who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Margaret Dolinsky
HR Hope School of Fine Arts Indiana
University, 1201 E. 7th St. Room 123,
Bloomington, IN, United States of
America
Keywords perceptual shift, digital
painting, projection, light,
imagination
Simon Downs
Loughborough University, The
School of Art, Loughborough, LE11
3TU, United Kingdom
Keywords illustration, graphics,
culture, animation
Karin Drda-Kühn
Vertikult, Schleiermacherstraße 8,
Darmstadt, D-64283, Germany
Keywords network development,
creative networks, regional
Margaret Dolinsky creates interactive art for high-speed networks and
collaborative art experiences for the CAVE Automated Virtual
Environment. Her recent work involves digital projections for opera
and experimental film. Her research focuses on how digital art
provokes shifts in perception and enhances sensory awareness.
Exhibitions include SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, ICC, and the Walker
Art Center. Her work is published in Leonardo, Discover, Computer
Graphics World, US 64 Margaret Dolinsky News and World Report
and ACM’s Computer Graphics. She received an MFA from
University of Illinois at Chicago. She is an Associate Professor and
Research Scientist at the H.R. Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana
University Bloomington and a researcher with the Planetary Collegium
at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom.
› Transformative navigation: energizing imagery for perceptual shifts,
Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 7.1, 49-64.
Simon Downs is Lecturer in Graphic Communication at Loughborough
University. Simon trained as a classical painter and worked as a
draughtsman illustrator before computer aided design moved his
practice into animation, interaction design, graphics and many other
fields of communication design. He worked as a designer and
illustrator for 15 years; working as a freelancer, a contractor and
consultant for various banks and publishing houses. He is a Fellow of
the Higher Education Academy, an H.E.A. Reviewer, and Member of
the Design Research Society (and their S.I.G. on Design Pedagogy).
Simon's research is built around the questions of: how culture is formed
and so operates; how graphics is formed by and contributes to these
operations and how we can tell if a graphic intervention is working.
› Editorial, The Poster, 1.1, 3-6.
› Reviews, The Poster, 1.1, 121-128.
› A loud, preposterous moral crusade, The Poster, 1.2, 135-140.
Karin Drda-Kühn has a Ph.D. (1989) and an MA (1987) from the
University of Darmstadt (Germany) in Art History and German and
English Language and Literature Studies. Since 2006, she has been the
Managing Director of Association Culture and Work (www.kultur-undarbeit.de)
and a member of numerous cultural economy committees.
Her responsibilities in the Association are research and application
projects in cultural economy and culture tourism, policy development,