Authors:
- Adrian Miles
- Barbara Bolt
- Cameron Tonkinwise
- Danut Zbarcea
- Duncan Fairfax
- Estelle Barrett
- Ian Jervis
- Katherine Moline
- Kathleen Vaughan
- Katy Macleod
- Laurene Vaughan
- Lesley Duxbury
- Lily Díaz-Kommonen
- Linda Roche
- M P Ranjan
- Nancy de Freitas
- Natasha Reid
- Stephen A. R. Scrivener
- T.E. Rosenberg
- Toni Ross
- Yoko Akama
- Welby Ings
Editor-in-Chief:
Nancy de Freitas
School of Art and Design
Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
AUT University
nancy.defreitas@aut.ac.nz
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.
V3: 
Editorial: Material Thinking as Document
V1s2: Imperfect In-formation: The Prospect of Material Thinking
V1s1: Editorial: At the Intersection of Poesis and Praxis
Associate Editors:
Duncan Fairfax
Department of Design
Goldsmiths, University of London
d.fairfax@gold.ac.uk
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.
V1s2: A Foreword
T.E. Rosenberg
Goldsmiths
University of London
dts01df@gold.ac.uk
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.
V1s2: A Foreword
V1s1: ‘Delicious turbulence’
Authors:
Adrian Miles
School of Applied Communication
RMIT University
adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au
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.
V1s2: Virtual Actual: Hypertext as Material Writing
Barbara Bolt
School of Communication and Culture
University of Melbourne
bbolt@unimelb.edu.au
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).
V1s1: Material Thinking and the Agency of Matter
Cameron Tonkinwise
Chair, Design Thinking and Sustainability
School of Design Ecologies
Parsons The New School for Design
tonkinwc@newschool.edu
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 dependanteconomies. Current research is both more historical and more conceptual, exploring variability in perceptions of convenience and autonomy when shifting from "ownership" to "usership."
V1s2: Some notes on the open peer review process used in this issue
V1s2: Knowing by Being-There Making: Explicating the Tacit Post-Subject in Use
Danut Zbarcea
Department of Art Education, Faculty of Fine Arts
Concordia University
d_zbarcea@yahoo.com
As a practicing artist and art teacher, Danut Zbarcea is actively engaged in making and researching art as an inclusive medium for a multidisciplinary and multicultural process. Danut continually explores social, cultural, technological, ethical and ecological issues that pose intellectual challenges for the educational design community. He has a professional background in law, graphic arts and installation art practice and has worked collaboratively with artists, journalists, writers and editors. In his creative practice, Danut use contemporary print media and classical and digital photography to build an educational process and perspectives.
As a doctoral student in Art Education at Concordia University in Montreal, Danut’s current research interests include: art practice and communication across hypermedia, communication interfaces and media ethics, the rhetorical and violent language of hypermedia, the complex effects of hypermedia language on viewer (as indirect participant of the process of construction of knowledge in hypermedia), educational strategies of awareness and reflection practices related to the language of hypermedia. During his artistic and educational career he has published, presented and exhibited work across these diverse areas and continues to pursue a multi-disciplinary perspective in his linked practices.
V3: The disenchanting of the desensitized digital image as artistic and educational visual strategy.
Estelle Barrett
Senior Lecturer
School of Communication and Creative Arts
Deakin University
ejbarret@deakin.edu.au
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.
V1s1: Material Thinking: Studio Enquiry and New Frontiers of Research
Ian Jervis
Department of Visual Arts
AUT University School of Art & Design
ian.jervis@aut.ac.nz
Ian Jervis is senior lecturer in Visual Arts at AUT University, Auckland. He teaches on the Master of Art & Design where he coordinates the final Thesis year, and also teaches on the Bachelor of Visual Arts where he coordinates the painting section. As a practicing artist he works largely in the medium of painting, and is currently undertaking doctoral research into the question ‘Where is the image?” as it relates to painting and exegetical writing around painting. He has previously taught at the Unitec School of Design in Auckland, and at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
Senior Lecturer
College of Fine Arts
University of New South Wales
k.moline@unsw.edu.au
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.
V1s2: Counter-forces in experimental design: H_edge and the Technological Dreams Series #1 (Robots)
Kathleen Vaughan
Department of Art Education, Faculty of Fine Arts
Concordia University
kathleen.vaughan@concordia.ca
Kathleen Vaughan is an artist, writer and educator, and also Assistant Professor of Art Education at Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec), where she teaches darkroom and digital photography and photography education to undergraduate students and theories and practices of studio engagement and art as research to graduate students. Her visual work in mixed media explores issues of identity and belonging, love and loss, and the ethics and aesthetics of relations to people, communities and natural places, and has been exhibited in Canada and the Netherlands. Current research interests include the ethics of relations between species, questions of value and issues of use in art and life, and explorations of artist/teacher identities in emerging professionals. She continues to elaborate her long-term methodological inquiry into collage as an artist’s method for interdisciplinary research, based in the Canadian research creation model.
More about Kathleen can be found on her website, www.akaredhanded.com
Katy Macleod
Senior Lecturer, Fine Art/Research
School of Art & Performance
Faculty of Arts
University of Plymouth
K.Macleod@plymouth.ac.uk
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.
