Who's Who in Research: Visual Arts

WHO’S WHO IN RESEARCH

VISUAL ARTS

WHO’S WHO IN RESEARCH

VISUAL ARTS

intellect Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA

First published in the UK in 2013 by Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK

First published in the USA in 2013 by Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Copyright © 2013 Intellect Ltd

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.

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ISBN 9781841504957

Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries and collaboration between researchers is becoming more and more common. Staying up to date and relevant requires keeping abreast of the international currents of thought in one’s field. But when one’s colleagues span the globe, it is not always easy to know who’s who – or what kind of research they are conducting.

Intellect’s Who’s Who in Research series was designed with the intention of increasing the scholarly community’s self-knowledge and facilitating it to come together and to collaborate. As Intellect has grown as a publisher specializing in the creative arts and popular culture, so, necessarily, has its community of authors. This book series opens up a door to this thriving scholarly community by providing an easy, ‘one-stop-shop’ access to the names and research interests of the leading academics who have published in Intellect’s growing portfolio of journals.

We have split the book series into five volumes, each covering one of Intellect’s main subject areas. This volume features comprehensive profiles of scholars in the area of visual arts. Concise yet detailed listings include each academic’s name, institution, a short biography, current research interests and a list of their articles published with Intellect.

Another important feature of this volume is an innovative and user-friendly index, based on the keywords that scholars have used in their articles. By combining the keywords chosen by a community of scholars focused on a specific topic, we hope to offer a taxonomy of keywords for the subject area as a whole, as well as provide a useful method for discovering the people writing on a particular topic, and where that work can be found.

We believe these volumes will be an invaluable resource for scholars, hiring committees, libraries, and would-be collaborators across the arts and humanities.

Masoud Yazdani

Publisher

Beatriz Acevedo

Anglia Ruskin University, Lord Ashcroft Building, East Road, Cambridge, Bedfordshire, CB1 8PT, United Kingdom

Keywords art, aesthetics, organizational studies

Beatriz Acevedo is a lecturer in sustainable management at Lord Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her research interests concern the intersection between art, aesthetics and organizational studies. She also utilizes ‘art’ as a way of understanding complex social issues, such as the case of violence, discrimination, leadership, sustainability and conflict.

Memories of Violencia in the work of the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo: A subjective view, Journal of Arts & Communities, 2.2, 153–170.

Sophia Krzys Acord

University of Florida, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, 200 Walker Hall, PO Box 118030, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, United States of America

Keywords embodied cognition, habitus, music, social interaction, tacit knowledge, humanities, knowledge production, arts, interdisciplinarity

Sophia Krzys Acord has arrived at sociology from a background in theatrical design, musical performance and arts education. Her past research includes an ethnography of Parisian artist-squats and the study of artistic censorship in the United States and the United Kingdom. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Exeter, where her dissertation on exhibition-making practices among curators of contemporary art was awarded an 'Honorable Mention' by the American Sociological Association's annual dissertation prize committee in 2010. Her current work interrogates knowledge production, interdisciplinary collaboration and the impact of digital technologies in the humanities disciplines.

Thinking with art: from situated knowledge to experiential knowing, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 6.2, 125–140.

Clive Adams

Keywords curating, nature

Clive Adams is Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World. He is a curator with a particular interest in the work of artists which engages with nature. He started his career at the Arnolfini, Bristol in the 1970s, and his exhibitions have covered a period from the eighteenth century to the present day. The most recent are 'The Impossible View?' at The Lowry (winner of the Museums and Heritage Award for the best UK temporary exhibition of 2003) and 'The Art of White' at the Lowry until 17 April 2006.

'Nature and I are Two', Journal of Visual Art Practice, 1.1, 56–.

Julieta Aguilera

University of Plymouth and Adler Planetarium, Planetary Collegium, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK. Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL, 60130 USA

Keywords embodiment,enaction, synthetic experience, virtual reality, augmented reality

Julieta Aguilera is a researcher in interactive and immersive visualization in the Adler’s Space Visualization Laboratory. An MFA graduate in Graphic Design and Electronic Visualization from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Illinois at Chicago, respectively, she has taught visual design and immersive environments, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Interactive Arts at the Planetary Collegium Program based in Plymouth, UK. Over the past fifteen years, she has exhibited CAVE-based Virtual Reality artworks and presented papers at both international conferences and art galleries. She collaborates with astronomers, historians and educators in the design and production of immersive interactive pieces for shows and research-oriented exhibitions.

The synthetic experience as an exoskeleton of the mind, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 9.2–3, 271–276.

