University of Melbourne

Graduate Student, School of Culture and Communication

PhD Candidate

Thesis Title: Jeff Wall: Photography 'en-abyme'.

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Naomi Merritt will be completing her PhD on contemporary Canadian artist Jeff Wall, at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2012.

Naomi's thesis is titled: Jeff Wall: Photography 'en-abyme'.  Her research focuses on the self-reflexivity of Wall’s artwork, in respect to his restoration of the pictorial as a central category of contemporary art, his positioning of photography (and his own art practice) within the broader histories of the Western pictorial tradition and Modernism, and in relation to cinema and film theory. 

Naomi is a practicing artist and an experienced teacher of traditional, experimental and digital photography, as well as film theory, art history, visual culture, media studies, and interdisciplinary practice.

Naomi's general research interests include:

•Interdisciplinary research, networks, collaborations, and creative practice.

•Contemporary visual arts and new media arts.

•Conceptual and cinematic photography.

•History and theories of photography.

•The transition from analogue to digital photography.

•The photogram technique ('camera-less' or 'direct' photography).

•Film theory.

•Art and experimental cinema.

•Temporality and spatiality of the still and moving image.

•19th and 20th century art history (including theories of Modernism, avant-gardism, and Postmodernism)

•Visuality and modernity.

•The relationship between technology, representation and visual perception.

•Critical theory.

•Horror cinema and theories of horror.


Please contact Naomi via her university email address for a full copy of her CV - nmerritt@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

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