who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Selavy Oh
Keywords art, metaverse, avatar, text
Daisuke Okeda
Kitahama partners, 14F Sapia Tower,
1-7-12 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku,,
Tokyo, 100-0005, Japan
Keywords animation, Japanese art
Tahneer Oksman
CUNY Graduate Center
Keywords women, Jewish identity,
autobiography, comics
Selavy Oh was created in 2007 as an avatar in ®Second Life, where she
works using the virtual world as medium. She presented her work in
solo exhibitions within ®Second Life, e.g. at IBM exhibition space,
Arthole Gallery, and Odyssey. Her work was selected for the ‘Final 5’
exhibition of the mixed-media project Brooklyn Is Watching at the
Brooklyn art gallery, Jack The Pelican Presents. Her work has been
covered by prestigious web publications such as SmartHistory and
art:21. Selavy’s creator works as a neuroscientist at the University of
Munich investigating topics from spatial perception over computational
neuroscience to human-robot interaction.
› LPDT2, Metaverse Creativity, 1.1, 81-100.
Daisuke Okeda is a lawyer in Japan and an inspector/director of
JAniCA ( Japanese Animation Creators Association ). His special field
is computer & IT law, the animation industry and racketeering through
intercession in civil disputes. JAniCA is a non-profit organisation
composed of Japanese animators, animation directors and their
supporters.
› Working conditions of animators: The real face of the Japanese animation
industry, Creative Industries Journal, 3.3, 261-271.
Tahneer Oksman is pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature at the
Graduate Center at CUNY, and she is currently a Writing Fellow at
Brooklyn College. Her dissertation, ‘”Sources”: Jewish American
women’s writing post-assimilation’, explores works of prose, as well as
comics. Her interests include Jewish American and ethnic literature
after 1900, contemporary autobiography and autobiography theory,
including graphic memoirs, and the photography of autobiography. Her
essay ‘Mourning in the Family Album’ is forthcoming in a/b:
Auto/Biography Studies.
› Visualizing the Jewish body in Aline Kominsky Crumb's Need More Love,
Studies in Comics, 1.2, 213-232.
› REVIEWS, Studies in Comics, 2.1, 223-232.