Name: Owen Michael Kelly

Date of Birth: May 6th 1951
Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Merseyside, England
School: Birkenhead School
Universities:
University of Keele, Staffordshire, England
University of Industrial Arts & Design, Helsinki, Finland
Degree:
BA(Hons), English & Sociology with subsidiary history and computer science
MA, art education (e-pedagogy)

Contact

Arcada: owen.kelly(at)arcada.fi
Skype: owenkelly
Yahoo: owen.kelly(at)yahoo.com
Here: owen(at)owenkelly.net

Books

Community, Art & the State (Comedia,1984)
Cultural Democracy (with Karen Merkel and John Lock, Comedia, 1986)
Digital Creativity (Gulbenkian Foundation, 1996)
The Creative Bits (with Eva Wojdat, Comedia, 1997)

Major Consultancies

Creation and validation of a multimedia course, Lambeth College of Education, 1992
Helsinki, bid for city of culture, Comedia, 1994
BeatOne , Portsmouth City Council, 1997
New Maps for New Territories, European Network of Cultural Training Centres, 1998
Innovation & Cultural Management, Inocult / Fondation Hicter, 2001

Current teaching responsibilities within Arcada

Structured information 1 open source content management systems
Rich media applications Flash, actionscript, remote web applications
Structured information 2 developing xml schema and transformation schemes
Cultivating virtual worlds game and simulation design
Distance learning development of 3D learning environment
Virtual Worlds building in Second Life using Linden Scripting Language & Photoshop

Extra-curricular projects within Arcada

2002 - 2008 Marinetta Marinetta Ombro development of a fictitious country in Second Life

2003 - 2004 Inocult research for a European cultural training project
2003 - 2005 RexStream development of an xml system for formatting e-books
2004 - 2006 League of Worlds an international conference on virtual worlds
2004 - 2006 Ittaca web presence for a European cultural training project

Recent Conference Papers

05 - 2003 Esbo: Imagining a virtual culture: Phenomonology & Media
with Camilla Lindeberg & John Gronnvall
07 - 2003 Honolulu: Educational opportunities in a fictitious country
with Camilla Lindeberg
08 - 2003 Prague: On the edge of the real: fictitious facts & pedagogy

02 - 2004 Esbo: Virtual Culture, Real Surprises
with Camilla Lindeberg
03 - 2004 Atlanta: Unifying the curriculum in a digital playground
with Camilla Lindeberg
05 - 2004 Provo: Ghost towns & virtual worlds
06 - 2004 Lugano: Concept development in a virtual world
with Camilla Lindeberg, and delivered by Camie
08 - 2004 Prague: The virtual beer theory
10 - 2004 Helsinki: Cross media myth-making
with Camilla Lindeberg

05 - 2005 Cannon Beach: Interpassivity: some thoughts on learning and entertainment
10 - 2005 Melbourne: We demand more analogy and less reality

06 - 2006 Karlstad: Abstraction Haunted by Reality
10 - 2006 Boone: Law, Structure & Virtuality
11 - 2006 Helsinki: Blogs and wikis: living and working online

10 - 2007 Karlskruna: Immersion, augmentation, the telephone and semaphore

Visited Countries

Visited States

create your own visited countries & states maps

Employment History

2001 - now lecturer in interactive media, Department of Media, Arcada, Helsinki

1998 - 2001 multimedia designer, Endero oy, Helsinki
1993 - 1998 course leader, multimedia, Lambeth College, West Norwood, London
1990 - 1993 freelance cultural consultant & Apple Macintosh trainer
1980 - 1990 founder and director of Mediumwave, community communications group, Brixton, London
1974 - 1980 director of South Island Workshop, young people’s art organisation, Oval, London

Computer & programming skills

Database
relational design: expert
php & MySQL: professional
XML: expert

Graphics
Adobe Photoshop: expert
Adobe Flash: expert
Adobe Freehand: expert

Web
html, xhtml: expert
css: expert
xml dtds, xslt: expert

Programming
actionscript, javascript, Lingo, LSL