Joe Adu-Agyem

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Department of General Art Studies (Art Education), Faculty of Fine Art, College of Art and Social Sciences, University Post Office Box 50, Kumasi, KNUST, Ghana

Keywords child art, Ghana, creativity, aesthetics, education

Joe Adu-Agyem is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Art Studies (Art Education), the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He holds a Ph.D (Documentation), a Masters degree and a postgraduate diploma in Art Education as well as a BA (Art) degree in Sculpture, all from KNUST. He also has a three-year diploma in Art Education (Cape Coast University) and a four-year teachers’ certificate A (Kumasi). His research interests include documentation, aesthetics and criticism, research methodology, educational administration/psychology, sculpture, secondary education and fashion design.

Enhancing children’s learning: the art perspective, International Journal of Education through Art, 5.2&3, 143–155.

Sean Aita

Keywords theatre, acting, performance

Sean Aita is a community theatre practitioner and academic. He is currently a senior lecturer in acting at the Arts University College at Bournemouth. He is the former head of education and community at the Royal Theatre in Northampton and the artistic director of Forest Forge Theatre Company, developing performance and participatory projects for and with rural communities. As director of Forest Forge, Sean’s work was shortlisted for the Stage Awards for Achievement in Regional Theatre in 2008.

An unobscured glow: Towards a definition of Rural Theatre, Journal of Arts & Communities, 2.1, 55–63.

Esra Akcan

University of Illinois, Chicago

Keywords architecture

Esra Akcan is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her architecture degree from Middle East Technical University and her Ph.D. and postdoctoral degrees from Columbia University in New York. She has taught at Columbia University, Humboldt University, the New School, Pratt Institute and METU. Akcan has received awards and fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, the Clark Institute, the Graham Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Mellon Foundation, DAAD, Kinne, and KRESS/ARIT. She is the author of (Land)Fill Istanbul, Çeviride Modern Olan, Architecture in Translation (forthcoming) and Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (with Sibel Bozdoğan, forthcoming).

Book Reviews, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 1.1, 151–168.

Mohammed Al-amri

Sultan Qaboos University, College of Education, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, P.O. Box 32, Code 123

Keywords art studio, art lecturer, art education, higher education, SQU

Mohammed Al-Amri is an assistant professor of Art Education at Sultan Qaboos University. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee for Arts Education, as well as a working group member of the Road Map for Arts Education, UNESCO. He has an MA in Art and Design Education from the University of Warwick and a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests are in the art curriculum, programme evaluation, art criticism and creative thinking. He has published articles in both Arabic and English.

Assessment techniques racticed in teaching art at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, International Journal of Education through Art, 7.3, 267–282.

Khaled Al-Najdi

Keywords constructing, digital software applications, globalization, Islamic aniconism, postmodern allegory

Khaled Al-Najdi is an assistant professor of Communication Design in the Department of Art and Design at Kuwait University. He obtained his Master’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 1998 and his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in 2001. In 2003 he established the Art and Design Program at Kuwait University’s College for Women. He currently teaches courses in graphic design history, typography and graphic design studios for undergraduate graphic design majors at Kuwait University. His most recent article is titled ‘The history of advertising design in Kuwait – post oil cultural shifts, 1947–1959’ for the Journal of Design History, vol. 25 No 1, (2012), pp. 55–87.

Combining a past and present mode: Kuwaiti digitalized canvasses as a method in creative possibilities and pedagogical practice, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 10.3, 245–261.

Jamal Al-Qawasmi

King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals, Department of Architecture, PO Box 312, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Keywords e-studio, digital design, architectural design education, CAAD

Jamal Al-Qawasmi obtained a BSc in Architecture in 1987, MSc in Architecture in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Architecture in 1999 from Texas A&M. Since 1993 he has taught architecture and design computing in several universities and is involved in research and consultation. His experience lies in several fields related to computer applications in architectural education and practice such as programming, drafting and 3D modelling, photo-based 3D modelling, rendering and animation, graphic design and image manipulation, panorama presentations, web development, e-learning, collaborative environments, virtual reality, stereo imaging and virtual reality. His interests include computer-mediated collaborative design, virtual design education and applications of virtual reality in architectural education. He has published numerous articles, is the founding Chair of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD) and has organized five international conferences in the field of computer and information technology applications in architectural design and education.

Digital media in architectural design education: reflections on the e-studio pedagogy, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 4.3, 205–.

Giorgio Alberti

Keywords Eros, HermAfrEros, myths and mythology, archetypes, Carl Gustav Jung

After a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. in Informatics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (Dr sc. techn. ETHZ) Giorgio Alberti has completed an MBA at the INSEAD in Fontainebleau. After different positions in Management of Multinational Industries and Consulting at international level he is now owner of the AGB Strategy & Management Consulting in Muralto-Locarno (Switzerland).

Amores-Eros and Low Power Society, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 4.2, 75–78.

