Site Credits
The GALAWeb Team

Jon Lapointe
Designer
An artist and web designer from Hollywood, Jon is an alumnus of CalArts MFA program. From '95 through '97, he served as Mel Chin's chief assistant and was the project coordinator for the duration of the Melrose project. Today, he is a freelance web designer who specializes in nonprofit sites for community activists, scientists, humanities scholars and collaborative art projects both here and abroad.

Constance Penley
Executive Producer, Editor
Named by Rolling Stone as one of "the most dangerous professors in America," Constance is professor and chair of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She teaches and writes across the fields of media, cultural, and science studies and is a founding editor of Camera Obscura, the longest-running journal of feminist media theory in English. Constance joined the GALA Committee shortly after its inception, working with the nearby CalArts team. She was also a member of the "Sisters of Sam" subcommittee that created the art (and various art world intrigues) for Melrose Place character Samantha Riley. Constance's work on fan culture, especially the "slashers" who radically rewrite popular television shows to better suit their own deliciously twisted desires, primed her for the transformative work of the GALA Committee.

Graham Budgett
Video Editor, Faculty Advisor
Graham Budgett: founding director of the eStudio and lecturer in photo/video/computer arts at the Department of Art Studio, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; design & web consultant to the Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey, England; TV/web convergence conspirator and a founding member of GALAweb.

The GALAWeb Team
Production Assistance, Video Editing, HTML and Research
Kristopher Andrews
Terry Aronson
Melina Del Buono
Mel Chin
Matt Eich
Laura Funkhouser
Ian Garner
Tamarra Q. Gaskins
Jamie Gluck
Ryan Hubbard
Toby Ludnick
Gabe Medway
Kristopher Martelli
Helen Nagge
Amy Pocha
M ichelle Vizzi