V1s1: Writing/Art
Laurene Vaughan
Director of Research and Innovation
School of Applied Communication
RMIT University
laurene.vaughan@rmit.edu.au
Laurene Vaughan is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication and Research Leader within the Design Research Institute at RMIT University. Between 2005 - 2009 she was a Project Leader and Chief Investigator within ACID (the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design). 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 internationally. Within her practice and scholarship Laurene endeavours to explore and present comment on the interactive and situated nature of human experience, particularly creative practice. Laurene regularly publishes and exhibits across the fields of place, design, communication and interaction. Throughout her academic career Laurene has made a significant contribution to the scholarship of postgraduate research education. She has had over 30 successful PhD and Master’s completions. She has a particular interest in the field of practice-orientated research across disciplinary contexts.
V3: Visualisation as a method for knowledge discovery.
V1s2: Emplacing local invention
V1s1: Material Thinking as Place Making
Lesley Duxbury
Associate Professor
Postgraduate Research Coordinator
School of Art
RMIT University
PO Box 2476V
Melbourne, Victoria 3001
Lesley.duxbury@rmit.edu.au
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.
V1s1: Testing Times: the artist as academic and the current university research climate
Lily Díaz-Kommonen
Professor
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Media Lab
diaz@uiah.fi
Lily Díaz-Kommonen is the founder and leader of the Systems of Representation
research group in the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Media Lab. Her research interests include visualization methods and tools, and digital cartography and ontology design for the cultural heritage and audiovisual sectors. She has designed tools such as ImaNote (Image and Map Annotation Notebook) and SOL (Soft Ontology Layer) and created interactive digital facsimiles of the Map of Mexico 1550 by Alonso de Santa Cruz and of the Carta Marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus.
V1s1: Some Thoughts about Digital and Material Culture
Linda Roche
Artist (author of the exegesis which is the basis of this case study).
rocco@xtra.co.nz
Linda Roche is an Auckland based artist who undertook her Visual Arts studies at AUT University, graduating Master of Art & Design with First Class Honours in 2008. Her thesis project was titled Theatre of painting: a structural exploration of the forming of an image through paint. The exegesis for this project includes visual documentation of her final exhibition of practical work, and can be viewed on the Scholarly Commons site of the AUT University library : http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/469
V3: Theatre of painting: a structural exploration of the forming of an image through paint.
M P Ranjan
Faculty of Design
Head, NID Centre for Bamboo Initiatives
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, 38007 India
http://homepage.mac.com/ranjanmp
ranjanmp@nid.edu
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.
V1s1: Flow of Culture: Material thinking & design in the human synthesis of form
Natasha Reid
Department of Art Education, Faculty of Fine Arts
Concordia University
natashasreid@yahoo.ca
Natasha Reid is a doctoral candidate and instructor in Concordia University's Department of Art Education. Her research interests include museum educator training, collaborative museum education projects, social inclusion strategies in museums, early childhood and community art education. Natasha has developed and implemented educational programming for La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse and Concordia's FOFA Gallery. Natasha's doctoral research is currently examining the contemporary realities of museum educators through life history research methodologies.
V3: Creatures of comfort: Installation as reflective practice.
Stephen A. R. Scrivener
Director of Doctoral Programmes
CCW Graduate School
University of the Arts London
s.scrivener@arts.ac.uk
Stephen studied Fine Art at undergraduate and post graduate levels, the latter at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, in what was then called the Experimental Department, under the direction of Malcolm Hughes. His interest in the potential of the computer in artistic practice led him to undertake at PhD in computing and following doctoral studies he taught and conducted research in Computer Science, acquiring expertise in a variety of research paradigms. Returning to Art and Design education in 1992, he found a mismatch - at the doctoral degree level - between scientific and technological research paradigms and artistic and designerly practices. His research interests have since focussed on the theory and practice of what is frequently termed practice-based or practice-led research.
V3: Framing the typography extract from the exegesis of the thesis entitled Talking Pictures.
Toni Ross
Senior Lecturer
School of Art History & Art Education
College of Fine Arts
University of New South Wales
t.ross@unsw.edu.au
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.
V1s2: Material Thinking: the aesthetic philosophy of Jacques Rancière and the design art of Andrea Zittel
Dr Yoko Akama
School of Media and Communication
RMIT University
yoko.akama@rmit.edu.au
Dr Yoko Akama has a practice-led Ph.D. in communication design that explored a human-centred practice in communication design. She continues to pursue a socially driven design practice that spans over 10 years in various locations including London and Melbourne. Her research is in design that scaffolds human-to-human engagement, such as service design, scenarios, personas, cultural probes and playful triggers. She is involved as a Chief Investigator in several research projects with Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), Design Research Institute and the Bushfire CRC at RMIT University, Australia.
V3: Visualisation as a method for knowledge discovery.
Welby Ings
Coordinator of honours and phD programmes
School of Art & Design
Auckalnd University of Technology
Welby.ings@aut.ac.nz
Welby Ings is Associate Professor in Design at Auckland University of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in applied narratology and is an elected Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts. His research interests cover paralinguistics, argot, and narrative, but he is also an award winning designer, film-maker and playwright. His film boy was short-listed for the 2006 Oscars after winning several international awards including the Berlin Short Film award, the John O’Shea Best New Zealand film award and Best Narrative short film at Cinequest International Film Festival in California. In 2001 he was awarded the Prime Minister’s inaugural, Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.
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Suzi Attiwill |
School of Architecture & Design, RMIT University |
