- Comics and Graphic Narratives
- Digital Games and Media
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Narrative Theory and Analysis
- Art, Technology, and Culture
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Neurology and Historical Studies
- Digital and Traditional Archives Management
- Educational Methods and Media Use
- Art History and Market Analysis
- Sustainable Urban and Rural Development
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Artistic and Creative Research
- Film in Education and Therapy
- Artificial Intelligence in Games
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2022
University of the Arts London
2022
University of Chester
2022
University of Amsterdam
2015-2022
Maastricht University
2022
Institute for Literature
2011-2021
Portal (Norway)
2019
Portál (Czechia)
2019
Utrecht University
2016
Graphic Medicine's Possible FuturesReconsidering Poetics and Reading Erin La Cour (bio) Anna Poletti Since its coinage in 2007 by medical practitioner comics artist Ian Williams, graphic medicine has steadily gained traction as an umbrella term for that explore healthcare issues, the theoretical discourse these engender, study of expressive communicative tools. Embedded within studies, interacts with interdisciplinary humanities, which applies insights from social sciences, arts to practice...
Introduction:As Slowly as Possible Katja Kwastek (bio) and Erin La Cour This special issue of ASAP/Journal is dedicated to the concept slowness. The title our introduction, "As Possible"—apart from serving a pun on commonplace connotation acronym for Association Study Art Present—honors John Cage's signature 1987 piece ORGAN2/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) by underscoring relationality notion slowness: slow always "slow in relation to." In this issue, we explore what engaging with slowness...
Dossier:Cross-Media Slowness Katja Kwastek and Erin La Cour For this dossier, we selected six pieces that elaborate upon artistic practice the relationality of slowness. We begin with two considerations measurement time call into question our anthropocentric views, offer new avenues for exhibitions, in terms "here" "now" mediation. In "Phase to Phase: On Oceanic Oscillations, Measurements, Predictions, Chronographs," DAVID GAUTHIER offers a reading his recent sound art video installations....
The Aesthetics and Politics of Slowness:A Conversation Kevin Hamilton (bio), Lutz Koepnick Katja Kwastek Erin La Cour (bio) In order to approach the concept slowness in its relationality, we invited KEVIN HAMILTON LUTZ KOEPNICK engage with us an open conversation explore where scholarship on topic is—or should be—headed. While this is first which all four together, it also a continuation long-term academic exchange that started 2007 when both KATJA were for final critiques MFA student...
Acknowledgments Erin La Cour (bio) and Anna Poletti This collection was conceived in what Nancy K. Miller refers to her contribution as "BCP," before the coronavirus pandemic. We had initially planned bring together artists scholars an in-person workshop June 2020 explore discuss future of graphic medicine. As pandemic unfolded, we made decision with Biography team push ahead despite loss opportunity our collective thinking person, planned, at biannual meeting International Auto/Biography...
Face as LandscapeRefiguring Illness, Disability, and Disorders in David B.'s Epileptic Erin La Cour (bio) Signifying/Signifiance: L'Ascension du Haut Mal/Epileptic In 1996 French comics artist Pierre-François Beauchard, known professionally B., published the first of what would become a six-volume chronicle personal interpersonal, emotional, medical effects his brother's epilepsy. titling series Mal (The ascension high evil), from outset he draws attention to connotation antiquated term for...