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Sean Cubitt

Professor Of Screen Studies
Culture and Communication
media
ecology
technology
aesthetics
arts
film
video
history
theory
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Sean Cubitt

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Film
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Projects

Displaying the 6 most recent projects from 6 for Sean Cubitt.

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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: MEDIATION, MEMORY AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION

This project aims to address the social impact of major shifts in the production, distribution, viewing and storage of photographic images w..

2020 - 2023
Active
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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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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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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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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

1

Research Contracts

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 270 for Sean Cubitt.

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Imagining Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy): two landscapes of the Anthropocene, 1970 and 2014

Sean Cubitt

Journal article  |  2023  |  New Review of Film and Television Studies

The International Geological Congress has yet formally to adopt the Anthropocene. It is still, to that extent, an imagined epoch. ..

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Introductio - Cut to Green: Tracking the Growth of Ecocinema Studies

Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Sean Cubitt

Book Chapter  |  2023

It has become increasingly clear, in the decade since our frst volume of Ecocinema Theory and Practice appeared in late 2012, that..

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Unsustainable Cinema: Global Supply Chains

Sean Cubitt

Book Chapter  |  2023

Supply chains connect materials and their refining, manufacture, fabrication and assembly, and governance and logistics. These thr..

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Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Seán Cubitt

Book  |  2023

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritic..

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Oblivion: Of Time and Special Effects

Sean Cubitt

Book Chapter  |  2022

The opening scene of Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski, 2013) melds photogrammetry (including texture maps of actual spacecraft), loc..

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Ambient images

S Cubitt, C Lury, S McQuire, N Papastergiadis, D Palmer, J Pfefferkorn, EK Sunde

Journal article  |  2022  |  Nordic Journal of Aesthetics

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Pandemic: Invisibility and silence

Sean Cubitt

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING

Can the COVID pandemic be understood in any other than ecocritical and decolonial terms? It has brought nothing new except perhaps..

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Afterword: Forward

Sean Cubitt

Book Chapter  |  2022

Through this, the book celebrates the importance and vitality of media in the modern world. The Future of Media is also an experim..

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Turning disaster into crisis

Sean Cubitt

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES

This article suggests that the conditions driving the still-unresolved global financial crisis that began in 2007 depend on a gene..

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Introduction. Art in the Age of Ubiquitous Media

Sean Cubitt, Valentino Cattricalà

Journal article  |  2022  |  VCS VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES Rivista semestrale di cultura visuale

Discussions around art and technology may seem rather predictable nowadays. Technology is everywhere; it surrounds our bodies, gui..

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Keyword Analysis

Communication and Media Studies
Communication
Cultural Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Screen and Digital Media
Literary Studies
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Sociology
Architecture
Heritage, Archive and Museum 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