Sandra Alexander

American University in Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, United Arab Erimates

Keywords Paul Cézanne, phenomenology, sense perception, embodied experience

Sandra Alexander (D.Phil, Oxford) is an independent scholar based in Oxford. In 2002, she successfully completed her thesis focusing on the themes of art, expression and historicity in the work of Merleau-Ponty. More recently, she has taught for Oxford Brookes University, acted as tutor for the Sarah Lawrence Programme based at Wadham College, Oxford. She currently works at the American University in Dubai.

Beyond 'Cézanne's Doubt', Journal of Visual Art Practice, 4.2, 97–110.

Mel Alexenberg

College of Judea and Samaria, 36 Lohamay Hageto Street, Petach Tikvah, 49651, Israel

Keywords auto-ethnography, artographic enquiry, post-digital age realms of learning creativity, ancient schema, Kabbalah

Mel Alexenberg is an artist, educator, writer, and blogger working at the interface between art, science, technology, and culture. His artworks can be seen at www.melalexenberg.com. They explore interrelationships between the post-digital age and Jewish consciousness, space-time systems and electronic technologies, participatory art and community values, high tech and high touch experiences, responsive art in cyberspace and real space, and blogart and wikiart. His artworks exploring digital technologies and global systems are in the collections of more than forty museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Jewish Museum in Prague, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Autoethnographic identification of realms of learning for art education in a postdigital age, International Journal of Education through Art, 4.3, 231–246.

Ancient schema and technoetic creativity, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 4.1, 3–14.

Hena Ali

Central Saint Martins, Flat 53, Courtside 47–49, Penywern Road, London, SW5 9TU, United Kingdom

Keywords new literacy studies, semiotics, multimodal literacy, visual grammar, allegory

Hena Ali is a Ph.D. student at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. She is a practice-based graphic designer. Her Ph.D. research is practice-led and concerned with ‘graphic communication design’, investigating the communicative capacity of vernacular art in indigenous settings. She is exploring Pakistani vernacular visual media within user-centred graphic communication design. Visually, these are immensely vibrant and exotic but are uncharted territory in terms of communication. Hena is investigating sign systems located within indigenous visual media, exploring the influence of content and context on how they are read. Her research suggests graphic design as a paradigm in which indigenous art can be critically located and discussed as communication. The research findings will include a ‘graphic communication design’ schema of practice to facilitate the design of visual communications targeting low-literacy groups.

Visual reflections: Lollywood billboards, just a commercial medium or an ideological allegorical literacy?, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 4.3, 401–426.

Dijana Alić

University of New South Wales

Keywords war and architecture, modern architecture, heritage studies,

Dijana Alić holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Sarajevo and a Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She is currently a senior lecturer in Design, History and Theory in the Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Her research interest focuses on the relationship between modernity and national expression in architecture, particularly in the context of post-World War II 'Eastern' Europe. Alić's work has been published in international journals such as the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Centropa, Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts and Open House International. Alić has participated in numerous national and international conferences.

Book Reviews, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 1.1, 151–168.

Giovanni Aloi

Roehampton University, Department of Media, Culture & Language, Erasmus House, Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 5PU, United Kingdom

Keywords Vargas, Evaristti, Hirst, Abdessemed

Giovanni Aloi lectures in History of Art and Media Studies at Roehampton University, Queen Mary University of London, The Open University and the Tate Galleries. In 2006, he founded Antennae, the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture of which he currently is Editor in Chief (www.antennae.org.uk). The journal combines a heightened level of academic scrutiny of animals in art, with a less formal and more experimental format designed to appeal to audiences of academics, artists and general public alike. Giovanni Aloi is currently researching the subject of ‘animal displays in contemporary art’ for his Ph.D. at Goldsmiths, University of London.

The death of the animal, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 9.1, 59–68.

Leila Amaral

Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Post Graduation Program of Religious Studies, Rua Marechal Deodoro, 268, CEP 36013–000, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Keywords anthropology, religion, technology

Leila Amaral has a Ph.D. in Anthropology and is a guest researcher at the Post-Graduation Program of Religious Studies of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil.

The festive character of cyber art, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8.3, 255–265.

Peter Anders

Keywords cyberspace, cybrids, mixed reality, architecture, augmented reality architecture

Peter Anders is an architect, educator, and information design theorist. He has published widely on the architecture of cyberspace and is the author of Envisioning Cyberspace (McGraw Hill, 1998) which presents design principles for online spatial environments. Anders received his doctoral degree from the University of Plymouth Planetary Collegium (2004) and is currently the director of MindSpace.net, an architectural/design practice specializing in media/information environments.

Cybrid principles: guidelines for merging physical and cyberspaces, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 2.3, 133–146.

Designing mixed reality: perception, projects and practice, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 6.1, 19–29.

