CRITICAL CREATIVE PRACTICE - Key Persons
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- Member of the Steering Committee
Amy Boyle is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy (Arts) at the University of Wollongong. Amy's research explores the representation of women, and the circulation of heteropatriarchies and feminisms through western popular culture. Her dissertation will examine how the movement from broadcast network to subscription television has cultivated a feminist niche audience and a new demand for female-centric, more explicitly feminist content.
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Bianca Hester completed PhD at RMIT (2007), was a founding member of CLUBSpropject inc. (Melbourne, 2002-2007) and is a continuing member of the Open Spatial Workshop collective with Scott Mitchell and Terri Bird since 2003. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Sydney College of the Arts where she co-led the Space, Place and Country research cluster between 2013-2016. She is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow (2017-2018) and currently a Senior Lecturer in Art and Design at UNSW. Her projects unfold as a series of actions in dialogue with a range of contexts, interlocutors and participants. Recent projects work directly with the fabric of cities, where place is approached as a complex constellation of human timescales, non-human durations, atmospheric forces, objects, histories and geologic materialities.
Journal article publication: They should have never given us uniforms if they didn't want us to be an army': The Handmaid's Tale as transmedia feminism by Amy Boyle
I am a PhD Candidate and C3P member and very pleased to share that my work has recently been published
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Catherine McKinnon is a novelist, playwright and academic. Her novel Storyland (Harper Collins, 2017) was shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award, and the 2018 Voss Literary Prize. She is one of the multi-authors of 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (Open Humanities Press, 2019). Her research investigates narrative voices, particularly first person narration, both fictional and non-fictional. What do the stories we tell reveal about ourselves and our culture? How do these stories influence others? More recently her work has examined the place of writing in a global climate-changed environment. Within this framework, she is currently exploring narratives around the first atomic test-Trinity (claimed as one of the significant moments that mark the beginning of the Anthropocene)-that took place in New Mexico, USA, and the dropping of the first atomic bombs in the Second World War, as understood by soldiers in the field. Catherine is Discipline Leader of English and Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong, and a co-convenor of the Centre for Critical Creative Practice (C3P).
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- Lecturer of Communication
Chris Comerford is Lecturer of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong. His current research maps the impact of cinematic television on production and reception aspects of screen studies, and the inclusion of emergent media - including social media and agentic streaming television - in tertiary teaching practice.
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Dr Aaron Burton is a media arts lecturer at UOW. His creative practice stems from personal documentary filmmaking and photography. Burton's research traverses art history, cultural studies, and visual ethnography. He is currently exploring the potential of unmanned imaging in providing a non-anthropocentric narrative to the natural environment.
Dr Aaron Burton has recently had a chapter published in a media arts compilation Shifting Interfaces: An Anthology of Presence,
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Senior Lecturer
Dr Agnieszka Golda is a Senior Lecturer, School of the Arts, English and Media, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts. Dr Golda is an artist researcher specialising in textiles and collaborative mixed-media installation art. Her research focuses on the intersection between nature, human and nonhuman in contemporary art, specifically investigating how materials and sculptural forms can transform attitudes towards the natural world.
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- Researcher
Dr Chantel Carr is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in architecture, design, and urban planning, and a PhD in geography. Her research focuses on the relationships between work, skill, place, and environment, with particular attention paid to the economies and material cultures of craft and skilled making. Her field-centred approach draws on many years of professional experience in engineering, technology and design roles. Chantel's scholarship looks to feminist and postcapitalist perspectives that consider all forms of work as valuable. This includes work which is less visible, including that which takes place in the home and community, or outside of the bounds of the enterprise. Her current research projects include the ARC DP ‘Governing Urban Energy Transitions', examining energy transitions in the commercial office sector across Sydney and Melbourne (with Profs Pauline McGuirk and Robyn Dowling [USyd]).
Dr Jeannine Baker is a media historian and documentary maker who researches the history of women's labour in the British and Australian media industries. She is the author of Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam (2015), producer of the radio documentary ‘Holding a Tiger by the Tail: Jessie Litchfield' (ABC RN, 2015), and co-curator of the website ‘100 Voices that Made the BBC: Pioneering Women'. Jeannine was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex (2018-19), a Macquarie University Research Fellow (2017-20), and Deputy Director of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University (2017-19).
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- Senior Lecturer
Dr Joshua Lobb is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at UOW. He is interested in the interaction between writing and climate change. His stories have appeared in The Bridport Anthology, Best Australian Stories, Animal Studies, Textand Southerly. His novel, Remission, won the LitLink Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2014, as well as two residential fellowships at Varuna, the Writers House. His collection of stories, The Flight of Birds, will be published by Sydney University Press in 2018. He is also part of the multi-authored project, 100 Atmospheres, to be published by Open Humanities Press.
