Irina Aristarkhova
Biography
Aristarkhova has published and lectured widely on cyberculture and cyberarts and critical issues in image processing; ethnicity and gender in cyberspace. Dr Irina Aristarkhova teaches the pioneering studio-based course, Cyberarts, in the Programme. She was formerly Senior Lecturer at the LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts where she taught courses in Cybertheory, Feminist Theory, Feminist Aesthetics, Technology and Embodiment and Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory. She holds an MA from the University of Warwick, UK, and PhD from the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences. She was International Visiting Scholar at the Franke Institute of Humanities, University of Chicago in 2000 where she participated in the Sawyer Seminar series entitled "Computer Science as a Human Science: The Cultural Impact of Computerization". She was invited to lecture on topics in 'Gender and Technology' at the NOISE European Summer School at the University of Pisa, Italy in September 2000. Dr. Aristarkhova who has published and lectured widely on cyberculture and cyberarts has a range of research interests including issues of aesthetics and technologies of virtual reality; immersive and interactive virtual environments; critical issues in image processing; ethnicity and gender in cyberspace; technological embodiments; contemporary psychoanalytic theory; postcolonial new media theory, and cyberethics. She is a contributing editor on the editorial board of the journal "Radek: Art, Theory, Politics" (Moscow), and on the Academic Board of Digital Art and Culture (DAC) annual conference and exhibition (RMIT, Australia). Since July 2001 Irina Aristarkhova has been directing Cyberarts Research Initiative (www.cyberarts.scholars.nus.edu.sg) – an ambitious Art & Technology research project, first of its kind in South-East Asia.
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