CHArt Conference Proceedings, volume six
2003

Contributors

Anna Bentkowska-Kafel (anna.bentkowska@courtauld.ac.uk) is currently working for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (www.crsbi.ac.uk), and is Researcher for the Digital Image Archive Group at Birkbeck College, London. Her research and publications have been mainly on early modern visual culture in Western Europe, with special interest in cosmological and anthropomorphic representations of nature; as well as the use of digital imaging in iconographical analysis and interpretation of paintings. She has an MA in the History of Art (Warsaw), MA in Computing Applications for the History of Art (London) and Ph.D. in Digital Media Studies (Southampton). She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1999.

Trish Cashen (T.Cashen@open.ac.uk) has been involved with integrating computing into university level humanities teaching since 1993. Initially Research Officer for Art History with the CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative), she moved to Birkbeck College where she taught on the MA in Computer Applications for the History of Art, and The Open University, where she is currently charged with exploiting new media for teaching arts subjects. Her main areas of interest are exploring the pedagogical effectiveness of new media and using the Internet for art history – she maintains the WWW Virtual Library for the History of Art (www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/). At present she is working on the educational potential of DVD video, as well as contributing to an interactive CD-ROM of the Soane Museum and to electronic resources for the Open University's MA in Art History. She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1994.

Stephen Boyd Davis (s.boyd-davis@mdx.ac.uk) has worked and taught in digital media since 1984. At Middlesex University in 1988 he set up a unit advising lecturers across the UK on using computers in Art and Design and in 1993 he and his colleagues developed one of the UK's first courses in Design for Interactive Media. His aim is to inquire radically into the possibilities of media and technologies and to exploit their special properties to the full. In 2002 he completed a Ph.D. treating painting, photography, film, television and interactive media as forms of depiction united by common concerns.

Irina D. Costache (Irina.Costache@csuci.edu) is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University Channel Islands. She specialises in 20th century art and critical theory. She received her Ph.D. in art history with minors in Critical Theory and Italian Literature from University of California in Los Angeles. She has taught art history, humanities, and film at UCLA, Loyola University, California State Northridge and Mount St Mary’s College. Her innovative teaching methodologies have been recognised with awards and grants. She has lectured and published on topics related to modern and contemporary art and culture. In 2001 she was elected to the Board of Directors of College Art Association, and has been Vice-President of the Art Historians of Southern California since 2003.

Veronica Davis-Perkins (v.davis-perkins@mdx.ac.uk) Her interest in the history of photography was born out of many years working as a picture researcher, and later as a picture editor in illustrated book publishing, as well as over twelve years working as curator and visual materials librarian. The subject of her M.A. in Photography: History and Culture, was William Griggs (1821-1909) photo-lithographer for the India Museum, who worked on colour processes to capture ‘true colour reproductions of Indian fabrics and designs.’ She is currently working on doctoral research at the Interaction Design Centre, School of Computing Science, Middlesex University in London, investigating the digitisation of historical photograph collections.

Hazel Gardiner (h.gardiner@bbk.ac.uk) is Research Officer for the MA Digital Art History (formerly MA Computer Applications for the History of Art) at Birkbeck College, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Kings College, London. Until mid-2003 she was the Research Assistant for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (www.crsbi.ac.uk), and continues to work as a voluntary fieldworker for the project. She is currently studying for a Ph.D. in 12th century British Sculpture. She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1997.

Marja-Leena Ikkala, Certes, Computer Arts Centre at Espoo, Finland

Shauna Isaac (shaunaisaac@hotmail.com) served as the content director for the Central Registry for Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 from 2001-2003, where she developed its organisational and technical infrastructure. Prior to that, she worked as a producer for Arts Journal and the website manager for The Art Newspaper. Before moving to London, she lived in Seattle, where she worked for major software companies such as Microsoft and Adobe. She has published articles in Trace Magazine and The Art Newspaper. She has a Masters Degree in Computers and the History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London, as well as a postgraduate diploma in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a BA in Economics from Smith College.

Katja Kwastek (katja.kwastek@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) read the History of Art, Archaeology and History, studying in Münster, Cologne, Bonn and Florence. She completed her Ph.D. on representations of real and imagined spaces in Early Italian Renaissance (Camera: gemalter und realer Raum der italienischen Frührenaissance) in 2000. She worked on a computer-aided information system for the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne from 1996 to 2001. She has been Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Art History at the University of Munich since 2001, specialising in media art and computer-aided art history.

Daniela Sirbu (daniela.sirbu@uleth.ca), M. Arch., Dipl. Eng. EECS, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of New Media, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lethbridge, Canada, where she teaches computer graphics. She previously taught human and animal anatomy for artists, character design, 3D modeling and animation. She is interested in interdisciplinary research at the confluence between new media, architecture, and fine arts. She is currently involved in the WestGrid Collaboration and Visualization Research Program for Western Canadian universities and is a principal investigator for two WestGrid projects: I-HEARD (Immersive Hybrid Environments for Architectural Research and Design) and MARVIS (Motion Analysis and Representation in Virtual Interactive Spaces). She also worked as animator, 3D modeler and graphic designer in the computer games industry. As an Artech Digital Entertainments artist she worked on contracts with Hasbro Interactive, Lucas Arts, Infogrames, and Sony Interactive and has credits on commercial art including Monopoly 2000, Star Wars Monopoly, Wheel of Fortune II and My Little Pony CD-ROM games.

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