Visiting Research Fellows

Dr Alistair MacDonald is Director of the Electroacoustic Studios at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, where he teaches composition. He is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music, his work drawing on a wide range of influences reflecting a keen interest in improvisation, transformation of sound, and space. Many of his works are made in collaboration with choreographers and fine artists, and explore a range of contexts for performance often using interactive technology. Alistair's music has won a number of awards including a Creative Scotland Award, and is performed and broadcast in the UK and abroad.

Dr Carol Brown is a choreographer and director of her company Carol Brown Dances. The company focuses upon works for theatre, inter-disciplinary collaborations, and place-sensitive events. Her performance-based work makes frequent use of architecture including new buildings and building, and she recently collaborated with Oxford mathematician Marcus de Sautoy and composer Dorothy Ker. Her work is performed nationally and internationally.Carol Brown also teaches Choreography, Critical Practice and Dance History at Roehampton University, where her research interests include Dance & Architecture, Interactive Dance and Dance and Feminist Philosophy.

Professor Elliot Caplan is a film maker and director. He served as filmmaker in residence at the Cunningham Dance Foundation from 1983 until January 1998, collaborating with Merce Cunningham and John Cage in the production of several films and videos. He has worked extensively with choreographers from the USA and Europe since that time. He has also produced a national television series on art in America, designed and directed theatre productions, produced the twenty-six screen video-opera Weather, which toured Europe in 2001 and designed a sixteen-screen multi-monitor projection for live performance for choreographer Sasha Waltz. HIs work as producer, director and filmmaker has received several awards in the USA and Europe. Elliot is currently artistic director of the Center for the Moving Image at the University at Buffalo, New York. New initiatives under the Center include a national dance commissioning and preservation project and a film festival for the City of Buffalo. He also teaches in the Media Department at Buffalo.