Profiles
Dr Hannah Drayson
Lecturer in Digital Art & Technology/Immersive Media Design
School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)
Role
Co-convenor Transtechnology Research
Lecturer in Digital Art and Technology / Immersive Media Design
Associate Editor Leonardo Reviews (MIT Press)
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy; Transtechnology Research, University of Plymouth, UK.
Title - “Gestalt Biometrics and their Applications; Objectivity, Instrumentation and Poetics.” 2006/11
Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Supervisors: Professor Dr Michael Punt (Transtechnology Research), Professor Mike Phillips
([i-DAT] Institute of Digital Art and Technology), Dr Brigitta Zics (Culture Lab).
MSc - m-DAT Programme, Masters Digital Art and Technology, University of
Plymouth, UK. 2005/6.
BA(hons) Critical Fine Art Practice, University of Brighton, UK. First Class.
2000/3.
Research interests
Hypnosis, Suggestion and Placebo or Meaning Effects as an Artistic Medium
Philosophy, History and Poetics of Medical and Scientific Instrumentation
Media Archeology and Psychophysiological Measurement
Live Cinema and VJ Performance
Experimental Digital Media and Performance
Grants & contracts
October 2006-2010 - PhD Research Project funded by the EPSRC. Transtechnology Research, University of Plymouth Title - “Gestalt Biometrics and their Applications.”
Research groups
- Transtechnology
Other academic activities
Editor in Chief, Transtechnology Research; Open Access papers. http://www.trans-techresearch.net/papers/
Associate editor and web manager of Leonardo Reviews (Journal of the International Association for the Arts, Sciences and Technology) and an active member of the Leonardo Reviews panel.
http://www.leonardo.info/ldr.php