GSA - Key Persons
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- Director of Development
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
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- Vice President, GSA Students' Association )
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- Director of Finance
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
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- Chairman of the Board Convenor of the Nominations Committee
Birrell, Ross (2005) Meaningless Work: Art as Abstract labour, notes on Santiago Sierra and the Political Economy of Man Under Capitalism' and ‘Labour Exchange: A Dialogue with Santiago Sierra. In: Transcript 2 Cross-Wired: Communication - Interface - Locality. Manchester University Press in association with School of Fine Art, DJCAD, pp. 93-109. ISBN 0719070376
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- Adolescent Nuclear Angst . or How I Learned to Stick My Head Between My Knees
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- Professional Support Staff Representative )
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- Research Developer
- Researcher and Research Developer
Daisy Abbott is an interdisciplinary researcher and research developer based in the School of Simulation and Visualisation at The Glasgow School of Art.
Daisy's current research focusses on game-based learning, serious games, 3D visualisation, and issues surrounding digital interaction, documentation, preservation, and interpretation in the arts and humanities. She regularly attends conferences and publishes in journals relevant to these topics. Daisy also collaborates with artists on works aiming to explore the nature of digital interactivity and digital art.
Dr Fiona Anderson has an MA in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests are in the broad field of design history and theory with a strong research specialism in fashion, textiles, adornment and the body. A two-way dialogue between Fiona's research expertise and teaching developed through her previous work at the Royal College of Art, Edinburgh College of Art and as a contracted Independent Assessor at the University of Oxford. Fiona's research has interconnected with her previous curatorial practice at the V&A, London and as Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles at National Museums Scotland. She has developed an international research profile by regularly publishing essays in peer-revi more...
Dr Fiona Anderson has an MA in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests are in the broad field of design history and theory with a strong research specialism in fashion, textiles, adornment and the body. A two-way dialogue between Fiona's research expertise and teaching developed through her previous work at the Royal College of Art, Edinburgh College of Art and as a contracted Independent Assessor at the University of Oxford. Fiona's research has interconnected with her previous curatorial practice at the V&A, London and as Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles at National Museums Scotland. She has developed an international research profile by regularly publishing essays in peer-reviewed journals and in books by leading academic publishers. In 2016, her monograph Tweed was published by Bloomsbury Academic. This interdisciplinary book explores international perspectives on the design and cultural history of these textiles. It was the major output from an AHRC Fellowship project on which Fiona was the Principal Investigator. This project involved knowledge exchange with contemporary designers and research in the private archives of Chanel, Dior and Balenciaga. Fiona regularly peer reviews for Textile History and the Journal of Design History. Her role as a Trustee of the Design History Society involved organising Publishing Workshops, and peer reviewing research grants and entries for the international professional Design Writing Prize. Fiona was a peer reviewer on the Scientific Committee for the DHS conferences in Switzerland (2021) and Portugal (2023). The impact of Fiona's research has involved regular media engagement and frequently delivering public talks, including at National Museums Scotland and the V&A, London. She is currently a Steering Committee Member of the ‘Tailoring for Women' research project led by the University of Brighton, which is part of the Apparences, Corps et Sociétés trans-European Research Group based at the Université de Lille. The major outputs from this project will include an edited book.
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Diploma in Clothing Studies (4 year qualification, design practice pathway), Scottish College of Textiles (now the School of Design, Heriot-Watt University).
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- Designer
- Lecturer in Sound
Dr Jessica Argo is a 3D sound designer, installation artist and educator both for early years and higher education. She has recently completed her PhD, where she composed immersive Ambisonic soundscapes to temporarily induce anxiety in exposure therapy, to encourage both physical desensitisation and mental catharsis for anxiety sufferers. These ambisonic soundscapes will advance psychiatric exposure therapy beyond the established Virtual Reality visualisation, real-life and talking techniques.
Recently, she has facilitated and analysed bespoke user testing sessions for ISO Design and the V&A Dundee.
Argo creates mesmeric, immersive sound and visuals to be performed live, tailored to the socio-cultural setting. She pans sound across spatial arrays, projects video onto translucent mesh fmore...
Dr Jessica Argo is a 3D sound designer, installation artist and educator both for early years and higher education. She has recently completed her PhD, where she composed immersive Ambisonic soundscapes to temporarily induce anxiety in exposure therapy, to encourage both physical desensitisation and mental catharsis for anxiety sufferers. These ambisonic soundscapes will advance psychiatric exposure therapy beyond the established Virtual Reality visualisation, real-life and talking techniques.