Ellen Anderson

Creative Spirit Art Centre, 999 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto, ON, M6H 2X7, Canada

Keywords community, art, disability, inclusion, presence

Ellen Anderson nee Yamasaki is a Japanese Canadian, born in 1943, in an internment camp in the interior of BC. She has a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts. She is Executive and Managing Director of Creative Spirit Art Centre in Toronto, a community-based studio and gallery space where artists with disabilities could come and create, exhibit and sell their artwork. Creative Spirit Art Centre was established in Toronto in 1992. Creative Spirit is dedicated to the integration of adult artists with disabilities into the mainstream arts community. Ellen and the volunteers of Creative Spirit Art Centre have continued to facilitate the making, exhibition and sales of art by people with both visible and invisible health labels.

Experiences of disabled artists doing art in a community art centre, Journal of Arts & Communities, 3.1, 39–47.

Åsa Andersson

Leeds Metropolitan University, City Campus, Leeds, LS1 3HE, United Kingdom

Keywords photography, art object, visual experience, aesthetic, understanding

Åsa Andersson is an artist working predominantly in the area of lens-based media. She works across image-making, writing and art teaching. She holds a Ph.D. in Fine Art and Philosophy (1999, Staffordshire University) and has an interest in site-responsive art practices and multi-disciplinary creative approaches in relation to text, photography, film and print. She is based in Stockholm while an Associate Senior Lecturer in the Leeds School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Echoes of evocations: sites in transformation, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 4.2, 125–134.

Jorella Andrews

University of London, Goldsmiths, Department of Visual Cultures, Lewisham Way, London, SE146NW, United Kingdom

Keywords contemporary art, ethical art, photography

Jorella Andrews is head of the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also on the editorial board of Third Text, an academic journal that provides critical perspectives on contemporary art and culture. Her research has a particular emphasis on phenomenological explorations of art, visuality and the ethical. A forthcoming book on this topic, Showing Off: A Philosophy of Image, is forthcoming from I. B. Tauris.

The photographic stare, Philosophy of Photography, 2.1, 41–56.

Peder Anker

New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 1 Washington Place, Room 425, New York, NY 10003, United States of America

Keywords Simon Starling, eco-art, ecology, environmentalism

Peder Anker is associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Environmental Studies Program at New York University. His works include Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895–1945 (2001) and From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design, (2010).

Seeing Pink: The Eco-Art of Simon Starling, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 7.1, 3–9.

Kathrine Elizabeth Anker

University of Plymouth, Skodsborgvej 324, st.th, 2850 Nærum, Denmark

Keywords technoetic arts, semiotics, consciousness, communication, evolution, subjectivity, cognition, sensation, meaning making, philosophy, transdisciplinarity

Kathrine Elizabeth Anker is a writer, a cultural theorist and an independent researcher. She holds a Master’s degree in Modern Culture and Cultural Communication from the University of Copenhagen, and is currently a Ph.D. student at the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK. Her project carries the title: ‘Subject and aesthetic interface – an inquiry into transformed subjectivities’. The project connects hermeneutical approaches to Technoetic Artworks with theoretical, accounts of the human subject as viewed from a perspective of both the human and the natural sciences (biosemiotics, holistic biophysics). Kathrine places a particular emphasis on the noetic side of the human mind, and the study of consciousness with an emphasis on processes of introspection. Her work is transdisciplinary, philosophical and speculative. It integrates Philosophy of Science, Cybersemiotics and studies of Technoetic Art.

Exploring the intelligent art installation as a space for expansion of the conscious mind, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 6.3, 251–258.

The sense of being moved, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8.2, 167–172.

A short epistemological narrative of logos, telos and aesthetic reason, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 9.2–3, 181–187.

Phivi Antoniou

Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus, Pavlou Xiouta 7, 4106, Ayios Athanasios, Lemesos, Cyprus

Keywords children's art, Cyprus, case study, artistic development

Phivi Antoniou is an elementary school teacher. After completing her studies at the Faculty of Sciences of Education, University of Cyprus, she went on to M.Phil. studies in Art Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She has just completed her Ph.D. studies at the University of Cambridge, being supervised by Dr Richard Hickman. She holds a scholarship by the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.

Children's engagement with art: Three case studies, International Journal of Education through Art, 8.2, 169–182.

Alexandra Antonopoulou

Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Design, Lewisham Way, London, SE14 6NW

Keywords participation, performance, narrative, fiction, algorithms

Alexandra Antonopoulou is a designer and visiting lecturer in the United Kingdom, as well as a course leader for the ‘Orientation to MA’ course at the University of the Arts London. At the same time she is devising and running workshops in museums, primary and high schools as part of her research in ‘story-making in designing and learning’ (Ph.D. candidate at Goldsmiths). Her design background varies from graphic design, to fashion and children’s books writing and illustration. She has also been involved in Interaction Design research units.

