Andrew/Gair: Thanks for offering the chance to introduce myself to the list by bringing up to topics close to my heart and brain - auditory display and soundscape 'mapping'....
Catriona Macaulay here - I'm a lecturer at Dundee Uni on the new Interactive Media Design degree. Although I'm based in the Dept. of Applied Computing it's a cross faculty initiative with Duncan of Jordanstone School of Design. My research activity is in two areas - I'm an ethnographer who studies cultural/work/etc practices to inform design processes (mostly in industry settings) and I also work in the area of auditory display design from a 'blue sky' perspective but again so far always in the prosaic end of things (for want of a better phrase - 'working on stuff that has an everyday function/application' - probably shouldn't say any more or we'll get into the whole art/commerce debate and I'm sure you've all been down that one a few times already). At a theoretical level I have been working on a project to 'map' soundscapes from both a psychoacoustic and a phenomenological perspective, and am also interested in the philosophical foundations of design practice. Had a paper published in ICAD 1998 on the topic and another coming up in ICAD 2002. More recently been getting interested applying all of this in 'less prosaic' settings and would be interested in collaborating with artists working in the soundscapes area and digital media in general. Oh yeah, and a wee aside - I have a long standing interest (bordering on obsession) is the artist/designer/dancer Sophie Taueber Arp - always looking for anyone interested in collaborating on a project about her. cheers /catriona ___________________ Catriona Macaulay work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
