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Research covers many aspects of practice in the discipline, including the theorising of artists' creative practices, and the history of studio ceramics.
Supervisors: Reader in Ceramics t: 029 2041 6607
Research interests: founder editor of Interpreting Ceramics electronic journal (www.interpretingceramics.com) , author of Studio Pottery in Britain 1900 – 2005 (A&C Black 2007), convenor of ‘The Fragmented Figure’ conference at Cardiff School of Art and Design (2005), currently Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, and leader of the Ceramics and Sculpture project.
Areas of supervision in the Centre for Ceramics Research: • Ceramics and Sculpture: identifying and clarifying relationships between the respective disciplines in terms of recent history, contemporary art and curatorial practice. • Recording and interpreting contemporary ceramics practice: exploring appropriate and effective methods of documenting and analyzing artists’ practice in the medium of ceramics, and communicating results and findings. • Kilns and firing: identifying and interpreting the activity of kiln building and firing across a range of cultural, historical and contemporary examples. • Colour and tone in ceramics: investigating the ways that the perceptual and illusory properties of colour and tone can be understood, manipulated and exploited in the creation of ceramic artworks. • Ceramics Education: development of strategies, structures and methods for doctoral and postdoctoral research where elements of creative practice are fore-grounded.
Lecturer
Research interests are focused on the subject of contemporary figurative ceramics and creative pedagogy; her PhD investigated the ways in which the surface and form of the human body in figurative ceramic sculpture can be manipulated to suggest sensations and emotions experienced in relation to flesh and skin and recent research into ‘Making the Creative Process Visible – Methods in Creative Pedagogy’ (HEA funded project) has led to further research into enhanced technological learning delivery (LTDU funded project).
Areas of supervision in the Centre for Ceramics Research: • Ceramics and Sculpture: identifying and clarifying relationships between the respective disciplines in terms of recent history, contemporary art and curatorial practice. • Recording and interpreting contemporary ceramics practice: exploring appropriate and effective methods of documenting and analyzing artists’ practice in the medium of ceramics, and communicating results and findings. • Kilns and firing: identifying and interpreting the activity of kiln building and firing across a range of cultural, historical and contemporary examples. • Colour and tone in ceramics: investigating the ways that the perceptual and illusory properties of colour and tone can be understood, manipulated and exploited in the creation of ceramic artworks. • Ceramics Education: development of strategies, structures and methods for doctoral and postdoctoral research where elements of creative practice are fore-grounded.
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Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR) A coherent and ambitious programme around Fine Art research including painting, sculpture, printmaking, time-based and performance, new media, art history and aesthetics, and art and science.
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My research lies in three areas: • metaphor in aesthetics and the theory of knowledge • the relation between art and knowledge, and between art and science • the aesthetics of sound and radio drama.
Underlying all three is an interest in the role which belonging plays in thought. The concept of belonging governs a person’s ontology: their view of the boundaries of things, the lines and points at which one thing becomes something else. It could be said to determine a person’s ecological awareness: their sense of ‘what belongs to me’ and ‘what is beyond or outside of me’. Philosophy conventionally works with binary oppositions, such as subject–object, mind–body, and inner–outer. Recent debates in phenomenology and the realism–anti-realism contest draw attention to the problems created by trying to assign priorities to opposing terms. My interest lies in what happens when one tries to stop thinking in dualisms, and has to address the textures of experience without the comfort of being able to ascribe qualities to one side of an opposition or the other.
Metaphor tests our sense of belonging by combining subjects which do not customarily go together, as in ‘architecture is frozen music’ (Schelling) and ‘the insect voice of the clock’ (Orwell). In recent decades, metaphor has been recognized as a principle that is active in thought and perception. Its significance is explored in various ways within the continental tradition, from Kant to Derrida, on account of its disruption of belonging providing the impetus for rethinking the fundamental distinctions of philosophy. One area I am examining at present is the role played by something appearing as something else in Heidegger’s and Merleau-Ponty’s articulation of the human–world relation.
