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Lucia Leão
Sao Paulo Catholic University
(PUCSP), Brazil, Communication and
Semiotics, R. Dr José Rodrigues
Alves Sobrinho 150 ap 21 Monet, Sao
Paulo, 05466-040, Brazil
Keywords
David Leaver
Business School, Division of
Marketing and Retail, Aytoun Street,
Manchester, M1 3GH, United
Kingdom
Keywords postmodernism, consumer
behaviour, tribal marketing, heritage
marketing, music destination
marketing
Mark Leckey
United Kingdom
Keywords installation, Anglo-
American subculture, pop culture
Lucia Leao is Professor of Communication and Semiotics at the Sao
Paulo Catholic University (PUCSP), Brazil, where she carries out
research in Creative Processes, Aesthetics, Media Arts, Film Studies,
Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts and Visual Arts. She has
a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics: Information Technology and
a Ph.D. in Arts. Leão is author, among others, of The labyrinth of
hypermedia: architecture and navigation on cyberspace (1999), The
labyrinth aesthetics (2002), Interlab: labyrinths of contemporary
thought (2002) Derivas: cartografias do ciberespaço (2004) and O
chip e o caleidoscópio: reflexões sobre as novas mídias (2005).
David Leaver is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Retailing at the
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, where he
teaches Brand Management. His professional background has involved
several years of working in both the private and public sectors in North
America, Africa andthe Middle East. He has published on a variety of
topics in a range of journals, as well as contributing to edited books.
› Together Through Life an exploration of popular music heritage and the
quest for re-enchantment, Creative Industries Journal, 3.2, 107-124.
Mark Leckey is an artist who works in a wide range of media and
across an array of platforms. He has made a number of seminal works
that traverse the rich terrain of Anglo-American subculture using mashups
of found film and video footage, sound systems, sculpture, Felix
the Cat and comic among other curios. He has also been a member of a
number of bands including donAtteller and Jack too Jack. He won the
Turner Prize in 2008 having been nominated for his
lecture/sculpture/film/performance Industrial Light and Magic (2008).
Leckey was Professor of Film at the Städelschule, Frankfurt-am-Main,
Germany until recently.
› Tell tail tales: Mark Leckey and Edward Hollis in conversation, Journal of
Writing in Creative Practice, 2.3, 279-291.