who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Katharine Sarikakis
University of Vienna, Universitaet
Wien Department of Communication,
Institut fuer Publizistik- und
Kommunikationswissenschaft,
Berggasse 11/5, Stiege 1, Wien, 1090,
Austria
Keywords postgraduate students,
gender and higher education, mass
communication
Pamela Schenk
Heriot Watt University, School of
Textiles and Design, United Kingdom
Keywords drawing research, design
process, design education
Andreas Schiffler
Z-Node der Züricher Hochschule der
Künste (ZHdK), Ausstellungsstrasse
60, Zurich, CH-8005, Switzerland
Keywords game physics, game
design, random number generation,
entropy generation, stochastic
processes
Katharine Sarikakis is professor of media governance, media
organization and media industries at the Institute of Communication
Studies, the University of Vienna. She is the co-author of Media Policy
and Globalisation (2006) and the co-editor of Feminist Interventions in
International Communication (2008) and numerous chapters and
articles on media and cultural policy.
› In the land of becoming: the gendered experience of communication doctoral
students, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 2.1, 29-48.
Dr. Pam Schenk has been involved with higher education in art and
design for over 35 years. She has taught at all levels, concentrating in
recent years on postgraduate studies and research in design, and has
been a senior academic at the Manchester Metropolitan University,
Glasgow School of Art, the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
(University of Central England) and Duncan of Jordanstone College
(Dundee University). She is now an Honorary Research Professor at
Gray’s School of Art (The Robert Gordon University), Aberdeen,
Scotland and is currently a Visiting Professor at the School of Art,
Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
› Reflections on the teaching of drawing in the digital age: attitudes of senior
academics in the United Kingdom to the place of drawing tuition on the
design curriculum in higher education, Art, Design & Communication in
Higher Education, 4.3, 189-204.
Andreas Schiffler is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan,
Canada where he received his M.Sc. in Space Physics at ISAS in 1996.
He worked with media artists Prof. Jill Scott and later the Institute of
Visual Media under Dr. Jeffrey Shaw at the ZKM media-art institute in
Karlsruhe, Germany. He is currently completing a Ph.D. with the
Z_node of the Planetary Collegiums at the ZHdK, Zurich, Switzerland
researching the linkage between computer games and physics in a cross
disciplinary way. He has also worked full time as software architect
with various IT startups in the past and is currently a software tester in
the STB division at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, United States.
› Physical Entropy in Computer Games, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of
Speculative Research, 8.1, 39-45.