Marcus Bunyan [] Image Maker

Dr Marcus Bunyan

His artistic practice investigates the boundaries between identity, space and environment. He writes an art blog at artblart.wordpress.com. His doctoral thesis at RMIT University investigated the link between self-esteem and body image and traced the development of the male body image within photographic practice and gym culture. The thesis has been adapted into a website that includes research on photographs held at The Kinsey Institute and The Minor White Archive. He is currently studying part-time for a Master in Art Curatorship at The University of Melbourne.

Early artistic work investigated personal narratives: the shifting interfaces of identity, sexuality, space, time and environment.

Later artistic work explored personal narratives as more universal themes: the fracturing of identity, the binaries of light and dark, absence/presence, pattern/randomness in spatio-temporal environments.

Current artistic work proposes an understanding of the paradoxes of contemporary life: the fracturing of the image plane, the ethics and morals of humans, the choices human beings make in environments, the hidden threat, the faint cloudiness in the cornea of things seen, unclearly - using images of fighter planes.

2010 - 11 @	Studying Master of Art Curatorship part-time at The University of Melbourne Internship at fortyfivedownstairs gallery, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
2008 @	Launch of Art Blart art and writing blog at artblart.wordpress.com
2006 - 07 @	Lecturer in Fine Art Photography at RMIT University, Melbourne. Photographs included in 'Depth of Field: Conversations Between Photography and Textiles' exhibition touring England through Birmingham MAC. Publication of 'Pressing the Flesh: Sex, Body Image and the Gay Male', website adaptation of PhD research undertaken at RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria. 'Miss en Scene: Vision and the Digital Paradigm' paper presented at Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2006 Annual Conference 'Reinventing the Medium', Monash University.
2005 @	Paper accepted for presentation 2005 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii, USA. 'SynchroMate: A Phatic Technology for Mediating Intimacy' paper presented at DUX 2005, San Francisco, Nov 3-5th 2005.
2004 @	Senior Lecturer in Photography at Charles Sturt University, NSW. Speaker at 'The Space Between' conference at The Faculty of BEAD, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA. Presenter at COFA seminar 'Research Through Practice: Beyond Research Equivalence in Art and Design', Sydney, NSW.
2003 - 04 @	Research Fellow and coordinator of the SIT-CRC project 'Mediating Strong Ties', investigating the promotion of intimacy between remote strong tie relations using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) undertaken in The Department of Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, Australia.
2003 @	Presenter at 'Making an Appearance : Fashion, Dress, and Consumption', International Fashion Conference at The University of Queensland, Brisbane. Lecturing in cultural studies (new media, cybersociety, hypertext, professional artist) at VCA Centre for Ideas, Swinburne University, Victoria University, and The University of Melbourne.
2002 @	Lecturing in photomedia and multimedia at The University of Melbourne and Monash University, Melbourne; lecturing in media & cultural studies at the Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Speaker at the 'Mediated Spaces' Symposium, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Speaker at 'HID4 : National Health Conference', Sydney University, Sydney, NSW.
2001 @	Completion Doctor of Philosophy (Multimedia), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Lecturing in photomedia and multimedia at The School of Creative Arts, The University of Melbourne, Victoria. Speaker at 'HID3 : National Health Conference', Adelaide, South Australia.
1999 @	Visiting Research Scholar at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, and The One Institute, affiliated to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
1997	Winner of 'The AGFA National Photographic Award - The John Dallinger Prize for Photographic Excellence', Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury, NSW.
1997 - 01 @	Doctor of Philosophy (Multimedia), RMIT Postgraduate Award scholarship, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
1995 - 96 @	Master of Arts, Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship (APA), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
1994 @	Postgraduate Honors, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
1990 - 93 @	Bachelor of Arts, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.