In my research on art and knowledge, I focus upon how phenomenological accounts of aesthetic experience make available new ways of understanding art as a contribution to knowledge. The question of belonging is again paramount, since phenomenology suspends the question of what belongs to the subject and what belongs to the object, requiring aesthetic experience to be formulated in alternative terms. Imagining what these alternative terms might be is the exciting part, since devising vocabularies for aesthetic experience now becomes part of the process of understanding the human being’s locatedness in the world. I am currently working on the philosophy of art–science collaboration. I consider how such collaboration brings competing theories of being and knowledge to bear upon one another, and identify the implications of these collisions for visualization, posthumanity, and interdisciplinarity.
Dr Jonathan Clarkson teaches mostly on the BA Fine Art degree where he is the Subject Leader for Art History & Theory. He studied at the University of Kent and the University of Essex where he wrote his PhD on the relation between fantasy and the visual imagination in the English School of psychoanalysis. His research interests centre on the question of the relationship between artwork and viewer. He has a special interest in contemporary art practice and has published essays on contemporary painting, sculpture and photography. He is currently contributing to the Cast Object Library research project, looking at the function and fate of plastercasts of classical sculptures in British art schools.
He is an acknowledged expert on the painter John Constable. In 2000 he was involved in curating an exhibition around Constable’s painting of Wivenhoe Park, and was co-editor, with Neil Cox, of the book Constable and Wivenhoe Park: Reality and Vision which includes an essay by him looking at Constable’s strategy in balancing the rival claims of place and painting. He has recently completed a major book on the painter due to be published in 2008 by Phaidon.
Research Interests: • Psychoanalysis (esp. British School) • Constable • History of landscape painting • contemporary approaches to land and landscape • theories of representation
Prof Robert Pepperell is an artist and writer. He studied at the Slade School of Art and went on work with a number of influential multimedia collaborations including Hex, Coldcut and Hexstatic. As well as producing experimental computer art and computer games he has published several interactive CD-Roms and exhibited numerous digital installations including at Ars Electronica, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, the ICA, London, the Barbican Gallery, London and the Millennium Dome, London. His book The Post-Human Condition was first published in 1995 and a new version published in 2003 with the subtitle, Consciousness beyond the brain.
His second book The Postdigital Membrane, published in 2000, was a collaboration with Michael Punt, with whom he has recently co-edited further volume, Screen Consciousness: Cinema, Mind and World. He has spoken and lectured widely on philosophy, new technology and the relationship between art and consciousness. He is Associate Editor for Leonardo Reviews for the journal of the International Society for Arts, Science and Technology
Research Interests: • The Military Aspects of Duchamp's career • Bergson, Cinema and the Spiritual • Mind-body interfaces in art and technology • The open text in multimedia • Biotechnology and Industrial Design • Consciousness and New Media Art • Shamanism and Performance • The transgressive in contemporary art and science
Simon Pope is researching walking as a contemporary art practice. Recent exhibitions include The Memorial Walks (2006-7) and Gallery Space Recall (2006). Recent commissions include Charade for BBC/ACE and Walking Here & There for the Wellcome Trust. He represented Wales at their inaugural exhibition at the Venice Biennale of Fine Art (2003) and as a member of I/O/D produced The Web Stalker (1997). A former NESTA Fellow (2002-05), Simon is also a research associate at Transmedia, Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels and Digital Studios, Goldsmith's College, London.
Dr Short is Senior Lecturer in the history and theory of art on BA and MA Fine Art and MA Ceramics programmes. He did his PhD on Friedrich Nietzsche and German Expressionism in the Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, graduating in 1995. His published writings include analysis of modern Austrian and contemporary British art. He is currently writing a book on Wassily Kandinsky, to be published in 2008-9; co-editing Der Blaue Reiter, Volume II, to be completed in May 2012; co-organising a conference on Der Blaue Reiter to run at Tate Modern in 2011; and producing a body of artworks relating to the shoreline and surf culture in South Wales. He recently (2008) received a British Academy Research Grant and the Fellowship of the Société Kandinsky.
