who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

David McConville
The Elumenati, Noospheric Research
Division, 414 Hayward Road,
Ashville, North Carolina, NC 28806,
United States of America
Keywords dome, immersion,
cosmology, visual language,
expanded cinema
Nicole McDaniel
Texas A&M University, Mailstop
4227, Blocker Building, Texas A& M
University, College Station, TX
77843, United States of America
Keywords memory, seriality,
memoir, Art Spiegelman
Liz McDowell
Northumbria University, Centre for
Excellence in Teaching and Learning,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST,
United Kingdom
also a professional musician, and he performs regularly throughout
New Zealand.
› A design education perspective on the process of interpreting words into
pictures, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 9.2, 111-133.
David McConville is a media artist and researcher specializing in the
development of dome-based display technologies. He is co-founder of
The Elumenati, a full service design and engineering firm specializing
in the development and deployment of immersive visualization
environments and experiences. The Elumenati provides systems
integration, real-time software design, immersive content research,
custom fabrication, and optical engineering for clientele ranging from
art festivals to space agencies. David holds a BS in Music and Audio
Engineering from UNC-Asheville, where he researched 3D audio and
MIDI systems under Dr. Robert Moog.
› Cosmological Cinema: Pedagogy, Propaganda, and Perturbation in Early
Dome Theaters, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 5.2, 69-
86.
Nicole McDaniel is a Post-Doctoral Lecturer at Texas A&M
University, where she specializes in life writing studies and ethnic
American literature. She is currently revising her dissertation, ‘Seriality
in Contemporary American Memoir: 1957–2007’, as a scholarly
monograph.
› Self-reflexive graphic narrative: Seriality and Art Spiegelman's Portrait of
the Artist as a Young &, Studies in Comics, 1.2, 197-211.
Dr. Liz McDowell is Professor in Academic Practice at Northumbria
University and Director of the National Centre for Excellence in
Assessment for Learning. Her main research interests are on the
impacts of learning environments on student learning. Many of her
publications focus on the relationships between assessment and
learning and the model of assessment for learning used at Northumbria
derives from this work. Liz has a major role in promoting innovation