Dr. Renee Middlemost is an early career researcher and Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her PhD Thesis entitled "Amongst Friends: The Australian Cult Film Experience", examined the audience participation practices of cult film fans in Australia. Her forthcoming publications reflect her diverse research interests; these include a chapter on cult film and nostalgia for The Routledge Guide to Cult Cinema (2019); an article on the Australian outback and monstrosity for CineExcess; and a co-authored chapter on the finale of Dexter.
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Jen Saunders is an artist and researcher working in visual art, sound and creative writing. She is undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at UOW, researching how creative nonfiction writing can be used to interrogate local history narratives of South Coast NSW.
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Dr Jo Law is a Senior Lecturer at the School of the Arts, English and Media, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts. Dr Law is an artist and researcher who investigates the transformative potential of art, science, and technology. Her transdisciplinary research focuses on the role of innovative art and design within our changing sociocultural and political environments.
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- Writer
Kate Middleton is an Australian writer. She is the author of the poetry collections Fire Season (Giramondo, 2009), awarded the Western Australian Premier's Award for Poetry in 2009, Ephemeral Waters (Giramondo, 2013), shortlisted for the NSW Premier's award in 2014, and Passage (Giramondo, 2017). From September 2011-September 2012 she was the inaugural Sydney City Poet.
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Congratulations to Kim Williams who has officially completed her PhD with flying colours! Her thesis is entitled "Ecologies of art: […]
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- Artist and Lecturer in Contemporary Arts in the School
Lucas Ihlein is an artist and lecturer in Contemporary Arts in the School of The Arts, English and Media. He uses a creative-practice based research methodology (including blogging, printmaking, public events, and scholarly publication) to explore complex environmental management issues, with a particular focus on Australian agriculture. His current research project: Sugar vs the Reef - Socially Engaged Art and Urgent Environmental Problems is the focus of an ARC DECRA Fellowship from 2016-18.
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Madeline Goddard is a PhD candidate in the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL) under the supervision of Prof. Lindsay Hutley. Her research aims to understand the impact of climate change on mangrove ecosystems and how we can support the preservation of these systems through this knowledge. Prior to her PhD research, Madeline worked as a marine scientist on community projects in the Kimberley, with a focus on using indigenous knowledges to inform scientific research on marine turtle nesting and humpback whale migration. Madeline has also worked with the Northern Territory Government DENR and as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in Timor-Leste.
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Mark Rogers is a multi-award winnning playwright and theatre-maker. In 2019 he won both the Griffin Award and Sydney Theatre Company's Patrick White Award. That play, Superheroes, was also shortlisted for Stuckemarkt at Theatertreffen as a part of the Berlin Festispiele and will debut at Griffin Theatre in 2020. He has produced celebrated work with some of Australia's most innovative independent companies: Woodcourt Art Theatre, Applespiel, Bodysnatchers and re:group. His previous work as a writer includes: Plastic (Old 505 Theatre), Target Audience (Novelty UK), The Buck (Rock Surfers, Bondi Feast), Soothsayers (Brisbane Festival: Under The Radar), Blood Pressure (Rock Surfers, Old Fitzroy Theatre) and Gobbledygook (PACT, AC Arts Adelaide). His play Blood Pressure is published by PlayLab. His work on projects with the performance collective Applespiel, 2008-present, include seasons at major theatres nationally and internationally. He holds a PHD from the University of Wollongong, where he works as a lecturer in theatre and performance.
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- Senior Professor of Communication and Media at the University
Sue Turnbull is Senior Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong. Her publications include Media Audiences (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), The TV Crime Drama (Edinburgh University Press 2014) and Media and Communications in Australia with co-editor Stuart Cunningham (Allen and Unwin 2014). She currently holds an Australian Research Council Discovery grant investigating the transnational career of the TV crime drama and two ARC Linkage grants. While the first is concerned with role of television in the migrant experience of Australia; the second,Valuing Web Series is concerned with the assessing the value of the web series as an emergent media form to the creative industries. Sue is also chief crime fiction reviewer for The Sydney Morning and the Age; a Judge for the Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing, and a Board member of Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival. She is regular commentator on media issues in the media, and a regular guest on The Screen Show and The Bookshelf on Radio National. Sue is also a Board member of Screen Illawarra, an organisation lead by local screen professionals that has the admirable ambition to make the Illawarra a centre for global screen production.
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Travis Wall comes from a background as a practicing visual communication designer, and is currently completing his PhD on visual communication design in digital and online environments. His research comes from a processual perspective on design focusing on the role of framing, with ongoing research projects focusing on spreading of story through digital and online participatory image making, and emergence and adoption of novel objects in environments. He is a Lecturer in Communications and Media at the University of Wollongong.