CHArt Conference Proceedings, volume seven
2004

Contributors

Pierre Auboiron is a Ph.D. student of Contemporary Art History at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris. His research is concerned with light as a material in current artistic practices such as installations, videos, projections, architecture and theatre. Due to both his interest in visual semiotics and his earlier education in visual electrophysiology, he is currently writing a handbook of visual physiology for art history students.

Anna Bentkowska-Kafel is Imaging Officer for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (www.crsbi.ac.uk) and is responsible for the creation and long-term preservation of the project’s digital archive. Her research, teaching 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 has been involved with integrating computing into university level humanities teaching since the early ‘90s. She works at The Open University, where her role involves integrating new media into a blended environment for teaching arts subjects. Her main areas of interest lie in integrating computing into blended learning environments to deliver opportunities for resource discovery, formative assessment and communication. She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1994.

Wayne Clements is a writer and visual artist living in London. His (non-computer) poetry has been published in many magazines and several books and he has exhibited his artwork in several galleries. Currently he is writing his PhD in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. His research is into the use of instructions in art making. For the practice part of his research he has been learning computer programming. This work may be found at his web site www.in-vacua.com.

Sian Everitt is Keeper of Archives at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. She studied History with History of Art at the University of Hull, and obtained her M.A. in the History of Art and Design at the University of Central England. She has previously worked in the museum and gallery sector and was teaching art and design history in Further and Higher Education.

James Faure Walker is a British artist and author, and has been Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at Kingston University since 2002. He studied painting at St Martin’s School of Art in London in the 1960s and aesthetics at the Royal College of Art in the early 1970s. In 1976 he founded Artscribe magazine and was its first editor. His works use both traditional and digital media. He has exhibited widely in Europe, the USA, Japan and Russia and took part in a number of computer art events. In 1998 he won the ‘Golden Plotter’ prize in Germany. Blink: Painting through Digital Eyes by Faure Walker is to be published by Addison Wesley.

Hazel Gardiner is Senior Project Officer for the AHRC ICT Methods Network, based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings College, London. Before joining CCH in May 2005, she was the Research Officer for the M.A. in Digital Art History at Birkbeck College and prior to this the Research Assistant for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (www.crsbi.ac.uk). She continues to work with the CRSBI and is a researcher for this project and also for the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (www.cvma.ac.uk). She also contributes to the Material Culture module of the M.A. in Digital Humanities at CCH. She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1997.

Andrew E. Hershberger is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2001. His teaching and research are concerned with the history of photography. He is currently working on a book entitled Cinema of Stills: Minor White's Sequential Photography.

Colum P. Hourihane received his Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London in 1984 for a study on the iconography of medieval Irish art which was subsequently published as Gothic Art in Ireland 1169-1550 (Yale University Press, 2003). After working in the Institute for over thirteen years he became director of The Index of Christian Art, Princeton University in 1997, the post he still holds. He is also a director in the International Center for Medieval Art (The Cloisters, New York) and a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries of London. His most recent publication is The 'Dallye' Cross, The Processional Cross in Late Medieval England (Society of Antiquaries, London, 2005).

Catherine Mason has been the Ph.D. Candidate on the CACHe Project in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, London (www.bbk.ac.uk/hafvm/cache/) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. She is now completing her thesis on the role of cultural institutions and artists’ initiatives in the early period of British computer arts, from 1960 to 1980.

Vickie O’Riordan is the curator of the University of California, San Diego’s Visual Resources Collection. She is a member of the Visual Resources Association and serves on the VRA's Data Standards Committee.

Melanie Rowntree currently works as Documentation Officer in Records Section at the Victoria and Albert Museum. This role involves the
management and delivery of the Computer Information System (CIS) training programme and CIS Helpdesk as well as content creation and accountability projects. She read Music at Manchester University and went on to gain a Masters degree in the History of Art at Warwick University, and has recently been awarded an Associateship by the Museums Association.

Matthias Weiss is a freelance art critic and art historian. He read Art History, German Literature and Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The analysis of Samuel van Hoogstraten’s trompe l'oeil paintings was a subject of his M.A. He worked for a research project Identity and Alterity based at the University of Freiburg from 2000 to 2002 and is now completing his Ph.D. on Internet art.

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