Dr. Arlo Mountford
Details
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Department: School of Art
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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arlo.mountford@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0009-0004-6230-6782
Open to
- Collaborative projects
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
- Mentoring (long-term)
- Technical support
- Membership of an advisory committee
About
Over the past 20 years Arlo Mountford has developed an extensive practice, exhibiting nationally and internationally whilst primarily being based in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. His work spans a wide field of mediums, often resulting in large scale installations which integrate sound, video, digital animation as well as object-based work, drawing and photography. Conceptually his practice is preoccupied with history and time, both as a burden to, and as a resource for, contemporary art making.
Research fields
- 500103 Ethical use of new technology
- 3601 Art history, theory and criticism
- 360102 Art history
- 500302 Critical theory
- 360305 Music technology and recording
- 470102 Communication technology and digital media studies
- 360101 Art criticism
- 360503 Digital and electronic media art
- 3606 Visual arts
- 4602 Artificial intelligence
- 360699 Visual arts not elsewhere classified
- 360602 Fine arts
- 360604 Photography, video and lens-based practice
- 460305 Image and video coding
- 460309 Video processing
- 460707 Sound and music computing
Academic positions
- Project Manager
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 13 Jan 2025 – Present
- Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jul 2024 – Present
- Sessional Lecturer
- University of Melbourne
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2019 – 31 Dec 2024
- Sessional Lecturer
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2015 – 30 Jun 2024
Supervisor projects
- Stuck on the Fence – Examining Chinese-Australian Hybrid Identity through Autoethnographic Video Essays
- 10 Dec 2025
- Breaking the Dilemma of the Tourist Image: Essay Films as a Critique of Contemporary local Chinese Tourism
- 9 Dec 2025
Teaching interests
Whilst currently the Program Manager for Bachelor of Photography, I also coordinate our primary Studio courses and teach into our Photography program. I am also developing a new Major in Expanded Media Arts with Rebecca Najdowski and Dominic Redfern. In the past I have written numerous courses for the School of Art and other Universities including Projection Light and Optics, Temporal Drawing and Under Camera Animation. I have also taught, Video Art, Video Fundamentals in the Video and the Sound Studio and the Drawing Studios. Alongside these courses I have also taught in the Histories and Theories Department and have Supervised and been an external examiner in both the Honours and Masters spaces. I have also examined HDR completions externally and been a Milestone Panel member for multiple HDR Candidates at RMIT.
Research interests
Speculative histories, New technologies, Generative AI, Virtual Reality and 3D Spaces, Video art, Installation, Animation, Photography, Sound, Projection, Performance, Site-based Art, Light and Optics, Expanded Madia Arts.
