who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Keywords text, theory/practice, reenactment,
documentation, theatre
Barbara de la Harpe
Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology, Design and Social
Context Office, 200 Ballarat Road,
Hamilton, VIC 3300, Australia
Keywords design and architecture,
studio learning and teaching,
constructivism, scholarly teaching,
scholarship of teaching and learning
(SoTL)
Emanuel Dimas de Melo
Pimenta
Keywords virtual architecture,
contemporary experimental music,
virtual music, cognition, perception,
mirror neuron, logic, discovery,
democracy, isonomy, synaptic
Art before undertaking a Ph.D. at Leeds Metropolitan University. He
works across installation and film, looking at a discursive model of
practice that takes in both mystical and literary/historical narratives.
Often drawing on his complex heritage, his projects have been
influenced by Sufism as much as Samuel Beckett, and his large-scale
interventions often work with musicians, actors and other collaborators
across a breadth of global locations. Dawood’s work has been exhibited
internationally, included as part of Altermodern - curated by Nicolas
Bourriaud at Tate Britain, and the 53rd Venice Biennale (both 2009).
Upcoming projects include a collaboration with contemporary dance
choreographer Jasmin Vardimon at Sadlers Wells in London (2011),
and a feature-length sci-fi film, which will go into production in the
summer of 2011. Dawood currently lives and works in London, where
he is Senior Lecturer
› The killing of Chief Crazy Horse – An allegory in 3 parts, Journal of Visual
Art Practice, 8.1&2, 119-140.
Barbara de la Harpe is the Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, Learning
and Teaching in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT
University. For eighteen years she has been involved in teaching and
academic professional development in higher education. Her
background is in science education and educational psychology, and
her fields of expertise include: learning; generic skill development;
university change management; and teacher professional development.
Her Ph.D., study was on student learning and she is widely published
in learning and teaching.
› Through the learning and teaching looking glass: What do academics in art,
design and architecture publish about most?, Art, Design & Communication
in Higher Education, 7.3, 135-154.
Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, an architect, urban planner,
musician and photographer, has dedicated his life to the research of
mind processes through the Theory of Thought and Neurology. In the
last years of the 1970s he started to create his musical compositions
inside virtual environments. In the early 1980s he coined the concept
virtual architecture. As composer, he collaborated with John Cage and
remained a composer for Merce Cunningham from 1986 till his death
in 2009. With twenty-five published compact discs, four CD-ROMs,
about 40 books, and several papers, his works have been regularly
published in England, the United States, Japan, the Netherlands,