paula roush
I am an artist-researcher-curator interested in art research practices and theories, with a particular focus on its intersections with social media and free culture education networks.
I am senior lecturer in the BA (hons) in Digital Photography at the London South Bank University (Arts, Media & English Department). I also teach the theory module Thinking Practices, part of the MA in Art and Media practice at the University of Westminster (Media & Design Department).
Research interests
- Artists approaches to archives, especially photographic archives, and counter-archival strategies
- Youth cultures, notably gender aspects, and online-offline post-subcultures as academic and artistic/photographic subject
- Artists publications, self-publishing practices, and print on demand digital pres, especially the photobook
- Performativity and surveillance space, webcamming and web spectatorship
- Social media, the classroom of the read-write web, with a focus on social networking and micro-blogging as part of the teaching and learning tool kit
- Second life as an art/research/teaching environmen and field work/ photographic research in immersive virtual worlds
- Digital writing, academic blogging and performative dissertations
- Research art practices, artists’ uses of ethnographic methods and auto-ethnography
Location
london se5 9pg, uk
Disciplines
Affiliation
London South Bank University, University of Westminster
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