University of Waikato

Faculty Member, Screen and Media Studies

Senior Lecturer

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Lisa's research and teaching cuts across; animation, visual music, animated documentary, cultural memory and audience studies - all of which are explored conceptually and creatively through practice-based research

Having completed her stop-motion short film animaScope, Lisa has recently collaborated with musicians and dancers on cross-platform visual music and performance based projects. For Lisa, creating these works generates new ways of thinking and writing about concepts such as haptic audio-visuality, materiality, synaesthesia and kinesthesis. These ideas are discussed in her chapter 'The Haptic Body: Referential Memory Triggers in Visual Music and sound Art', in The Oxford Handbook for Sound and Image in Digital Media (forthcoming, 2011)

Lisa has been curator (moving image) of the exhibition Mind Games: Surrealism in Aotearoa (2009) and recently curated the exhibition Handmade Pixels: Exposing the Animation Process (October 2011): http://eyecontactsite.com/2011/10/examining-animation-in-aotearoa

In connection with this exhibition, Lisa directed the international symposium Animating Time-space (October 1-2,2011): http://animationwaikato.org/

Lisa holds a PhD in Screen and Media Studies, which focuses on documentary and cultural memory, specifically in relation to the cultural and discursive struggle associated with processes of decolonisation and nation-building in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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