Giorgia Aiello is Associate Professor and Director of Research and Innovation in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. She has written about branding, photography, data visualisation and the urban built environment. Giorgia is the lead editor of the book Communicating the City: Meaning, Practices, Interactions (Peter Lang, 2017). Along with Luc Pauwels, she also coedited the 2014 special issue “Difference and Globalization” of the journal Visual Communication.
Karine Bouchy is an associate member of THALIM (Paris 3/CNRS/ENS), of the research-creation laboratory La Création Sonore (University of Montreal), and a board member of CEEI (Centre d’étude de l’écriture et de l’image). Her research focuses on the materiality of handwritten forms in moving images.
Lieve Cornil is a Belgian calligrapher and lettering artist who, alongside her design studio Studio XII, runs an independent school for lettering arts, the European Lettering Institute, in Bruges, which attracts students from all over the world.
Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. In his recent work he has explored questions of environmental perception and skilled practice, lines and line-making and the relations between anthropology, architecture, art and design. He is the author of Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013) and The Life of Lines (2015).
Christian Mosbæk Johannessen is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. His research develops a synthesis between social and cognitive semiotics. He has published a range of papers on graphetic and graphological theory, and on the forensic and semiotic analysis of corporate logos and other signs.
Gunhild Kvåle is Associate Professor at the Department of Nordic and Media Studies at University of Agder, Norway. She has published several articles on multimodality, digital technology, critical discourse analysis and literacy.
Aurélie Lagarrigue is a post-doc fellow at the Brain and Language Institute in Aix-Marseille University. She is interested in linguistic impact on the handwriting gesture. In her current work she uses behavioral measurements combined with brain imaging (fMRI) to focus on linguistic diversity and how writing can modulate the neural network of reading.
Marieke Longcamp is Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience of the University of Aix-Marseilles in France. She is interested in how the brain controls writing, and in the interactions between visual perception and motor knowledge in the context of written language. She addresses these questions by combining behavioral measurements with brain imaging techniques.
Anne Løvland is Professor at the Department of Norwegian Language and Media, Agder University, Norway. She has a wide range of published articles on her research in the aestheticisation of religion and multimodality in resources for learning.
Raymond Lucas is Head of Architecture at the University of Manchester, where his teaching includes studio workshops on Filmic Architecture, Knowledge Production in Architecture, and the Hard and Disagreeable Labour of architectural drawing. He is author of Research Methods for Architecture (Laurence King, 2016), Drawing Parallels (Routledge 2018), and Anthropology for Architects (Bloomsbury 2018). His current research includes ‘graphic anthropologies’ on marketplaces in South Korea and urban festivals in Japan, describing the informal, social, and iterative architecture and embodied urbanism through conventions including architectural drawing.
Mahdiyeh Meidani is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Media Studies of the University of Tübingen. She also works as a freelance graphic designer and calligrapher. Her research interests include media, visual communication, social semiotics, multimodality and materiality of visual arts, as well as traditional and maqami music. In her current works, she focuses on semiotics of Persian calligraphic letterforms.
Brody L. Neuenschwander is an independent calligrapher, scholar and writer who has taught and exhibited across the world. His collaborations with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway are among his best-known work. In recent years he has studied Chinese and Arabic calligraphy as well as continued his art practice.
Pål Repstad is Professor in sociology of religion in the Department of Religion, Philosophy and History at Agder University, Norway. He has published many books and papers on the sociology of religion and has for many years been an editor of Nordic Journal of Religion and Society.
Paul J. Thibault is Professor in Linguistics and Communication Studies at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway and Hans Christian Andersen Academy Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. He has held academic posts in Australia, China, Italy, and Hong Kong. His research interests and many publications are in the areas of applied and general linguistics, development, distributed language and cognition, human–animal interaction, human interactivity, learning, multimodality, narrative, social theory, learning theory and teaching and learning in higher education, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and systemic-functional linguistics. He has nearly completed a new book, Distributed Language: Languaging, Affective Cognition and the Extended Human Ecology. He is also currently working on a book titled Language, Body, World: A Critical Rereading of Hjelmslev. He is currently on the editorial boards of six international journals.
Elise Seip Tønnesen is Professor at the Departement of Nordic and Media Studies at University of Agder, Norway. She has published many articles and books about reading, children’s literature, television and film and cultural perspectives on language and text.
Theo van Leeuwen is a Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has published widely in the areas of social semiotics, multimodality, visual communication and critical discourse analysis. His books include Reading Images (with Gunther Kress), Multimodal Discourse (with Gunther Kress), Speech, Music, Sound, Introducing Social Semiotics, and Discourse and Practice. He is a founding editor of the journal Visual Communication.