Dr Juan Francisco Salazar

Biography

Juan Francisco Salazar is a senior lecturer in communication and media studies at the School of Communication Arts, and a researcher at the Centre for Cultural Research. His research interests and areas of expertise include: media anthropology; community and alternative media; Indigenous media and communication rights; communication and social change; Latin American cultural studies; experimental film, documentary film; cultural mapping; ICT's in education and intercultural dialogue; cultural studies of Antarctica.

As a media practitioner he has produced several documentaries and experimental short films, and collaborated with a wide range of community media/arts organisations and artists including several local councils, creative studios and community development organizations in Sydney, Mexico, the UK and Chile. He is an international coordinator of the OURMedia Network since 2004 and was convenor of the OURMedia 6th International Conference in Sydney, 2007. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (2008) and a visiting teaching fellow at the School of Communication, Universidad de las Américas, Mexico (2006).

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Qualifications

PhD in Communication and Media, University of Western Sydney (2005)

Master of Arts in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Western Sydney (1999)

Bachelor of Anthropology (Honours), University of Chile (1994)

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Honours and Awards

  • 2010, Vice-Chancellor's Professional Development Scholarship, University of Western Sydney.
  • 2009, Winner of an Australian Educational Publishing Award 2009 Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning category for the co-authored book Screen Media Arts: Introduction to concepts and practices (with H. Cohen and I.Barkat), Oxford University Press.  
  • 2000, Australian Postgraduate Research Award

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Grants and Current Projects

  • Digital archives, data diversity and discoverability: the Strehlow Collection as knowledge resource for remote indigenous communities
    Researchers: Hart Cohen,  Rachel Morley,  Juan F Salazar, Michael Cawthorn
    Partners: Strehlow Research Centre
    Funding Body: Australian Research Council
    Period: 2011-2014  
  • Picturing Antarctica: Emerging agendas for cultural research in Antarctica
    Researchers: Juan Salazar
    Funding Body: University of Western Sydney (UWS Research Grant Scheme)
    Period: 2011
  • Futuro Infantil Hoy and the professional development of leaders in Early Childhood Education: A sociological study of transnational knowledge exchange between Australia and Chile.
    Researchers: Michael Singh, Christine Woodrow, Steve Wilson, Juan Salazar
    Partners: Fundacion Minera Escondida; Chilean National Board of Early Childhood Centres (JUNJI).
    Funding Body: Fundación Minera Escondida (Chile).
    Period: 2008-2010
  • Hot Science, Global Citizens: The Agency of the Museum Sector in Climate Change Debates
    Researchers: Fiona Cameron, Bob Hodge, Brett Neilson, Juan Salazar, Jann Conroy, David Karoly, S. Chan, Carolyn Meehan, Lynda Kelly, Graham Durant, Wayne LaBar and Richard Sandell
    Partners: Museum Victoria, Australian Museum, Questacon and The Liberty Science Center (USA)
    Funding Body: Australian Research Council
    Period: 2008-2010  
  • Digital Refuge: Storytelling and Sustainability of Community Media in Western Sydney
    Researchers: Juan Salazar, Hart Cohen, Lena Nahlous, Caitlin Vaughan
    Funding Body: UWS Sustainability Research Grant
    Partner: Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), Fairfield City Council (FCC)
    Period: 2007-2008
  • 33º South Heterotopies of Place and Space
    Researchers: Sarah Waterson and Juan Salazar
    Funding Body: Australia Council for the Arts, Research and Development Grant
    Period: 2007-2008


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Selected Publications

Authored Books

Cohen, H., Salazar, J. F. & Barkat, I. 2008, Screen Media: Theories, Histories and Practices, South Melbourne, Vic: Oxford University Press.

Edited Journals

Pettit, J., Salazar, J. F. & Gumucio-Dagron, A. (guest eds) 2009, Citizens’ Development in Practice [Special Issue: Media and Communication: New Expressions of Power and Voice], Oxfam GB: Rawat Publications.

