Kyla McFarlane is a writer and pictorial editor
based in Melbourne. Following the completion
of her MA thesis focusing on sexual and
commodity fetishism in contemporary art in
1996, she has lectured and published on a
range of topics in visual culture, including
contemporary photography, the body in representation
and psychoanalytic theory.
Recent publications include “Thoughts
on the Death of Photography”, in Happiness/Parallel
Worlds: Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University,
Wellington/Centre for Contemporary Photography,
Melbourne, 2001; and One Night of Love, accompanying
a photographic installation by Fiona Pardington
at the Waikato Museum of Art and History in
2001.
McFarlane currently divides her time between
a PhD thesis in visual culture at Monash University
and picture editing at The Age, Melbourne’s
daily broadsheet newspaper.
Mark Jackson is a senior lecturer in spatial
design at Auckland University of Technology.
Previously he has held lecturing positions
in the Faculty of Architecture, University
of Adelaide and at the Sydney College of the
Arts, the University of Sydney.
He gained his PhD in architecture at the University
of Sydney in 1994 in research that focused
on the architectural figures central to the
writings of Walter Benjamin (the arcades)
and Michel Foucault (the panopticon). Jackson
was a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Architecture
at MIT in Boston in 1996.
His current research focus is on ethics and
architecture, as well as the translatability
of cultural difference in cross-cultural studies.
Jackson
has published widely in the areas of the visual
arts, design, film and architecture. He has
also made a number of film and video works
that focus on critical aspects of spatiality
and building.
Jackson’s involvement with the Votive
project stems from his engagement with contemporary
philosophical writings on ethics, which focus
particularly on the legacy of French poststructuralism
in contemporary readings of the works of Georges
Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, Jean Luc Nancy
and Emmanuel Levinas. He is currently researching
for a book-length monograph on ethics and
architecture.
