Ms. Pauline Anastasiou
Details
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College: School of Art
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Department: School of Art
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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pauline.anastasiou@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Industry Projects
- Mentoring (long-term)
- Collaborative projects
About
Pauline Anastasiou is a lecturer in Photography in the School of Art who works with the still and moving image. She completed her PhD in 2020.
Her research investigates how she as an image-maker might engage with and contribute to social issues such as the politics of migration through the theoretical framework of Affect.
As part of this research, she is making bodies of work that explore the ways in which the notion of affect might be used as a prompt to encourage empathic connections.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education from La Trobe University, and Honours Degree in Arts (Photography) a Master of Arts by research, RMIT and she completed a PHD in 2020 at RMIT University
Research fields
- 360604 Photography, video and lens-based practice
- 441008 Sociology of culture
- 300606 Food sustainability
UN sustainable development goals
- 1 No Poverty
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
Academic positions
- Program Manager
- RMIT University
- Media and Communication and School of Art
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2015 – 1 Jan 2019
Degrees
- Bachelor Degree Level,
- La Trobe University
- Australia
- 1979
- Bachelor Degree (Honours) Level, Creative Arts
- RMIT University
- Australia
- 1996
- Masters Degree by Research, Creative Arts
- RMIT University
- Australia
- 2008
Teaching interests
Pauline teaches undergraduate and masters and postgraduate students in the areas of image-making within a contemporary social context.
Research supervision
Pauline is a registered research supervisor in the areas of photography, video, and narrative.
Supervisor interests
Archiving of memory and the impact that new technologies have had on the gathering, editing and the telling of family stories
Exploring the use of mobile media
Affect theory in relation to lens-based image-making.
Collaborative practices
Community Engagement
Research interests
Pauline's research projects have included work on the archiving of memory and the impact that new technologies have had on the gathering, editing and the telling of family stories. She has been involved in several projects exploring the use of mobile media. Her latest work is centered on Affect theory in relation to lens-based image making.
