who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Cities Institute, Ladbroke House, 62-
66 Highbury Grove, London, N5
2AD, United Kingdom
Keywords urban, regeneration, social
and cultural inequalities, cultural
policy, creative industries, urban
development
Richard Forster
United Kingdom
Keywords art, ocean, landscapes
Maurizio Forte
University of California, Humanities
and Art Department, 5200 North Lake
Road, Merced, CA, 95343, United
States of America
Keywords metaverse, virtual
collaborative systems, cyberarchaeology
Human Geography and has worked in local government. Her particular
research interests are in urban social and cultural inequalities. She is
currently completing research into the governance of disadvantaged
urban areas in Vancouver as part of a comparative study of Canadian
ad British cities and engaged in multidisciplinary research into the
quality of life in mixed-use inner city neighbourhoods. She has also
undertaken research into local cultural policy and creative industries,
consumption and retail change, and gendered employment all within
the context of the uneven development of city spaces.
› Strategies for creative industries: an international review, Creative Industries
Journal, 1.2, 91-113.
Richard Forster is an artist and essayist who was born in the United
States in 1970. He received a BA in Fine Art at Manchester
Polytechnic and a MA in Visual Theories at the University of
London. In 2006, he was selected for a Jerwood Artists’ Platform
hosted by Cell Project Space in London. Richard currently lives in
England.
› Seascapes, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 9.3, 211-217.
Maurizio Forte, Ph.D., is a full professor of world heritage at the
University of California, Merced, and Professor of Virtual
Environments for Cultural Heritage at the University of Lugano. He is
member of the board of directors of several international organizations
such as Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), Virtual Systems
and Multimedia (VSMM) and International Council on Monuments
and Sites (ICOMOS). His research topics are virtual heritage, cyberarchaeology,
landscape archaeology, proto-history, and methodology
of archaeological research. His research work and teaching are focused
on the interpretation, communication and reconstruction process in
archaeology and cultural heritage. He has coordinated research projects
in Italy, India, Turkey Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Kazakhstan, Peru, China,
Oman, and Mexico. He is editor and author of several books including
Virtual Archaeology (Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1997), Virtual Reality in
Archaeology (Oxford, Archaeopress, 2000), and of over 200
› Cyber-archaeology and metaverse collaborative systems, Metaverse
Creativity, 1.1, 7-19.