Dr. Raphael Jay Adjani F.R.S.A.
Raphael has recently taught the following Masters courses: ‘Art: Ecology and Technology’; ‘Art and Composition: Philosophical Approaches with particular reference to Film’. He has mentored and supervised art practice at masters and Bachelor Levels. At Undergraduate level, he has taught: ‘Art and Japan’; ‘Technology, Art, and Being”; ‘Narrative Construction in Film’; ‘Multi-Media and Site-Specific Art’. In addition he is part of the teaching team of Culture and Performance, core third year course.
His studies in fine art, film, performance and education, have been, formally, at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London; the Institute of Education, University of London; the Royal College of Art and Ecole Etienne Decroux, Paris. He is also a member of the University of Arts London Research Centre, Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN).
Raphael's academic research traverses practice and theory. His research has been award-winning and critically acclaimed; and has had international manifestation. Initially working as a writer, director, performer, and producer in experimental performance, his creative and research concerns now span a number of disciplines: architecture, creative writing, dance, design, digital art, film, installation, live/performance art, net art, painting, sculpture, site-specific art.
Raphael’s post-doctoral research concerns:
Inter-connections between architecture, art, design, ecology medicine & other science, philosophy and technology, to explore notions of being: the subject of his doctorate.
A conception of architecture as not building only but that which comes into being through dynamic inter-action of built edifice, the humans that frequent it, and a wider landscape.
Dynamics of ‘interaction’ and ‘immersion’ in design and art practices.
The concept of zero: its mathematical and philosophic origins in South Asia; its significance for current technology; its relevance to notions of ‘void’.
Deep ecology and its relationship to notions of ‘relational being’ and ‘non-anthropocentric being’.
The creation of different models of learning in art and design education.
Certain approaches and attitudes to the way we live in daily life being considered ‘art’.
The employment of ‘found technologies’ in creative practice.
Notions of ‘void’, ‘emptiness’, nothingness’ and the ‘sublime’.
Detailed Information on his current practice and research, as well as some of his web-based and film art projects can be seen via the following websites:
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