JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network

3DVisA Bulletin, Issue 1, September 2006

ISSN 1751-8962 (Print)
ISSN 1751-8970 (Online)

Who's Who in this Issue

Hugh Denard is Director of the JISC 3DVisA Network and Associate Director of King's Visualisation Lab, King's College, London where he convenes an MA in Digital Culture and Technology. His research focuses on the history of Greek and Roman theatre, and the application of advanced visualisation technologies to research in the Arts and Humanities. He is editor of Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today and co–directs a number of funded projects, as well as being centrally involved in the London Charter initiative. A book on Roman theatricalism in the domestic sphere, jointly authored with Richard Beacham, will be published by Yale University Press in 2007.

Paul Grabowicz is Adjunct Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He directs the New Media Programme at the School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing and computer-assisted reporting. A professional journalist for more than 25 years, he spent most of his career as the investigative reporter at The Oakland Tribune.

Michael Greenhalgh taught at the University of Leicester, and has held fellowships at Christ Church, Oxford and Corpus Christi, Cambridge. He is now Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Australian National University, Canberra. He embraced digital technologies in his research and teaching as soon as they became available, and the progression from still digital images to panoramas and other 3D visualisation techniques seemed only natural. He is a contributor to the Companion to Digital Humanities published by Blackwell's in 2004.

Yehuda Kalay is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a founding member and past president of ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture), and Editor–in–Chief of the journal, Automation in Construction, published by Elsevier in Oxford, UK. Kalay's research focuses on new media, collaboration, knowledge–based design, and extending the principles of architectural design to Cyberspace. His most recent book is Architecture's New Media published by MIT in 2004.

Christian Nold is a London–based artist and cultural activist. He studied Fine Art at Kingston University and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art. He developed BioMapping as a system for recording people's bio-data along with their geographic location. A recent commission by Independent Photography enabled the artist to work on visualisation of 'actions' with multiple participants and create the Greenwich Emotion Map. His book Mobile Vulgus was published by Book Works in 2001.

Andy Wistreich is JISC Advisory Services Liaison Manager. He works with JISC Regional Support Centres, JISC infoNet, JISC Legal, TASI, JISC–PAS, Netskills and TechDis, facilitating the sharing of good practice and helping these services to develop their strategies in order to ensure maximum benefit for the UK's HE and FE communities.