who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Victoria Vesna
UCLA, Dept. of Design | Media Arts,
Broad Arts center, 11000 Kinross
Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United
States of America
Keywords nanotechnology,
nanometre, nanobots
Rachel de Sousa Vianna
Universidade do Estado de Minas
Gerais, Escola Guignard, Rua Coletor
Celso Werneck, 200/102, Belo
Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30.350-010,
Brazil
Keywords art education, perception,
critical studies, built environment
education, museum education
› Learning in groups: the student experience in Postgraduate Diplomas of Fine
Art, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 6.2, 117-132.
Victoria Vesna is an artist, professor and chair of the department of
Design/Media Arts at the UCLA School of Arts. She is currently a
Visiting Professor and Director of Research at Parsons Art, Media and
Technology, the New School for Design in New York and a senior
researcher at IMéRA – Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées
in Marseille, France and Artist in Residence at the Institute of
Advanced Studies, University of Bristol. Her work can be defined as
experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and
technologies. With her installations she explores how communication
technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity
shift in relation to scientific innovation. Victoria has exhibited her
work in over twenty solo exhibitions, more than seventy group shows,
has been published in excess of twenty papers.
› The Nanoneme Syndrome: Blurring of fact and fiction in the construction of
a new science, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 1.1, 7-
24.
Rachel de Sousa Vianna is a lecturer at Universidade do Estado de
Minas Gerais, in Brazil. She has a BA degree in Architecture and
Urbanism from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, an MA in Art
Education from The University of Texas, and a Ph.D. in Education
from Universidade de São Paulo. Her research interests include Built
Environment Education, Critical Studies, Visual perception and Sociohistorical
Theory applied to art education.
› Development of visual perception and the role of ‘visual concepts’ in Critical
Studies, International Journal of Education through Art, 5.1, 23-35.
Judit Vidiella Judit Vidiella is a doctoral student and research assistant in Fine Arts at
the University of Barcelona. She also teaches on a Masters course
about Visual Culture Studies. She is participating in research projects
being carried out at the Centre for Studies for Change in Culture and
Education at the university; and the work of the Technologies of