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Timi O’Neill BA (Hons), PGCE, MA, DProf candidate, FHEA

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Programme Manager Prof. Doctorate in Art and Design 
Programme Manager MA Art and Design

Swansea College of Art


Tel: +44 (0) 01792 481221 
Email: timi.oneill@uwtsd.ac.uk

Role in the University

Managing and teaching on the UWTSD’s Professional Doctorate in Art and Design, and MA Art and Design courses. I also teach online short courses in Art and Design to a range of Chinese universities including Wuhan University of Technology, Fujian Jiangxia University, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Lanzhou University, and Nanjing Institute of Technology.

  • Programme Team Leader (PTL) for Professional Communications (International University of Malaysia Wales (IUMW)
  • Programme Team Leader (PTL) ESCO, the School of Communication and Marketing of Granada
  • Programme Team Leader (PTL) EADE
  • Programme Team Leader (PTL) FJU

Background

I have worked in Swansea College of Art UWTSD since 2008. I have taught in several departments. Currently, I am the Programme Manager of the Doctorate of Professional Practice in Art & Design (Prof Doc) Part 1.

Previously to UWTSD, I worked as a freelance videographer funded by several sources (Arts Council of Wales, Joseph Rowntree foundation etc) and have directed several commercial projects. My short films have been screened at film festivals across the world.

Member Of

  • BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies)
  • Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild
  • MeCCSA
  • Royal Institute of Philosophy
  • British Shakespeare Association
  • Samuel Beckett Society
  • UK Jewish Film
  • British Society for Phenomenology

Academic Interests

  • Storytelling as a research method
  • Memory, identity and autoethnography within Jewish stories
  • Decolonialising research
  • Shakespeare as a Catholic storyteller
  • Professional Doctorate in Art and Design candidate (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee)

Research Interests

  • AI and immersive technology in research
  • Auto-ethnography in practice research
  • Authenticity in AI photography
  • Rhythm-analysis

Publications

Chapter

Historical trauma and imprisonment in Samuel Beckett’s short prose in Writing from the Margins: The Aesthetics of Disruption in the Irish Short Story ed by Dr C.Ryan (Cambridge Scholars, 2015)

Articles

Michel Foucault predicts the NSA’s cyber Panopticon (Pending)

Resistance and freedom in the works of Samuel Beckett (Pending)

Scripts

Late December feature film (2018).

Conferences

  • AI in Visual Arts: grasping the rhythms of AI through Photography and Painting – The 5th Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media and Culture; October 2024
  • “Meta-Disruption” in Art and Design Education: A Constructivist Approach for Chinese Postgraduate Students – The European Conference on Education (ECE2024); July 2024
  • Authenticity in Protest Lyrics: Exploring Fauve’s Existentialist Discourse through Sartrean Philosophy – The Paris Conference on Arts and Humanities; June 2024
  • Documenting Mikhail Tal’s Chess Philosophy on Design Ontology and Its Impact on Postgraduate Design Education: A Diary Study – The Paris Conference on Education; June 2024
  • ‘Digital Immersion and Intimacy: Existentialist Analysis of Online Asian Sex Workers Lived Experiences’ – IAFOR International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Hawaii; January 2024
  • ‘Creativity and achieving presence in immersive stories’ – Craftsmanship: 8th Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts International Workshop; October 2023
  • An Autoethnographic Study of Co-Creating a Script with Artificial Intelligence Whilst Walking Through Père Lachaise Commentary: The Asian Conference on Media, Communication and Film (MediAsia2023); October 2023
  • ‘Negotiating Reality: Hermeneutic Interpretations of Meaning in Immersive Narratives and Their Implications for Art and Design Education’ – Barcelona Conference on Education; September 2023
  • Documenting the Effectiveness of a Storyteller/Researcher in Achieving Presence in Immersive Environments – Nexus 2023; June 2023
  • Documenting the Effectiveness of a Storyteller/Researcher in Achieving Presence in Immersive Environments – The Paris Conference on Education; June 2023
  • ‘Storytelling as a decolonising pedagogy for teaching Chinese art and design students’, The Asian Conference on Education; 2022
  • The Paris Conference on Art and Humanities; June 2022
  • Wales NEXUS Conference (annual learning and teaching conference); 2022
  • Wales NEXUS Conference (annual learning and teaching conference); March 2016
  • Hidden Pleasures Contemporary Performance Practices, UWTSD annual conference; 2015
  • Swansea College of art Fringe Festival October; 2015
  • ‘Hidden Pleasures’ Contemporary Performance Practices, UWTSD annual conference; 2014

Exhibitions

‘What remains? – an autoethnographic AI photo diary of Paris in November in 2011’ – Xi’an International Video and Photographic Art Exhibition; October 2023