Tony Dowmunt
Professor
Media and Communications
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Tony Dowmunt co-ordinates the AVPhD practice-based doctoral research programme in the Department (AVPhDs application form). He was a Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts, funded by the AHRC, from 2003-6, doing a project investigating autobiographical documentary and the video diary form, in both theory and practice, which he then converted into a practice-based PhD awarded in 2010. He was also Convenor of the MA Screen Documentary in the Department from 1995-2015.
Research Interest
Innovative arts documentaries. His other research interests have included 'alternative/community media' and the growing field of practice research in the moving image.
Publications
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Waves of potentiality: Some thoughts on database narratives and the digital dissemination of audio-visual practice research Dowmunt, Tony. 2007. Waves of potentiality: Some thoughts on database narratives and the digital dissemination of audio-visual practice research. Journal of Media Practice, 8(1), pp. 39-48. ISSN 14682753
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Will it harm the sheep? Developments and disputes in central Australian indigenous media Dowmunt, Tony. 2015. Will it harm the sheep? Developments and disputes in central Australian indigenous media. In: Chris Atton, ed. The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. June 1st 2015: Taylor & Francis, pp. 469-480. ISBN 978-0-415-64404-4
