yuichiro nishizawa

yuichiro nishizawa is an associate professor and the chair of the Division of Creative Arts & Technology.

Professor nishizawa attended Rhode Island School of Design (BFA in Film/Animation/Video) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Post-Baccalaureate Certificate and MFA in Art and Technology). He has completed a Certificate in Design Leadership for Business at Parson School of Design - The New School, and a Certificate in Effective College Instruction: Promoting Active Learning Online, and a Certificate in Effective Instruction from ACUE (Association of College and University Educators).

Working with the diverse population of students and like-minded peers at Bloomfield College fuels nishizawa. He regards his position as a privilege. He is “committed to the practice of knowledge as trans-disciplinary, teaching/learning as non-hierarchical, experiential and collaborative, and education as critical reflection, liberation, and social action.”

He has enjoyed teaching regularly the following classes:

• Design Thinking & Practice
• Interaction & Interface: Introduction to Physical Computing
• Process && Interaction: An Introduction
• Japanese Culture & Language
• CAT Foundation Studio

nishizawa, born in Tokyo, is interested in the complexity of the technological influences on and beyond everyday experience. He employs a wide array of media and methods in his work and inquiry. His hope is to provide an experience that brings the viewer to questions, furthers their own spirit of inquiry, engages their curiosity, and prompts them to imagine. His innate interest in function and form, conjoined with his investigation, has also led him to pursue furniture design and fabrication.

Abraham Gomez-Delgado

Abraham Gomez-Delgado is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Arts and Technology division at Bloomfield College. He is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and performance artist born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Bandleader Abraham Gomez-Delgado, of Peruvian descent, left his native Puerto Rico as a child and relocated to the US. He leads the experimental Latin music group Zemog el Gallo Bueno as well as co-leads the avant-latin jazz big band Positive Catastrophe and has a Performance Art group under the name Eje.

Gomez-Delgado is also a vocalist in his own compositions as well as in composer saxophonist Fred Ho’s Green Monster Big Band. Currently, he teaches Sound Art and production at Bloomfield College in New Jersey and is composing a Plena suite entitled Debrujo, Debrooho, debrewjo. •Recently he was awarded the New Jazz Works grant from Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Foundation (2010). •Abraham has been awarded a Meet The Composer MetLife Grant (2010) •USArtists International Award, National Endowment for the Arts grant (2010).

Gomez-Delgado has his MFA with honors from Bard College and holds a BFA from Mass College of Art.

GJ Lee

BFA, New Jersey City University
MPS, ITP, Tish School of Arts

GJ Lee is a multidisciplinary artist and game designer. She uses a practiced-based research approach to explore and understand complex subjects. The results mostly take on the form of games, installations, and performances. Her works and collaborations have been exhibited and played at Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, La Gaite Lyrique, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and The Museum of the Moving Image.

She is the co-founder of The Sheep’s Meow, an independent game development studio and community organization that focuses on making game creation inclusive and accessible. She’s co-organized and produced community-driven events such as the NJ Arcade and NYC Arcade– some of which are the largest of their kind.

She has a BFA in Painting and Drawing with a co-major in Mathematics from NJCU and an MPS from NYU Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Courses taught:
CAT 209 - Digital Game Design
CAT 208 - Visual Design for Games
CAT 408 - Pre-Capstone: Game Development
CAT 420 - Capstone

Blake Andrews is a game designer, illustrator, animator, and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. Blake has been publishing short experimental web games since 2013 on websites like itch.io and Glorious Trainwrecks. Their most publicized game, Scrapeboard (featured at alt.ctrl.gdc & MAGFest, mentioned in The New Yorker, and appearing in a Michael Reeves video), is an alternative controller game where players ride a real skateboard to defeat enemies. They have taught game design at Bloomfield College, Pratt Institute, and New York University. Blake has been involved with installations and events at New York’s independent video game arcades, Babycastles, Wonderville, and Red Parry. 