Phi territories: Neighbourhoods of collaboration and participation, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 5.1, 85–105.

Magouliotis Apostolos

University of Thessaly, Early Childhood Education Department, Argonafton & Filellinon, 38221, Volos, Greece

Keywords Greece, preschool children, secondary colours, educational intervention

Magouliotis Apostolos is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts and completed his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Athens, Greece. He has taught art in Greek primary and secondary schools and lectured in the Department of Preschool Education at the University of Ioannina, Greece. For the last ten years he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Preschool Education at the University of Thessaly, where he teaches Artistic Applications. His research papers have been published in Greek and international journals and conference proceedings. He is the author of seven art education books and an art textbook for Greek primary schools for Years 5–6.

Creating orange purple and green: an experiment with preschool children in Greece, International Journal of Education through Art, 5.1, 37–49.

Rachel Armstrong

The Barlett School of Architecture, Room 129c Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0QB, United Kingdom

Keywords sustainability, complexity, material computing, synthetic biology, architecture

Rachel is a medical doctor with qualifications in general practice, a multimedia producer, and a science-fiction author and arts collaborator whose current research explores the possibilities of architectural design to create positive practices and mythologies about new technology. She is a Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture and a member of Professor Neil Spiller’s AVATAR Research Group. She recently received a Darwin Now Award from the British Council for collaborative field work on a green algae, called Bryopsis, with extraordinary powers of regeneration, and was one of the organizers of the recent Architecture & Complexity: Systems Architecture Workshop held at the Bartlett in February 2009. She has published extensively on posthuman evolution and alien phenomena, working at the intersection of art, science and technology. Her first science-fiction novel The Gray’s Anatomy was published in 2001 by Serpent’s Tail.

Living buildings: plectic systems architecture, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 7.2, 79–94.

The nautilus – evolving architecture and city landscapes for future sustainable development, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 7.2, 105–115.

Roy Ascott

Editor

Keywords moistmedia, syncretic reality, telematics, technoetics

Roy Ascott is the editor of Technoetic Arts and founding president of the Planetary Collegium, the international research network based in England at the University of Plymouth, with research nodes in Zurich, Milan and Beijing. A pioneer of telematics art, his research is in art, technology and consciousness.

The syncretic imperative, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 4.2, 109–114.

Introduction: Living Buildings: Plectic Systems Architecture, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 7.2, 73–74.

Editorial, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8.1, 3–4.

Editorial, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8.2, 137–137.

INTRODUCTION, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 9.2–3, 87–87.

LPDT2, Metaverse Creativity, 1.1, 81–100.

Linda Ashton

Keywords post-colonialism, postmodernism, teacher education, reflective practice

Linda Ashton graduated from Townsville Teachers’ College in 1972. The arts have been the main integrating device for her personal and professional development and teaching across early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary education contexts. She was a founding member of The N.Q. Ballet Company (precursor to Dance North) which provided a unique blend of skills and knowledge in the performing arts, costume and music. Career emphases: teaching in ECE, primary and education contexts, Arts curriculum development, integrated arts, professional development in the arts for school-based colleagues, researching drawing, teacher education in undergraduate ECE, primary and secondary coursework and collaborative public art projects.

The Other side of the easel: questioning art education through a postcolonial frame, International Journal of Education through Art, 6.2, 243–259.

Daniel Ashton

Bath Spa University, Department of Film and Media Production, Newton Park Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN, United Kingdom

Keywords media industries, creative labour, critical media practice

Daniel Ashton is Senior Lecturer in Media Communications at Bath Spa University. His research interests include media industries and work, critical media literacy, and higher education pedagogy. He completed his doctorate (Lancaster University) on the UK creative industries economic vision and the development of students as ‘industry-ready talent’. He has recently published work on higher education and digital games industry intersections in Journal of Education and Work and Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, creative economy policy in Journal of Cultural Economy, and media work and user-generated content in Convergence and Information Technology & People.

Productive passions and everyday pedagogies: Exploring the industry-ready agenda in higher education, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 9.1, 41–56.

Paul Atkinson

School of Humanities, Communications & Social Sciences, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Churchill, VIC 3842, Australia

Keywords graphic novels, metafiction, Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, David Mazzucchelli, adaptation

Paul Atkinson lectures for the Communications and Writing programme at Monash University. His research is broadly informed by the work of the fin-de-siècle French philosopher Henri Bergson and his writings on movement and time. Published articles explore a range of topics including Bergson’s vitalism, comic books after 9/11, movement and recognition, time in superhero comics, affect theory and temporal aesthetics. He is currently working on a series of articles that explore the relationship between processual theories of time, aesthetics and narrative.

The graphic novel as metafiction, Studies in Comics, 1.1, 107–125.

