Associate Professor Scott McQuire

Associate Professor Scott McQuire completed his postgraduate studies on the social effects of camera technologies in the Politics Department at the University of Melbourne. Since then he has lectured across a variety of disciplines including politics, sociology, cinema studies, and art and architecture, as well as media and communication. He has held visiting research fellowships at the Department of Film, Theatre and Television, UCLA in 1998 and the Celeste Bartos International Film Study Center, Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2000. Prior to joining the Media and Communications Program in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne as a Senior Lecturer in 2001, he held an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellowship from 1999.

Scott's research explores the social effects of media technologies, with particular attention to their impact on the social relations of space and time and the formation of identity. His current research concerns the spatial impact of media technologies. He has produced two major research reports concerning the effects of technological change on the Australian film industry, both commissioned by the Communications Law Centre, and jointly published by the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, and the Australian Film Commission. Crossing the Digital Threshold (1997) examined the impact of digital technology on film production, focusing on sound, picture editing and special effects, as well as the impact on skills and training, independent production and the emerging digital 'studio without walls'. Maximum Vision: Large Format and Special Venue Cinema (1999) explored the growing popularity of cinematic forms such as IMAX and theme park 'film rides'.

Scott has also written and lectured widely on visual culture and new media arts, including contemporary photography, video and installation-based works. He was a co-organiser of the major Australia Council funded conference Empires, Ruins + Networks: Art in Real time Culture held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in April 2004. An edited book from this event, focusing on the ways in which contemporary art can contribute to a more critical transcultural agenda, was published in 2005 as Empires, Ruins and Networks: The Transnational Agenda In Art. He has recently published The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space (Sage, 2008), which traces the way in which cities have become increasingly media-dense environments, transforming previous conceptions of public and private space.

Scott is also the author of Visions of Modernity (1998). A full list of his publications and projects can be found at: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/scott-mcquire.html

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