Natalia Radywyl has recently completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in the Schools of Culture and Communication and Historical Studies. Natalia's doctoral dissertation, Moving Images, the Museum and a Politics of Movement: A Study of the Museum Visitor investigates the changing nature of visitation to the art museum. She has been undertaking ethnographic investigations at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, funded as part of the ARC Discovery Project, The Spatial Impact of Digital Technology on Contemporary Art and New Art Institutions.

Drawing from this ethnographic research, the dissertation documents visitor interaction with moving image art to appraise the shifts in contemporary relationships between art institutions, artwork and visitor. The study found the museum to be a unique site for the mediation of new forms of knowledge-based and social literacy, where deeply immersive and powerfully aesthetic experiences transform and challenge visitors' expressions of agency both within and beyond the museum.

Natlalia also holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts, a Diploma of Modern Languages (German) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Media and Communications from the University of Melbourne. She has completed projects and performances in the areas of film, video, theatre, interactive multimedia and creative arts.

Her current research interests consider the opportunities for collaboration between social researchers, designers, curators, architects and policy makers to develop user-oriented design practices which are sustainable and socially progressive.

Natalia lectures and teaches in subject areas related to new media technology, media policy and city cultures.

Public Presentations

• 2007: All Your Base Are Belong to Us, Univesity of Melbourne
• 2007: Digital Incubator Symposium, Victorian College of the Arts
• 2006: Engage, University of Technology Sydney
• 2006: Flux, University of Melbourne
• 2005: FILE Symposium: FILE International Media Arts Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil (which can be downloaded here (Pdf link)
• 2005: Critical Cultures, University of Melbourne

Publications

• (2006) 'The Australian Centre for the Moving Image' in South Pacific Museums: Experiments in Culture, Clayton, Vic: Monash University ePress, pp. 22-23
• (2006) 'The Promise of Little-Arty Microfish' in Engage: Interaction Art and Audience Experience, Sydney: UTS, pp. 50-58
• (2006) 'Coming of Age: Theorising the Development of Communications Technologies', review of Holmes, D. (2005) Communication Theory: Media, Technology and Society in Southern Review, 39:2.
• (2004) 'Pluralising Identities, Mainstreaming Identities: SBS as a technology of citizenship' (with David Nolan) Southern Review: Communication, Politics and Culture 37:2, pp. 40-65.