About the Authors
Kip Kline
(1971) is a philosopher of education and lives in Forest Park, Illinois. He is currently Interim Dean of the College of Education and Social Sciences at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois where he oversees the departments of education, justice, law, and public safety studies, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology. He has been a professor at Lewis since 2007. Dr. Kline holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of education from Indiana University.
The focus of his work is philosophy of childhood and adolescence with an emphasis on film, media and technology, postmodernism, and futurism. He has written two monographs, one edited volume, several refereed journal articles and book chapters, and given dozens of papers at peer-reviewed research conferences. He serves on the editorial board of Educational Theory.
Dr. Kline delivered an invited talk at the University of Sheffield in 2018 at the Philosophy and Education Symposium, Humanities Research Institute. In 2017, he was the invited speaker at the Philosophy and Education Colloquium, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York where he delivered an address on his first book on Jean Baudrillard. In 2010, he gave an invited lecture at the Department for Aesthetics, Aarhus University, in Aarhus, Denmark.
Before attending graduate school, Kip Kline spent five years teaching high school English in Ohio and Indiana.
Kristopher Holland
(1977) is an artist and philosopher living in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a Professor of Art and Design Education in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati. He received his M.A. from New York University, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Art Education from Indiana University.
He is the Director of the Strange Tools Research Lab at the Digital Futures research collaborative and the Director of Visual Arts & Design Education State Licensure for the University of Cincinnati. He is also the director of Art and Publications for the Žižekian Institute for Research, Inquiry, and Pedagogy. As a visiting professor at the Karl Franzens University’s Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Graz, Austria he teaches courses on a range of subjects including: Joseph Beuys, The Vienna (& Berlin) Secession, Baroque Art and Theories of Knowledge, Philosophy of Technology, The Black Radical Tradition, Conceptual Art, Object Orientated Ontology, and Political Theory as Art Production.
Dr. Holland current research interests are: philosophical inquiry methodologies, arts-based research, art & design teacher education, deconstruction, contemporary art and critical theory. He has recently given guest lectures at the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development on the topic of Jean Baudrillard and ‘Post-Art’ and at the Ringvorlesung with the KUWI Graz consortium in Austria on the topics: “The Ignorant Artist: Post-Politics and Aesthetic Education” and “Introducing Strange Tools.” He is presently researching the role inquiry plays in educational curriculum within PK-12 Schooling with projects connected to Hughes STEM High School and the Nelson Mandela International School in Berlin, Germany. He collaboratively ran an afterschool arts-based inquiry program and participated in the Hughes STEM HS Summer Scholars Program as a curriculum advisor and educator from 2012-2018. He also co-directs the biannual Berlin Summer Studio Arts Inquiry program in collaboration with the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin.
His conceptual work of art, The Habermas Machine, was cited in James Rolling Jr.’s Arts-Based Research: A Primer, published in 2013 and was exhibited in 2015. In addition to the co-authored book Jean Baudrillard and Radical Education Theory: Turning Right to Go Left for Brill, his work appears in publications such as: The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy [Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française], Visual Arts Research Journal, The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Studies in Art Education, and the International Journal of Žižek Studies. By combining the fields of philosophy, art, and education, his work seeks to spark agency for students in the creative fields for social change and educative innovation.