who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Hans Maes
History and Philosphy of Art,
University of Kent, Jarman Building,
School of Arts, Canterbury, Kent,
CT2 7UG, United Kingdom
Keywords art, interpretation,
intentionalism, jokes, cartoon,
Livingston, erotic art, beauty
Jonas Major
AHO School of Architecture and
Design, OSLO
Keywords architecture, design
Maarit Mäkelä
Aalto University School of Art and
Design, Department of Design,
Research, Hämeentie 135 C, PO Box
31000, Helsinki, FIN-00076, Finland
Keywords material-based art,
research practice, femininity, gender,
history
Hans Maes is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent,
Canterbury, United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Leuven, Belgium, and conducted postdoctoral research at
the University of Helsinki, Finland, and University of Maryland,
United States. His main research interests are aesthetics, philosophy of
photography and film, moral psychology.
› Challenging partial intentionalism, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 7.1, 85-
94.
Jonas Major studied at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
and at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University
College London. After finishing his studies in 2009 he has worked in
several Oslo based practices, on his own research based architectural
projects, and has taught architectural design as well as hosting a weekly
symposium series at the Oslo School of Architecture.
› Project profiles, Design Ecologies, 1.1, 153-.
Maarit Mäkelä is docent of artistic research and material based art at
Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Helsinki, where she also
works as a coordinator of the Design Connections Doctoral School.
She has published her articles in different arenas and is co-editor of the
anthology ‘The Art of Research. Research Practices in Art and Design’.
Mäkelä also works as an artist in the junction of ceramics and fine art.
She has had several solo exhibitions in Finland and has taken part in
frequent group exhibitions in Finland and abroad. Her works deal with
femininity. She has discussed this theme broader in her doctoral
dissertation ‘Memories on clay: representations of subjective creation
process and gender’.
› Crafting narratives: Using historical context as a refl ective tool, Craft
Research, 2.1, 37-60.
Suhail Malik Suhail Malik is Reader in Critical Studies in the Department of Art,
Goldsmiths, London, where he was also Director of The Political
Currency of Art Research Group between 2006-09. Malik has written