohnson@ucsd.edu

Ever expanding his oeuvre, Johnson has worked with several materials, from clay to wood and metals. In 2007 he was starting to experiment more with paint, and has incorporated it beautifully into his wooden sculptures. An expert craftsman, he has worked off and on in construction, refining his wood-working skills. Whether his works are figurative or symbolic, they are most often wry and...

Laida Lertxundi - Lecturer
Focus Area: Film_Video
Quarter: SPRING Quarter
Course(s): VIS 175, VIS 180B
Contact Info: llertxundi@ucsd.edu

Laida Lertxundi (Bilbao, 1981) makes films with non-actors that evoke external and internal spaces of intimacy. Through intricate arrangements of actions and sounds, her work explores how filmic moments can be imbued with emotional resonance. As her cinema questions how viewers' desires and expectations are shaped by cinematic forms of storytelling, it also searches for alternative ways of...

Naomi Spellman - Lecturer
Focus Area: Photography
Quarter: SPRING Quarter
Contact Info: lspellman@ucsd.edu

Naomi Spellman is a transmedia artist and educator. Exhibited work includes locative media, networked narratives, video, interactive computer-based works, photography, and graphic prints. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad. Venues have included Futuresonic <4> (Manchester, UK), the LA Freewaves Festival (Los Angeles) the Art in Motion Festival (Los Angeles), ASCII Digital...

Matteo Tannatt - Lecturer
Focus Area: Studio
Quarter: SPRING Quarter
Course(s): VIS 105B, VIS 107A
Contact Info: mtannatt@yahoo.com