Research Interests: • Wassily Kandinsky • Der Blaue Reiter • Nietzsche and the Visual Arts • German and Austrian Expressionism • Abstract Art • Interdisciplinary and Multimedia Art • Relationships between Art Theory and Practice • Art and Surf Culture.
Prof Andre StittBorn in Belfast, N. Ireland, Stitt is considered one of Europe's foremost performance and interdisciplinary artists. He has worked as a time based artist since 1976 creating hundreds of unique performances at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world including the Venice Biennale 2005, Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, Gateshead, 2005 and The Drawing Centre, New York, 2006. In 2004 he became a professor of the University of Wales. In 2000 he opened trace: Installaction Artspace (www.tracegallery.org) in Cardiff initiating a robust programme of international time based work.
Research Interests: • performance art (general) • proliferation of performance art practices (styles, identities, aesthetics) • relationships between performance art & painting • political issues and performance art • performance art - social/political context in Northern Ireland • archiving & documentation of performance art • residual traces of performance art • memory and recall concerning performance art • site specific performance art • materials & their usage in performance art • historical perspectives relative to performance art • global contexts, territories, indigenous & cross/inter-cultural aspects of performance art • obscure and under researched individual performance artists • performance art projects, events, festivals, groups, collectives, artists initiatives • artists networks, publications, distribution, dissemination, manifestos • sonic art/sound art
Conceptually and thematically I am especially interested in the possibilities offered buy the 'fluid' (shifting and indeterminate ) to 'dissolve' such binary oppositions as dark and light, order and chaos, known and uncertain.
t: 02920 416624
e: dferry@uwic.ac.uk / daviddferry@hotmail.com t: 029 2041 6686 / 07876407266
• British Modernism • Joe Orton • photomontage
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Creative Teaching & Teaching Creatively The group aims to draw together all involved in creative teaching practice and research to develop and disseminate new pedagogic approaches.
Supervisors: t: 02920 415035
Main research field is in the promotion of creativity in education internationally. Has undertaken a comparative project with Sichuan Institute in China leading to an exhibition and public seminar about creative education held in the UK and China (April 2007). Instigated the HEA 'Creativity or Conformity' conference which UWIC hosted in January 2007.
t: 02920 416631
My research activities span different areas: from pedagogic research into students' experience and understandings of the relationship between theory and practice, to staff perceptions of the use and development of IT in art and design (LTSN supported project).
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Research into methods of making and the impact of digital technology upon creativity and innovation.
Supervisors: t: 02020417014
t: +44 (0) 292 041 6634/7 / +965 6609 5290 www.alsaduweaving.wordpress.com
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Ecological Built Environment Research and Enterprise (EBERE) Research and enterprise that is centred on the creation and preservation of the Built Environment from an ecological perspective, which adopts a holistic approach to achieve this at the micro level for shelter and up to the macro level for communities and beyond.
Supervisors: Head of Architectural Studies Department
I am currently engaged in teaching and research into: • Building Information Modelling and interoperability • 3D architectural and urban digital visualisation • Automated compliance checking; and remote data capture.
I am also interested in and have worked on and taught or supported aspects of: • Geographic Information Systems and 3D visualisation • Technology enhanced learning • Cutting edge technologies.
Some examples of different and more recent research projects in which I have been engaged that illustrate some of these areas are: • VEPs at www.veps3d.org • Valhalla at www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/valhalla/index.html • Beatl at www.cebe.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/beatl/index.php • Live Studio at www.cebe.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/edg/edg04.php • Visible Lab (view web page here) • Technology Watch (view web page here)
Senior Lecturer Architectural Studies Department
I have two main research areas which have overlapped into applied research/consultancy activities: • The design, modelling and development of buildings to improve their thermal performance, increase comfort conditions and reduce their carbon emissions, with a particular focus on residential development. • The use of computer aided building information modelling and visualisation (BIM) software applications for urban/rural re-generation projects.
