Sean Cubitt's CVs
Background bio
Homepage:: http://shiva.smst.waikato.ac.nz/~seanc/
Sean Cubitt was born in Lincolnshire of Irish parents. He studied
at Queens' College Cambriidge and McGill University, Montreal. In
the 1980s he worked freelance in art schools, video workshops, journalism
and at the Society for Education in Film and television. He spent
the 1990s in Liverpool, where he was involved in developing the Foundation
for Art and Creative technology (FACT). In 2000, he moved to New Zealand
with wife Alison and dog Zebedee, and now holds dual nationality with
New Zealand and the UK
.
Research Interests:
Sean Cubitt is Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Previously Professor of Media Arts at Liverpool John Moores University, he is the author of Timeshift: On Video Culture (Comedia/Routledge, 1991), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (Macmillans/St Martins Press, 1993), Digital Aesthetics (Theory, Culture and Society/Sage, 1998),Simulation and Social Theory (Theory, Culture and Society/ Sage, 2001), The Cinema Effect (MIT Press, 2004) and EcoMedia (Rodopi, 2005); and coeditor of Aliens R Us: Postcolonial Science Fiction with Ziauddin Sardar (Pluto Press 2002) and The Third Text Reader with Rasheed Araeen and Ziauddin Sardar (Athlone/Continuum, 2002). He is the author of over 300 articles, chapters, papers and catalogue essays on contemporary arts, culture and media. A member of the editorial boards of Screen, Third Text, The International Journal of Cultural Studies, Futures, Time and Society, Journal of Visual Communication, Leonardo Digital Reviews, Iowa Web Review, Cultural Politics, fibreculture journal, International Journal of Cultural Politics, Public and Vectors, he has lectured and taught on four continents, and his work has been published in Hebrew, Arabic, Korean and Japanese as well as several European languages in publications from Latin and North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. He has also curated video and new media exhibitions and authored videos, courseware and web poetry. He is currently researching a book on media history and preparing to launch a book list on the histiory and philosophy of media with Berg and New York University Press.
BABY BIO
Sean Cubitt (seanc@waikato.ac.nz) is Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has published widely on contemporary arts, media and culture. His most recent books are Digital Aesthetics (Sage, 1998), Simulation and Social Theory (Sage, 2001), The Cinema Effect (MIT 2004) and EcoMedia (Rodopi, 2005).CONTACT
Sean CubittScreen and Media Studies
University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105
Hamilton
New Zealand
T/F: +64 (0)7
838 4543
E: seanc@waikato.ac.nz