who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

University of California, San
Francisco, California, 94143, United
States of America
Keywords co-creation, creativity,
electron microscopy, science
Øyvind Vågnes
University of Bergen, Department of
Information Science and Media
Studies, P. O. Box 7802, Bergen, NO-
5020, Norway
Keywords narrative erotics, trauma,
graphic memoir, Stitches, David
Small
Louise Valentine
Keywords designer’s thinking,
mindfulness, rhetoric, visual thinking,
dialogue
Nanotechnologies. He is currently at the University of California, San
Francisco, where he is involved in the research of bio-mimetic
formation of biomineralized tissues. He is a former member of Jožef
Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, where he developed methods for the
synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles applicable in the fields of
electronics and biomedicine, and of the Center for Advanced Materials
Processing of Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, where he
investigated the mechanisms for the precipitation of cholesterol.
Besides his dedication to scientific research in the area of physical
chemistry, he has published studies in the fields of cognitive science,
ecology, philosophy and social science.
› A collection of micrographs: where science and art meet, Technoetic Arts: A
Journal of Speculative Research, 7.3, 231-247.
Øyvind Vågnes is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of
Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen,
Norway, where he is a part of the research group Nomadikon. Among
his publications are several articles on comics (in Norwegian) for the
Book Review Morgenbladet. He is working on a book tentatively titled
Images from the Dark Side: Picturing the War on Terror, on nonfiction
narratives that concern the ongoing War on Terror (with
chapters on Errol Morris, Joe Sacco and Nina Berman, among others),
and has published articles on the subject of witnessing and 9/11. With
Asbjørn Grønstad he is the co-editor of a volume of essays on the
album cover, Coverscaping: Discovering Album Aesthetics (Museum
Tuscalunum Press). He has published three novels in Norwegian, Ingen
skal sove i natt (2003),
› Showing silence: David Small's Stitches, Studies in Comics, 1.2, 301-314.
Dr. Louise Valentine is a lecturer and AHRC Postdoctoral Research
Investigator based in Duncan of Jordanstone College, University of
Dundee. Louise’s research remit within the multi-disciplinary team
project investigating ‘Past, Present and Future Craft Practice’, includes
collaboration with contemporary craft practitioners, external relations
management and employment of knowledge management strategies for
developing teamwork. She also has responsibility for the development
of a new interdisciplinary/interuniversity postgraduate programme
entitled ‘Capitalising on Creativity’, which synthesizes creative and
management practice, and lectures on the theory and practice of design
thinking, visualization and teamwork. Louise was Course Director for