Hello

My name is Iman. Natively prounounced (ē-mŭn)
in the Persian Language or (ĕ-man) in yorkshire.
I dont really mind which pronounciation you use.

I am a designer / educator who lectures
at the University of Huddersfield, in the
School of Art, Design and Architecture.

My specialism is programming, although
I am familiar with a variety applications and
interfacing technologies used in
Multimedia Production
and 3D Digital-
Design.

I teach students on the Multimedia Design and
Virtual Reality Design with Animation courses.
Here is me discussing two years of
teaching practice in 28,000 words.

Glitch
As an academic, I'm most commonly
known for my research on the Glitch.
Which is culminating in a book called
Perfect Imperfection.

Glitchbrowser was a work I did for
New Langton Arts, with my
collaborators Dimitre Lima
and Ant Scott

 

Libraries
Another interest of mine
would have to be Libraries
I'm fortunate enough to know
Dave Pattern who helped me
when I was looking at
libraries for my
MA project 2005.

My areas of research
Glitch Aesthetics (since 2003)
Games in the Academic Library (2006)
The Crap Aesthetic (since 2007)
Human Computation and Games (since 2007)

Areas of practice
Teaching / Pastoral support at for students at Undergraduate Level.
Interface Design for web and mobile devices.
Web Programming (PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS/Actionscript).
Design Consultancy for community projects.

Qualifications

MA Smart Design, with Distinction. 2005
BA (hons) Multimedia Design, First Class. 2004

Selection of Design Work
pylon.tv 2006
digitalresearchunit.org 2004 - 2007
toyresearch.org 2006
alisonmealey.com2006
greenstreams.org.uk2005

See me here too
I share a blog with friends.
I also enjoy Photography (flickr)
I bookmark at del.icio.us/organised

iman@organised.info

Little known fact #1
My geek credential is that I once co-wrote a paper
on the LCARS (Star Trek Interface) being
used for contextual programming.