who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Department of Graphic Design of the
Technological Educational Institute,
Lemesou 32, Papagou, 156 69,
Greece
Keywords flock behaviour,
participatory environment, database
cinema, emergence, non-linear
narrative
Ethan W. Lasser
Keywords
Barbara Lasserre
University of Technology, Sydney,
ELSSA Centre, P.O. Box 123
Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007,
Australia
Keywords design education, design,
analogy, cognitive metaphor,
discourse
Riikka Latva-Somppi
Aalto University School of Art and
Design, Glass studio, Hämeentie 135
C, PO Box 31000, Helsinki, FIN-
00076, Finland
Keywords visual art, glass, history
Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens (2000). Laskari
was awarded a Maîtrise (2001) and a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies
(DEA) (2002) from Université Paris 8, as well as the Post-Diplôme of
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, in Paris (2002), on the
subject of Interactive Research. She has a Ph.D. in ‘Generative
Audiovisual Narratives’ from the Department of Communication and
Media Studies of the University of Athens (2008).
› Live puzzle: kaleidoscopic narratives through spatio-temporal montage,
Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8.2, 199-206.
› BOOK REVIEWS, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 1.1, 121-130.
Barbara Lasserre is an applied linguist who is a lecturer in academic
language and learning at the University of Technology Sydney. Over
the past thirteen years she has worked extensively with Design and
Architecture students and she has a longstanding research interest in
the use of metaphor in these disciplines, as vehicles for conveying not
only attitude and physical characteristics, but also the beliefs and
values held by the educators.
› Theory and practice: reconciling design-as analogies with real talk in design
education, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 3.1, 17-29.
Riikka Latva-Somppi is a visual and glass artist (MA). She works at
the intersection of fine art and craft and has exhibited widely nationally
and internationally. Her public work Satakieli/Nightingale was
awarded The Certificate of Environmental Art 2009 by The Foundation
of Environmental Art (Finland). She has worked as a part-time lecturer
as well as in various positions of trust and evaluation at Aalto
University, School of Art and Design, Helsinki, for the past fifteen
years. She is the chairwoman of Artists-O and a board member of The
Society for New Craft (Finland). www.latvasomppi.com