| Research and Pedagogy | link to Awards, link to Statement-Exhibitions, link to Education-Employment | |||||
| |
||||||
|
|
Publications
and Presentations |
 |
||||
| © Elzbieta
(Elka) Kazmierczak 2004 |
Recent publlcation: Creativity and Self-Exploration in Projective Drawings of Abused Women: Evaluating the Inside Me-Outside Me Workshop to pages from pdf | |||||
Keywords
|
Knowledge presentation, visual literacy, art education, diagrammatic modeling, easthetic preferences, visual semiotics, Trickster studies | |||||
| Book – publisher, editor, contributor, designer | Art of Survival: Women, Healing, and the Arts, partially funded by IHC, IAC, CCA, and Puffin Foundation, Carbondale, IL, First edition, October 2006, 72 artworks by invited artists, 6 invited essays, an invited poem, 32 pages, index, saddle stitched, laminated soft cover. link to book | |||||
| Book – sole authorship
|
Glowne
choremy w semiografii: kolo, kwadrat, trojkat. Zarys historyczny (Principal
Choremes in Semiography: Circle, Square, and Triangle. Historical
Outline.) Warszawa,
Poland: Institute for Industrial Design, two editions, 1986 & 1990,
2nd edition extended and fully revised,
128 pages, 243 illustrations. (in Polish, chapters available in
English.) pdf |
|||||
| |
||||||
Chapters in Books |
Poster
as an Art Form,
in Digital Designer: 101 Graphic Design
Projects for Print, the Web, Multimedia, and Motion Graphics,
ed. Stephen Pite,
OnWord Press, the Graphic Imprint of Delmar/Thomson Learning, 2002,
(essay and 5 illustrations), pp. 76-79,
illustrations pp. 52, 53, 54, 55. |
|||||
| |
Why
Do We Want Tricksters?
in Trickster and Ambivalence: The Dance of Differentiation,
ed. C.W. Spinks, Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing, 2001,
pp. 143-151. pdf |
|||||
| |
||||||
| Special Issues of Journals (invitational) | Triangle
as the Trickster Redeemer of Human Sensitivity, Imagination, and Improvisation:
The Tao of J.J.,
in Trickster: Cultural Boundaries and Semiosis, Special
Issue of The American Journal of Semiotics, Guest Editor C.W.
Spinks, Winter 1997 [1998], Vol. 14, No. 1 to 4, pp. 190–207. |
|||||
Introduction
to Semiography, or Approaching the Visual Language,
in Semiotics: Pedagogy and Practice, Special Issue of Zed:
A Journal of the Center for Design Studies, Communication
Arts and Design Department, Guest Editors Katie Salen and Steven
Skaggs, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1997, No. 4, pp. 10-21. pdf |
||||||
Universals
in Visual Codification,
in Bildsprache – Visualisierung – Diagrammatik,
Special Issue of Semiotische Berichte, Editor
Jeff Bernard, Vienna: Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies,
1995, No. 19, Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, pp. 131-152. |
||||||
| Refereed Journals | Creativity and Self-Exploration in Projective Drawings of Abused Women: Evaluating the Inside Me-outside me Workshop, (Dollinger, S., Kazmierczak, E., & Storkerson, P.), in the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2011, 6:3, pp. 202-219. doi: 10.1080/15401383.2011.607094. to pages from pdf | |||||
(guest editor) |
2by2: Preparing for the Future of Knowledge Presentation: Conference Introduction, in Information Design Journal & Document Design, Paul Stiff, ed., Tilburg University, the Netherlands, John Benjamins Publishing, 2004, Vol. 12, No. 1, p. 63. Edited papers in Vol. 12, No. 2 and 3, 2004. | |||||
Design
as Meaning Making: From Making Things to the Design of Thinking,
in Design Issues: History, Theory, Criticism,
Richard Buchanan, ed., Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2003,
Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 45-59. pdf |
||||||
Iconicity,
Diagrammatics, and Aesthetic Preferences: A Semiotic Perspective
on Visual Literacy and Information Design, in Visual
Sociology: The Journal of the International Visual
Sociology Association, Jon Prosser, ed., Leeds University,
UK, 2001, Vol. 16, No.1, pp. 89-99. pdf |
||||||
| A Semiotic Perspective on Visual Literacy, Aesthetic Preferences, and Information Design, in Information Design Journal, Karel van der Waarde, ed., Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 10:2 (2001), pp. 176-187. pdf | ||||||
| Professional Trade Magazines, (invitational) | Semiograficzna analiza prasymboli (Semiographic Analysis of Primeval Symbols), in Poligrafika: Journal of the Printing Industry, Warsaw, Poland, 1989, 10/89, pp. 239-242. | |||||
Glowne
choremy w semiografii (Principal Choremes in Semiography),
in Poligrafika: Journal of the Printing Industry, Warsaw,
Poland, 1988, 7/88, pp. 160-168. |
||||||
| |
||||||
| Conference Proceedings | Shortcuts
to Meaning, or Diagrams and Making Sense Out of Image-text De-signs,
in Semiotics 2000: Proceedings of the Semiotic
Society of America, Eds.: Scott Simpkins, John Deely, and C.W.
