Staff
Some of her recent publications include a chapter on typographic commemoration in Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising, edited by Lisa Godson and Joanna Brück (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015) and ‘Counting the days: the material culture of indulgences,’ a chapter in Salvador Ryan’s edited volume Death and the Irish: a Miscellany (Word Well Books, 2016). She is the author of Design Factory: On theEdge of Europe (Dublin: Lilliput & Amsterdam: BIS, 2009), a monograph on the Dublin graphic design studio. Mary Ann is co-editor of Campaign: The Journal of the Institute of Creative Advertising and Design and contributes to the ICAD website. She regularly presents papers at peer-reviewed conferences and speaks on radio about design and typography.
With her DIT colleague, Clare Bell, Mary Ann represents Ireland as country delegate of the Association Internationale Typographique. Together they programme the research group Typography Ireland and organised the 2015 Face Forward International Typography Conference, part-funded by Irish Design 2015 and ‘The Word,’ the 2010 annual ATypI conference, hosted by DIT.
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NA Kelly Profile |
She has contributed to Art Monthly; The Irish Review; Visual Artists’ News Sheet Review Supplement; Cara Magazine; Museum Ireland; Sculpture Society of Ireland Newsletter; Circa; Source Photographic Review and radio programmes in Ireland and the UK (BBC 4, Night Waves; RTE 1, Sunday Miscellany; Lyric FM, Artszone; RTE 1, Rattlebag),written texts for art books and catalogue and delivers workshops and talks in public art and heritage venues.
FORTHCOMING BOOKS:
2017, Imaging the Great Irish Famine: Representing DisposSession in Visual Culture (I.B.Tauris).
2017, Ultimate Witness: The Visual Culture of Death, Burial and Mourning in Famine Ireland, part of the Famine Folio Series, Series Editor: Niamh O'Sullivan (Ireland's Great Hunger Museum/Quinnipiac University)
RECENT SEMINAR and CONFERENCE Papers:
2017, 'The Artist as Witness: Migrations,' Public Seminar, Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane, organised with the Port Perspectives Programme
2016,
‘The
Otherness of History: “Looking Away” & Visual Culture of the Famine, Conference: The Great Famine and its Impacts: Visual and Material Culture, Maynooth
University/Netherlandish Organization of Scientific Research, NWO/International
Network of Irish Famine Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen.
RECENT CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
2014,
The National Institutions of Visual
Culture in: Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume V, (The Twentieth
Century), Royal Irish Academy/Yale University Press
2014,
Biographical Entries for 8 Artists (Michael
Craig-Martin; Fran Hegarty; Finola Jones; Jaki Irvine; Maurice O’Connell;
Alanna O’Kelly; Grace Weir; Daphne Wright) in: Art and Architecture of
Ireland, Volume III, (Sculpture and Sculptures), Royal Irish Academy/Yale
University Press
2014,
Narrating Sites of History: Workhouses and Famine Memory, Memory
Ireland Volume III: Cruxes in Irish Cultural Memory – The Famine and the
Troubles. Ed.
Oona Frawley. Syracuse University
Press. 152-173.
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T. Stott Profile |
DR TIM STOTT is an art historian and critic of contemporary art,
Lecturer in Art History and Theory at Dublin Institute of Technology and
Associate Researcher at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media.
His
research interests concern the history and criticism of contemporary art, in
particular the organisational turn, systems aesthetics, artistic uses of play
and games, and convergences of art and design through ornamentation and
information design.
His
monograph Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practice was
published by Routledge in 2015. He was Visiting Research Fellow at Henry
Moore Institute in 2016 where he worked on a second book project that
investigates ludic modes of artistic production and organisation in the
post-war period. With Francis Halsall, he is also co-writing the book Systems
of Modernism, which analyses uses of complex systems across artistic
modernisms, for the Meaning Systems series at Fordham University Press.
He is a member of the
Association of Art Historians, the College Arts Association, and the Society
for Literature, Science and the Arts. As a critic, he has written extensively
on contemporary art for journals such as Frieze, Art Review, Afterall, Circa,
Variant, Enclave Review, and maKHUzine: Journal of Artistic Research.
DR CONNELL VAUGHAN is
lecturer in philosophy and aesthetics in the Dublin School of Creative Arts at
Dublin Institute of Technology and earned his PhD in 2010 in aesthetics from
University College Dublin. He is a research fellow with GradCAM and member of
the European Society for Aesthetics and The Aesthetics Research Group.
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Within the
domain of Critical Theory, his research, and teaching, is primarily focused on
aesthetic and educational theory. Specifically, how challenges to aesthetic,
educational and political institutional norms and narratives gain recognition
over time. In the area of aesthetics he has published on the avant-garde, curatorial practice, vandalism and the relationship
between contemporary aesthetic theory, practice and policy. In the area of
education he has published on curriculum design, the essay, the aesthetics of
the classroom and the role of the canon.
BOOK CHAPTERS
• “Instrumentalising Education: Critical Theory as an Introduction to the Canon of Core Texts” in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Core Texts in the European Context. Edited by Emma Cohen de Lara and Hanke Drop. Delaware: Vernon Press. ( January 2016).
• “Contemporary Curatorial Practice and the Politics of Public Space” in Radical Space: Exploring Politics & Practice. Edited by Fay (Fae) Brauer, Maggie Humm, and Debra Benita Shaw. London: Rowman & Littlefield International Limited (April 2016), pp. 21- 38.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
• “Statecraft: Vandalism and Iconoclasm in the Digital Age” in Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics Vol. 8 (November 2016)
PRESENTATIONS
• “The Video Essay in Arts Based Research” (co-written with Glenn Loughran) Conference: European Educational Research Association, ECER 2016 Leading Education: The Distinct Contributions of Educational Research and Researchers, UCD Dublin (August 2016).
• ““Caveman stuff”: Ireland’s Soccer Struggle with Identity, Style and Success” (co-written with Mick O’Hara) Conference: The Beautiful Game: The Poetics and Aesthetics of Soccer in Transnational Perspective, Basel (June 2016).
• “Re-Turn To Schiller: Dublin V Barcelona” (co-written as part of The Aesthetics Group) Conference: European Society for Aesthetics, Barcelona and Creative Agency In Local Communities, Dublin (June 2016)
She is currently working on the research monograph Venice Biennale: Freedom Under Erasure (with Atropos Press). In addition, EL has actively been presenting artworks and performances in the United States and Europe for the past decade, and has been a member of the Mobius Alternative Artists Group since 2009.
Some recent events include:
16 Sept: Performing as part of Culture Night at Carlow
College for the relaunch of the Carlow Art Collection
30 Sept: Performing at "Room" in Arbour Hill,
organized by Angela McDonagh
3 Nov: Performing at
"Stance" in Pollen Studios, Belfast, organized by Justine McDonnell
and Rachel Rankin
Recent and Upcoming Publications:
"Dynamic Instability: An Interview with Amanda
Coogan" in ARTPULSE Magazine, no. 26.
"Parasitic Interventions:
An Interview with Jesse Jones" in ARTPULSE Magazine, no. 27
(forthcoming)
"Hungering for Liveness" in The Visual Artists News Sheet, Nov/Dec issue
"Hungering for Liveness" in The Visual Artists News Sheet, Nov/Dec issue
