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Staff
available for Doctoral Research Supervision:
Geoff
Cox
I teach art and technology, am part of the AZTEC (Art, Science,
Technology) research group, and a member of the research faculty
of Transart Institute (Donau University Krems). I am an artist,
writer and Associate Curator of Online Projects at Arnolfini, Bristol.
My research interests include software studies, the application
of historical materialist and post-Marxist thinking to network culture,
and speculations on the performative and transformative action of
code. I am co-editor of the DATA Browser book series published by
Autonomedia (New York), and co-edited 'Economising Culture' (2004)
and 'Engineering Culture' (2005). I have published over 40 papers,
been invited to give talks at University of Paris-Sorbone (2004
& 2007) and Palazzo Arti Napoli (2007), moderated conferences
at Tate Modern, London (2005), Transmediale, Berlin (2004 &
2006), WRO Bienniale (2007) and 're:place', Berlin (2007), and was
jury member of Transmediale Festival, Berlin (2004). I am a trustee
of Kahve-Society, on the council of management of Spacex gallery,
and treasurer of the UK Museum of Ordure.
www.anti-thesis.net
John Danvers
I am a multi-disciplinary artist, writer and academic currently
based at the University of Plymouth, UK, working on drawings, paintings,
installations and performance works, and, most recently, digital
projections with live spoken texts. I have exhibited and lectured
in the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, with work in many
private and public collections. I am author of Picturing Mind: Paradox,
Indeterminacy and Consciousness in Art & Poetry, Rodopi, 2006.
Other published writings include academic papers and book chapters
on aesthetics, poetics, the philosophy of art practice and pedagogy,
and hybrid texts combining poetic discourse and visual elements.
I am a member of the editorial board of the Internet Journal: Consciousness,
Literature and the Arts, and a consultant for the Art, Design and
Media subject centre of the Higher Education Academy. Current projects
include: completion of writing a book about an artist’s development
within the cultural milieu of the period 1967-1974; researching
another book about scepticism and mysticism in relation to the practices
of selected artists and poets; and developing shorter textual narratives
and poetic fragments in a series entitled: The River Interludes.
www.johndanversart.co.uk
Marta Herrero
I teach the sociology of culture in the School of Law and Social
Science. My research is in the areas of the sociology of arts and
culture, including the study of museums and collection as well as
art markets. I am author of Irish Intellectual and Aesthetics. The
Making of a Modern Art Collection (2007) published by Irish Academic
Press, and the co-editor, with David Inglis, of Art and Aesthetics.
Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences (forthcoming 2008), Routledge.
I am in process of completing a monograph on Art Value, Place and
Markets, and Vice-president of the Sociology of the Arts Research
Committee of the International Sociological Association.
Joasia Krysa
I am a founding member of Art
and Social Technologies Research and curator/co-director of
KURATOR. My
research is at the intersection of curating, technology and critical
theory, and I have a particular interest in an emerging discourse
and practice that links curating with software and network cultures.
I am co-editor of the DATA browser book series (Autonomedia, New
York), co-direct Curatorial Network (with Arts Council England),
and regularly serve on advisory boards and jury panels including
WRO Media Art Foundation (Wroclaw) and ARCO International Contemporary
Art Fair (Madrid). I edited 'Curating Immateriality' (Autonomedia,
New York 2006), contributed to publications including 'Software
Studies: A Lexicon' (MIT 2008) and 'New Media in the White Cube
and Beyond' (University of California Press 2008).
http://www.kurator.org/wiki/main/read/Joasia+Krysa
Anya Lewin
I was born and raised in Los Angeles but mistakenly thought I was
European due to my family of Russian/European Jewish exiles constantly
taking me to see foreign films. I now live in England which is not
the Europe of my imagination. My playful and political work uses
fragments of narrative to examine between states – that of
animal and human, old and young, humour and melancholy, and the
spaces between languages. I am interested in exploring different
ways of constructing narratives and often blend historical research
with imaginary elements. Sites and architectural contexts become
sets to suggest narratives for invented characters while constructed
sets become worlds in themselves. My projects - individual and collaborative
- have taken the form of video, projections, performance, installation,
text and web documents and have been exhibited in Beijing, Bristol,
Bulgaria, Cuba, Siberia, Belfast, New York, San Francisco and London.