Spinks, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001, pp.142–159. pdf |
|||||
In
the Beginning was the Circle: Longing for Perfection as a Semiotic Paradigm,
in Selected Papers–6th Congress of the International
Association for Semiotic Studies, Guadalajara 1997, Adrián
Gimate-Welsh, ed., Mexico City: Grupo Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua,
2000, pp. 629-640. pdf |
||||||
Portrait
of a Woman or Diagrammatic Modeling in Art,
in Semiotics 1999: Proceedings of the Semiotic
Society of America, Eds.: Scott Simpkins, John Deely, and C.W.
Spinks, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2000, pp. 360–373. |
||||||
In
the Vicious Circle of Codependency: The Artist as Trickster,
in Semiotics 1998: Proceedings of the Semiotic Society
of America, Eds.: John Deely, and C.W. Spinks, New York: Peter Lang
Publishing, 1999, pp. 82–94. |
||||||
| Introduction to Semiography, or Approaching the Visual Language, in Semiotics 1995: Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America, Eds.: John Deely, and C.W. Spinks, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1996, pp.198–207. | ||||||
| Symmetry versus Asymmetry: Philosophy and Aesthetic Preferences, in Semiotics 1994: Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America, Eds.: John Deely, and C.W. Spinks, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1995, pp. 370-379. pdf | ||||||
| |
||||||
| Electronic
Publications |
Embodiment
and Image Design, the
International Congress of the German Association for Semiotic Studies: Body,
Embodiment, Disembodiment, Kassel University Press, Germany,
2004, ISBN 3-89958-045-1 (with
honorarium). html |
|||||
*
also in print |
In
the Beginning was the Circle: Longing for Perfection as a Semiotic Paradigm,
in La Semiotica. Interseccióón entre la naturalenza
y la Cultura (Semiotics Bridging Nature and Culture. Proceedings
of the 6th Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies),
Guadalajara, Mexico, 1997, Adrián Gimate-Welsh, ed., CD-ROM. |
|||||
| to top | Visual Semiotics for the Information Design Dictionary (authored nine entries), resources for information designers. Coordinated by the International Institute for Information Design (IIID), 1999, Vienna, Austria www.visionplus7.com | |||||
| |
||||||
| CONFERENCE
|
PRESENTATIONS – peer-reviewed | |||||
| |
||||||
| 2012 | Semiotic and Ecological Model of Interpretation of Diagnostic Drawings, International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, IL, May, 2012 to ICQI | |||||
| What Diagnostic Self-Portraits Can and Cannot Tell Us About Inner Selves of Their Creators? (research lecture), National Art Education Association Convention, New York, NY, 2011 to NAEA | ||||||
| 2011 | Re-Imagining the Self Through Creativity: Art for Empowerment as Feminist Counseling for Social Change in University and Community Settings, (best practices), Women's Caucus for Art: Art and Social Justice Conference, Regional Art Commission, St. Louis, MI, 2011 to conference | |||||
| From Diagnostic Drawing Tests to Visual Matalogues: On Transformational Function of Drawings and Conversations About Them, International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, IL, May, 2011 to ICQI | ||||||
| From Diagnostic Drawing Tests to Visual Matalogues: On Transformational Function of Drawings and Conversations About Them, Annual Conference of Central States Anthropological Society, Iowa City, IO, April, 2011 to CSAS | ||||||
| Agents or Victims: Making Sense of Embodied Experiences Through the Looking Glass of Self-Portraits, (research lecture), and Re-Imagining the Self Through Creativity: Feminist Art Therapy as Action Research in a Non-Clinical Setting, (best practices), National Art Education Association Convention, Seattle, WA, April, 2011 to NAEA | ||||||
| 2010 | Creativity, Self-Exploration, and Embodied Experience in Projective Drawing and Writing: Influence of Trauma and Abuse on Self-Perception,The 1st International Conference on Art in Response to Violence, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL,Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2010 to NEIU gallery | |||||
| Agents or Victims: Making Sense of Embodied Experiences Through the Looking Glass of Self-Portraits, 35th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Louisville, KY, October, 2010 to SSA | ||||||
| Creativity, Self-Exploration, and Life Events in Self-Portraits: Influence of Abuse on Self-Perception in Women, National Art Education Association Convention, Baltimore, MD, April, 2010 to NAEA | ||||||
