Dr Barbara Rauch is an artist practitioner, researcher and academic with a fulltime position at Ontario College of Art & Design. She has been appointed Assistant Professor in Graphics, Animation and Visualization, and started her new position and collaboration with the Digital Futures Initiative (DFI) in September 2009. Her expertise encompasses the theory, history and research of digital art at an international level, together with the discourses of professional practice in contemporary site-specific installations, and with a particular focus on cross-disciplinary art projects.