DrMoses Iten

Dr Moses Iten is a Teaching Fellow in Arts and Cultural Management at Deakin Business School.

He has a PhD in DJ and electronic dance music culture, and his research focuses on the intersections of music, technology and society to progress cultural diversity and social cohesion.

Moses has an established creative practice as a DJ/producer and has performed and collaborated with musicians on every continent. This global creative practice drives his ethnographic research approach. He has two decades of industry experience in the media and community cultural development sectors, as a journalist and radio broadcaster, an event producer and manager, workshop host and mentor for children, youth, migrant and refugee communities. 

He is the Managing Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and his publication profile as a scholar includes an article in the Journal of World Popular Music and two book chapters in the series Mobile Music Machines: Street Culture and their Technologies (edited by Julian Henriques and Brian D'Aquino, forthcoming on Bloomsbury Academic). He has delivered papers at international conferences, hosted symposia and is a founding member of the Beats & Bass Research Network, awarded with the Engaged Anthropology Fund 2025 by the Australian Anthropological Society. His extensive non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) include impactful public talks, podcasts, videos, workshops and DJ performances.

His radio production has won the United Nations Department of Public Information Silver Award and the Social Issues category at the New York Festival’s Radio Broadcasting Awards (2008). His creative outputs have received grants from the Australia Council/Creative Australia (2019) and the Consulate General of Switzerland in Sydney (2014). He has curated and hosted stages for large festivals including MONA FOMA (2024), Big Day Out (2010) and Bellingen Global Carnival (2007), as well as regularly performing at Australian arts and cultural institutions, which has included MONA, NGV, Arts Centre Melbourne, Immigration Museum, Iwaki Auditorium, ACMI, the MCA and more.