Fernando Leal Audirac

Keywords future, origin, transvergence, encaustic, boundary

Fernando Leal Audirac is a refined and skillful artist, who does not fear to measure himself with the most varied and ancient painterly techniques, in order to explore its secrets, revisited and upgraded within a contemporary and very intimate code of communication. Painter, designer, etcher, fresco-painter, sculptor, Leal Audirac moves along on an extremely personal path, that renders him immune from easy labeling. Leal Audirac has participated twice in the Venice Biennale, the first one in the Centennial in 1995 and has shown his work in galleries and museums in the US, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Hungary, Rumania, Korea and South America. He has also participated as lecturer and academic tutor for several institutions in the Americas and in Europe. He has written numerous essays on art and literature and participated in several international symposiums regarding art, science and environment organized by the European Environmental Tribunal. www.leal-audirac.com

Origins of the Future: an artist's encaustic perspective, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 6.2, 199–206.

Noam Austerlitz

Tel Aviv university, Architecture School, KKL street, Tivon, 36082, Israel

Keywords emotion, ethnography, students experience, design education, reflection, personal and professional development

Noam Austerlitz currently holds a teaching position at the school of architecture, Tel-aviv University (Israel). He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem, in 1996 and since then he has served as a practicing architect. He has been the owner of a small practice since 1999, concentrating mainly on sustainable architecture and social aspects of design. Since 2005 he holds a Ph.D. degree granted by the Technion, I.I.T. In his academic research Noam is trying to merge his interests in education and architecture. He has been conducting research into design education and the role of emotional and social interactions in the design teaching and learning. His principal areas of research interest are: design theory, pedagogy and design education, creativity and innovative thinking, design psychology, emotion research, education philosophy and science philosophy. Noam is also a practicing architect and owns an architecture firm which focuses on 'green' architecture and sustainable design.

The internal point of view: studying design students' emotional experience in the studio via phenomenography and ethnography, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 5.3, 165–178.

Editorial for ADCHE special issue, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 6.3, 139–144.

Reflections on emotional journeys: a new perspective for reading fashion students' PPD statements, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 6.3, 209–219.

Reviews, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 6.3, 221–226.

Lucía Ayala

Humboldt University of Berlin, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Unter den Linden 6, 10117, Berlin, Germany

Keywords ubiquity, codes, history of science, expanded body, virtual reality

Lucía Ayala, art historian, finished her binational Ph.D. at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany) and Granada University (Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Dr Horst Bredekamp and Prof. Dr Ignacio Henares Cuéllar. From a methodological intersection between science and art, she has focused her work on the visualization of the plurality of worlds from the seventeenth century on. She is an associate of the research group Das Technische Bild/ The Technical Image in the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her interests are concentrated on an art historical approach to science, astrophysics and contemporary (so-called) media art.

Surpassing human nature: Reinventions of and for the body as a consequence of astronomical experiments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Metaverse Creativity, 1.1, 101–113.

Elif Ayiter

Sabanci University, FASS, Orhanli, Tuzla, 34956, Istanbul, Turkey

Keywords groundcourse, virtual learning environment, virtual design/architecture, avatar, role play,

Elif Ayiter is a designer, educator and researcher from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, where she develops hybrid educational methodologies between art and science and participates in multidisciplinary research between Visual Communication Design and Computer Sciences, particularly in the area of data visualization. Her texts have been published at academic journals such as the Journal of Consciousness Studies, IJACDT, D’Ars and Technoetic Arts and she has contributed chapters to books within her domain. She has presented creative as well as research output at conferences including Siggraph, Creativity and Cognition, SPIE, ISEA, Computational Aesthetics, Cyberworlds and AACE. She is also the chief editor of the journal Metaverse Creativity with Intellect and is currently studying for a doctoral degree at the Planetary Collegium, CAiiA hub, at the University of Plymouth with Roy Ascott.

Integrative art education in a metaverse: ground, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 6.1, 41–53.

Embodied in a metaverse: Anatomia and body parts, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8.2, 181–188.

‘Thought/visual processing’: Ctrl+x, y, z, v, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 9.2–3, 239–245.

LPDT2, Metaverse Creativity, 1.1, 81–100.

Editorial, Metaverse Creativity, 1.1, 3–5.

Editorial, Metaverse Creativity, 1.2, 133–134.

Sue Bailey

United Kingdom

Keywords qualitative variation, research, design projects, visual reproducing, conceptual responses

Sue Bailey is a Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was previously Fashion Subject Area Leader and has extensive experience in design teaching and curriculum development at undergraduate level.

Student Approaches to Learning in Fashion Design: a phenomenographic study, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 1.2, 81–95.

Students’ approaches to the ‘research’ component in the fashion design project: Variation in students’ experience of the research process, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 2.3, 113–130.

