who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Naren Barfield
Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew
Street, Glasgow, G3 6RQ, United
Kingdom
Keywords art, digital art, pedagogy,
spatial ontology
Martin Barker
University of Aberystwyth,
Department of Theatre, Film and TV,
Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth,
Ceredigion, SY23 3AJ, United
Kingdom
Keywords teaching film, media
literacy, vernacular concepts, moral
controversies
Nick Barnes
Keywords participatory research,
design, risk, new product
development, creative companies
Naren Barfield is an artist, and has held senior academic positions for
several years including leading research in two specialist art and design
institutions, currently as Head of Research and Postgraduate Studies,
and Professor of Visual Arts at the Glasgow School of Art. He has
maintained an active profile over many years principally in the areas of
fine art and creative pedagogy. His research and professional practice
ranges across art practice, theory, materials and curatorship, and
includes publication of books, chapters and papers in refereed journals
and exhibition catalogues; curatorship at venues including the Victoria
and Albert Museum in London; more than 60 conference and public
presentations worldwide since 1991, and more than 80 individual and
collaborative exhibitions since 1987.
› Spatial ontology and digital print, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 2.1, 26-35.
Martin Barker is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of a number of
books, of which probably best-known is Ill Effects: the Media-Violence
Debate (co-edited with Julian Petley). He was director of the major
international audience research project into the reception of The Lord
of the Rings (2003-4) whose results were published (Watching The
Lord of the Rings) by Peter Lang in 2007. In 2007 he also directed a
research project for the British Board of Film Classification into
audience responses to sexual violence on screen, whose outcomes can
be found on their website.
› Understanding vernacular experiences of film in an academic environment,
Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 4.1, 49-.
Dr. Nick Barnes was Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Research Centre
for Design and the Creative Industries at Birmingham City University,
Institute of Art and Design, where he worked primarily on the major
AHRC research project concerning Risk, Risk Perception and Design.
Nick’s doctorate was in environmental management and he has worked
on several post-doctoral research projects, including a large EU-funded
project examining risk and innovation in the development of new
products and technologies in the biotechnology sector. Nick has
academic work published in the fields of design management and
innovation policy; he currently operates his own research and
development practice undertaking projects on behalf of a variety of
private, public and third sector organizations.