Current and past MPhil/PhD supervision includes: • An evaluation of beehive design to identify improvements in thermal and environmental performance, handling utility and production (University of Glamorgan) • Investigating moisture content problems in non-food crop building materials (University of Plymouth) • Evaluating, Investigating and Implementing low carbon design and construction principles and renewable energy techniques to the new development programme • A study of the design and thermal performance of two-storey earth sheltered houses for the UK climate.
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A design research lead by a philosophical discourse centred about embodied interaction, the exploration of how technology is enacted as a component of the soma and the development of strategies for the implementation of enactive technologies.
Supervisors: Dr Morgan (asmorgan@uwic.ac.uk) is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Media Studies with Visual Cultures. Her interests in cosmetic surgery emerged from a MA in Psychiatry, Philosophy and Society at Sheffield University. Ashley has taught Sociology, Psychology, Health Studies, Psychosocial Studies, Cultural Studies and Media Studies at Sheffield University, Cardiff University, Swansea Metropolitan University, University of East London and UWIC. She is interested in media representation of cosmetic surgery, the body, gender and consumerism.
Current research interests include: • Exploring the autonomy of observers in computer games (with Ian Weir) • The relationship between cosmetic surgery and beauty • Signs of ageing • Risk and elective cosmetic surgery • Media representation of gender.
Ashley Morgan is a member of the BSA and MecSSA and is a peer reviewer for the Journal Body and Society.
Conference Papers 2007 Creating appearance norms? Cosmetic surgery and the signs of ageing. BSA International Conference, UEL – April 2007 2005 Evaluating Risk and Pain in Elective Cosmetic Surgery Making Sense of Health Illness and Disease, Mansfield College, Oxford 1999 Situating Cosmetic Surgery: Sociology and the Scalpel. Antibodies Conference, Buckingham Chilterns University College 1998 Cosmetic Surgery: The Physical Re-Shaping of Personal Identity Women’s Studies Network Conference, Institute of Education, London 1998 Orlan: Consuming surgery Body Modification Conference, Nottingham Trent
Dr Kevin Edge's personal research is concerned with the extant roles and normative potentials of music and public service radio in the processes of subjectification and intersubjectivity. It is grounded in the critical theory of Adorno, Habermas and allied thinkers, and to date has focused on the particular institutional history of the BBC.
Research Interests: • Cultural theory and broadcast music • Subjectification and intersubjectivity • Institutional histories of public bodies • Socio-cultural and philosophical implications of new media • Professional design discourses and their histories
e: sthompson@uwic.ac.uk / stephen@meatresearch.co.uk t: 029 2041 6380
Design and technology philosophy: Consciousness studies and interaction design. Stephen’s research extends his PhD thesis, (Artefacts, Technicity and Humanisation : industrial design and the problem of anoetic technologies) in his current project ‘Semiinfinitebody’ through a series of experiments that play with the idea of the human as an enaction of the distributed techsomtic field. Research Themes • M : Metaphysics We are concerned to use design to explore the nature of being in the world, of consciousness and the aesthetic of being. We understand this exploration to be a contemporary form of natural philosophy, respecting the tenets of scientific rationalism while seeking to reclaim some of the rapturous potential of the pre-scientific mind. • e : embodiment We hold that the soma (in its widest terms) can be most productively understood by designers in terms of a contingent and generative territory that simultaneously transcends and incorporates the organic and inorganic in a poetic interplay. • A : Aesthetics Our design exploration resides in the axiological anticipation and analysis of the creative potential of human interventions in the world. We seek, by means of design, to extend, refine and redefine these interventions in a manner that has resonance with the poetic trajectory of our species. • T : Technology We are concerned to use design to explore the potentials of a fluid understanding of technology as both a paradigm and as an instance. Through design we believe we can seek a means of affording and facilitating a creative, sustainable and poetic aesthetic of being through technological means.
