Dr Darren Tofts BA (Hons) La Trobe PhD Melbourne University Associate Professor, Chair, Media and Communications Tel: +613 9214 8441 Email: dtofts@swin.edu.au Personal Webpage

Biography:

Darren Tofts is a well-known cultural critic who writes regularly for a range of national and international publications on issues to do with cyberculture, new media arts and critical and cultural theory. Formerly an editorial correspondent for 21C magazine, he is a member of the editorial boards of Postmodern Culture , Continuum. The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, fibreculture journal , Rhizomes and RealTime , where he is a commissioning editor for new media arts.

Teaching:

Media Arts
Cultural Convergence
Media Arts in Australia
Literature Media Project

Research:

Media arts
Cyberculture
Critical and Cultural Theory
Cultural Convergence

Publications include:

Interzone: Media Arts in Australia, Thames & Hudson (2005)

Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History (Power Publications/MIT Press, 2003), edited with Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro.

Parallax, Craftsman House, (2000)

Memory Trade, A prehistory of Cyberculture (Sydney, Interface Books, 1998)

See http://www.swinburne.edu.au/sbs/media/staff/tofts/tofts.htm

Awards:

Recipient in 1992 (along with Kitty Vigo, Josie Arnold, Ray Kinnane and Andrew Haig, of a $50,000 CAUT grant, for the development of an interactive, multi-media program to be used in the teaching of narrative theory.

Grants achieved in 1999-2000 for Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History:
Cinemedia, $8,000
Australian Film Commission, $10,000
Australia Council, $10,000.

Grants achieved in 2005 for Interzone: Media Arts in Australia
Australia Council, $10,000
Australian Film Commission, $5,000
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, $5,000

Other:

Editorial Advisor, Continuum. Media and Cultural Studies.

Editorial Correspondent, 21C (1995-1998).

Contributing Editor (New Media Arts), RealTime.

Academic referee, UTS Review, Journal of Digital Information, New Media and Society.

Member of editorial advisory board, Meanjin (2000/2001).

Member of editorial board, Postmodern Culture.

Member of editorial advisory board, Hypermedia Joyce Studies.

Member of editorial advisory board, Rhizomes. Critical Studies in Emerging Knowledge.

Member of editorial advisory board, Scan. Journal of Media Arts Culture.

Member of editorial advisory board, fibreculture Journal.

Member of editorial advisory board, hyperrhiz.net:new media cultures