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Dr

Lienors Torre

Senior Lecturer, Film

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

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  • Senior Lecturer, Film
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • +61 3 924 46167 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Animation Discipline

Lienors Torre has a history of practice-based research specialising in
animation and material design, including glass art. Much of her creative
practice explores how objects might be manifest through animation in their
various forms of existence and the identity/persona they might convey. She
curated the innovative Glassimations exhibition, Canberra Glassworks,
Canberra, Australia 2013 and Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia 2012. This travelling exhibition highlighted the similarities and
intersections between glass and animation. The material and philosophical
qualities suggested by this work has generated research into the nexus between
the screen and the object - between the ephemeral and the material, between
time-based and stationary aspects, between light, optics and image. Lienors
Torre's research also explores how objects exist and are experienced in new
forms of media and how they can inform and impel the language of these media.
These ideas extend into larger questions investigating the human condition and
how it exists within the digital realm and in artefacts.
Lienors has also collaboratively pioneered research into the history of
Australian Animation, interviewing key figures and animators, as well as
conducting archival research. She has co-written two monographs on this
subject: Australian Animation: An International History (London: Palgrave,
2018), the first comprehensive history on this subject, and Grendel Grendel
Grendel - Animating Beowulf (Bloomsbury 2020).

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer, Film
    Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Lecturer
    Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia30 Jan 2005 - present
  • Associate Lecturer
    Australian National University, Canberra, Australia30 Jan 2001 - 30 Dec 2003

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Melbourne
  • Master of Fine Arts
    California Inst. of the Arts
  • Graduate Certificate of Higher Education
    Deakin University
  • Bachelor of Arts
    Australian National University

LANGUAGES

  • Vietnamese
    Can understand

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Screen and digital media
  • Visual arts

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Communication and Creative Arts