Kali Baker-Johnson is a Brooklyn-based, New Jersey-born filmmaker, college professor, and comic book writer. His feature film debut, Feel Like Ghosts, won the Best Director and Best Screenplay awards at the 2022 American Black Film Festival. He was a Directing Fellow at Chapman University’s graduate film program in Orange, CA and during his time on the West Coast he collaborated with Oscar-winning producer Cathy Schulman as one of Chapman’s O.L. Halsell Scholars, worked in development for Oscar-nominated producing duo Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger, and shadowed Emmy-winning director Millicent Shelton.

His short films have screened internationally in film festivals, as well as in programs for domestic abuse education, in centers for at-risk youth, and in New York's Time Square. As a freelance videographer and editor, Kali has over 15 years of experience creating media across multiple genres and formats and has worked with brands such as NBC, VH1, Foot Locker, EbonyJet, and Avalon Television. He used to be able to dunk and, every once in a while, he still has a good day on the basketball court.

Adegoke Steve Colson is a Grammy-nominated pianist-composer (saxophonist-historian) who performs internationally as a soloist and leader of ensembles from trios to orchestras. Born in Newark and raised in East Orange, NJ, he earned his degree (BME) from Northwestern University School of Music. He joined the influential Association for Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in 1971.

His music has been compared to that of Monk, Mingus, and Ellington as well as Ives, Berio, and Stravinsky. His work is on labels including Columbia/Sony, Evidence, and Black Saint. He is co-owner of the Silver Sphinx record label with his wife and musical partner, Iqua Colson.

Steve was one of 23 educators selected by the NEA in 1981 to pilot the concept of Artist Residencies (Dr. Larry Ridley - Dir.). The pilot's success brought federal funding to Arts Residency programs. Steve is currently Artist-in-Residence in Jazz Studies at Cicely L. Tyson School of Performing & Fine Arts.

Steve joined Bloomfield College faculty in 1989. With master bassist Chris White he helped to start the Creative Arts & Technology Department in 1996 as part of an initiative led by Office of the President.

As headliner on festivals he has shared billing and stage with the greatest of artists - Dizzy Gillespie, Dr. Billy Taylor, Ray Charles, Art Blakey, Oscar Peterson, Miriam Makeba, Sun Ra, Gil Scott-Heron, Abbey Lincoln, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Max Roach, Muddy Waters, and Tito Puente.

The author of more than 100 ensemble pieces and five major works for 'Jazz orchestra,' his groups have included luminaries such as David Murray, Henry Threadgill, Anthony Davis, Rachelle Farrell, and Tyshawn Sorey. He has collaborated with visual artist Willie Cole, literary masters Amiri Baraka and Richard Wesley, and as Musical Director (Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God) he worked with legendary dancer Carmen de Lavallade.

In 2018 Steve was inducted into The East Orange Hall of Fame, where he joined other distinguished individuals of East Orange who have influenced science, sports, or the arts, such as Althea Gibson, Dionne Warwick, John Amos, Whitney Houston, and the group Naughty by Nature.

Steve has been on television: PBS (I'll Make Me a World), Another View (NJN), The Steve Adubato Show; he has been a guest on Radio France (Paris) and Radio 3 (Rome, Italy); and his work has aired on French television (Mezzo Channel). Steve has a cameo appearance in Youssou N’Dour’s documentary film Return to Goree (Winner – PAFF), and he was Sal Finestra’s piano player on the HBO series, Vinyl, produced by Mick Jagger and directed by Martin Scorsese. He is also documented in several books: The AACM – A Power Stronger Than Itself; The Black Revolution on Campus; Jazz in Newark; La Nuée L’AACM - un jeu de société musicale ; Freedom, Rhythm & Sound.

The City of Newark proclaimed November 13, 1989 Adegoke Steve Colson Day. He has other major awards and commissions from: National Endowment for the Arts; Illinois Arts Council; Arts International; New Jersey State Council on the Arts; Lila Wallace Readers’ Digest; East Orange Historical Society (150th Anniversary of East Orange); NJ Chamber Music Society (to open NJPAC); Absolut (National Lost Jazz Shrines); NJPAC (350tth Anniversary of Newark); American Composers Forum; South Arts Jazz Road Initiative. Steve recently received (2022) a Fromm Music Foundation Commission from Harvard University.

