CHArt Conference Proceedings, volume eight
2005

Contributors

Nicholas Cipolla is a research assistant at the Getty Research Institute and is completing his Ph.D. at the Department of Art History of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He holds a B.A. in Art History and Classical Civilization from Yale University and received his MPhil in Classics at Cambridge, England. His current work is focused in the realm of Classical Art, primarily the art of Rome. He has worked extensively on the portraiture of Livia, Maenad imagery, and on the concept of the child in Roman Art. Other interests include the use of technology in the study of archaeology.

Elizabeth Coulter-Smith (www.coultersmith.com) is a new media artist and lecturer. She has worked in the visual arts in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. From 2001-2003 she worked at the University of Southampton, School of Computer Science and Electronics, and in 2003 became a Senior Lecturer in New Media at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD). She is currently working on a site specific ‘locative’ commission. Her work can be found in corporate, public and private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Graham Coulter-Smith (www.coultersmith.com) is Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Art in the Faculty of Media, Art and Society at Southampton Solent University. He is the author of The Postmodern Art of Imants Tillers: Appropriation en abyme 1971–2001, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2002. He co-edited Art in the Age of Terrorism with Maurice Owen for Southampton Solent University’s Centre for Advanced Scholarship in Art and Design, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2005.

David Furnham is currently undertaking his third research by practice project, Les Cyclistes, having completed his Ph.D. by thesis and practice in 1999. He is an artist, teacher and independent documentary filmmaker. As programme leader at Middlesex University he wrote and developed their M.A. Video programme. He has produced documentaries for museums, broadcast television and children's publishing. His work centres on social/arts/media themes, has been screened by Channel 4, the BBC and the National Film Theatre, and is distributed worldwide. His work includes An Acre of Seats in a Garden of Dreams, Noted Eel and Pie Houses and Radio Radio. Recently David's research has focussed on redefining the poetic documentary as a series of mixed media, site specific events, creating virtual environments for the audience. A prime example of this is The Cinema of Comic Illusions, filmed at St. Ann's Well Gardens, Brighton and Hove - the site of G. A. Smith's pioneering film studio from 1900 to 1903.

Francis Halsall is lecturer in Art History at the Limerick School of Art and Design and occasional lecturer in Art History at University College Cork. He completed his PhD on systems-theory and art history at University of Glasgow, History of Art department in 2004. He is co-editor of the book Re-discovering Aesthetics (with Dr Julia Jansen and Dr Tony O’Connor, forthcoming) and is completing a book on art after modernism and systems-theory.

Dew Harrison is a Research Fellow at Gray’s School of Art for the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. Her research there concerns digital and computer-mediated art practice. Her own practice explores Conceptual Art, non-linear narrativity and the semantic association of thought and idea in multimedia form. She is a co-director of LabCulture Ltd., and a major part of her research programme at Gray‘s is the archiving of over 300 of the company‘s new media art works.

Hamid van Koten is currently the programme leader for Contemporary Media Theory at the School of Television and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. In this capacity he teaches students of Animation, Illustration, Time Based Art and Interactive Media Design. Born near Rotterdam, he came to Britain in 1977, initially to study Middle and Far-Eastern philosophy. He graduated in 1993 from the Glasgow School of Art in product design. For ten years he worked as a design consultant in diverse media, and now lectures full time at Dundee University.

Ann-Sophie Lehmann is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at the University of Utrecht. She read History of Art in Vienna and gained her PhD from Utrecht in 2004. She serves on a number of editorial boards, including the Kunstschrift, NKJ (Dutch Yearbook of Art History) and Jaarboek Cultuur/Wetenschap. Her research is concerned with the theory, history and practice of image making in old and new media cultures. Her recent projects include The Brush in the Computer: A History of Early Computer Graphics and Paint Programmes, funded by the Organisation for Scientific Research of the Netherlands, and The Impact of Oil (http://www.impactofoil.org/).

Ralf Nuhn is a German-born, London and Lille-based intermedia artist who has exhibited and performed internationally. He is currently working as a practice-based researcher at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, London, where he is also completing his PhD in Media Arts. Ralf’s current installation and performance practice is mainly concerned with relationships between the physical world and the virtual world of computers, and has a strong focus on audience participation.

John Pollini is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California, where he has also served as Chair of the Department of Art History and Dean of the School of Fine Arts. In 2000, he was elected a member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. He is the author of numerous books and articles including: The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar (Fordham University Press, 1987); Roman Portraiture: Images of Character and Virtue (University of Southern California, Fisher Gal, 1990); Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization: The Cobannus Hoard (2002) and The de Nion Head: A Masterpiece of Greek Archaic Sculpture (2003).

Lynn Swartz Dodd is Lecturer and Curator of the Taper Hall Archaeological Collection, School of Religion, University of Southern California in Los Angeles

Karen Kensek is Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Stephen Partridge is an artist and academic researcher. He is Professor of Media Art and Associate Dean of Research and Enterprise at the School of Television and Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee. He participated in the Video Show at the Serpentine in 1975, the Installation Show at the Tate Gallery in 1976, The Paris Biennale in 1977 and The Kitchen Show in New York in 1979. During the eighties he exhibited widely and also became interested in works for broadcast television. With Jane Rigby, he formed Fields and Frames - an arts projects and television Production Company. He has worked with the artist and composer David Cunningham since 1974. Other major collaborations include the artist Elaine Shemilt on a series of works including the installation Chimera and the digital prints and etchings series Intangible Bodies. He is principal investigator on the REWIND project, which runs until June 2008 and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

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