Michael Balfour

Griffith University, School of Education and Professional Studies, Brisbane, Queensland, 4111, Australia

Keywords refugee, applied theatre, performance and war, victimhood, othering

Michael's research expertise is in the social applications of theatre - theatre in communities, social institutions, and areas of disadvantage and conflict. He is the recipient of four current Australian Research Council-funded projects: Refugee Performance, developing drama-based projects with refugee new arrivals; The Difficult Return, creating new approaches to arts-based work with returning military personnel and their families; Captive Audiences: evaluating the impact of performing arts programmes in Australian Prisons, and Playful Engagement, exploring applied theatre methodologies with people with mid to late dementia in aged care facilities. Previously, Michael was a researcher on In Place of War, a four-year Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) project that explored how contemporary artists respond to war. He has also worked extensively in prisons in the United Kingdom and Europe, developing a range of cultural programmes exploring issues of social justice, violence and offending behaviour.

Refugee performance: Encounters with alterity, Journal of Arts & Communities, 2.3, 177–195.

Erika Balsom

Carleton University, Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, 405 St. Patrick’s Bldg, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada

Keywords experimental film, artists' cinema, museum, gallery, contemporary art

Erika Balsom is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She recently completed a dissertation entitled 'Exhibiting Cinema: The Moving Image in Art After 1990' in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Screen, Public: Art/Culture/Ideas and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, as well as in the catalogue for the recent Deutsche Guggenheim exhibition, Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India.

Brakhage's sour grapes, or notes on experimental cinema in the art world, Moving Image Review & Art Journal MIRAJ, 1.1, 13–25.

Anne Bamford

Wimbledon College of Art - University of the Arts London, Merton Hall Road, London, SW19 3QA, United Kingdom

Keywords virtual worlds, constructed and manipulated imagery, simulation, technologies, art education

Professor Anne Bamford is Director of the Engine Room at the University of the Arts London. Anne has been recognized nationally and internationally for her research in arts education, emerging literacies and visual communication. She is an expert in the international dimension of arts and cultural education, and through her research, she has pursued issues of innovation, social impact and equity and diversity. A World Scholar for UNESCO, Anne has conducted major national impact and evaluation studies for the governments of Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Iceland, Hong Kong, and is currently undertaking a study in Norway. Amongst her numerous articles and book chapters, Anne is author of The Wow Factor: Global Research Compendium on the Impact of the Arts in Education which has been published in five languages and distributed in more than 40 countries.

Manipulation, simulation, stimulation: the role of art education in the digital age, International Journal of Education through Art, 3.2, 91–102.

Reviews, International Journal of Education through Art, 3.1, 77–.

Anne Louise Bang

Kolding School of Design, Denmark, Aagade 10, 6000 Kolding, Denmark

Keywords textile art, design research, digital inkjet printing, adjusting daylight, sustainability

Anne Louise Bang has a background in textile design. She defended her Ph.D. in May 2011 and currently holds a research position at Kolding School of Design. Her research is practice-based and application-oriented, and has touched upon issues within textile design, participatory design, emotional design, co-creation and design processes. Anne Louise is determined to explore and develop the potentials that lie in the combination of design practice and theory.

Vibeke Riisberg: The red thread from practice to research, Craft Research, 3.1, 137–146.

Antonia Bardis

Technological Education Institute of Athens, Department of Photography, Ag. Spyridonos Str, Egaleo, Athens, 12210, Greece

Keywords digital photography, realism, traditional photograph, snapshot, simulation

Antonia Bardis is a photographer and educator residing in Athens, Greece. She holds a BFA from the University of Illinois and a MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in Photography from the University of Derby.

Digital photography and the question of realism, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 3.3, 209–.

Naren Barfield

Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3 6RQ, United Kingdom

Keywords art, digital art, pedagogy, spatial ontology

Naren Barfield is an artist, and has held senior academic positions for several years including leading research in two specialist art and design institutions, currently as Head of Research and Postgraduate Studies, and Professor of Visual Arts at the Glasgow School of Art. He has maintained an active profile over many years principally in the areas of fine art and creative pedagogy. His research and professional practice ranges across art practice, theory, materials and curatorship, and includes publication of books, chapters and papers in refereed journals and exhibition catalogues; curatorship at venues including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; more than 60 conference and public presentations worldwide since 1991, and more than 80 individual and collaborative exhibitions since 1987.

Spatial ontology and digital print, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 2.1, 26–35.

Martin Barker

University of Aberystwyth, Department of Theatre, Film and TV, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3AJ, United Kingdom

Keywords teaching film, media literacy, vernacular concepts, moral controversies

Martin Barker is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of a number of books, of which probably best-known is Ill Effects: the Media-Violence Debate (co-edited with Julian Petley). He was director of the major international audience research project into the reception of The Lord of the Rings (2003–4) whose results were published (Watching The Lord of the Rings) by Peter Lang in 2007. In 2007 he also directed a research project for the British Board of Film Classification into audience responses to sexual violence on screen, whose outcomes can be found on their website.