Kelly Cuenca is a 2D artist who specializes in both digital and traditional illustration.  After graduating from New Jersey City University, she has been working freelance in a variety of both digital and traditional media to create printwork along with concepting visuals for projects.  Cuenca’s work is mostly known for her traditional studies and portraits, and has participated in independent zines with illustrations captivating a thin line between realism and the imaginative flair.  She has continued her studies with a M.F.A in Academy of Arts University of Visual Development as she works as a freelance concept artist.  Her goal as an artist is to help generate ideas into paper by creating compelling stories by breathing life to all aspects of a story: Character, Prop, and Environment. 

Projects she has participated as a contributing artist in were “The Filipino American Artist Collective” and “Friends of Illustrators: Silent Auction” in Jersey City.   Works she helped organize was successfully crowdfunded zine “Hana Doki Kira,” and participated in “1001 Knights” a multivolume collective featuring 1001 artists. 

As a creative professional, Nancy Fischer has worked for many Fortune 500 corporations. Her past experience includes working at in-house marketing departments from financial institutions to pharmaceutical corporations.

She has served as judging chair for the Art Directors Club of New Jersey, the NJ Ad Club, and is currently the judging chair for the New Jersey Communications, Advertising and Marketing Association. She is a Graduate in the Public and Organizational Relations M.A. program at Montclair State University.
 

Peter Gariepy is a graphic designer skilled in print and digital publishing, identity design, typography, and illustration. His career spans corporations to non-profits as an effective communicator with experience managing and mentoring creative professionals and leading cross-functional teams.

He brings critical thinking skills to his teaching in all aspects of design and image making. Forever curious, his curiosity ranges well beyond design. For Peter, curiosity is the key to sensing change, to see the future, and for innovation.
 

Jill Kastner joined the faculty of Bloomfield College in 2019, where she teaches drawing, life drawing and painting in the Creative Arts and Technology department. 

Kastner received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design, and is the illustrator and author of over two dozen books for children published with Simon and Schuster, Harcourt, Scholastic, Atheneum, Greenwillow Books, Marshall Cavendish, William Morrow, Dell Books, and Random House, among others.

She has exhibited artwork with galleries and museums, including the Society of Illustrators, NYC, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, and Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ among others. Her artwork is in the collections of the Society of Illustrators, Albright-Knox Gallery and Zimmerli Museum.

Michael Lantz specializes in moving image production and media studies. He has been an Adjunct Instructor in the Creative Arts & Technology Department at Bloomfield College since 2015. As Malotek Productions, he has provided creative media services and post-production expertise to a diverse and impressive list of artists such as Shirin Neshat, Candice Breitz, Kimsooja and The Canary Project. Most recently, he has helped create single and multi-channel video works for Shimon Attie - “StarStruck”, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky - “How to Build a Wall and Other Ruins” and Erik Levine - “Float”.
 

Samuel Leigh is a professional Game Designer / Programmer who specializes in creating Interactive Fiction and experimental multiplayer games in the Unity game engine. He has worked as a freelance programmer for numerous startups in NYC as well as at ViacomCBS on Nick Jr properties.

RJ Reyes has worked in the video games industry since 2004. He started as a QA tester in THQ, and in 2008 he got his first production job in Sierra Online / Vivendi Games. Since 2008, he’s worked as a producer for companies both big and small, including Amazon Games, Disney, Spin Master Toys, Mattel, and multiple indie studios.

RJ began his career as a game dev educator in 2020. He enjoys teaching new devs about the basics of game development and what to expect in the industry, and he especially enjoys helping devs advance their careers.
 

