who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Jeremy Spencer
Keywords aesthetic thought, Marxist
theories, critical theories, materialism,
deconstruction
Miriam Brown Spiers
University of Georgia, Department at
the University of Georgia, 254 Park
Hall, Athens, GA 30602, United
States of America
Keywords graphic memoir, Fun
Home, Alison Bechdel, queer
relations/relationships
Neil Spiller
The Bartlett School of Architecture,
Wates House, 22 Gordon Street,
London, United Kingdom
Keywords nanotechnology,
pataphysics, slamhound, Valazquez
Machine, surrealism, surreal
Jeremy Spencer has completed a doctoral thesis on the methodological
role of the literary theory of Paul de Man in materialist art histories at
the University of Essex. He teaches contextual studies at the Colchester
School of Art and Design, Colchester Institute and is an Associate
Lecturer with the Open University.
› The bodies and the embodiment of modernist painting, Journal of Visual Art
Practice, 5.3, 229-.
Miriam Brown Spiers is a doctoral student in the English Department
at the University of Georgia, where she studies contemporary
American literature, gender studies and Native American literature. She
has presented conference papers on Alison Bechdel and also on the
subject of her thesis, which deals with the roles of women in Maxine
Hong Kingston’s Fifth Book of Peace. She spends most of her time
grading papers and reading in the excellent coffee shops of Athens.
› Daddy's little girl: Multigenerational queer relationships in Bechdel's Fun
Home, Studies in Comics, 1.2, 315-335.
Neil Spiller is Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory and a
practising architect. He is the MArch. Course Director, Director of the
Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Group
(AVATAR) and Vice Dean at the Bartlett School of Architecture,
University College, London. He is author of the book Digital Dreams-
Architecture and the New Alchemic Technologies (1998). He is coeditor
of AD ‘Architects in Cyberspace’ (1995), guest-editor of AD
‘Integrating Architecture’ (1996), AD’ Architects in Cyberspace II’
(1998) and AD ‘Young Blood’ (2001) and formerly editor of Building
Design Interactive’magazine. He is co-editor with Peter Cook of The
Power of Contemporary Architecture (1999) and the Paradox of
Contemporary Architecture (2001).
› Communicating vessels: The 'pataphysical exceptions of reflexive
architecture, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 1.3, 223-.
› Surrealist complex systems, parallel biology and the greening of architecture,
Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 7.2, 75-78.
› Plectic architecture: towards a theory of the post-digital in architecture,
Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 7.2, 95-104.