who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

University of Oregon, Department of
Philosophy, Eugene, OR, 97403-
1295, United States of America
Keywords pragmatism, embodiment,
imagination, cognitive science,
metaphor
Ruth Jones
Foundation Al Andalus, Rabat,
Morocco, Tregyddulan, St Nicholas,
Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, SA64
0LX, United Kingdom
Keywords becoming-animal,
embodiment, Luce Irigaray, Lucy
Gunning, Deleuze/Guattariritual
Stephen Jones
Keywords consciousness, interaction,
feedback, self-organization, ethics
the Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon. He has written
extensively on metaphor, embodiment and imagination, and moral
theory. His books include: Metaphors We Live By (co-author George
Lakoff, University of Chicago, 1980); The Body in the Mind: The
Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason, University
Challenge to Western Thought, (co-author George Lakoff, Basic
Books, 1999).
› ‘The stone that was cast out shall become the cornerstone’: the bodily
aesthetics of human meaning, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 6.2, 89-104.
Ruth Jones is an artist and curator based in West Wales. She has
exhibited in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, United States, Spain
and Quebec. She completed a practice-led D. Phil at the University of
Ulster in 2002. In 2006 she was awarded an AHRC Fellowship in
Creative and Performing Arts at the University of West England,
Bristol, exploring the relationships between ritual, place and
community in lens-based and public art. Recent projects include
sleepers (2006), a film and public art project; (2008), a video
installation about Strumble Head lighthouse, and Cloddfa (2010) a
video installation about Porthgain quarry. Jones was a co-director of
the Belfast-based artist-run gallery Catalyst Arts between 1997–1999.
› Becoming-hysterical – becoming-animal – becoming-woman in The Horse
Impressionists, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 3.2, 123-138.
› Inventing rituals; inhabiting places – ritual and community in public art,
Journal of Arts & Communities, 1.2, 147-167.
Stephen Jones is an Australian video artist of long standing. During the
1980s and early 1990s he was the video-maker for the electronic music
band Severed Heads. He has been involved with the philosophical
aspects of the nature of consciousness for almost longer than his
involvement in video and has produced The Brain Project web site
since August 1996 http://www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/ and also
works in the theory of Artificial Life and self-organizing systems. As
an artist he now builds physical immersion installations based on the
incunabula of computing. As an electronic engineer and he works on
equipment ranging from analogue video synthesizers to digital
television facilities as well as developing interactive sensor systems for
artists’ installation projects in Australia and elsewhere. He is currently
researching the history of the computer arts in Australia.