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Volume 1, Issue 1 Contributing Authors Material Thinking and the Agency of Matter Barbara Bolt Barbara Bolt is a lecturer in Visual Media at the University of Melbourne in Victoria. She is a practicing artist who has also written extensively on the visual arts. Her book Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image has received critical international acclaim and is recognized as engaging a materialist ontology. As an arts writer, she has been published in Australian art magazines including Artlink, Eyeline, Craftswest and Real Time as well as in international refereed journals such as Hypatia, Womens Philosophical Review, Cultural Review and Social Semiotics. Additionally she has had essays published in edited books including Differential Aesthetics: Art practices and philosophies: Towards New Feminist Understandings (2001), Unframed: The Practices and Politics of Women's Painting (2004), Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (2007) and Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (forthcoming).
Material Thinking: Studio Enquiry and New Frontiers of Research Estelle Barrett 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, Barrett, E. and Bolt, B. (eds.) Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, to be published by IB Tauris London and New York in March 2007, combines these interests and her experience in research pedagogy. Estelle has published reviews and articles in Real Time, Artlink, Text, Social Semiotics, Double Dialogues and the International Journal of Critical Arts as well as at national and international conferences.
Katy Macleod Macleod’s research interests centre on the discipline of Fine Art in its various relations to and with contemporary art practices, historical precedent and pedagogic histories. She has a sustained research interest in doctoral study and submissions in Fine Art, (Macleod, 1996- ), which has resulted in many papers, a couple of conferences, an inter-university research alliance and a co-edited book, Macleod, K & Holdridge, L. “Thinking Through Art reflections on art as research”, London & New York, Routledge, 2005; currently setting up projects on writing in the context of art research and writing a small book/pamphlet on the subject.
Material Thinking as Place Making Laurene Vaughan Laurene Vaughan is the Director of Research in the School of Applied Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests are in design practice, communication interfaces, habitation and embodiment. Originally coming from an art and design education background with a major in sculpture, Laurene has melded a career as 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 endeavours to explore and present/comment on the interactive nature of lived experience across different domains. Laurene has been published and has presented and exhibited work across these diverse areas and continues to pursue a multi-disciplinary perspective.
Testing Times: the artist as academic and the current university research climate Lesley Duxbury Lesley Duxbury is Associate Professor and Postgraduate Research Coordinator in the School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She completed a practice-led PhD in 2004. Lesley currently supervises research candidates and promotes postgraduate research through art practice. She has acted as an examiner for practice-based doctorates for other institutions. As an artist she exhibits regularly and is represented in the national and most state public collections in Australia. She uses both traditional and contemporary print media, photography and printmaking to make artworks that question perceptions of the natural environment, especially the atmosphere and its phenomena.
Some Thoughts about Digital and Material Culture Lily Díaz-Kommonen Lily Díaz-Kommonen is the founder and leader of the Systems of Representation
Flow of Culture: Material thinking & design in the human synthesis of form M P Ranjan M. P. Ranjan is a senior member of the faculty of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India and Chair of the Task Force on GeoVisualization set up by the Government of India. Ranjan is highly respected in the design community as a person who has unique insights about wide range of opportunities and responsibilities that lay before designers. He has deep knowledge of design applications in high tech sector, at the same time he has pursued projects to explore potential of bamboo, and other appropriate materials at the grassroots level in rural India. Ranjan continually explores cultural, ethical, technological, and social issues that pose intellectual challenges for the design community. His website is a growing resource of writings and visual presentations on his areas of interest, design projects and teaching programmes.
Editorial: At the Intersection of Poesis and Praxis Nancy de Freitas 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. Her current focus is multi-sensory installation experience. The philosophical context of the 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 art and design researchers. Current research interests include: the language of research reporting; the effects of documentation and reflection practices on student development and 'material thinking' approaches.
T.E. Rosenberg 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 (HYPERLINK"http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/media-research-programme/").
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