Staff

Anna Notaro

Co-Module Leader Critical & Contextual Studies

Tel: +44 (0) 1382 385654
Email: a.z.notaro@dundee.ac.uk
Room 6020
Level 6, Matthew building

Biography

Media is a highly heterogeneous and inter-disciplinary academic field, my research profile offers a flexible combination of ‘New’ Media and (Digital)Film Studies. My most recent research interests address the diverse social, artistic, theoretical and cultural practices which constitute today's digital domains and virtual environments. I am particularly keen on analysing the development of digital communication technologies from a set of activist and artistic practices and ideologies such as, cross-culturalism, net activism, media philosophy and electronic textuality. I focus on a vibrant network of ideas and actions by studying the future of the book, post-human theory, blogs and Internet branding, not disregarding of course the ethical issues at stake such as surveillance-privacy, censorship, gender and ethnicity, and the commercialization of the public sphere. As for my interest in (Digital) Film Studies, I consider how the hegemony of Hollywood’s movie making modalities is increasingly being challenged by the radical new potentialities of the digital media technologies, as evidenced by the rapid rise of the video game and the notion of digital stardom. In this light current cinematic research cannot omit an appreciation of the radical impact that the shift to digital techniques of production and presentation is having on the nature of the cinematic experience.

PhD Supervision

Supervision topics include New Media, Cinema & New Technologies, Digital Culture, Celebrity Culture, e-Textuality, Video & Net Art and Digital Creativity.

Completed

1. 2006-2011 Emile Shemilt ‘An Exploration of Tension between the Material and the Image in Moving Image Art’. 
2. 2006 – 2012 Cornelia Sollfrank ‘Performing the Paradoxes of Intellectual Property: An Artistic Investigation of the Conflicting Relationship betweenCopyright and Art within the Knowledge Economy’.

Research Projects

• AHRC ‘REWIND ITALIA’, length of project: 28 months (£216,734), Start Date: February 2011. Co-investigator: Dr A. Notaro; Principal Investigator: Prof. S. Partridge. The project explores the important history and narratives of video art activity in Italy between 1968 and 1982.

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