| 2009 | Recycling Trauma: Inner and Outer Worlds in Drawings and Writings of Individuals Touched by Trauma and Abuse, 34th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 15-18, 2009 to SSA | |||||
| Art for Empowerment: Program Development, Sustainability, and Educational Outreach, Public Engagement Symposium and Technology Showcase, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, Mar. 9, 2009 | ||||||
| 2008 | Art Making as Therapy for Survivors of Trauma and Abuse: Laying an Empirical Groundwork for Establishing Efficacy, Research for Social Change Panel, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Conference, Washington, DC, July, 2008 (to NCADV) | |||||
invitational with honorarium |
PANELIST IN TWO PANELS: Authentic Voices and Using the Arts to Address Issues of Violence, Public Affairs Conference: Seeking Solutions: Conflict, Violence and Courage to Change, Missouri State University, Springfield, MI, April 15-18, 2008 | |||||
| 2007 | Art for Empowerment: Program Development, Sustainability, and Educational Outreach, Southeastern College Art Conference, Charleston, WV, October, 2007 (to SECAC) | |||||
| SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZER–Art of Survival: Transformation, Healing, and Self-Knowledge, Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, New Orleans, October, 2007, (also presenter and discussant). The session gathered four presenters from universities in the US and Australia. (to SSA) | ||||||
invitational,
non-conference |
TRANSLATOR AND COMMENTATOR–for the lecture by Dr. Peter Storkerson Wayfinding: Organization and Cognition, Wyzsza Szkola Sztuki i Projektowania (Higher School of Art and Design), Lodz, Poland, May 31, 2007, (from English into Polish with a commentary) | |||||
| 2006 | Art
of Survival: A Model for Collaboration and Educational Outreach, Strengthening
Communities, Ending Sexual Violence, Florida
Council Against Sexual Violence,
St. Petersburg, June 12-17, 2006 |
|||||
2005 invitational |
Developing the
Expert Forum for Knowledge Presentation, Vision
Plus 11, International
Institute for Information Design, Vienna, Austria, 2005. (co-presented with Dr. Peter Storkerson <www.knowledgepresentation.org> |
|||||
2002 invitational with honorarium |
Mental
Models versus Graphic Diagrams: What we Know is What we See,
the International
Congress of the German Association for Semiotic Studies: Body,
Embodiment, Disembodiment, Kassel, Germany, July, 2002 pdf |
|||||
Information
Design curriculum: 5-year Master Degree Program, the
International Institute for Information Design Conference: Education
in Information Design, Reading University, Reading, UK, September,
2002, (poster presentation and conference discussant) |
||||||
2001 invitational |
Semiotic-Cognitive
Processes in Image Construction and Changing Visual Literacies,
the International Workshop on Cognitive Semiotics: Semiotic
Evolution and the Dynamics of Culture, University of Groningen,
Groningen, The Netherlands, November, 2001 pdf |
|||||
On
Diagrammatic Nature of Representation: Art, Design, and Information
as Modeling Forms of Thinking,
6th World Congress of the International Association for Visual Semiotics:
The Visual in the Age of Post-Visual, Laval University,
Quebec City, Canada, October, 2001. Also presented
during the 26th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America,
Toronto pdf |
||||||
invitational |
The
Dark Side of Trickster: Rebels, Rascals, and Raptors, (13-members
symposium discussant & roundtable moderator),
shared with Gary Shank, Educational Psychology during the 26th Annual
Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, University of Toronto,
Canada, October, 2001 |
|||||
Diagrams
as Ways of Thinking, co-author
with Peter
Storkerson, Scientific
Visualization Conference, SUNY Buffalo, NY, August, 2001 Video |
||||||
| 2000 | Iconicity,
Diagrammatics, and Aesthetic Preferences: A Semiotic Perspective on
Visual Literacy, International Congress of the Nordic
Association for Semiotic Studies: Models, Maps, Schemata: Semiotics
and Cognitive Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,
November, 2000 |
|||||
*
published |
Shortcuts
to Meaning: Diagrams and Making Sense Out of Image-text Designs, the
25th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN, September, 2000. (also Session Chair: Visual
Semiotics) |
|||||
Toward
Ideal Harmony: Experiencing Artist's Books as Visual-Tactile-Auditory-Olfactive
Diagrams of Semiotic Modeling, International
Conference on Senses in Art: Uncommon Senses, Concordia
University, Montreal, Canada, April, 2000 |
||||||
1999 * published |
Portrait
of a Woman or Diagrammatic Modelling in Art, the
24th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Pittsburgh,
PA, 1999.
