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Daniel Rubinstein is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts, Media and English
at London South Bank University where he directs a BA in Digital Photography.
Previously he studied history at Tel-Aviv University and photography at London College
of Printing and has written about camera phone photography. Currently he is working
on a PhD thesis concerned with the relationship between photography, philosophy and
culture. Address: Department of Arts Media and English, Faculty of Human Sciences,
London South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK. [email:
rubinsd@lsbu.ac.uk]
Katrina Sluis is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts, Media and English at
London South Bank University where she co-ordinates the BA (Hons) Digital Media
Arts. Her teaching and scholarly interests include cultures of mobile multimedia,
critical theory and digital art. As a practising artist, she works with painting,
photography and digital media to explore materiality, archiving and transmission in
relation to the photographic image. Address: Department of Arts Media and English,
Faculty of Human Sciences, London South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1
0AA, UK. [email: sluiskp@lsbu.ac.uk]
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