Recently, she has facilitated and analysed bespoke user testing sessions for ISO Design and the V&A Dundee.
Argo creates mesmeric, immersive sound and visuals to be performed live, tailored to the socio-cultural setting. She pans sound across spatial arrays, projects video onto translucent mesh for the audience to play with in nightclubs, installs ambient white cube installations, and stages site-specific performances in unique acoustic environments (such as the Devil's Mountain Listening Domes in Berlin). All performances are focused on transforming the mental and physical state of the audience, and now she bridges the gap between art and science as she records these induced affects with a physiological monitoring system (evaluating the fluctuations in a participant's heart rate, sweat secretion and respiration rate).
From childhood Argo has danced and played music, focused mainly in Ballet and Cello. As she expanded her dance repertoire to include Contemporary, Hip Hop, and even Japanese Butoh, equally, she began to go beyond symphonic classical music, improvising with unfamiliar sound textures; she now uses sound and visual art in a symbiotic relationship. Argo plays cello in the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.
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Doctor of Philosophy, Glasgow School of Art 2017
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Director of Estates
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Registrar
- Secretary
- Ex Officio Governor
The remit, membership and procedures for the Senior Leadership Group can be found here.
The remit, membership and procedures for the Planning Subgroup of the Senior Leadership Group can be found here.
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- Vice Chair of the Board Convenor of the Business and Estates Committee
Howell, Mark, Love, Steve, Turner, Mark and Van Laar, Darren (2003) Interface metaphors for automated mobile phone services. In: Proceedings of HCI International ‘03, 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Crete, Greece. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, pp. 128-132.
Howell, Mark, Love, Steve and Turner, Mark (2006) Visualisation improves the usability of voice-operated mobile phone services. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 64 (8). pp. 754-769. ISSN 1071-5819
Jessica, Minton, Phil, Roche, Emma, MacGlone, Una, MacDonald, Raymond and Rossi, Gerry (2017) Glasgow Improviser's Orchestra and Phil Minton - Democracy Through Improvisation: Feral Choristers, New Technology and Playfulness at Glasgow Jazz Festival 2017. [Performance]
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- Innovative Education and Engagement Tools for Rheumatology and Immunology Public Engagement With Augmented Reality
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- Vice Chair of the Board Convenor of the Human Resources Committee
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Head of School of Fine Art
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- Director of Human Resources
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
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- Lecturer
- Lecturer in Sculpture and Environmental Art
- Lecturer in the Sculpture and Environmental
Rachel Adams is a lecturer in the Sculpture and Environmental Art department. Her artistic practice reimagines gallery spaces as speculative arenas of work and leisure. By doing so, her practice examines the hierarchies of work and their interaction with cultural labour practices and materials.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Damp, (2022), domobaal, London Home Grown (2021), Yoshimi Arts, Osaka, Noon, David Dale Galleries and Studio, Glasgow, Lowlight, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, Right Twice a Day, Jerwood Project Space, (all 2018), How to Live in a Flat, The Tetley, Leeds (2014); Spacecraft, Tramway, Glasgow (2013). In 2015-6 Adams was the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome and in 2023 was a recip more...
Rachel Adams is a lecturer in the Sculpture and Environmental Art department. Her artistic practice reimagines gallery spaces as speculative arenas of work and leisure. By doing so, her practice examines the hierarchies of work and their interaction with cultural labour practices and materials.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Damp, (2022), domobaal, London Home Grown (2021), Yoshimi Arts, Osaka, Noon, David Dale Galleries and Studio, Glasgow, Lowlight, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, Right Twice a Day, Jerwood Project Space, (all 2018), How to Live in a Flat, The Tetley, Leeds (2014); Spacecraft, Tramway, Glasgow (2013). In 2015-6 Adams was the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture at the British School at Rome and in 2023 was a recipient of a Henry Moore Artist Award.
Qualifications
PhD University of Edinburgh, 2023.
MFA, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, 2017.
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Deputy Director Academic
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- Lecturer Sound for the Moving Image
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- Senior Researcher GSA / Professor in Contemporary Art Practice & Critical Theory
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- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Director of Strategy and Marketing
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- Academic Staff Representative