CHArt Conference Proceedings, volume nine
2006

Contributors

Katrien Berte has an MA in Communication Sciences (2001). She is a researcher at MICT, a research group for Media and ICT. This research group is part of the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium). Her research interests include quantitative survey analysis, new media and advertising. She is also working on a PhD concerning advertising in a digital media environment.
 
Karen Cham teaches Digital Media at the Department of Design and Innovation of the Faculty of Technology at the Open University, UK. She has worked with art and technology for over twenty years producing performances, installations and screen based work. She has exhibited internationally as part of the What She Wants photographic exhibition in Denmark,  Burning the Interface in Sydney, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and Outvideo 06 in Russia. She has also presented papers at the Body Positive Symposium at Sheffield Hallam University, the Art, Technology and Complexity Symposium in Torino and  the Universities Film and Video Conference in Orange, Cailfornia.
 
Maria Chatzichristodoulou, aka maria x, is a Doctoral Candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is based at Goldsmiths' Digital Studios. Her background is in theatre and digital media arts. She has worked as a performer, curator and producer, and has been the initiator and coordinator of interdisciplinary events and cultural activities in Greece and the UK. She co-directed the Fournos Centre for Digital Culture and Mediaterra Arts and Technologies Festival in Athens, 1996-2002 and has collaborated with the CICV (France, 2000-2003) as curator and researcher; and with the Machinista Festival in Glasgow, 2004. She has worked as Community Participation Officer for the Albany Centre in London, 2003-2005, and has lectured at Goldsmiths College, Richmond American University in London and Birkbeck, University of London.
  
Alicia Cornwell, originally from Houston, Texas, earned her BFA in Art History at the University of North Texas in 2005.  She is currently studying at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts to obtain a master’s degree in Art History with a certificate in Museum Studies.  Her focus is on contemporary art and this paper is derived from her master’s thesis, which deals with locative media technology and art.
 
Francesca Franco is currently completing her PhD in history of art (thesis title: Digital Art and Art Institutions: the Articulation of a New Space) on the relationship between digital art and museum space, at Birkbeck College, University of London. She holds an MA in Digital Art History obtained from the same college. In 2005 she became a member of the CHArt editorial board.
 
Anne Laforet is a doctoral candidate in the Culture and Communication Department at the University of Avignon, France. Her PhD thesis is entitled Preservation of net art in museums, an analysis of moving practices. Since 1998, her research has been mainly on Internet art and the way museums approach, collect and preserve such artworks. In 2003 she has participated in the Preservation of Electronic Records symposium in Ottawa andCHIM in Paris. In 2004, she wrote a report on net art preservation for the Délégation aux Arts Plastiques of the French Ministry of Culture. In May 2005, Leonardo Electronic Almanac published her article ‘Preservation of Net Art’.  In parallel to her academic research, she is exploring network-based creation as an artist, event organiser and writer.

Peter Mechant graduated as a master in Communication Sciences in 1997. He works as a researcher at the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium).
His topics of interest include: folksonomy, social networking and the socio-cultural impact of audiovisual content online. He is currently working on a PhD that addresses these research areas.
 
Daniel Palmer  is a Lecturer in the Theory Department of the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He was formerly the Curator of Projects at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. His University of Melbourne doctorate, Participatory Media: Visual Culture in Real Time (2004), explored contemporary modes of individualised spectatorship within digital visual media. Palmer regularly contributes criticism and catalogue essays on various aspects of Australian and international art, in journals such as Photofile and Frieze, and is the author of Photogenic: Essays/Photography/CCP 2000–2004 (2005).
 
Elaine Shemilt is an artist and academic, FRSA and Shackleton Scholar. She is Professor of Fine Art Printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. She studied Sculpture at Winchester School of Art and Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. Her artistic practice involves sculpture, installation, printmaking and digital media. She has an international reputation for innovation in the use of printmaking across forms. In her early career she exhibited at the Hayward Annual exhibition in London, The Bradford International Print Biennale and the Video Show at theSerpentine Gallery, London. More recently her work has been shown at the Imperial War Museum, London and in Warsaw, Berlin, and Singapore.

Fidele Vlavo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Arts and Media at London South Bank University. Her research focuses on web-based activist art and the formation of related cyberculture discourses. Fidele holds a BA (Hons) in Arts Management (London) and a degree in film studies from Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris). She currently teaches on the undergraduate arts and media programme at London South Bank University.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.

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