Abstract Authors & Titles

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Nur Balkir
Perceptions of Visual Culture by University Art Educators in Turkey

Ms. Malka Ben-Peshat, Ph.D,
Graduate Program, Visual Literacy in Education
School of Arts and Technology,
Kibbutzim College of Education,
Tel-Aviv, Israel
Visual Literacy in Education, a New Graduate Program (M.Ed.)

Nichole N. Bridges
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Agents in Ivory: Critical Hybridity in Loango Tusk Sculptures

Ferris W. Crane
Associate Professor, Media Arts
Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA
The Impact of New Technologies on Visual Literacy and Information Seeking

William Culpepper
Visual Communication Lecturer
Visual Communication Internship Coordinator
Northern Arizona University
School of Communication
Teaching for Student Success: Digital Technology: A Hybrid Classroom Environment

Kelly Cunningham
Graduate Student, Masters of Graphic Design
North Carolina State University
Blackletter on Skin: Typography, Meaning and the Body

Ms. Luz del Carmen Vilchis Esquivel, PhD
Professor
Postgraduate Program. National School of Visual Arts.
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The graffitti, a study of the anonymous graphic

Lisa Fontaine
Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Iowa State University
fontaine@iastate.edu
Culture jamming and the global brand: a satirical response to ubiquitous corporate identities

Gregory Turner-Rahman, PhD
University of Idaho
Doing - Making - Meaning: Processual Visual Literacy in Recent Digital Cultures

Francesca Guerra, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty
Sociology Department
University of California, Santa Cruz
“‘To give concrete embodiment to the woes of the workers’:
Public Displays of Strikers’ Children”

Dawn M. Hachenski
Associate Professor of Graphic Design
James Madison University

Ronn M. Daniel
Associate Professor Interior Design
James Madison University
“The Mangle of Practice”: Assemblages of Design, Science, History and Nature"

Jason Edward Hill
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Art History
University of Southern California
PM Daily, Radiophotography, and the Dismantling of Photographic Objectivity

Dr. Angélica J. Huízar
Assistant Professor and Director
Latin American Studies Program
Old Dominion University
Imag(in)ing the Word: Visual Literacy of Latin American Digital Poetics

Ritu Khanduri
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Texas at Arlington
Emergent Visualities and Liminal Form in Contemporary India

Derek Larson
Professor of Art History
Castleton State College, VT
Neoconstructivism: Intention Dictated by Technological Form

Lauren Hughes
McDermott Graduate Curatorial Fellow
Department of the Arts of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific
Dallas Museum of Art
Reading Geometry: Iconography and Ideology of the Inca Coca Bag

Gloria Lee
Associate Professor, Design
The University of Texas at Austin
“Polar Bears, Tufte and Gore: The Role of Science and Visuals in An Inconvenient Truth”

Phillipa Martin
School of Architecture Design and Built Environment
The Nottingham Trent University
Visualising Academia: How to make academia sexy
A case study highlighting the development of the Academic Visual Essay; for nurturing students’ critical understanding of a topic, linking images and text

Katie Miller, MFA
Assistant Professor, Web and Digital Media Development
UW‑Stevens Point
Author: Photography for the 21st Century
Teaching Students to Create Photographs with Emotional Impact

Suman Mishra
Doctoral Candidate
Temple University, Philadelphia
On Thin Ice: Gendered Images of Men and Women Figure Skaters in 2006 Winter Olympics

Lucy Niemeyer, D.Sc.
Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Witty in Graphic Design

Kate Rawlinson,
Asst. Director for Education & Public Programs
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

Dr. Susan N. Wood
Associate Professor
English Education
Florida State University
Moving Students Toward Visual Literacy and Critical Inquiry

Dr Keith Russell Design, Communication and IT University of Newcastle, Australia
The Glimpse - a Proposition - Looking as a Poetic?

Kathryn Simon
Adjunct Professor Parsons School of Design, New York
PhD ABD European Graduate School, NY, Saas Fee, Switzerland, Media and Communications
“… Fashion as one of the new mediums / disciplines arising
from a confluence of discourses that run beneath it.”

Wendy Tuxill
University of Hertfordshire, England
Filling the Gap: Ceramics and the Absence of Critical Literacy: a Post-Minimalist Solution.

Susan G. Vial
Professor, Chair
Central Connecticut State University
Department of Design (Graphic / Information)
Design for Diversity: A Visual Message Making a Difference on Campus

Holly Willis
Director of Academic Programs
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
School of Cinematic Arts
City as Screen/Body as Movie