Artist as visionary

The Entrepreneurial Artist as Marketer

The art organisation today utilise marketing concepts and practices. Much of what is actually practiced is at best an inefficient form of marketing, and at worst an inappropriate way of securing visitor numbers, making profit from merchandising and encouraging repeat visits. The art organisation exhibits similar characteristics to the small and medium sized enterprise (SME). Contemporary resear...

Artist As Researcher, Understanding The Tools

The paper begins with a response to the nature of contemporary artists relationships to how computers have permeated the fine art domain and how they affect the creative process. How should artists utilize this tool in order to fully understand and explore its potential? Using the example of a recent project I have undertaken called 'nGen', I shall discuss some aspects of how the computer tool ...

The Artist as Producer : Russian Constructivism

ARVO 2011: Visionary Genomics

Fort Lauderdale, Florida once again hosted more than 10,000 ophthalmology and vision science researchers. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting is well known for presentation of the latest milestones in fields related to vision science. ARVO is famous for being basic science oriented; clinical posters and papers, and even commercial exhibitions are marke...

Designing Visionary Leadership Teams

Nigel Sykes’ 3E’s concept is examined against established theory and recent work in Organizational Behaviour. The possibility that this concept offers a way of developing social synergy in work groups is explored, and considered in the context of socio-technical systems. 3E’s is based on the categorisation of people in the workplace into roles labelled “Envisioners” “Enablers” or “Enactors”. Ro...