who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Joana Duarte Bernardes
Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade
de Letras da Universidade de
Coimbra, Largo da Porta Ferrea,
3004-530, Coimbra, Portugal
Keywords beach, painting
Susan Best
University of New South Wales,
Department of Art History and
Theory, P.O. Box 259, Paddington,
New South Wales, 2021, Australia
Keywords affect studies, aesthetics,
modern art, contemporary art
Michael Betancourt
Savannah College of Art & Design,
Motion Media Design, Montgomery
Hall, PO Box 3146, Savannah, GA,
31402, United States of America
Keywords new media art, conceptual
art, process, computer-generated art,
visual music, motion graphics,
abstract film, video art
Joana Duarte Bernardes has a degree in Literature and Modern
Languages from the Universidade de Coimbra. Her areas of study
include history, Portuguese studies, memory, and the poetics of limits.
Published works include Eça de Queirós: Riso, Memória, Morte
(Universidade de Coimbra) and Ma casa onde não se acorda: o
cemitério romântico na ficção de Eça de Queirós (Universidade
Federal da Uberlândia).
› Limit and Utopia: Revisiting the Beach as a Threshold, Journal of Visual Art
Practice, 9.3, 219-230.
Susan Best teaches in the Department of Art History and Theory,
University of New South Wales. Her first book is published by I B
Tauris; it is titled Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avantgarde
This project is funded by an Australian Research Council
grant. Dr. Best has expertise in modern and contemporary art, with a
particular emphasis on conceptual art, women's art and Latin American
art. She teaches courses on abstraction, art and psychoanalysis, art,
gender, sexuality and the body, and late modern sculpture.
› Minimalism, subjectivity, and aesthetics: rethinking the anti-aesthetic
tradition in late-modern art, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 5.3, 127-142.
Michael Betancourt is an artist, media historian, critical theorist, and
curator. His essays have been translated into Chinese, Greek, Italian,
Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish; journals such as Leonardo,
Semiotica and CTheory have published his essays and he has edited
five books on visual music technologies invented by artists such as
Thomas Wilfred, Mary Hallock-Greenewalt, and Oskar Fischinger. In
the course of this research, he discovered the oldest surviving handpainted
abstract films, done in 1916 by inventor and artist Mary
Hallock-Greenewalt. As an artist, he has exhibited his movies, sitespecific
installations, and non-traditional art forms in unseen, unusual,
or public spaces since 1992. The second edition of his book,
Structuring Time, came out in 2009.
› Intellectual process, visceral result: human agency and the production of
artworks via automated technology, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 7.1, 11-
18.