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Programme for Advanced Interactive Prototype Research (PAIPR) PAIPR is investigating methods for rapid design and development of computer embedded products such as mobile phones and PDAs.
Director of Research
Steve is a product designer and academic with 16 years experience in industry and HE. He has designed or product managed around 50 products to market and has published 30+ academic journal and conference papers.
He heads the Programme for Advanced Interactive Prototype Research (PAIPR) team developing new methods for the design development of information appliances such as mobile phones. PAIPR works closely with academic partners such as the University of Lancaster and those in blue chip industry such as Sony-Ericsson. He is currently co-writing a book on Physicality with Prof. Alan Dix of University of Lancaster called Touch IT. The book came out of the DEPtH: Designing for Physicality project, a research council funded collaboration with University of Lancaster.
Steve is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy member of the Design Research Society and a member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Peer Review College.
Gareth’s research interests focus on creativity and the product innovation process, combining ideas from anthropology and psychology, engineering and design. He is one of the co-founders of the PAIPR research group and also runs a research project called “Creating New Realities”. He has over 20 years experience in academic and industrial research and has taken several research ideas all the way through to commercial products for large companies such as Apple Computer and Ericsson. Gareth has several patents to his name and over 40 publications in total. He has won many awards including Best Software Product Award at COMDEX Asia, and for his concept design work from IDSA/BusinessWeek.
In addition to his work at UWIC, Gareth also runs his own training and consultancy company helping individuals, businesses and organisations with their innovation processes.
Gareth is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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The Sensory Design Group aim to design, develop, and distribute (where applicable), a range of experiential, sensory and educational technologies.
Supervisors: Wendy Keay-Bright's most recent research activities have been in the area of Participatory Design and Interactive Technologies. My interest is in the impact of PD on the development of technologies that are designed to be playful rather than purely functional. In my work I demonstrate how the involvement of end users can reveal exciting and interesting ways for people to interact with each other and their environment. Through this process I aim to use Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to play a creative and critical role in both design research and education in order to provoke discussion and ideas rather being used as an intervention tool or to seek a solution to a problem.
My background in Graphic Communication and Animation remains a powerful influence, and the possibilities for personal and expressive forms of communication that are revealed through movement are a strong motivational aspect that underpin both my research and consultancy work.
My practice-led research has involved designing with small groups of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, teaching staff and experts from a number of disciplines. These projects all had valuable input from other, like minded individuals, made possible through significant funding and sponsorship from NESTA, the National Film Board of Canada, Apple Computers and Smart Technologies. I am a partner in the ESRC Technology Enhanced Learning ECHOES project: Improving Children’s Social Interaction through Exploratory Learning in a Multimodal Environment.
Research Interests: • Participatory and Collaborative Design • Design for Disability • Interaction with Technology • Moving Image Design • Expressive Communication
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I research aspects of the co-evolution of humans and machines through a visual art practice based on performance and robotics.
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Cathy’s research investigates the use of digital technology within creative practice and in particular the role of the hand and hand making within the digital process. Cathy is also Visiting Research Fellow at University of Bath, Department of Computer Science.
Specialising in the oral history of declining tribal textile skills, to record and document fading memories and to preserve traditional weaving methods, symbolic patterns and designs with Kuwaiti Bedouin AlSadu weavers, Patola Ikat weavers of Gujarat India, and Iban Dayaks Warp Ikat weavers in Borneo Malaysia; messaging tribal lifestyle, their environment, and the emphasis of symmetry, in order to reintroduce skills and cultural awareness, educate the modern generations within fast developing societies, and to prevent further loss.
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