who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Keywords hybrid spaces, mobile
interfaces, location-aware
technologies, mobile phones
Silvia Sovic
Keywords stress, international
students, creative arts
Chris Speed
Edinburgh College of Art,
Architecture, Lauriston Place,
Architecture School, Edinburgh,
PL48AA, United Kingdom
Keywords Web 2.0, social
navigation, blogs, Raindance, tag
clouds
faculty at the Digital Games Research Center, and a faculty member of
the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) program at
NCSU. Dr. de Souza e Silva's research focuses on how mobile and
locative interfaces shape people's interactions with public spaces and
create new forms of sociability. She teaches classes on mobile
technologies, location-based games and Internet studies. Dr. de Souza e
Silva is the co-editor of the book Digital Cityscapes—Merging digital
and urban playspaces (Peter Lang, 2009), and the co-author of the
forthcoming book Net-Locality: Why location matters (Blackwell,
2011).
› From simulations to hybrid space: how nomadic technologies change the
real, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 1.3, 209-222.
Dr. Silvia Sovic is Research Project Coordinator at the Creative
Learning in Practice Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at
the University of the Arts, London. Her background is in history
(degrees from Ljubljana, London and Essex). She has researched in
Florence, Graz and Cambridge and is currently Senior Research Fellow
at the Institute of Historical Research, where she also teaches statistics
for historians.
› Coping with stress: the perspective of international students, Art, Design &
Communication in Higher Education, 6.3, 145-158.
Dr. Chris Speed is Reader in Digital Spaces across the Schools of
Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the Edinburgh College of
Art, where he teaches undergraduate, masters and supervises Ph.D.
students. Chris has sustained a critical enquiry into how digital
technology can engage with the field of architecture and human
geography through a variety of established international digital art
contexts including: International Symposium on Electronic Art,
Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth, Ars Electronica, Consciousness
Reframed, Sonic Acts, LoveBytes, We Love Technology, Sonic Arts
Festival, MELT, Less Remote, FutureSonic, and the Arts Catalyst /
Leonardo symposium held alongside The International Astronautical
Congress. Chris is currently working with collaborative GPS
technologies and the streaming of social and environmental data.
› Will Web 2.0 add ‘purpose’ to writing by artists and designers?, Journal of
Writing in Creative Practice, 1.1, 77-84.