Dr. Dan Torre
Details
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College: School of Design
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Department: School of Design
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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dan.torre@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0009-0000-5067-9291
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
About
Dr Dan Torre is Senior Lecturer in Animation in the School of Design at RMIT, where he teaches and researches in the areas of art and design; animation studies (animation practice, history, theory and philosophy); literature; media (digital media, comics, games, radio, film); new technologies, historic technologies; philosophical inquiry, process philosophy and ecological philosophy; plant studies and plant humanities; plant sciences; posthumanities; creative environmental and regenerative studies.
Dan has published numerous books, chapters and peer-reviewed articles across a range of fields. His recent authored and co-authored books include The History and Theory of Cut-out Animation (Bloomsbury, forthcoming); Orchid (Reaktion Books, 2023), Grendel Grendel Grendel – Animating Beowulf (Bloomsbury 2021), Carnivorous Plants (Reaktion Books, 2019), Australian Animation – An International History (Palgrave, 2018), Cactus (Reaktion Books, 2017), Animation – Process, Cognition and Actuality (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Supervisor projects
- New tricks: Towards a framework for contemporary illusionary experiences using 3D and animated media
- 4 Jun 2025
- Minimalistic Animation: Exploring Its Definition and Creative Possibilities
- 31 Jan 2025
- In Search of the Lost Package: Reclaiming Chinese Indonesian History through Animated Documentary Film
- 24 Jun 2024
- Miniature Materialities
- 10 Jul 2020
- Artistic Perspectives on Indigenous Standpoint Theory: A Visual Practice of Cultural Activism
- 14 Nov 2019
- The Plausible Impossible - Unpacking the constituents of embodied animation performance.
- 27 May 2019
- The Opposite of Sudden
- 1 Jul 2014
