Sean Cubitt

Biography

He has worked in Canada, New Zealand and Australia, and has an interest in the film and media of these countries, and have ongoing research collaborations and honorary appointments at the Universities of Dundee and Melbourne. Professor Cubitt is on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Screen, Cultural Politics, Animation, International Journal of Cultural Politics, Visual Communications, Futures, Time and Society, fibreculture, MIRAJ and The New Review of Film and television Studies, and is a series editor for Leonardo Books, MIT Press. Professor Cubitt is half of the thriller-writing team Lambert

Research Interest

Topics include net art, Wikipedia, Clint Eastwood, ICT for development, meteorological art, creative practice research models, digital documentary, high-definition television, heterotopias, television history, collaborative models in online environments, games sound, interactive arts and the British film avant-garde. I have examined 32 PhD theses, again including many employing creative practice. I am especially interested in proposals on the history and archeology of media, media arts, ecocriticism and postcolonial studies of film and media.