Professor Paul Coldwell – Project Leader
(Profile as of 2008)
Paul Coldwell is project leader for the research project FADE Fine Art Digital Environment Surface- Layering-Memory. He was appointed Professor in 2001 holding research posts at both Camberwell College of Arts and Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London. He is on the centre management board for ICFAR, International Centre for Fine Art Research, University of the Arts London and is visiting Professor in Fine Art at the University of Northampton.
His art practice includes prints, book works, sculptures and installations. He has exhibited widely both in UK and abroad and his work is included in numerous public collections, including Tate, V&A, British Museum and the Imperial War Museum. He is currently showing in the International Print Triennial Vienna, Territories Study Centre, Poole, Committed to Print RWA, and has been selected for the 14th Print Triennial Tallinn and the International Multiple Art Exhibition Korea.
He has curated a number of exhibitions including Computers & Printmaking Birmingham Museum & Art Galleries, Digital Responses V&A and most recently, Morandi’s Legacy; Influences on British Art at the Estorick Collection London and Abbot Hall, Cumbria. His work is featured in the recent book Prints Now- Directions and Definitions by Gill Saunders & Rosie Miles. He was commissioned to write the catalogue for the touring exhibition Paula Rego Printmaker (currently on show in Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery).
He had presented research papers at a number of conferences both in UK and abroad and will be presenting at Impact Tallinn in Oct 07 and CAA conference in Dallas 08.
Professor Paul Coldwell’s profile on the University of the Arts London website
Dr Barbara Rauch – Research Fellow
(Profile as of 2008)
Dr Barbara Rauch is an artist and fulltime research fellow in FADE at Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London.
She completed her practice-based PhD in 2007, in which she explored digital art models and theories of Virtual Reality. In this research she compared neuroscientific models of the dreaming brain, which suggest an altered state of consciousness, with online models of the disembodied self. The world simulation metaphor, online presence and immersion were key points in her debate.
Rodopi Books in The Netherlands has since offered to publish her thesis. This book will be published as part of Rodopi’s ‘Consciousness, Literature and the Arts’ series in 2008.
Her latest research concentrates on new technologies and how they alter our understanding of human consciousness. The research work focuses on 3D-surface capturing of animated facial expressions in animals and humans, attempting to map virtual emotions. This project is supported through an AHRC Grant in the Creative and Performing Arts scheme, January 2006 – June 2007).
Most recently (March/ April 2007) she has been a visiting fellow at the McLuhan Program, FIS, University of Toronto.
Dr Barbara Rauch’s profile on the University of the Arts London website
Jonathan Kearney – Researcher
(Profile as of 2008)
Jonathan is an artist and Associate Lecturer at the University of the Arts London. He teaches MA Visual Art and has recently written and delivered a new undergraduate supplementary course ‘Digital Environments’. He is also a Associate Researcher with FADE (Fine Art Digital Environment) at the same university and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
His art practice and current research involves both an embodied experience of material and the new possibilities afforded by digital technologies. He pours white glue over a variety of physical surfaces and explores what happens when this is brought into a digital environment. The next stage of this research is supported by an AHRC Incentive Grant.
Jonathan lived for 3 years in China (2004-7), learning Mandarin and exploring connections between his own practice and Chinese art. He has had exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kunming and lectured at many universities. During those 3 years he continued to teach on the MA course in London, using digital technologies and acted as gallery director and curator for a large Chinese contemporary art gallery.
He has exhibited widely including Brazil, Korea, Sweden, India, UK and China. Solo and group shows have been seen at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) London, London Art Fair, 798 Beijing, Shanghai Biennial and his work was selected for the Bonhams Exhibit 06 a survey of contemporary British art.
Jonathan has also worked as a curator, curating ‘Fibonacci swirls’ by Sir Terry Frost, ‘Chinese Contemporary Art – Identity and Transformation’ Kunming, China and ‘Close to the Surface – Digital Presence’ ICA, London.
