Current
Supervisors and Advisors include:
Professor Roy Ascott, (Director of Studies)
Professor Miranda Aldhouse-Green (Archaeology, University of Wales)
Dr Andreas Broeckmann (Media Art, Transmediale, Berlin)
Dr.Guido Bugman (Robotics, University of Plymouth)
Dr.Angelo Cangelosi (Alife, University of Plymouth)
Professor John L. Casti (Complexity, Santa Fe Institute and Technical
University, Vienna)
Professor Linda Henderson (Art History, University of Texas at Austin)
Dr.Peter Jagodzinski (HCI, University of Plymouth)
Dr. Carol Gigliotti (Art and Technology, Emily Carr School of Art
& Design, Vancouver)
Dr Ranulph Glanville (Architecture/cybernetics, CyberEthics Research)
Dr. Roger Malina (Astrophysics, Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale,
Marseille)
Mr. Mike Phillips (Interactive Media, Deputy Director, STAR)
Dr. Michael Punt (Interactive Art/Film Theory, Deputy Director CAiiA)
Professor Tom Ray (Artificial Life, University of Oklahoma)
Professor Geoff Roberts (Mechatronics, University of Wales)
Professor Francis Rousseaux (Informatics, Université de Reims
Champagne-Ardenne.)
Mr. Chris Speed (Hypermedia, University of Plymouth)
Dr. Evan Thompson, (Philosophy, York University, Canada),
Dr. Kristine Stiles (Art and Art History, Duke University, North
Carolina)
Dr.Simon Waters (Electroacoustic Music, University of East Anglia)
Current Online PhD candidates
Peter Anders (Independent Architect, Michigan),
Donna Cox (Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),
Char Davis (Immersence, Montreal)
Margaret Dolinsky (Assistant Professor, Indiana University)
Maia Engeli (Independent scholar, Zurich)
Elisa Giaccardi, (New Media Program Manager, Foundazione Fitzcarraldo,
Turin)
Diane Gromala (Associate Professor, School of Literature, Communication,
& Culture Georgia Tech, Atlanta)
Pamela Jennings (Assistant Professor, School of Art and Human Computer
Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
Eduardo Kac (Associate Professor, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago)
Jim Laukes (Director, Consciousness Program, University of Arizona)
Laurent Mignonneau (Associate Professor, International Academy of
Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, & Artistic Director, ATR Media Integration
and Communications Research Lab, Kyoto, Japan)
Marcos Novak (independent architect, Los Angeles),
Kjell Yngve Petersen (Independent artist, Copenhagen)
Niranjan Rajah (Deputy Dean, Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts
Arts, University of Malaysia, Sarawak),
Gretchen Schiller ( Professor, Université Paul Valéry,
Montpellier III)
Thecla Schiphorst (Professor, Technical University of British Columbia)
Christa Sommerer (Associate Professor, International Academy of Media
Arts and Sciences, Gifu, and Artistic Director at the ATR Media Integration
and Communications Research Lab, Kyoto, Japan)
Ron Wakkary (Dean of Academic Planning, Technical University of British
Columbia)
Current Onsite PhD candidates
Geoff Cox (Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, University of Plymouth)
Dan Livingstone (Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, University
of Plymouth
Kieran Lyons (Senior Lecturer, Interactive Arts, University of Wales)
PhD graduates
PhD degrees have been awarded to:
Jill Scott (Professor, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar. Thesis:
Digital Body Automata ) 1998
Dew Harrison (Lecturer, University of West of England, Bristol. Thesis:
Hypermedia Systems: the creation and interpretation of concept-based art)
1998
Bill Seaman (Professor, Dept. Design/Media arts, UCLA. Thesis: Recombinant
Poetics; Emergent Meaning as Examined and Explored within a specific Generative
Virtual Environment) 1999
Joseph Nechvatal (Visiting Lecturer, Visual Arts, New York. Thesis:
Immersive Ideals/Critical Distances ) 1999
Victoria Vesna (Professor and Chair, Design/Media Arts, UCLA. Thesis:
Networked Public Spaces: an investigation into Virtual Embodiment) 2000
Miroslaw Rogala (Chicago. Thesis: Strategies for Interactive Public
Art: dynamic mapping with (v)user behaviour and multi-linked experience)
2001.
Jon Bedworth (UWCN. Thesis: Music as Embodied Action, Interfacing
Autonomous Systems and Rhythmical Expression) 2001.
Post-doctoral Researchers in residence
Prof. Katie Maciel, Federal University Rio de Janeiro (2001-2002);
Prof. Tania Fraga, University of Brasilia (1999-2000);
Doctoral Research in residence
Louisa Donati, State University of Campinas.
Visiting artists in residence
Lucas Bambozzi,São Paulo (2000); Carlos Fadon, Federal University
São Paulo (1999); Nigel Helyer, Sydney College of the Arts 1997;
Teresa Picazo, University of Barcelona (1996); Barbara Rauch, Independent
Artist, Berlin (1996-97); Alan Giddy, New Zealand (1995-96)
UNESCO-Aschberg Lauriats
Lalia Krotoszynski, São Paulo, Brazil (2002); Lenara Verde
, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2000); Daniela Kutschat, São Paulo (1999);
Maria Diaz, Quito (1997)