www.yesandnu.com/anyalewin
Kevin Meethan
I teach Sociology, and am a Visiting Professor at the University
of Wageningen in the Netherlands. My doctorate is in Social Anthropology,
and I have been researching and writing about tourism for a number
of years. My research interests include globalisation, cultural
change and consumption; the cultural industries and regeneration
policy. I am a member of the Tourism Research Committee of the International
Sociological Association, and a member of the British Sociological
Association. I am a member of the editorial boards for Tourism Today
and Cultural Sociology and founding editor of The Journal of Tourism
Consumption and Practice.
www.tourismconsumption.org
Malcolm Miles
I am Professor of Cultural Theory and convenor of the Centre for
Critical Cultural Research. I am author of Urban Utopias (2008),
Cities & Cultures (2007), Urban Avant-Gardes (2004) and Art
Space & the City (1997), co-author of Consuming Cities (2004,
with Steven Miles), and co-editor of the City Cultures Reader (2nd
edition 2003, with Tim Hall and Iain Borden). I am co-Editor for
the Routledge series, Critical Introductions to Urbanism, with John
Rennie Short (University of Maryland); and have contributed to journals
including Space & Culture, Urban Studies, and Parallax. My current
research is between contemporary art and critical theory, within
a context of utopianism and the hope for radical social change.
www.malcolmmiles.org.uk
Krzysztof Nawratek
I am an architect, urban designer and urban planner, to some extent
I pretend to be also social geographer, currently working as a Lecturer
at the School of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Art, University
of Plymouth.
My work has continually embraced both academic and industry contexts.
I have worked as an architect and urban designer for commercial
companies in Poland, Latvia and Ireland, and as a Research Fellow
at the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, NUI
Maynooth in Ireland, as a visiting lecturer in Social Geography
at the University of Latvia in Riga and as a tutor in Architecture
at Silesian Technical University. Poland.
My PhD dissertation (2003, Silesian Technical University, Poland)
is titled "Spatial Ideology: Public Spaces and Buildings as
Manifestations of Power" and is focus on relationship between
political ideologies and built environment.
My research summarized in books "Political Ideologies in Space.
Demystifications Exercises" and recently published "City
as a political idea" are focused on interdisciplinary understanding
of architecture, urbanism and the city.
I contextualise architecture, art and urban design in the multidimensional
context of cultural, sociological and political structures. Currently
working on a project focused on the city as a machine of oppression.
Mike Phillips
I am Director of i-DAT (Institute for Digital Art and Technology),
and lead the Nascent Art & Technology Research Group [www.nascent-research.net].
My transdisciplinary work orbits digital architectures and transmedia
publishing, and is manifest in two key research projects: Arch-OS
[www.arch-os.com],
an 'Operating System' for contemporary architecture ('software for
buildings') and the LiquidPress [www.liquidpress.net]
which explores the evolution and mutation of publishing and broadcasting
technologies. These projects and other work can be found on the
i-DAT website.
www.i-dat.org
Deborah Robinson
I was originally trained as a painter in observational methods I
then made large scale paintings in which response to materials was
through the body /gesture and the unconscious. This work was developed
through exploration of methods and strategies through which subjectivity
as a woman could be recovered during the act of painting which I
conceived of as (in Judith Butler's sense) perfomative. The attempt
to do this became the basis of PhD research entitled The Materiality
of Text and Body: An Investigation Though Painting and Darkroom
Processes, completed in 2003. Since 2004 I have made experimental
artwork based on the introduction of artistic methods premised on
chance, changing viewpoints and abdication of control over the visual
field into controlled laboratory environments where genomic where
genomic research is carried out. Based on residencies with Egenis
(international genome research group, Exeter University) and the
Sanger Institute, Cambridge, this work is an attempt to track a
visual/spatial ‘underside’ of genomics. Work in progress
has been exhibited at Newlyn Gallery, ICIA (University of Bath).
During 1996/7 I was a resident artist at California State University,
Longbeach. My work has been exhibited in the UK, America and Germany.
Currently I am Honorary Research Fellow with Egenis.
foresight.stanford.edu:3455/3/123
www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/egenis/people/artistinresidence/
Chris Rodrigues
I have been involved in independent film-making as a producer,
writer, and teacher over many years, more recently working on
a collaborative research project ‘The Digital Crowd’
and leading a research project on independent film and video in
the South West region of the UK. I am currently exploring the
relationship of spaces and background to regimes of attention
and hierarchies of knowledge. My publications include Introducing
Modernism (2001); 'Into the Décor: Distraction & Attention
in Film' In Cinema & Technology (Palgrave, 2008). I am currently
collaborating with Rod Stoneman on a publication around contemporary
image systems, A Primer for the Next Century.
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