who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Nicholas Theisen
University of Michigan, 1421
McIntyre St. Ann Arbor, MI 48105,
United States of America
Keywords textuality, parody,
autobiography, schizophrenia, Marcel
Proust
Andrea Thoma
University of Leeds, Department of
Contemporary Art Practise, Leeds,
West Yorkshire, LS2 9JT, United
Kingdom
Keywords dwelling, nomadic space,
photography, visual methodology,
Heidegger
Paul Thomas
Curtin University of Technology,
Fine Art, 6 Hunter Street, North
Perth, Perth, Western Australia, 6006,
Australia
Keywords nanotechnology, science,
perspective
Nicholas Theisen received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from
the University of Michigan (UM) in 2009. He has interests in
comparative poetics and new media studies. Currently he teaches at
UM as a Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies and is coauthor
of the weblog Libral Thinking (www.libralthinking.com) on
textuality and the future of the book.
› is not Dave Sim: Writing life as parody in Cerebus, Studies in Comics, 1.2,
233-255.
Andrea Thoma was born in Munich, Germany. She studied Fine Art at
the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Perpignan and of Montpellier in France
(Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique). She has
exhibited widely in Europe and in the United States of America
(painting, photography and video) and has completed various
international collaborative projects. Andrea is a lecturer in Fine Art at
the University of Leeds. She is part of an interdisciplinary research
cluster dealing with spatiality and is currently involved in several
practice-based projects.
› The making of 'place' to enable memory, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 5.1,
83-94.
Dr. Paul Thomas, is the coordinator of the Studio Electronic Arts
(SEA) at Curtin University of Technology and was the founding
Director of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth. Paul has been
working in the area of electronic arts since 1981 when he co-founded
the group Media-Space. Media-Space was part of the first global link
up with artists connected to ARTEX. From 1981-1986 the group was
involved in a number of collaborative exhibitions and was instrumental
in the establishment a substantial body of research. In 2000 he founded
the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth. Paul’s current research project
‘Nanoessence’ explores the space between life and death at a nano
level. The project is part of an ongoing collaboration with the Nano
Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology and SymbioticA at
the University of Western Australia.
› Nanoessence: God, the first nano assembler, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of
Speculative Research, 6.3, 217-231.