News - New Associate Researcher
University College Falmouth press release
Deborah Baker, Course Leader on the MA Photography course at University College Falmouth, has been invited to join the College's iRes (Interactive Art & Design) Research Cluster as an Associate Researcher.
An artist and photographer, Deborah graduated from Trent Polytechnic in Creative Photography and worked in New York for Ralph Gibson, Mary Ellen Mark, Langdon Clay and Robert Mapplethorpe. She was also the first Director of Oriel Ffotographeg, now known as fFotoggallery in Cardiff, and is a Photographic Fellow of Sheffield City Polytechnic.
Using still photography and video cameras, Deborah produces images that explore the concepts of memory, time and space. "By photographing the moment just before or after an event, I look for an awareness of meaning that is not necessarily described by the actual image, but suggested in a symbolic or metaphorical sense," she explained of her work.
In 1996, Deborah was appointed Senior Lecturer at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design where she taught on the MA and BA Visual Communication (Photography) and contributed through her practice to the research department of the faculty. Deborah joined University College Falmouth in 2003 as a Senior Lecturer on the BA(Hons) Photography course and is currently joint Course Leader on the College's MA in Photography.
iRes engages in trans-disciplinary research into networks, creativity and encounters across art, design, media, critical theory and creative technologies. iRes researchers are specialists in network and media art, ,new media curating, sound art and critical theory, and share their work through exhibitions, conference papers, publications, online galleries and online discussion lists.
iRes offers opportunities for postgraduate study in many areas of practice-led research in art. For further information, please visit http://www.ires.org.uk
University College Falmouth is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education. The CUC is funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.