Sheila Petty
Professor
Media, Art, and Performance
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
As a media theorist, Sheila Petty's work encompasses new media, cinema, television narrative and aesthetics, African and African diasporic cinema, television & web texts and post-colonialism. She has written extensively on issues of cultural representation, identity and nation in African and African diasporic screen media, and has curated film, television and digital media exhibitions for galleries across Canada. Her current research focuses on interpretive strategies for analyzing digital creative cultural practices and real-time decision making. She is an adjunct scientist at TRLabs Regina and leader of an interdisciplinary research group and New Media Studio Laboratory spanning Computer Science, Engineering and Media, Art, and Performance. She served two terms as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts (now known as the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance.)
Research Interest
Interpretive strategies for analyzing digital creative cultural practices and real-time decision making.
