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Dr Charu Maithani

Dr Charu Maithani

Lecturer
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media

I am a Lecturer in Media, Journalism & Communication in the School of Arts & Media (SAM). I work across media studies, media ecologies, digital art and visual practices where I articulate material-discursive practices that generate conditions of mediality and investigate aesthetic and political relations of media objects. 

My work experience traverses multiple fields that contribute to my research and teaching practice. I have worked as a curator and programs manager in arts organisations and projects across India. Having worked at different levels of television and film production in New Delhi, India, I have gathered insights into different stages of productions across these fields.

You can visit my creative project at charumaithani.net.
E-mail
c.maithani@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 246D Robert Webster Building
  • Book Chapters | 2016
    Maithani C, 2016, 'Error / Glitch / Noise: Observations on Aesthetic Forms of Failure', in Cook S (ed.), Information, edn. Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, London
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Maithani C, 2024, 'Screenness in Google Maps navigation: An agential realist analysis', Convergence, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13548565231220861
    Journal articles | 2022
    Maithani C, 2022, 'Blan/ck Screens: Chroma Screens Performing Race', Media-N, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v18i1.844
    Journal articles | 2019
    Maithani C, 2019, 'Intermediality of Screens in Post-Media Assemblages', ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE-FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES, 17, pp. 63 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2019-0015
    Journal articles | 2018
    Maithani C, 2018, 'Screens as Gestures in Interactive Art Assemblage', AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, 17, pp. 147 - 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i17.278
    Journal articles | 2016
    Maithani C, 2016, 'Searching Subjectivities in video installations of Amar Kanwar', ARTis ON, 4, pp. 77 - 83, http://artison.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/ao/article/view/112
  • Conference Presentations | 2019
    Maithani C, 2019, 'Chroma Screens –Intra-Actions, Connections and Gesturalities', presented at RESOUND 2019: Media Art Histories Conference, 19 August 2019 - 23 August 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Maithani C, 2018, 'Intermediality of Screens', presented at Intermediality Now: Remapping In-Betweenness, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 19 October 2018 - 20 October 2018

My current research activities are centred around working on my first sole-authored book (Amsterdam University Press) exploring screens in multiple contemporary postmedia assemblages. 

In conjunction, my other strand of research focuses on the relationship between data practices and dominant ideological arrangement of vision. In particular I am analyzing the perceptual and epistemological changes in contemporary media culture facilitated by generative AI image models. 

My Teaching

I lecture in media studies and practices. I teach undergraduate courses that analyse the practices of the self using digital technologies and postgraduate courses in storytelling using data and other broadcast media.