who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Christoph Zellweger
Sheffield Hallam University, Art and
Design Research Centre, Room 9104,
Furnival Building, 153 Arundel
Street, Sheffield, S1 2NU, United
Kingdom
Keywords jewellery, metalwork,
design
Brigitta Zics
Newcastle University, Digital Media,
Culture Lab, Grand Assembly Rooms,
King's Walk, Newcastle, Tyne and
Wear, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
Keywords interactive art, affective
art, art and science, human-computer
interaction, affective computing,
philosophy of mind, creative practice,
experimental visualization, visual arts,
human perception
Helen Zigmond
Keywords power, hope, community,
health, perception
Christoph Zellweger (born 1962, lives in Switzerland/United Kingdom)
started as a trained craftsman and maker of fine jewellery and
metalwork for the high-end market in Germany and Switzerland. After
going through a rigorous phase of questioning his role as an artistmaker
he developed a ‘critical edge’, which was manifested in his
degree work at the Royal College of Art, where he qualified with
distinction. In addition to exhibiting internationally and running his
Zurich-based studio, he holds a professorial research post at Sheffield
Hallam University, is a visiting professor at the University of Ulster
and lectures at Europe’s leading design and art colleges and in
America.
› THE PORTRAIT SECTION, Craft Research, 2.1, 143-160.
Dr. Brigitta Zics is an artist, media philisopher and interaction designer
with particular interest in emerging technologies and their impact on
creative practises and human cognition. She is a Lecturer in Digital
Media in Culture Lab at University of Newcastle and Senior Lecturer
in Design at University of Wales.
› Engineering experiences in biofeedback interfaces: Interaction as a cognitive
feedback loop, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 10.1, 71-82.
Helen Zigmond has an extensive background in education and the arts,
working as a practitioner and consultant in training and policy
development in schools, universities and community institutions. She
believes health to be a cultural context. Helen has worked in the health
sector since 1995. Creative Well was developed as a sustainable
hospital arts programme in 1997 at The Children’s Hospital at
Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales. Subsequently the arts in
community health program Clacia was trialled in regional NSW for
two years from 2001. Helen is currently in partnership with the
Starlight Children’s Foundation. She is also a consultant to the
Adolescent Medicine Unit at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and
a member of the recently formed Arts in Health Foundation, Australia.
› Not all ill – The arts as counterpoint, Journal of Arts & Communities, 1.2,
169-176.