Cohen, H. & Salazar, J. F. (guest eds) 2005, Media International Australia (Incorporating Culture and Policy) [Special Issue on Digital Anthropology], 116(August).

Book Chapters

Salazar, J. F. 2010, ‘MyMuseum: Social Media and the Engagement of the Environmental Citizen’, in, Cameron, F. & Kelly, L. (eds), Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Salazar, J. F. 2010, ‘Making Culture Visible: The Mediated Construction of a Mapuche Nation in Chile’, in, Stein, L., Rodriquez, C. & Kidd, D. (eds), Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere – Volume 1, Cresshill, NJ: Hampton Press, pp 29-46.

Salazar, J. F. & Cordova, A. 2008, ‘Imperfect Media: The Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America’, in, Stewart, M. & Wilson, P. (eds), Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics, Durham, NC & London: Duke University Press, pp 39-57.

Salazar, J. F. & Waterson, S. 2008, ‘Play_Space: Participatory Communities and Game Space’, in, Butt, D., Bywater, J. & Paul, N. (eds), Place: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice, Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp147-164.

Salazar, J. F. 2007a, ‘Indigenous Peoples and the Cultural Constructions of Information and Communication Technology in Latin America’, in, Dyson, L. E., Hendriks, M. & Grant, S. (eds), Indigenous People and Information Technology, Hershey, PA.: Idea-Group Publishing, pp. 14-26.

Salazar, J. F. 2007b, ‘Indigenous People and the Communication Rights Agenda: A Global Perspective’, in, Nightingale, V. & Dwyer, T. (eds), New Media Worlds: Challenges for Convergence, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp 87-101.

Journal Articles

Salazar, J. F., 2011, (in press), ‘The mediations of climate change: museums as citizens’ media’, Museum and Society, 9(2).

Salazar, J. F. 2010, ‘Digital stories and emerging citizens’ media practices by migrant youth in Western Sydney’, 3CMedia Journal of Citizen’s, Community and Third Sector Media. Brisbane: Community Broadcasting Foundation.

Salazar, J. 2009, ‘Self-Determination in Practice: The Critical Making of Indigenous Media’, Development in Practice, 19(4-5): 504-513.

Pettit, J., Salazar, J. & Dagron, A. 2009, ‘Citizens’ Media and Communication’, Development in Practice, 19(4-5): 443-452.

Salazar, J. 2009, ‘Indigenous Video and Policy Contexts in Latin America’, International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 5(1-2): 125-130.

Cohen, H. & Salazar, J. F. (guest eds) 2005, Media International Australia (Incorporating Culture and Policy) [Special Issue on Digital Anthropology], 116(August).

Salazar, J. F. 2005, ‘Digitising Knowledge: Anthropology and New Practices of Digitextuality’, Media International Australia (Incorporating Culture and Policy) [Special Issue on Digital Anthropology], 116(August): 64-74.

Salazar, J. F. 2005, ‘Communication Rights in the ‘Information Society’: The Case of Indigenous Media in Latin America’, Revista Codigos, 2(December): 38-52, Universidad de la Americas, Puebla, Mexico.

Salazar, J. F. 2003, ‘Articulating an Activist Imaginary: Internet as Counter Public Sphere in the Mapuche Movement’, Media International Australia (Incorporating Culture and Policy), 107(May): 19-29.

Salazar, J. F. 2002, ‘Activismo Indígena en América Latina: Estrategias para una construcción cultural de las tecnologías de información y comunicación’, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 8(2): 61-79.

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Consultancy and Reports

Indigenous Tourism in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Researchers: Robyn Bushell and Juan Salazar
Funding Body: Fundación Minera Escondida, Chile, 2008-2009

Evaluation report "ICTs for Intercultural Dialogue: Developing communication capacities of Indigenous peoples. ICT4ID"
Researchers: Laurel Dyson, Juan Salazar and Max Hendriks
Funding Body: UNESCO (Information Section, Paris), 2006-2008

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Engagement

2008: H2O a Difussion ebook and storycube. A collaboration by Alejandra Canales, Anne Ransquin and Juan F. Salazar commissioned by Giles Lane, Proboscis, London.

