Dr Leonie Cooper - Researcher Profile

Leonie Cooper

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Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Monash University, Caulfield

Contact Details

Email: Leonie.Cooper@monash.edu


Biography

Dr Leonie Cooper lectures and supervises in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University. She teaches across the fields of cinema, television, photography, digital media and supervises students undertaking HDR research in both theory and arts based research. She’s particularly concerned with the intermedial relations from which screen assemblages are generated and developing appropriate methods and conceptual tools to articulate their  material and aesthetic conditions. Her theoretical toolbox is diverse: including contemporary philosophical thought (Deleuze, Guettari, Zizek, Virilio amongst others), post-phenomenology, film theory, software studies, relational, remix and post-production practices/theories, early visual cultures and media archaelogies.

Thus she has hybridised astronauts with media archaeologies, social networks with science fiction, mixed reality/augmented media environments with virtual worlds and space stations  and, in turn, generated papers at local and international conferences such as Caiia-STAR ; The Buffyverse & UTE Culture (2002); Holy Men in Tights Superhero Conference (2005);  B for Bad Cinema (2009), ISEA and Rewire in 2011.

Publications on the astronaut as a figure of the screen experience appear in Stars in Our Eyes: The Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era (2002) and Star Voyager: Imaging Space on Screen (Hardie Grant, Melbourne, 2011). Her Phd research constituted the astronaut as a heuristic tool to think through the perceptual and epistemological tensions activated by transitions within screen cultures.  This approach enabled her to construct a cross-media investigation of film, theme park attractions and virtual worlds in parallel to a shift in the imaginary conditions of space trave

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Research & Supervision Interests

    Screen Theory and Practice; Science Fiction, Apocalyptic and Predictive Theories and Practices; Digital and New Media Theory and practice. Media Archaeology; Software Studies; Space Research, Cultures and Visual Arts Practice (including "space art"); Extended media environments including theme parks and their attractions, city spaces and leisure destinations. 

Keywords

ARTS/HUMANITIES/CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Melbourne University
Year awarded: 2010

Publications

Book Chapters

Cooper, L., 2011, Imagining astronauts, in Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen, eds Emma McRae and Sarah Tutton, Hardie Grant, Victoria, Australia, pp. 45-53.

Conference Proceedings

Cooper, L., 2011, From weightless worlds to hybrid homes: Rethinking the extra-terrestrial, ISEA2011 Istanbul Conference Proceedings, 14/09/2011-21/09/2011, ISEA International, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1-4.

Cooper, L.J., 2011, Memories of a virtual world: Thinking through those things that remain, Rewire: The fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, FACT, Liverpool, UK, p. 1.

Other

Cooper, L., Galimberti, E., Perkins, M., 2010, Video and its Partial Recall, Catalogue essay for 'Video: Art from the Archive' exhibition, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Caulfield East Vic Australia, pp. 1-4.

Perkins, M., Galimberti, E., Cooper, L., 2010, Video: Art from the Archive, Exhibition curation, Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University.

Teaching Commitment

2011:
TAD 4794 Multimedia and Society
MVA 4022 and 4021 Philosophies of the Studio A and B
ADD6093 Documentation Studies
ADM5091 and 5092 Research Methods and Theory Workshop

 

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Completed Supervision

Student:
Ramholdt, A.
Program of Study:
The parasite and the zombie : a delicious coupling. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Cooper, L (Main).