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Marcus
Bunyan is an artist who works with
all forms of image making. His artistic and research
practice investigates the boundaries between identity,
space and environment. 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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