Seth Keen
MA Media Arts, University Technology Sydney
PhD (in candidature) Communication, RMIT University
Seth Keen is a lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Seth holds a MA (by Thesis), Media Arts and is in candidature on a project-based PhD (Communication). Seth is a media artist whose practice focuses on a form of environmental portraiture that documents the relationships people have with place. He works with video and software to explore hybrid approaches towards documentary narrative on the Internet. His practice brings together industry experience in graphic design and broadcast documentary with social media developments. Seth has written, directed and produced a number of primetime television documentaries, short drama films and experimental videos that have been exhibited in Australia and screened in international festivals.
Interested in online video as an emerging field of research, along with looking for a way to contextualise his doctorial research Seth collaborated with Geert Lovink at the Institute of Network Cultures (INC) in Amsterdam on a concept for a critical forum on this topic . Seth helped facilitate and research the first major International Video Vortex conference In Amsterdam in 2008. Now a series of ongoing conferences that have are managed by the INC and have been held in Brussels, Argos (2008), Amsterdam (2008), Ankara, Turkey (2008) and Split, Croatia (2009), Brussels, Atomium (2009).
Seth recently facilitated an industry collaboration with World Vision Australia to research and produce an interactive documentary prototype that documented an aid program for internally displaced people in Bogota, Colombia. This working prototype provided a framework for World Vision to independently build a published version as an integral part of the organisation’s new website, launched in May 2009. ( Bogota Colombia acknowledgements)
seth [dot] keen [at] rmit [dot] edu [dot] au
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Post Industrial Media
RMIT Media Research Portal
