Programme:
Design - MPhil/PhD
Start date:
Sep-19
Mode of study:
Part time
Victoria Evans is a contemporary artist with a background in the film and television industries. She graduated with a Masters Degree in Fine Art Practice (Sculpture) from Glasgow School of Art in 2015 and is currently conducting SGSAH/AHRC funded, practice-based PhD research at Edinburgh College of Art. Victoria’s artwork has been exhibited widely in Scotland and further afield; her writing has been published in a peer reviewed journal and several online platforms; she has been awarded grants and residencies from: Hospitalfield, Arbroath; SNEHTA, Athens; VACMA, Glasgow, Design Informatics, Edinburgh; and Creative Informatics, Edinburgh and was recently commissioned to make a short film for LUX Scotland and BBC Arts. Recent research into data sonification has led to the creation of mobile sonic artwork Tidesong, designed to be experienced at the beach.
Victoria has been a mentor and visiting lecturer in the film and TV departments at Edinburgh Napier University and Glasgow Caledonian University.
PhD Title: Where Do I End and You Begin? Corporeality, cognition, and communication at a distance in artists' moving image and sound
Research interests include: artist's moving image, sound, embodied cognition, haptic visuality and sonicity, data sonification, kinaesthetic empathy, agential realism.