Frances Joseph
 Frances is Associate Professor of Design at the Auckland University of Technology and co-director of Colab. She is also an Associate Researcher at KEDRI, the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Institute and is acting director of AUT’s Textile and Design Laboratory (TDL).
Frances holds an MFA from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her background is in sculpture, theatre design and object animation – including puppetry and animatronics. She taught in the Sculpture, Performance and Installation Studio of the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, between 1980 and 1996, and joined the School of Art & Design, AUT as head of Postgraduate Studies in 1997.
Her professional design experience includes design and production work for events presented at the Adelaide Festival, Sydney Opera House and World Expo 88 in Australia. She has also been involved in the development of a number of large interdisciplinary research projects including the Art Injection Projects (with the Camperdown Children’s Hospital, Sydney); The Artful Park Projects (with The Centennial Park Trust, Sydney) and The New Zealand Design Archives at AUT.
Frances was co-applicant for the GIPI grant which assisted the establishment of the TDL and was lead applicant in the successful CoLab ESI funding application that eanabled the establishment of CoLab. She has worked on setting up online teaching and learning systems, digital archives, software development and information resources. Her research interests include design research methodology, information modeling and visualisation, e-textiles and design innovation.
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Charles Walker
Associate Professor Charles Walker trained as an architect at Edinburgh College of Art. He has practised and taught architecture in the UK, the Middle East and New Zealand. He has designed buildings, curated and exhibited in major public exhibitions, and published in academic and professional journals. His main research is in mapping the dynamic and complex relationships between artistic, educational, technological and professional practices. He joined AUT in 2007 to develop new approaches to trans-disciplinary education by drawing together design, computing, engineering, mathematics, philosophy, art and entrepreneurship.
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Andrew Ensor
 Andrew Ensor graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Auckland as well as a PhD from Berkeley.
Ensor teaches Applied Mathematics (Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calculus, Modern Algebra) and Computer Science (Distributed and Mobile Systems, Highly Secure Systems, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Computer Graphics).
Ensor’s research interests include Ad-Hoc Networks, Algebraic structures, Algorithmics, Concurrency, Computer Graphics, Cryptography, Distributed and Mobile Systems, Emerging Technologies and Industrial Modelling.
He is currently researching Algebraic Structures for Theoretical Computer Science, Bluetooth Scatternet Formation, Network Optimization Algorithms and Wireless Sensor Networks.
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Barbara Procter
Barbara Procter has been General Manager of MIC Toi Rerehiko since 2005. Her involvement with MIC began in 2003 as a freelance Development Consultant. Proir to that she was Director of the British Council's Auckland Office from 1998 to 2003, and Assistant Director and Arts Manager of the British Council in Wellington from 1994 to 1998.
Born in Liverpool, Barbara is a History graduate of Manchester University. She joined the UK Diplomatic Service in London, and working at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and at British Embassies and High Commissions in Latin America and the Caribbean, Washington DC; Bulgaria; UKMIS New York (temporary duty at the UN) before her posting to Wellington in 1992 as Second Secretary in the Political Section of the British High Commission. She moved from political to cultural diplomacy in 1994, and has been working with the arts community in New Zealand ever since. The proud moments and great partnerships have been numerous, with the ignite festivals with The Edge, Masterclass series, Design Ambassadors, Link programme and purchase of Galatos by MIC among personal career highlights.
In addition to the CoLab Management Board, Barbara is a Trustee for Massive Theatre Company and for the Aotea Centre Performing Arts Trust (ACPAT).
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Desna Jury
Desna Jury is the Head of School of Art and Design and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at Auckland University of Technology. She has worked in the education sector for many years and has had extensive involvement in the development of art and design curricula at tertiary level. She is involved with a wide range of creative industries in her role including graphic design, digital design, spatial design, fashion and visual arts. She is vitally interested in creative technologies, and the arts and cultural initiatives and developments that drive economic growth.
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Dawn Hutchesson is the CoLab Manager, and has worked within the tertiary education sector for many years, concurrent with being a producer-director, and writer. From her experience as a media practitioner Dawn has developed a passion with innovative collaborative projects, digital technology and interdisciplinary processes. Her ongoing experience in teaching, developing and writing media courses includes communities of practice, particularly with regard to performance and interactive technology.
Her documentary film Sheilas - 28 Years On was commissioned by TV One, and selected for both the New Zealand and Melbourne film festivals, winning a Commonwealth Film Festival Audience award. Prior to Sheilas, Dawn produced the short film, Rockpool, which was selected for competition at more than 18 international film festivals including the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in France and the New Zealand Film Festival.
From Dawn - "I've been most fortunate to be able to combine my business skills with my personal love of arts and culture, and am thus comfortable encouraging creative risks in my professional life. CoLab is an extremely exciting new adventure to be part of!".
