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Dr Damian Sutton
Research
Research Specialisms
Photography/Cinema theory and philosophy; New Media and photography/cinema; cinema and design; cultural studies. You can find out more at: http://www.damiansutton.wordpress.com
Previous Projects
Form Follows Fiction: designing Fred and Ginger (AHRC Small Grant, 2006) 'Not Just for Christmas'; Consumption, Popular Culture and Religious Observance (AHRC Workshop, 2008) Conference chair: The Past in the Present: History as Practice in Art, Design and Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, 27-29 October 2007. Conference co-chair: The State of the Real: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Glasgow School of Art, 21-22 November 2003. Keynote speakers: Prof. Linda Nochlin; Prof. Slavoj Žižek. PhD Thesis: The Crystal Image - a theoretical approach to image perception across cinema and photography. University of Glasgow, 2002
Current research
I have two areas of current research. In photography studies I am interested in photographic representations of time, and how photography practice (esp. vernacular culture, mobile and digital photography) gives shape to time. In cinema studies, I am interested in how design decisions are made in cinema production, as well as how approaches to design studies and design studies might be employed in order to understand wider creative decisions in filmmaking.
Publications
Photography, Cinema, Memory: The Crystal Image of Time (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press). âImmanent Images: Photography after Digitalityâ, in The Afterimage of Gilles Deleuzeâs Film Philosophy, edited by D N Rodowick (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press). âSeptember 11th and the Memory of Mediaâ, Philosophy, Method & Cultural Criticism, edited by Charlton McIlwain (New York: Hampton Press). Recent Deleuze Reframed: A Guide for the Arts Student, co-author with David Martin-Jones (London: I. B. Tauris, 2008). âThe Suppleness of Everyday Life: CGI, The Lumières and perception after photographyâ, in Multimedia Histories: The Magic Lantern to the Internet, edited by John Plunkett and James Lyons (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2007). âReal Photographyâ, in The State of the Real: Aesthetics in the digital age, edited by Damian Sutton, Susan Brind and Ray McKenzie (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007). âInside the âBlack-boxâ: From Jacques-Louis David to Ridley Scottâ, in Screen Methods, edited by Karen Randell and Jacqueline Furby (London: Wallflower Press, 2006). âRediagnosing A Matter of Life and Deathâ, Screen, vol. 46, no. 1 (2005), pp. 51-61. âThe DreamWorks Effect: The case for studying the ideology of production design,â Screen, vol. 45, no. 4 (2004), pp. 383-390.
Other
I am a peer reviewer for the Arts and Humanities Research Council. I am a member of the British Film Institute, College Art Association, and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Email and website
Email: d.sutton@gsa.ac.uk
Website
Primary institution
Position
Lecturer
Department
Historical and Critical Studies
Faculty
No information available.
Institution
The Glasgow School of Art
Address
- 167 Renfrew Street
- Glasgow
- G20 6EZ
- Tel: 0141 353 4560
- Fax: 0141 353 4557
