Margaret Turner
BA(VisArts) NSW Coll.F.Art, GradDipArt NSW Coll.F.Art, MA Reading
Position: Lecturer, Digital Design
Office: D1.16
Tel: +61 7 5430 2856
Email: mturner@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Interactive Design for Electronic Media
- Interface Design for Electronic Media
- Navigational Design for Electronic Media
Research areas
- Effective learning and teaching for flexible mode
- Digital thinking and the post-mechanical
- Visualising hyperspace: design for electronic environments
- The making of sense in a non-linear environment: how to increase the uptake of content
Profile
Margaret Turner is an artist, writer and educator who has been working creatively with computers since 1984. She exhibits nationally and internationally and contributes to the academic discourse on the rhetoric of digital media and culture. Margaret has worked on various audio visual learning modules in connection with her teaching and with private enterprise. The focus of her engagement with the arts community on the Sunshine Coast is to nourish the development of a mature aesthetic intelligence.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Margaret Turner are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.