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Sean Cubitt

Professor Of Screen Studies
Culture and Communication
arts & humanities
social sciences
art
cultural studies
film, radio, television
film, radio & television
communication
communication and media studies; screen and media culture; other cinema and electronic arts ; the media
science & technology
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Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Media and Communications
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Projects

Displaying the 6 most recent projects by Sean Cubitt.

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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: MEDIATION, MEMORY AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION

2020 - 2023
Active
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RECONSIDERING AUSTRALIAN MEDIA ART HISTORY IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT (NON LEAD)

This project will establish an unprecedented platform for the promotion and understanding of historic media art works from Australia in a bu..

2010 - 2013
Completed
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Large screens and the transnational public sphere

With over 8 million annual visitors, Federation Square, Melbourne, is emblematic of the new public sphere emerging at the junction of physic..

2009 - 2016
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Large screens and the transnational public sphere

With over 8 million annual visitors, Federation Square, Melbourne, is emblematic of the new public sphere emerging at the junction of physic..

2009 - 2016
Completed
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Genealogies of digital light

The first interdisciplinary account of practice in light technologies, this project will look in detail at the innovation process in the tec..

2008 - 2011
Completed
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Public screens and the transformation of public space

This project will provide the first Australian analysis of public interaction with large electronic screens. The installation of large scree..

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Projects

Project Types

5

Research Grant

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Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Sean Cubitt.

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Mass Image, Anthropocene Image, Image Commons

Sean Cubitt

Book Chapter  |  2021

These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work.

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Ecocritique as Transnational Commons

Sean Cubitt

Book Chapter  |  2020

This book marks the 10th anniversary of the Routledge journal Transnational Cinemas, and its renaming to Transnational Screens.

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Anecdotal Evidence Ecocritiqe from Hollywood to the Mass Image

Sean Cubitt

Book  |  2020

Anecdotal Evidence provides an outline of the need for and principles of anecdotal method; a case study of eco-critical themes in ..

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Limen, portal, network subjectivities

Sean Cubitt

Journal article  |  2020  |  Parallax

Limina, the thresholds between worlds are by nature sacred. Passage between the worlds of the living and the dead is strange and h..

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Against the Suicide Cult

Sean Cubitt

Original Creative Work - Other  |  2020

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Imaging Global Communications: An Ecocritique

Sean Cubitt

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Environmental Media

Through an overview of historical medals, logos, poems, paintings and engravings, imagery that picks at the gap between the persis..

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Fugue

Sean Cubitt

Book Chapter  |  2020

The designs, controls, and conviviality Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has made possible are fugal pre-echoes of a human-natural-technical h..

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NASA’s Voyager Fly-by Animations’

Sean Cubitt

Book Chapter  |  2019

Analysis of the animations produced by James Blinn and Alvy Ray Smith for the Voyager missions, including consideration of the Gol..

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Ecocritique as transnational commons

Sean Cubitt

Journal article  |  2019  |  Transnational Screens

The term 'transnational' can be read in two simultaneous dimensions: as ontological description of a primordially queer birthing (..

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Mediations of Xinjiang: For an Aesthetic Politics

Sean Cubitt

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Communication and Media Studies
Communication
Journalism, Communication and Media
Cultural Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Cinema, Electronic Arts and Multimedia
Film, Television and Digital Media
Sociology
Arts and Leisure
Literary Studies

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2007

Visiting fellow

Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto
2007

Art Journal Award

College Art Association
2004

Visiting fellow

Australia Centre, University of Melbourne
2015

Academia Europeana

2009

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor Of Screen Studies

Culture and Communication

Editor In Chief

Leonardo Book Series (MIT Press)

Advisory Board

Rogers Communications Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto

Assessor

Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific

Education

PhD

Liverpool John Moores University

MA

University of Cambridge

BA (Hons)

University of Cambridge

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International Linkages

University of Dundee

United Kingdom

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

United Kingdom