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Associate Professor Darren Tofts

BA (Hons) La Trobe, PhD Melbourne University

Associate Professor

Tel: 61 3 9214 8441

Office: AS423

Email: dtofts@swin.edu.au
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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 Interests

  • 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)

    • Awards and Grants

  • 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 Projects

  • 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

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