Doctor Peter Dallow

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Publications
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Biography

Peter Dallow is an interdisciplinary scholar who teaches and supervises  research degrees across a number of areas in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has a background in film and television production and in visual arts. Peter researches across a number of media and art forms.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Media Studies, New Media, Visual Studies, Media Literacy, Knowledge Systems, Writing, Narrative theory, Creative Arts Practice, Practice-based Research, Design Research

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Grants / Current Projects

He has been a member of an Australian Research Council funded project working on the Strehlow 'Journey to Horseshoe Bend' online media project, and the UNESCO funded international DiverCities intercultural dialogue online media project.

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Publications

Book Chapters

These publications in highly prestigious international book anthologies dealing with visual and media literacy, new media, and contemporary arts practice—
• Dallow, Peter 2008 ‘The Visual Complex: Mapping Some Interdisciplinary Dimensions Of Visual Literacy’, Chapter 5 in Elkins, James (Ed.) 2008 Visual Literacy. New York and London: Routledge. 91-103.
This publication includes prominent authors such as Barbara Stafford, Jonathan Crary, W.J.T. Mitchell and James Elkins, amongst others.
• Dallow, Peter 2006 ‘The Virtually New: Art, Form And Consciousness’, Chapter 5 in McLeod, Katy & Lin Holdridge (Eds.) 2006 Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research. London/New York: Routledge. 73-86. [Routledge Innovations in Art and Design Series]
• Dallow, Peter 2005 ‘Outside The ‘True’: Research And Complexity In Contemporary Arts’, Chapter 11 in Miles, Malcolm (Ed.) 2005 New Practices — New Pedagogies: A Reader. London/New York: Routledge. 133-142. [Routledge Innovations in Art and Design Series]
• Dallow, Peter 2001 ‘The Space Of Information: Digital Media As Simulation Of The Analogical Mind’, Chapter 3 in Munt, Sally R. (Ed.) 2001 Technospaces: Inside The New Media. London and New York: Continuum. 57-70.

Refereed Journal Publications

• Dallow, Peter 'Journey of a Book: The new media reconstruction of a novelistic memoir', The International Journal of the Book, Vol. 6 (in press) 2009.
• Dallow, Peter 2009 'Future Sense: Screen Metaphors in the Digital Age' in new online Cinema journal Movement: A Media Studies Journal, issue 1.1: the futures of cinema, 2009.
• Dallow, Peter 2007 ‘Mediatizing the Web: The New Modular Extensible Media’, Journal of Media Practice, Volume 8 Issue 2, 341-358.
• Dallow, Peter 2003 ‘Representing Creativeness: Practice-Based Approaches To Research In The Creative Arts’, Art, Design And Communication In Higher Education. Vol.2 Issue 1 & 2, October 2003. 49-66. ISSN 1474-273X. ADCHE is the journal of the UK national Subject Centre for Art, Design and Media.
• Dallow, Peter 2003 ‘Outside “The True”: Research And Complexity In Arts Research And Practice’, European Journal Of Arts Education, Vol. 5, 2003.
• Dallow, Peter 1998 ‘Media Arts, Research And The University.’ Practice: A Journal Of Visual, Performing & Media Arts, Issue Number Three, Autumn/Winter 1998. pp. 36-45.

Conference Paper Presentations have included:

• ‘Journey of a Book: The new media reconstruction of a novelistic memoir’, presented at the 6th International Conference of the Book, Washington DC, October 2008;
• ‘New Screen Channels: From user generated online content to user generated distribution’, at the Screenscapes — Past Present Future Conference, Sydney, December 2007;
• ‘Extensible Media: The Newer Media and Public Access to the Mediascape’, in the New Technologies / Media Convergence Stream of OURMedia 6th International Conference, Sydney, April 2007;
• A version of ‘The Visual Complex: Mapping Some Interdsciplinary Dimensions Of Visual Literacy’ paper was presented at the International Conference on Visual Literacy, Cork, Ireland, April 2005;
• ‘Visual Rhetoric And Humanist Photography: Reality, Visuality And Culture’, was presented at the International Language Communication Culture Conference, Beja Portugal, Nov. 2004;
• ‘Rhetorical Method And Metaphor In New Media’ was presented in the Rhetoric of New Media panel at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, USA, Oct. 2004;
• ‘Visualities, Images And Technologies Of Representation’ was a paper presented at Culture Incorporated: Bodies, Technologies, Habitats. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand Dec. 2003;
• ‘Outside “The True”: Research And Complexity In Arts Research And Practice’ was presented at “Comhar”, European League Of Institutes Of Arts 7th Annual Conference, Dublin, October 2002;
• ‘Stories,' “True Stories.”

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