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School of Communication Arts,
Locked Bag 1797, Penrith Campus,
Sydney, New South Wales, 1797,
Australia
Keywords contemporary arts,
creativity, researcher, practice-asresearch,
creative arts
Marie-Louise Damen
VU University Amsterdam,
Sociology, Metropolitan-room N516,
De Boelelaan 1081, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Keywords art education, sociology,
secondary education
Bruce Damer
University of East London, The
SMARTLab Digital Media Institute,
Docklands Campus, 4-6 University
Way, London, E16 2RD, United
Kingdom
Keywords evolution, computer
simulation, artificial life, origins of
life, primordial digital soup
Mona Damluji
University of California, Berkeley
Keywords
He has a background in media and creative arts practice, is actively
engaged in nationally funded research into aspects of new digital
technologies and their cultural application, and also writes literary
fiction.
› Representing creativeness: practice-based approaches to research in creative
arts, Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 2.1, 49-66.
Marie-Louise Damen is a postdoctoral researcher at the sociology
department of VU University Amsterdam. She obtained her Ph.D. with
a research project about the effects of arts education in secondary
schools on the cultural participation of students.
› The U-curve going Dutch: Cultural differences in judgements of artwork
from different age and expertise groups, International Journal of Education
through Art, 7.2, 153-169.
Bruce Damer wears many hats, one as a pioneer of the virtual worlds
medium, having helped to develop early ‘avatar’ virtual spaces and
communities, another as an expert on the history of computing, in his
Digibarn Computer Museum in Northern California, and yet another as
a designer and simulation team leader for NASA, modelling current
and future space missions. In 1996 he established Biota.org, a nonprofit
organization which created a series of interdisciplinary
international conferences.
› The EvoGrid, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 7.2, 175-
190.
Mona Damluji is a doctoral candidate in Architecture at the University
of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation is a postcolonial study of
representations of the city and nation-building in Iraq Petroleum
Company films during the 1950s.
› Book Reviews, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 1.1, 151-168.