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Dr Roy Davies
Dr Roy C. Davies has been in the VR industry since the early days when the computers used were at least as big as large refrigerators and made by SGI, or if your budget didn't stretch that far, running VR applications on a PC meant a 200 Mhz Pentium running MSDOS. Starting as
a Computer Scientist in Rehabilitation Robotics at Auckland University, he then spent 12 years at the University of Lund in Sweden in the department of Ergonomics, first to get a PhD in the Usability of Virtual Reality for Participatory Design and Brain Injury Rehabilitation, and
then starting and running the multi-disciplinary VR centre, the Flexible Reality Centre which ties together 25 departments across the campus and has four large VR labs. On return to New Zealand Roy set up Nextspace, a collaboration between the hugely successful NZ- originated company, Right Hemisphere, and the government to build up the 3D-VR industry for
New Zealand.
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 Laurent Antonczak is an Emerging Technology, Visual Communication & Brand’s Strategist.
He
has an international experience gained as an Art Director &
Creative Director in TV, Animation, Corporate Identity, Branding and
Marketing. Laurent has managed and coordinated significant
communication projects in studios throughout England, France,
Luxembourg and New Zealand - where he specialised in developing
creative strategies and communications for companies such as Toyota,
Arcelor, HSBC, Ford, Exxon Mobile, Goldman Sachs, Vodafone, the French
Embassy (Wellington) and RTL (RTL Group part of Bertelsmann Group is
the leading European broadcaster).
Currently Laurent lectures
New Media and Visual Communication at AUT University’s School of Art
& Design in Auckland, playing a key role in managing and leading
the Honours and Masters students in the Graphic Strand of the
postgraduate department. Laurent also coordinate, with computer
scientist Andrew Ensor, CoLab 'Mobile and Locative Media' research
group.
Though involved in education, Laurent still
concurrently leads and manages his creative company ATZ119 Limited,
founded in 1998. Offering New Technology, Graphic Design &
Communication Strategies this facet of his work allows Laurent to keep
his hand in his professional practice and maintain strong industry
links.
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Laurent
Antonczak bénéficie d'une expérience internationale en tant que
directeur artistique et directeur de création dans de multiples
domaines comme la télévision, de l’animation, de l’identité et le
développement de marque d’entreprise et du marketing pour des agences
de design situées en Angleterre, en France, au Grand-Duché de
Luxembourg et en Nouvelle-Zélande.
Progressivement, Laurent
s’est spécialisé en création et développement de stratégies de
communication (marketing & branding) ; il a notamment initié,
développé et géré d’importants projets de communication pour des
sociétés telles que Toyota, Arcelor, HSBC, Ford, Exxon Mobile, Goldman
Sachs, Vodafone, l’ambassade de France (Wellington), RTL (Radio
Télévision Luxembourg, groupe Bertelsmann)…
Actuellement,
Laurent enseigne les nouveaux-médias et la communication visuelle à
l’école d’Arts & de Design (université AUT, Auckland) où il est
aussi en charge du développement et de la gestion du département
“graphisme et nouveaux-médias” pour les étudiants de 2ème et 3ème
cycles (licence et maîtrise/master). Avec Andrew Ensor, Laurent dirige
le groupe de recherche 'Mobile and Locative Media' pour CoLab.
Bien
qu’occupé par l’enseignement universitaire, Laurent continu à diriger
et à développer sa compagnie ATZ119 limited, fondée en 1998, en créant
et implémentant des stratégies de communication adaptées au besoin de
ses clients via les arts graphiques & les nouvelles technologies
(téléphonie, vidéo, Internet, bluetooth).
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Gudrun Frommherz
Gudrun is the Programme & Curriculum Leader for Digital Media at AUT University. She has a B.F.A. (equiv.) in Graphic Design from the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, Germany, a M.F.A. New Media from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA, USA and is also a Ph.D. Candidate at Auckland University of Technology.
Teaching in areas of Digital Media Theory, Digital Media Research Methodology and Postgraduate Studies in Digital Media, her interests and expertise cover the Philosophy of Technology, Posthuman Aesthetics, Virtuality and Embodiment and Human-System Interfaces.
Gudrun is one of our newest memebers to the CoLab Management Board.
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 James Charlton
Interactive Arts Interest Group Coordinator
James Charlton gained his BFA from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1982. As a Fulbright recipient he completed his MFA at the State University of New York in 1986, and exhibited extensively throughout the US. James lectured in sculpture at the University of New Hampshire, Monserrat College of Art and the State University of New York at Albany.
Back in NZ from 1991, Charlton was a founding member of the ASA School of Art Visual Arts Degree, and was subsequently appointed Curriculum Leader of Sculpture in the Visual Art Programme at AUT. In 2008 he left to take up the position of Programme Leader for the newly established Bachelor of Creative Technologies at AUT where he lectures in Sculpture and Interactive Media.
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 Kim Newall
Kim Newall is the CoLab Interest Group Coordinator for 'Interactive Arts' that supports people using Arduino, a physical computing platform based on an open hardware design. The Arduino project makes low-cost, flexible and easy-to-use tools available for artists, designers and hobbyists. It also provides a great introductory platform for learning about microcontrollers and may be of interest to technology teachers interested in robotics, e-textiles and interactive systems. Kim Newall is a also Multidisciplinary artist and has been part of the New Zealand VJ scene since the late 90s and is a co-host of a monthly audio-visual evening at MIC.
