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PROF SEAN ROLAND MARY CUBITT



Contact Details

Organization: Culture and Communication
Position: CHAIR, MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS
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Homepage: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/sean-cubitt.html
Work: 8344 3667
Fax: 8344 5494
Room: 127
Level: 01
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Media and Communications Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Dundee Research, Teaching
United Kingdom University of Wales, Aberystwyth Research
United Kingdom University of the West of England

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
BA (Hons) University of Cambridge 01-Jul-1975
MA University of Cambridge 02-Jul-1979
PhD Liverpool John Moores University 07-Dec-2001

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Screen 04-Aug-1984
Member Third Text 09-Sep-1993
Member International Journal of Cultural Studies 04-Mar-1997
Member Futures 16-Jun-1998
Member Time & Society 14-Jul-1998
Member Leonardo 11-Aug-1998
Member Visual Communication 17-Aug-1999
Member Contemporary Cinema (Rodopi book series) 04-Feb-2003
Member New Review of Film and Television Studies 13-Jan-2003
Member International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 10-Mar-2003
Member Cultural Politics 15-Jul-2003
Member Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 08-Mar-2005
Unspecified Leonardo Book Series (MIT Press) 05-Jun-2006
Unspecified Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific 02-Jan-2006
Member Rogers Communications Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto 01-Feb-2006
Member ISEA (Inter Society for Electronic Arts 16-Aug-2004 14-Jun-2006
Member Royal Society of New Zealand 04-Apr-2005
Member Tertiary Education Council, New Zealand 07-Apr-2003
Member Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 05-Jun-2000

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) College Art Association Art Journal Award 14-Feb-2007

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Public screens and the transformation of public space Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
Genealogies of digital light Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Codecs and Capability
    Year: 2008
    Book: Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube
    Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • For a History of Black
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Scan
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=106
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  • Observations on the history and uses of animation occasioned by the exhibition Eyes Lies and Illusions selected from works in the Werner Nekes Collection
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Animation - An Interdisciplinary Journal
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 49-65
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  • Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media
    Volume: 12
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  • Virtual Dialectics and Technological Aesthetics
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Cultural Politics
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 133-154
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Precepts for digital artwork
    Year: 2007
    Book: Fluid screens, expanded cinema
    Publisher: University of Toronto Press(Toronto)
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  • Projection: Vanishing and Becoming
    Year: 2007
    Book: MediaArtHistories
    Publisher: MIT Press(Massachusetts)
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Journal Articles

  • Immersed in Time
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Visual Communication
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 220-229
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  • Media Art Futures
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Futures
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1149-1158
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  • The Cinema of Attractions
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Visual Culture
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 275-286
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Consumer Discipline and the Work of Audiencing
    Year: 2006
    Book: Consumption in an Age of Information
    Publisher: Berg Publishers(Oxford)
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  • Tactical Media
    Year: 2006
    Book: The Ideology of the Internet
    Publisher: Hampton Press(New Jersey)
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  • The Fading of the Elves: ecology, eco-catastrophe, tehnopoly, and bio-security
    Year: 2006
    Book: From Hobbits to Hollywood: essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings
    Publisher: Rodopi(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • 'Library' and 'Analogue and Digital'
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Theory, Culture & Society
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2/3
    Page numbers: 581-590, 250-251
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  • Democratic Materials
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Public
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 1-25
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  • Grayscale video and the shift to color
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Art Journal
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 40-53
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  • TV News Titles Picturing the Planet
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Jump Cut A Review of Contemporary Media
    Volume: 48
    Issue: Winter
    Page numbers: http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc48.2006/CubittGlobe/index.html
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • EcoMedia
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Rodopi(Amsterdam)
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Book Chapters

  • Citizens, Consumers and Migrants
    Year: 2005
    Book: Empires, Ruins and Networks
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • From Internationalism to Transnations: networked art and activism
    Year: 2005
    Book: At a Distance: precursors to art and activism on the internet
    Publisher: MIT Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Critical and Creative Media Studies and the Embedded Learning Environment
    Year: 2005
    Journal: New Review of Film and Television Studies
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-14
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  • Distribution and Media Flows
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cultural Politics
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 193-214
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • The Cinema Effect
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: MIT Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Media Democracy: first steps
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Art Inquiry/ Recherches sur les Arts
    Volume: V
    Issue: XIV
    Page numbers: 17-32
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • The Triumph and Demise of the Global Audience
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Art Inquiry/ Recherches sur les Arts
    Volume: IV
    Issue: XIII
    Page numbers: 37-48
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Aliens R Us: the Other in science fiction cinema
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Pluto Press(London)
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  • The Third Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Continuum(New York)
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Book Chapters

  • Delicatessen or Eco-Apocalypse
    Year: 2002
    Book: Aliens R Us: the other in science fiction cinema
    Publisher: Pluto Press(London)
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  • Digital Filming and Special Effects
    Year: 2002
    Book: The New Media Book
    Publisher: BFI Publishing(London)
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  • Spreadsheets, Sitemaps and Search Engines: why narrative is marginal to multimedia and networked communication, and why marginality is more vital than universality
    Year: 2002
    Book: New Screen Media: cinema/art/narrative
    Publisher: BFI Publishing(London)
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  • Y3Krisis: media arts and criticism at the millennium
    Year: 2002
    Book: Die Politik der Maschine: Interface 5
    Publisher: Verlag Hans-Bredlow-Institut(Hamburg)
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Journal Articles

  • As (the paper formerly known as good vibrations: time as special effect)
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Public
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 15-36
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  • To Transitory Peace
    Year: 2002
    Journal: International journal of Cultural Studies
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 11-20
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  • Visual and Audiovisual: from image to moving image
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Visual Culture
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 359-368
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • Simulation and Social Theory
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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Book Chapters

  • 'To Ephemeral Peace' and 'Ephemeral Pieces: an interview with Sean Cubitt'
    Year: 2001
    Book: Politics of a Digital Present: an inventory of Australian net culture, criticsm and theory
    Publisher: Arena Printing and Publishing
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  • The Colour of Time: Introduction
    Year: 2001
    Book: Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age
    Publisher: BFI Publishing(London)
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