Rebecca Young

 Rebecca Young is a new media artist and educator. Born in Melbourne, Australia, she received a BA from the Australian National University in 1985, and a Graduate Diploma in Film from Swinburne University in 1989. She has worked in film, television and new media since 1990, as a film editor, graphic designer, illustrator, animator, and researcher. Her work as a broadcast designer for film and television includes information design, animation for title sequences and special effects. Her work as an interaction designer has encompassed the creation of interfaces and animation for galleries, museums and theatre productions. Currently she is a lecturer at RMIT University, Melbourne, where she teaches design and theory classes in interactive media design. Her primary fields of interest are interactive narrative, interface design and visualization techniques. She is completing a Ph.D. in Interactive Media at RMIT University, and she recently received a 2008 AToM award for her doctoral project 'Remembering Bogle Chandler'.