who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

practice, sense activity
Jiří Barta
University of West Bohemia Pilsen,
Institute of Art & Design (IAD),
Czech Republic
Keywords puppet animation, Czech
animation, children, mixed media,
political metaphor
Christoph Bartneck
University of Canterbury, HIT Lab
NZ, University of Canterbury, Ilam,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Keywords Nobel Prize in Physics,
inventions, discoveries, global
warming social application
› Experiential learning in practice as research: context, method, knowledge,
Journal of Visual Art Practice, 6.2, 115-124.
Jiří Barta was born in Prague in 1948. He has been a successful puppet
animation film-maker for over 40 years, initially training at the
Department of Film and TV Graphics at the Academy of Art and
Design in Prague, and working at the Jiří Trnka Studio as an artist,
director and screenwriter since 1978. His first film was Riddles for a
Candy (1978), but his breakthrough film was the multi award-winning
The Extinct World of Gloves (1982). In 1986, he made his first feature,
Pied Piper, which advanced Czech puppet animation by its use of
wooden figures with limited movement. In 1993, he made a pilot for a
long cherished project, The Golem, and completed a range of
commercial projects before embarking on the current feature, In the
Attic: Who (2009).
› Searching ‘In the Attic’: a visual production diary, Animation Practice,
Process & Production, 1.1, 131-153.
Christoph Bartneck is Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate
Studies at Canterbury University's HIT Lab NZ. His background is in
Industrial Design and Human-Computer Interaction. He has published
and presented projects and studies in various journals and conferences,
as well as served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial
Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His interests lie in
the area of Social Robotics, Design Science and Multimedia
Applications. He has worked for several companies including the
Technology Center of Hanover in Germany, LEGO in Denmark, Eagle
River Interactive in the USA, Phillips Research in the Netherlands and
ATR in Japan.
› The asymmetry between discoveries and inventions in the Nobel Prize in
Physics, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 6.1, 73-77.
Roberto Bartual Roberto Bartual was born in Madrid in 1976. He is a translator, writer
and scholar and the author of numerous articles on popular literature
published in Diario El Sur, República de las Letras and Despalabro,