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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. He is Associate Editor of 21C magazine and is a member of the editorial boards of Postmodern Culture , Continuum, Scan Journal of Media Arts, Hyperrhiz, fibreculture journal , Rhizomes and RealTime , where he is a commissioning editor for new media arts.
Teaching
Media Arts Cultural Convergence Remix Culture Literature Project
Research Interests
Media arts Cyberculture Critical and Cultural Theory Cultural Convergence
Publications Include
Darren Tofts' Publications
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