2007: Suburban Crossings. Co-organizer photo-media workshop and photo-derive in the streets of Fairfield with Belgian photographer Anne Ransquin and newly arrived young people from Sudan and Congo. These images and their stories were then visualized on an interactive digital map. A joint project of the School of Communication Arts, UWS and Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE). ICE Press release.

CLAPCI Festival, 2006 Oaxaca, Mexico and 2008 La Paz, Bolivia. Curator of Aboriginal film program.

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Media/Exhibitions/Installation

2011 Shanghai Expo 2010: a video-essay. Creative Producer. Video essay. 20 minutes. Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney.

2010 My Name is Sud [Sood]. Director/Producer (with Alejandra Canales). Documentary video. 29 minutes. Commissioned by Maria Mitar, Produced by Blacktown Arts Centre, Australia.

2009 33˚South. Co-directed with Sarah Waterson. 3-channel interactive video installation. Casula Arts Centre. Sydney, April 2009.

2004 De la Tierra a la Pantalla [From Land to Screen]. Director, Producer, Editor. Documentary. 37 minutes. Digital Video.

Festival Screenings: Chilean National Cinematheque, Santiago, June 2007; 17th Presence Autochtone Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, June 2007; 13th American Indian Film and Video Festival, New York, December 2006; 6th Environmental Film Festival of New Orleans, September 2006; Showcase of Indigenous Cinema. Casa de America. Madrid, June 2005; Showcase of Indigenous Cinema. Spanish Cultural Centre. Lima, Peru, April 2005; Exhibition Mapuche-Newen, Museum of the Americas, Denver, USA, June-September 2005; 7th International Festival of Indigenous Film and Video, Santiago, Chile, 2004.

2004 No Cold Feet. Co-director, Camera, Editor. Experimental dance video. 15 minutes, DV. Produced for De Quincey Company, Sydney. 

2003 Breath. Co-director, Camera, Editor. Experimental dance video. 13 minutes, DV. Produced for De Quincey Company.

1999 Anatomia Monumental [Monumental Anatomy]. Co-Director. Multimedia installation. Exhibited at National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile (1999). Museum of Contemporary Arts, Valdivia, Chile (2001).


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Higher Degree Research Supervision

Completed

• Mahmoud Yektaparast (PhD, School of Communication Arts)
Aesthetics of Anger: Thoughts on how Chinese Untrammeled Painting Pre-empted the European Avant-Garde (2009)

• Justo Diaz (PhD, School of Communication Arts)
La Peña: The Politics of Early World Music in Australia (2010)

• Bette Mifsud (DCA, Centre for Cultural Research)
Coming to Ground: The Work of Art Towards Ecohumanism (2010)

In Progress

• Granaz Moussavi (DCA, Centre for Cultural Research)
My Tehran For Sale: a cinematic translation of the poetics of Iranian cinema
(submitted March 2011)

• Enda Murray (DCA, Centre for Cultural Research)
A Filmic Exploration of Personal Experience in Irish Migration to Australia

• Vanessa Mendes (MA, School of Communication Arts)
Television without frontiers: Internet as an instrument for releasing television programs abroad

• Cristina Wulfhorst (PhD, Centre for Cultural Research) (Co-supervisor)
The Brazilian Diaspora in Sydney: identities reconfiguration and hybridisation processes through mediated and interpersonal communication
(submitted March 2011)

• Samantha Edwards (PhD, School of Communication Arts) (Co-supervisor)
Graffiti as archaeographic intervention: the visual poetics of place in Sydney’s inner suburbs

External

• Verena Thomas (PhD, University of Technology Sydney) (Co-supervisor)
Yumi Piksa – Our Pictures: Community-responsive filmmaking as research practice in Highlands Papua New Guinea
(submitted March 2011)

 

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