Dr. Nirma Madhoo
Details
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Department: Fashion & Textiles
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Campus: Brunswick Australia
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nirma.madhoo@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-7827-9545
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr. Nirma Madhoo (she/her) is an extended reality (XR) practitioner originally trained in fashion design and fashion filmmaking. Working with emerging technologies, her screen-based and immersive projects are lensed from a critical posthumanist, feminist worldview engaging intersectionally with BIPOC and diasporic identities.
As part of her design practice, Nirma has exhibited at Milan Fashion Week (IT) and South African Fashion Week (ZA). As a transdisciplinary artist, her film work and immersive projects featuring fashioned performance have been programmed at film festivals, museum & gallery contexts, digital & computational art platforms, and academic conferences. These include London Short Film Festival (UK), Berlin Fashion Film Festival (DE), Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK), Berlinale EFM (DE), MUTEK Montréal (CA), Melbourne Museum (AU), TMRW (ZA), MARS Gallery (AU), Venice Production Bridge, La Biennale di Venezia (IT), SXSW (AU, US), SIGGRAPH Asia (AU), ISEA (AU), Ars Electronica (AT), IFFTI (UK) and New Images (FR).
Research fields
- 3303 Design
- 330315 Textile and fashion design
- 3605 Screen and digital media
- 360503 Digital and electronic media art
- 360604 Photography, video and lens-based practice
- 460708 Virtual and mixed reality
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- 5 Gender Equality
Research interests
Digital Fashion; Fashion XR; Creative, Practice-based Research; Posthumanism; Feminism; Decoloniality; Inter & Transdiciplinarity