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 Geraldene Peters
Community Media Interest Group Coordinator
Geraldene Peters' research focuses on broadly on documentary media exploring the politics and ethnographic experience of identity and place across moving and still images within Aotearoa/New Zealand (and elsewhere). She is especially interested in how class and ethnicity are articulated and responded to through marginalised media forms, in particular domestic, community and arts-based media, completing a PhD about activist left documentary in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2006.
Since undergraduate theatre and film study her work has also been characterised by an exploration of relationships between theory and practice informing her current pedagogical interests in modes of research-led practice. She has accumulated production experience since 1991 as a researcher, production manager and assistant editor across a range of documentary modes from small format community video to international films, as well as working with media collectives such as Indymedia and local social justice movements.
Her current research interests are in Media, Film and Documentary theory and history; research-led Documentary practices; Cultural Studies; Visual culture; Film, Media and Cultural Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand; Community and radical/alternative media practices.
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 Sue Gallagher
Interactive Arts Interest Group Coordinator
MA (Scenography) Central St Martins, UK
BArch Auckland University, NZ
Sue Gallagher is currently co-ordinator of MAP Media Arts & Performance, Head of Postgraduate Department, in the School of Art & Design, at AUT University, and the New Zealand Curator for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial: 12th International Exhibition of Performance Design and Space (National and Student Sections).
Sue's research practice explores performance (and other unstable media) as a platform that transgresses many art forms. It is her understanding from training as an architect and scenographer that spaces are not static and fixed creations, but subtle, communicative and transformative. Her practice investigates relationships between spatial design and performance; specifically architectural and performative environments, including installation, exhibition design, and media arts.
Performance, installation, video and other scenographic works have been exhibited in the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Japan, Czech Republic, Canada and New Zealand.
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 Katrina Bell
Katrina Bell is the recently announced 'Extending Education
Coordinator' for the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at AUT
University. This position evolved from her work as CoLab intern and
CoLab Workshop Coordinator since her start with CoLab in September 2009.
Graduating with a Bachelor of Design (spatial Design) and an
honours degree in Spatial Design at AUT University, Katrina has an interest in all things creative. She enjoys the scope and challenge of
the busy CoLab/AUT worklife alongside the involvement with industry,
education and the creative community.
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 Nolwenn HUGAIN-LACIRE
CoLab | THE EDGE Interactive Screen Coordinator
Nolwenn's itinerary consists of a ballad between music, visual art, education and new technologies. She studied Music and Visual Art in French and Icelandic Art Schools and is interested in comparing these subjects in order to investigate their connection points and specificities.
In order to share her feelings and knowledge about Art, Nolwenn has worked in different educational departments- as an Art teacher for the french ministry of education and a flute teacher for music schools.
In 2006, she began to work for PUCE MUSE, a French center for Live Virtual and Visual Music. In the head of education, she developped electronic orchestras as a new way to approach Art, collectively and easily invitng artists and researchers to join them and work on original pieces for this new kind of orchestra, even becoming a conductor of joysticks orchestras!
Nolwenn's objective is to continue to develop artistic and education activities around music, visual art and digital media and she feels the Interactive Screen project is a great opportunity to innovate and share.
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Patricia Aguilera
Communications Coordinator/Graphic Designer
Patricia is an experienced graphic designer in the creative industries (design & advertising) and art management. She is a graduate of AUT with a Master of Design with distinction, and has specialised in strategic branding and innovation design for Small & Medium Enterprises in New Zealand. Patricia’s passion is to deliver value through design, marketing, storytelling, and emotional branded experiences. She also has significant experience tutoring design students in New Zealand and overseas. www.patriciaag.com
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Aukje Thomassen
Associate Professor Aukje Thomassen's research focuses on Social Innovation (creative entrepreneurship) through Design Research (Philosophy, Didactics and Methodologies) and thereby studying Knowledge Creation in the Creative Industries (especially in the area of Digital Media/Interaction Design) within a theoretical framework of Cybernetics. She recently organised and (academic) chaired the Australasian ACM Interactive Entertainment Conference 2010 in Wellington, which was endorsed by Design Research Society. Previously projects and appointments included directing the PSAU (Professional School of the Arts) a collaborative institute of the University of Utrecht and leading their collaborative Master program on Creative Development, being a research advisor for the Dutch Prime Minister and his Innovation Platform on the Creative industries and co-running the Interaction Design consortium which resulted in an EU-funded Interaction Design summer course annually held in Istanbul. Before that she worked as an Interaction Designer for research labs such as Telematica Institute [2000, NL] and Hewlett Packard Media Laboratory [1998, Bristol UK] where she developed demos and prototypes for future applications; such as content engineering and CSCW. Her Research focus is "Design Research methods and approaches; Interaction Design Principles; Cybernetics, Design and Flow; Design Pedagogy; Knowledge Management and Innovation; Creativity and the Creative Industries; Social Innovation and Co-creation; Ludology and Play"
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