Elizabeth Seaton is a painter, sculptor and teaching artist, exhibiting in the tri-state area and beyond.  Since 2000, she’s served as an adjunct art professor at Bloomfield College, teaching courses in studio painting, life drawing and artistic anatomy, as well as art history. For 33 years, Seaton was also a faculty member at the Montclair Art Museum Yard School of Art, where she taught drawing, painting and sculpture to youngsters, adolescents and adults.  Having implemented MAM's educational partnership with New Jersey Regional Day School at Newark, from 1999-2021 she led their autistic students on gallery tours at MAM, relating art on view to workshops in the studio, installing the student work in the Children’s Arcade for exhibit, annually. 
Seaton co-founded and named the still-flourishing alternative exhibition space in Newark known as Aljira Arts Inc., where she served as a trustee. An independent curator, Seaton organized exhibitions mounted in Newark, New York City, Rahway and Montclair, writing catalog essays for every show.  She's won an Oil Bar Award, the Stanfield Fine Arts Scholarship, a spot in the Wonder Women Residency run by _gaia: An Environment for Creative Process in Jersey City – and a Rauschenberg Fellowship through the Lab School of Washington, D.C., famous for their success using the arts to facilitate teaching youngsters with learning differences and difficulties. She has a B.A. in Fine Arts and Anthropology from Rutgers University and an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Vermont College.  

Steven Yoo graduated from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering in 2020 with an MS in Integrated Digital Media.  He also holds a BS in Computer Engineering from SUNY Albany. Before joining the department, he developed and taught Game Design & AR/VR for 3 years at New York University and SUNY Westchester.
Steven uses his passion for teaching and learning to become knowledgeable with current trends and technology to help his students to learn the latest tools to make their game and AR/VR development easier. Steven's research interests lie in the area of using new interactive media and technology to enhance user experience and engagement. Emerging technologies in game design, virtual reality, augmented reality and mobile devices offer exciting new possibilities for presenting user experience and engagement.

Peter Gordon is Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Music Technology Program.

Prof. Gordon attended the University of California, San Diego (B.A. Liberal Arts-Music) and Mills College (M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording.) He comes to Bloomfield College with a long career as a composer, producer, recording artist and arranger and his professional experience informs his teaching in classes in music composition, production, film music and improvisation.

Peter Gordon’s music transcends genres. Often billed as Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, it is heard in concerts, theaters, clubs and on the dance floor. Gordon’s music is released on the Sony Masterworks, DFA Records, Foom Music, and Unseen Worlds record labels, and on compilation albums curated by LCD Soundsystem and Khruangbin. Gordon has received an Obie Award for his work for  musical theater and a Bessie Award for his work for dance, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts; and residency grants from DAAD (Berlin), Japan-US Friendship Commission (Tokyo),  Asian Cultural Council (Seoul) and Emily Harvey Foundation (Venice.) His work includes four operas and numerous instrumental compositions, his video/music collaborations with Kit Fitzgerald have been presented on PBS and at the opera houses of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam. Gordon’s music is featured in the Steven Spielberg produced Joe Versus the Volcano (Tom Hanks) and Tony Scott’s Déjà vu, on television on Desperate Housewives, The Deuce, and Pose and Gordon was music producer and orchestrator for Robert Ashley’s seminal video opera Perfect Lives. Gordon’s orchestrations and transcriptions of music for Yiddish theater, for Michael Tilson Thomas, has been performed by the New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony. He has also worked with artists such as Arthur Russell, Laurie Anderson, Lawrence Weiner, Factory Floor, David Johansen, Bill T. Jones, Willi Smith, Richard Foreman and Chuck Berry. 

Bio Forthcoming

My greatest passion is learning. It does not matter what I learn, where I learn or how I learn. With literature, languages, music, traveling, tinkering and sailing, I take it all as experiences that complete me and help me grow. While Rumi’s poems hold their special place in my heart, I love Russian literature classics, contemporary Turkish writing and Latin American poetry the most. In short, I love reading. I am quite interested in the experiences people share through literature.
 
I studied several languages during certain periods of my life and I can read and understand some Russian and I am fluent in Turkish and English. I can easily get lost in tinkering projects for months at a time that range from modifications of existing gadgets to building ones that serve little function in the end but are satisfying to create. Another passion of mine is music. I have experimented with many instruments and still love to experiment with musical instruments to create songs that reflect my emotions and ideas.
 
I feel very connected to nature and tremendously enjoy hiking as well as traveling. My biggest dream is one day to become a part time teacher and a full-time sailor to travel to the places I always have dreamt of and share my experiences and knowledge with others especially with my son.