who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Zhifan Hu
Education Science College, Shanghai
Normal University, No.100 Gui Lin
road, Shanghai, 200234, China
Keywords visual culture, Chinese
teenagers, art education, images
Rob Huddleston
Keywords innovation, creative,
design, technology, lasers
Lindsay Hughes
Arts Council Wales, Visual Art, 155
Somerset Road, Bristol, Avon, BS4
2JA, United Kingdom
Keywords context, viewer,
contemporary, experience
Zhifan Hu is Professor of Art Education at Shanghai Normal
University. His major research interests are in art education and history
of Chinese art. He has edited and co-edited books and papers on the
following art education topics: the curriculum and teaching in the arts
(2003); prospects for art education (2002); understanding art in context
(2004); the evolution of art teaching materials in primary and
secondary schools in China since 1949 (2004); art as cultural studies
(2003); and art education and globalization (2002). He has also
published books and papers on the history of Chinese art.
› Art education in Chinese primary and secondary schools: Meeting the
challenge of Visual Culture, International Journal of Education through Art,
2.1, 17-26.
Rob Huddleston, is Senior Lecturer and Director of Collaborations at
the University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art. With an
early background in fine art, Rob is actively involved in
interdisciplinary design research and teaching. He is currently working
with textile designer Cheryl Welsh and University of Southampton
researchers in optoelectronics on the next stage of a project with the
textile producer Jakob Schlaepfer, Switzerland. He is interested in
innovations in design and manufacturing utilizing historical references
such as Japanese printmaking and combinations of drawing, new
materials and laser technologies. In 2002 Rob conducted AHRC funded
research at Tama Art University, Japan with the aim of exploring
possible connections between the materiality of traditionalJapanese
prints and digital textile printing. It was this experience that led him to
start workingwith Cheryl Welsh, and later Jakob Schlaepfer, on laserrelated
design ideas.
› Jakob Schlaepfer: A case study in laser innovation and the unexpected, Craft
Research, 1.1, 125-132.
Lindsay Hughes is currently Senior Visual Arts Officer for the Arts
Council Wales and is based in Bristol. She is also a freelance curator
and writer. She is completing a Ph. D., researching the relationship
between the viewer and site-based artwork, in particular focusing on
the notion of ‘wonder’.
› Do we need new spaces for exhibiting contemporary art? A critique of
curatorial practice in relation to the viewer's engagement with contemporary