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Marcus
Bunyan
is an artist who works with all forms of image making.
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. After
completing his doctorate he was made Research Fellow
in The Department of Information Systems at The
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, investigating
how strong tie relations are using ICTs (information
and communications technologies) to support mediated
intimacy.
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 a further
understanding of the paradoxes of contemporary life:
the fracturing of the image plane, the dissolution
of idenity, the hidden threat, the faint cloudiness
in the cornea of things seen, unclearly.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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Winner of 'The AGFA
National Photographic Award - The John Dallinger
Prize for Photographic Excellence',
Albury Regional Art Gallery, Albury, NSW.
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Doctor
of Philosophy (Multimedia), RMIT Postgraduate
Award scholarship, RMIT University, Melbourne,
Australia. |
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Master
of Arts, Australian Postgraduate Award
scholarship (APA), RMIT University, Melbourne,
Australia. |
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Postgraduate
Honors, RMIT University, Melbourne,
Australia.
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Bachelor
of Arts, RMIT University, Melbourne,
Australia.
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Emigrated
to Australia. |
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Postgraduate,
Royal College of Music, London, England.
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Associate
of the Royal College of Music (A.R.C.M.),
London, England, concert pianist.
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