who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Carlos Castellanos
Simon Fraser University, School of
Interactive Arts, 250-13450 102
Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3T 0A3,
Canada
Keywords phenomenology,
embodiment, symbiogenesis, coevolution,
artificial intelligence
Oron Catts
Dept Anatomy and Human Biology,
University of Western Australia, 35
Crawley Avenue, Nedlands, WA
6009, Australia
Keywords tissue culture, art,
organisms
Clive Cazeaux
University of Wales Institute, School
of Art and Design, Howard Gardens,
Cardiff, CF24 0SP, United Kingdom
Keywords sense perception, Merleau-
Ponty, cognition, phenomenology,
aesthetics
Carlos Castellanos is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. His
research and art practice focus on networks, artificial intelligence,
human-computer interaction and cultural theory. He was a National
Science Foundation IGERT fellow in Interactive Digital Multimedia
and a California State University Sally Casanova Pre-doctoral Scholar.
He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the School of Interactive Arts and
Technology, Simon Fraser University, where he is exploring the
aesthetics of information technologies and their effects on lived
embodied human experience. Castellanos splits his time between
Vancouver and San Francisco.
› The symbiogenic experience: towards a framework for understanding
human–machine coupling in the interactive arts, Technoetic Arts: A Journal
of Speculative Research, 8.1, 11-18.
Oron Catts is Artistic Director of SymbioticA, artist/researcher and
curator. He founded the Tissue Culture and Art Project (TC&A) in
1996 and is co-founder and Artistic Director of SymbioticA - The Art
& Science Collaborative Research Laboratory at The School of
Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia. He is
curator of Biofeel exhibition and The Aesthetics of Care? Symposium,
2002 and BioDifferences BEAP 2004 and a research Fellow at the
Tissue Engineering & Organ Fabrication Laboratory, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (2000-2001). He trained in
product design (BA, Honours), and Visual Art (MA) and has exhibited,
published and conducted workshops of his own work as well as the
work of SymbioticA internationally.
› Are the Semi-Living semi-good or semi-evil?, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of
Speculative Research, 1.1, 47-60.
Clive Cazeaux is Reader in Aesthetics at the University of Wales
Institute, Cardiff. He is the author of Metaphor and Continental
Philosophy: From Kant to Derrida (Routledge, 2007) and the editor of
The Continental Aesthetics Reader (2nd edition; Routledge, 2011). He
has also written articles on metaphor, the philosophy of visual arts
research, and the relation between art and philosophy.
› Categories in action: Sartre and the theory-practice debate, Journal of Visual
Art Practice, 2.1, 44-56.
› From sensation to categorization: aesthetic metaphor in Locke and Merleau-