who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Emil Gaul
Nyíregyháza College, 4400
Nyíregyháza, Sóstói út 31/B, Hungary
Keywords dress, young people, taste
culture, secondary school, subcultures
Christine Geraghty
University of Glasgow, School of
Culture and Creative Arts, Glasgow,
G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
Keywords communications, cultural
studies, disciplinary status, vocational
education, student views
Murat Germen
Sabanci University, Visual Arts and
Communication Design Program,
Sabanci University, FASS, Orhanli,
Tuzla, Istanbul, Marmara, 34956,
Turkey
Keywords virtual architecture,
metaverse, representation, virtual
reality, perception, photography,
contemporary art, digital imaging,
computational art, documentary,
Professor Emil Gaul PhD, DLA, works in the Department of Visual
Culture at Nyíregyháza College, Hungary. Dr Gaul started his career as
an interior designer, designing trade exhibitions for international fairs
in Europe and overseas for ten years. For the next ten years he was PR
Manager for a Design Centre and organised, among other things,
nationwide youth competitions ‘Let’s Design Objects’ for 9–18 year old
children. He is the founding member (1987) of Teacher Education at
the Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design, where he teaches
didactics and special methodology. He completed a Ph.D. degree in
2002 on ‘The structure and development of design and technology
capabilities for students aged 12–16 years’.
› Appearances can be deceptive: A report on the dress, tastes and values of
Hungarian secondary school pupils, International Journal of Education
through Art, 5.1, 63-74.
Christine Geraghty is Professor of Film and Television at the
University of Glasgow. Previously, she served as Head of the Media
and Communications Department at Goldsmiths College and taught
film studies part-time for many years before taking a full-time post in
1993. She is the author of Women and Soap Opera (Polity, 1991) and
British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender Genre and the ‘New Look’
(Routledge, 2000). With David Lusted, she also co-edited The
Television Studies Book (Arnold, 1998) and she is the author of
numerous articles, including ‘Reflections on history in teaching cultural
studies’in Cultural Studies, 10:2.
› 'Doing Media Studies': reflections on an unruly discipline, Art, Design &
Communication in Higher Education, 1.1, 25-36.
Murat Germen is an artist / architect using photography as an
expression and research tool. He has a BSc degree in City Planning
from Technical University of Istanbul and an MArch degree from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he went as a Fulbright
scholar and received AIA Henry Adams Gold Medal for academic
excellence. He works as a professor of photography and multimedia
design at Sabanci University in Istanbul and previously worked for
various state and private universities such as Bilkent, Yeditepe,
Istanbul Technical, Yildiz and Bilgi University; teaching various
topics.