Understanding vernacular experiences of film in an academic environment, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 4.1, 49–.

Suzanne Barnes

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, United States of America

Keywords illustration, advertising, design

Around the age of four, Suzanne Barnes began to make pictures of birds, animals, twigs and rocks, a practice she continues to the present day, only on better paper. Her clients have included Martha Stewart, Reebok, Snapple, Ocean Spray, McDonald’s, Boston Globe, Audubon and Scientific American magazines, and many more in advertising, design and publishing. She teaches other people to make pictures at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she is Professor of Illustration. When she’s not making a student sharpen their pencil and get rid of their eraser, she works in her studio and, sometimes, she writes.

Try holding your pencil like this, Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art, 1.1, 59–62.

Carolina Marielli Barreto

Keywords art, gender, professional training, history, applied arts

Carolina Marielli Barreto has a Masters degree in Arts from the Arts Institute at the São Paulo State University – UNESP and graduated in Art Education, with a specialization in Visual Arts. She is currently working as an art educator in the Cultural Centre of the Bank of Brazil and as a collaborator on the Projeto Memória at the Carlos de Campos State Technical School, the old Escola Profissional Feminina de São Paulo (The São Paulo Professional School for Women).

Art education and professional training: The São Paulo Professional School for Women, International Journal of Education through Art, 3.1, 69–76.

Estelle Barrett

Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Burwood Highway, Victoria, 3125, Australia

Keywords tacit knowledge, personal knowledge, creative arts, research, practice, sense activity

Estelle Barrett is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. Her research interests include, body/mind relations, tacit knowledge, affect and embodiment in aesthetic experience and creative practice as research. Her co-edited book with Barbara Bolt, Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, published by IB Tauris London in 2007, combines these interests and her experience in research pedagogy and supervision.

Experiential learning in practice as research: context, method, knowledge, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 6.2, 115–124.

Jiří Barta

University of West Bohemia Pilsen, Institute of Art & Design (IAD), Czech Republic

Keywords puppet animation, Czech animation, children, mixed media, political metaphor

Jiří Barta was born in Prague in 1948. He has been a successful puppet animation film-maker for over 40 years, initially training at the Department of Film and TV Graphics at the Academy of Art and Design in Prague, and working at the Jiří Trnka Studio as an artist, director and screenwriter since 1978. His first film was Riddles for a Candy (1978), but his breakthrough film was the multi award-winning The Extinct World of Gloves (1982). In 1986, he made his first feature, Pied Piper, which advanced Czech puppet animation by its use of wooden figures with limited movement. In 1993, he made a pilot for a long cherished project, The Golem, and completed a range of commercial projects before embarking on the current feature, In the Attic: Who (2009).

Searching ‘In the Attic’: a visual production diary, Animation Practice, Process & Production, 1.1, 131–153.

Christoph Bartneck

University of Canterbury, HIT Lab NZ, Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand

Keywords Nobel Prize in Physics, inventions, discoveries, global warming social application

Christoph Bartneck is Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Studies at Canterbury University's HIT Lab NZ. His background is in Industrial Design and Human-Computer Interaction. He has published and presented projects and studies in various journals and conferences, as well as served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His interests lie in the area of Social Robotics, Design Science and Multimedia Applications. He has worked for several companies including the Technology Center of Hanover in Germany, LEGO in Denmark, Eagle River Interactive in the USA, Phillips Research in the Netherlands and ATR in Japan.

The asymmetry between discoveries and inventions in the Nobel Prize in Physics, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 6.1, 73–77.

Roberto Bartual

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Theory of Literature, Comparative Literature, Linguistics and Modern Languages, c. Vinca, 4. 3ºA., Madrid, 28029, Spain

Keywords William Hogarth, A Harlot’s Progress, engraving, sequential art, broadsheet

Roberto Bartual was born in Madrid in 1976. He is a translator, writer and scholar and the author of numerous articles on popular literature published in Diario El Sur, República de las Letras and Despalabro, dealing with authors such as Alan Moore, Robert L. Stevenson, and Jim Thompson and the hard-boiled genre. He translated an edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights illustrated by Balthus (Artemisa, 2007) and the Spanish version of Alan Moore and José Villarubia’s The Mirror of Love (Kraken, 2008). Also a fiction writer, his short stories can be found in diverse anthologies, including Ficciones (Edaf, 2005). He is the co-author of the postmodern revisiting of Lorca’s classic La Casa de Bernarda Alba Zombi (Cátedra, 2009).

William Hogarth’s A Harlot’s