Art - MA in Creative Practice

Research/Areas of Interest: digital media, history, representation, videogames, 3d, painting

Research/Areas of Interest: Ecology, Artistic Upcycling, Recycling,

Research/Areas of Interest: Her research spans many forms of visual culture: she has published and presented on how new scientific approaches to the unconscious mind informed the work of American artists and critics in the early 20th century; on poetic satire and pictorial criticism of modernism in the 1916 Spectra hoax; on transatlantic encounters with the oceanic commons in art; on coordinated human and animal aesthetics in millinery fashion; and on the fabrication and perception of fly fishing lures, among other examples of 19th century 'ecologies of mind.'

Research/Areas of Interest: He specializes on the sculpture and architecture of the Mexica (Aztec) and socio-political history and visual culture of colonial Mexico. His interests include visual manifestations of indigenous governance, Pre-Columbian architecture and urbanism, global interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth century, colonial and post-colonial visual strategies, Open Churches of Sixteenth Century Mexico, the Habsburg empire, kunstkammer, museum studies, and modern architectural history.

Research/Areas of Interest: My research focuses on co-creation and collective knowledge production through interdisciplinary creative practices and participatory action research. This work encompasses civic engagement, socially engaged art, and social practice art, and explores the aesthetics of protest and social justice within the context of intersectional feminism. I address cycles of violence, migration and displacement, discrimination, and advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, animal rights, and the prevention of sexual assault and violence against women.

Research/Areas of Interest: Animation and Filmmaking, New Media, Decolonisation

Research/Areas of Interest: Print Media, Multiples, Performance, Sculpture, Installation, Site-Responsive Projects, Writing, Sound, Graphics, Publications, Ephemera

Research/Areas of Interest: Moving image Studies, Visual Culture Studies, Trauma and Memory Studies, Avant-garde and Non-Fiction Cinema, Cinematic Ontologies and Temporalities, Modernity Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: In my work, I access contemporary social issues by making connections with personal narratives, history, and popular culture. I freely combine research methodologies and artistic strategies from various disciplines such as photography, documentary, graphic design, performance, storytelling, installation, and social interventions. My work is project based. I draw from academic research as much as intuitive explorations in the graphic arts. I explore projects over the span of several years the work can transform into exhibitions, installations, publications, performances and street happenings. . As I approach my work from a conceptual frame, the form is wide ranging; fabric banners, to ceramic plates, oil paintings produced in factories, resin cast sculptures and news media ads. Often the project culminates in an artist's publication. Educated as a designer I've used the computer since the mid-80s and was actively participating in the digital revolution that came through image manipulation software, desktop publishing, internet communication, web publishing and more recently mass customization. Text and language is an inherent part of my work; interviews, personal narrative, found text, all have the potential to contextualize the imagery. The book format allows me to develop an idea in much greater detail and create dialogues outside art establishments where it can reach a wider audience. With my collaborator (and husband) Mike Mandel, I actively interact with the media as part of the work. We have given press conferences and staged street events to open the work to a non-art audience. . Under the imprint of Eighteen Publications, Mike and I have self-published several artist's books. Our combined skills in photo, graphic design, printing and publishing enables us the artistic freedom from the industry. We are committed to create works of art that are cheap and accessible to a wider audience. As my studio practice evolves, I have embraced the rapid changes in technology and in recent years I've also used print-on-demand technology and Risography along with offset printing to produce and distribute my work.