Hello

My name is Iman.

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.

 

Day Job
Im a senior Lecturer in the
Digital Media Design Subject area.
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 visual Glitch.
Which has culminated in a book called
Designing Imperfection.

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

Neuromirror is an art installation
from my undergraduate years

Glitch PhD
Im currently undertaking my PhD
in this area under the supervision of
Dr Mathew Adkins.
PhD Blog

 

Libraries
The changing landscape of physical Libraries
interests me. I'm fortunate enough to have
a good friend, Dave Pattern
a rockstar in the Library world,
Dave illuminated and ellucidated
the mystique surrounding libraries
for 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 small businesses and
community projects.

Qualifications
Post Grad Cert. in Higher Education Practice. 2008
MA Smart Design, with Distinction. 2005
BA (hons) Multimedia Design, First Class. 2004

Selection of Design Work

littlenortherbooks.co.uk2008
merrydale.org.uk2007-2008
unrealart.co.uk
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.

Little known fact #2
My name is natively prounounced (ē-mŭn)
in the Persian Language or (ĕ-man) in yorkshire.
I dont really mind which pronounciation you use,
I frequently mispronounce it myself.

Little known fact #3
I keep an astronomy blog