who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Shilpa Venkatachalam
University of Nottingham,
Postgraduate School of Crit Th &
Cultural Studies, University Park,
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG7
2RD, United Kingdom
Keywords contemplation, spectator,
Heidegger, Arnheim
Emmanuel Vercruysse
Architectural Association and
University College London
Keywords design, education,
architecture
Marcus Verhagen
Keywords Postgraduate Diploma
courses, crossovers, curating,
learning, teaching strategy
› A cybernetic observatory based on panoramic vision, Technoetic Arts: A
Journal of Speculative Research, 6.1, 79-98.
Shilpa Venkatachalam is currently doing her Ph.D. in the area of
philosophy and literature at the Postgraduate School of Critical Theory
and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham. Her research focuses
on the notion of ‘being, consciousness and the self’ and the expression
of this in certain literary texts and in the philosophy of Martin
Heidegger. Shilpa completed her Masters from the University of
Durham, in English studies, with special emphasis on the interrelation
of literature with philosophy and science.
› Technology and the contemplation of art Contemplating the work of art using
the HIPS technology, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 3.3, 179-194.
Emmanuel Vercruysse BSc [hons], DipArch, MArch. Emmanuel is a
designer, fabricator and educator. He studied Furniture design in Gent,
Belgium before completing his architectural education at the Bartlett
School of Architecture, London, where he teaches Diploma Unit 23
with Bob Sheil of Sixteen*[makers]. Emmanuel is also a design tutor
embedded in the Bartlett’s workshops and having previously run the
metal workshop, he now runs the Bartlett’s state-of-the-art Cad Cam
facility.
› Project profiles, Design Ecologies, 1.1, 153-.
Marcus Verhagen [RB1] has a Ph.D. in art history from the University
of California at Berkeley, and has taught at universities and art colleges
in both United Kingdom and the United States. Initially working on
French art of the late nineteenth century, he now writes chiefly on
contemporary art. He has published articles in academic journals and
anthologies and has, over the past few years, contributed some fifty
essays and reviews to magazines such as Art Monthly, Art Review,
Modern Painters and frieze. Much of his most recent work looks at
globalization and its impact on contemporary art.