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Adrian Miles Adrian Miles is a Senior Lecturer in New Media and currently the Coordinator of the labsome Honours research studio at RMIT, in Melbourne, Australia. He has also been a senior new media researcher in the InterMedia Lab at the University of Bergen, Norway. His academic research on hypertext and networked interactive video has been widely published and his applied digital projects have been exhibited internationally. Adrian's research interests include hypertext and hypermedia, appropriate pedagogies for new media education, digital poetics, and the use of Deleuzean philosophy in the context of digital poetics.
Cameron Tonkinwise's research and professional activities have brought together the philosophies of design and sustainability. His work centers on the belief that current societal unsustainability has much to do with a widespread misunderstanding of the nature of design. He believes that we need to create strong links so that people understand the impact they have on the environment so that we can then more fully understand our predicament and facilitate the radical social changes needed to rectify it. His research has focused on the design of commercial and non-market systems of shared product use, exploring how the emerging discipline of service design might enable the development of less-material dependant economies. Current research is both more historical and more conceptual, exploring variability in perceptions of convenience and autonomy when shifting from "ownership" to "usership."
Katherine Moline works as an artist, designer, critic and curator. She coordinates the Graphics/Media and Honours programs of the Bachelor of Design at COFA, and is completing her PhD in experimental design in the School of Art, History and Theory at COFA, UNSW. She has curated exhibitions in art and design at The Power Gallery at Sydney University, First Draft Gallery, and The Historic Houses Trust. Most recently she curated 'Connections: Experimental Design' at Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW, in 2007. Her art practice is represented by Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney.
Originally coming from an art and design education background with a major in sculpture, Laurene has melded a career of practicing artist, designer and educator in Australia and Japan. Since 1995 she has been a lecturer and research supervisor at RMIT for both Masters and PhD students. Within her practice Laurene endeavors to explore and present comment on the interactive nature of the lived experience across different domains. Laurene has published, presented and exhibited work across these diverse areas and continues to pursue a multi-disciplinary perspective.
Toni Ross is Senior Lecturer in art history at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. Her current research focuses on aesthetic philosophies of modern art, as well as interfaces between art and design in contemporary art practice.
Nancy de Freitas is Associate Professor, Postgraduate Studies in the School of Art and Design, AUT University, Auckland where she has been active as both a practicing artist and academic. Her professional background is in painting and installation practice and she has worked collaboratively with composers and writers. The philosophical context of this work is related to the dynamics of identity/belonging and the construction of place. De Freitas' academic area of expertise is practice-led research methodology; in particular, the development of appropriate methodological orientations for practice based art and design researchers. Current interests include: the form and language of research reporting; the effects of documentation and reflection practices on student development and 'material thinking' approaches.
Duncan Fairfax lectures on the MA Design Critical Practice, and MRes in Design at Goldsmiths. He is also the PhD research associate on the "Mediatised View" research project that is part of the larger Leverhulme funded Goldsmiths research programme on the "Future of Media." His research interests include the limitations and contraints of the "productivist metaphysics" of design theory and practice, the significance of various strains within contemporary "materialist" philosophy to their possible reconceptualisation, and the question of the "ontogenetic" quality of design in general. He has previously lectured and tutored in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and the University of Technology in Sydney, the Architecture Department at the University of Sydney, and the Design Department at the University of Western Sydney.
Terry Rosenberg is Head of Design at Goldsmiths. He is a practicing artist and design theorist. His research pivots around two thematic loci - namely, the "representation of ideas" and "ideation through representation". He is interested in how we model thought (the settled) and how we think (un-settled idea) in representational models. He regularly presents papers at conferences on these themes, has contributed chapters to books and has published a book on drawing. In addition, he is actively engaged in researching through designing. He is the Project Leader on one of the research projects of a Leverhulme funded research programme, goldsmiths media research programme. The project titled the 'Mediatised View' is to design scopic devices for the London Eye. The devices are 'discursive objects' engaging with, amongst other things, the performance of the 'spectral' in mixed reality constructions and the effect of new technologies on the production of socio-cultural space. |
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