Eu Jin Chua

EU JIN CHUA currently directs the Master of Design programme at the Unitec school of Design and Visual Arts in New Zealand and is lecturer in art and design theory there. He previously taught at Syracuse University, London campus; Birkbeck College at the University of London; the University of Auckland, New Zealand; and the University for the Creative Arts in Kent and Surrey.

He is a PhD candidate and Wingate Scholar in Environmental Studies at the London Consortium, University of London - www.londonconsortium.com . The title of his doctoral dissertation, 'The Cinematic Expression of Nature: Reading Film Theory after Political Ecology', indicates something of his research interests. He has additional interests in artists' film and video, modern and contemporary art, and critical theory (he originally trained to be an architect). He has published in 'Postmodern Culture', 'The Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature', and in various edited volumes; and has curated a number of exhibitions in New Zealand, most notably for the New Zealand Film Archive. He served as research assistant on the film 'Derek' (a biographical documentary of Derek Jarman, directed by Isaac Julien), which screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2008 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival and the Serpentine Gallery. He was also assistant curator on 'Figuring Landscapes', an exhibition of contemporary artists' film and video which premiered at ArtSway and Tate Modern in 2008 and is now touring venues in the UK, Ireland, and Australia -- www.figuringlandscapes.com.

He spent the summer of 2007 at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University where he became a diehard Spinozist (and possibly a Jamesleuzian?). Apart from Spinoza, William James, and Deleuze, he is generally interested in non-Kantian or realist thinkers such as Bergson, Latour, Nietzsche, and Peirce, and has a feeling that he is also going to like Alfred North Whitehead and Isabelle Stengers once he gets round to reading them properly (not to mention the original non-Kantian thinker, Kant himself).

He served as the London reviews editor of 'Critical Quarterly' from 2008-2009, and is associate founding editor of the 'Moving Image Review and Art Journal', the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal on artists' film and video, which will be launched in 2012 published by Intellect Books: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/

He currently sits on the Steering Group of the Artists' Moving Image Research Network, which has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain (AHRC) to run symposia and seminars over the course of 2011 and 2012 as a means of providing a platform for discussions that will contribute to the mission of the 'Moving Image Review and Art Journal'. For more on this research network, and to contribute to our online discussion Forum, see http://www.movingimagenetwork.co.uk

He was a 2005-2008 Commonwealth Scholar.

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