Dr Azadeh Emadi
- Senior Lecturer (Theatre, Film & Television Studies)
telephone:
0141 330 3857
email:
Azadeh.Emadi@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
Research interests
As a researcher and a video maker, Azadeh Emadi is deeply invested in interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches that cross over diverse cultural forms of knowledge and digital media arts. She applies these approaches to address socio-cultural matters related to media production and to the ways in which digital moving images convey and construct meaning. She does so through integrating theoretical investigation with media production (e.g., experimental video and film, video installation). The underlying focus of her research is to investigate new ways of seeing by applying historical Persian concepts and arts within contemporary Western schools of thought and moving image. Notions such as virtual reality, time and motion, perception and representation, digital im/materiality in the post digital era, as well as digital media and its latent potentialities in relation to real life events and current socio-cultural issues, are the current foci of her research and video practice.
She is also interested to develop new pedagogies by integrating different cultural knowledge forms, and to develop curricula that bring together academic, creative practice and community engagement. In the same way that she has been supported to explore her own cultural background as a basis for developing innovative research, she anticipates encouraging research and creative students to realise their own potential through investigating global, local and personal perspectives and cultures.
Research areas
- Cross-cultural approaches to new media studies
- Practice-based research methods
- Transnational and intercultural film, media and art
- Ideologies and politics of perception and representation
- Eastern and Western philosophies and media arts
- Persian-Islamic History, arts and philosophies
- Material investigation of digital media
- Media arts practice and experimental film making
Biography
- 2016-2017: Lecturer in Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)
- 2008-2015: Teaching fellow, School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)
- 2010-2014: PhD, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)
- 2012: Research Visit, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
- 2008- 2009: Master of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)
- 2008: Research Exchange, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (Germany)
- 2005-2007: Bachelor of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)
Supervision
- Song, Ningning
Creative Practice as Research: Exploring Storytelling With Virtual Reality In 360-Degrees Documentary - Yalcin, Gonca
‘Practicing Alternative Historiographies: Contemporary Material Performance Practices in Turkey, Lebanon and Iran’ - Yekti, Bharoto
Non-Visual Animation: Incorporating Touch in Expanded Animation
Teaching
- Convenor: MSc in Filmmaking and Media Arts
- Filmmaking and Media Arts Core course (1)
- Filmmaking and Media Arts Core course (2)