Also Symposium Discussant, (16 member Symposium:
Trickster Two: The Dance of Differentiation) |
|||||
*
published |
Iconicity,
Diagrammatics, and Aesthetic Preferences: Semiotic Perspective on Visual
Literacy and Information Design,
Annual Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association:
Visual Cultures, Visual Literacies: Changing Ways of Imaging Science
and Society, Antwerp, Belgium, 1999. Also Session Chair:
Visual Rhetoric & Design |
|||||
1998 invitational |
Iconic
Representations of the Self as Indices of Self-Denial and Displacement,
Represented the Austrian
Association for Semiotics, the International Austrian-Hungarian Semiotic
Colloquium: Iconicity,
Szeged, Hungary, 1998 |
|||||
| Symmetry versus Asymmetry: Philosophy and Aesthetic Preferences, International Conference on the Study of Symmetry: Order–Disorder, Haifa, Israel, 1998 | ||||||
Personal
Archives via Artist's Books, slide presentation, the
Council of Book Arts Programs Conference, Book Arts 2000 and Beyond,
Tuscaloosa, AL, 1998 |
||||||
In
a Vicious Circle of Codependency: Artist as Trickster, the
23rd Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Toronto, 1998 |
||||||
| 1997 | Semiotics
and the Teaching of Art: Iconic Representations of the Self as Indices
of Self-Denial and Displacement,
the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America: Creativity, Louisville,
KY, 1997 |
|||||
| 1996 | Color
in Visual Communication, the
21st Annual Conference of the Semiotic Society of America, Santa Barbara,
CA, 1996 |
|||||
1998 * published |
Symmetry
versus Asymmetry: Philosophy and Aesthetic Preferences,
the 19th Annual Conference of the Semiotic
Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, 1994 |
|||||
1993 invitational with honorarium |
Looking
for Universals in Visual Codification,
the 2nd International Interdisciplinary Seminar: Pictorial Language – Visualization – Diagrammatics,
organized by the Austrian Association for Semiotics, sponsored by the
Austrian Ministry of Transportation and the Ministry of Culture, Vienna,
Austria, 1993 |
|||||
| 1989 | On
the Necessity of Semiographic Analysis of Primeval Symbols, Seminar
in Semiography: Man and His Signs, Institute for Industrial
Design, Warsaw, Poland, 1989 |
|||||
1988 honorarium |
Principal Choremes in the Language of Symbols, the 7th International ATYPI (Association Typographique Internationale) Working Seminar: Signs and Symbols in Typography, Gdansk, Poland, 1988 |
|||||
PUBLIC |
PRESENTATIONS | |||||
2007
Design (invitational) |
TRANSLATOR AND COMMENTATOR – the lecture by Dr. Peter Storkerson Wayfinding: Organization and Cognition, Wyzsza Szkola Sztuki i Projektowania (Higher School of Art and Design), Lodz, Poland, May 31. Invited by Professor of Design Krzysztof Tyczkowski and Rector of the academy, Jerzy Derkowski (www.wssip.edu.pl) | |||||
2005
Design (invitational) |
Research Behind the Design of Visual Identity of The Women's Center of Carbondale, Public presentation for The Women's Center staff, social workers, city officials, and regional representative, Carbondale, IL (TWC) | |||||
BOOK FAIRS |
INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER | |||||
2007 |
Buffalo Small Book Fair, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Buffalo, NY, Mar. 31 (www.buffalosmallpress.org) | |||||
2007 |
CAA–College Art Association Book Fair, Hilton Hotel, New York, NY, Feb. 14-17 | |||||
1989 |
The 41st International Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany | |||||
How
to contact |
elka at elkadesigns.com | |||||
