who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Keywords photography, drawing,
installation art, painting, printmaking
Christian Schwager
Keywords digitality, hypertext, nonlinearity,
posthumanism, rhizome
Kirsten Scott
Royal College of Art, Textiles
Department, Kensington Gore,
London, SW7 2EU, United Kingdom
Keywords craft, fashion, plaited palm
fibre
Bill Seaman
Duke University, Department of Art,
Art History and Visual Studies, 114b
East Duke Building, BOX 90764,
Durham, North Carolina, 27708,
United States of America
Apart from photography, he employs drawing, installation art, painting
and printmaking to produce work that is often conceptually developed
on the computer. He received his Ph.D. from the Royal College of Art
for his research entitled: Image Automation: Post-conceptual Postphotography
and the Deconstruction of the Photographic Image. He is
a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London, research associate at the
Berne University of Arts, Switzerland, and research fellow at the
Orpheus Research Centre in Music, Ghent, Belgium. He is the
founding editor-in-chief of the Journal for Artistic Research.
› First, the second: Walter Benjamin’s theory of reflection and the question of
artistic research, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 7.3, 213-223.
Christian Schwager is a freelance illustrator, comic artist and web
designer, based in Auckland, New Zealand.
› Rhizomatic cyborgs: hypertextual considerations in a posthuman age,
Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 2.1, 3-16.
Kirsten Scott is currently researching the potential of craft in ethical
sourcing for fashion, through a development project, as part of a Ph.D.
in Constructed Textiles at the Royal College of Art, with a particular
focus on plaited palm fibre. She is also Head of Fashion at Kensington
and Chelsea College, with a background in fashion accessory design
and production.
› Meeting the maker: Warm irregularity in traditional African craft practice,
Craft Research, 2.1, 61-82.
An internationally known media artist, scholar, and media researcher,
Seaman has had over 30 major installation works and commissions
around the world, a dozen solo exhibitions, and numerous performance
collaborations, video screenings, and articles/essays/reviews in books
and catalogues. His work explores an expanded media-oriented poetics
through various technological means. More recently he has been
exploring notions surrounding 'Recombinant Informatics' – a multi-