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DR. MICHAEL HORNBLOW

DR. MICHAEL HORNBLOW

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION & CONCENTRATION

Michael is a multidisciplinary artist and academic, with expertise spanning dance, performance art, architecture and design, video making, public art, community development, and creative direction. Michael’s training in performance includes working with acclaimed choreographers like Min Tanaka, Kazuo Ohno, Ko Murobushi, and Tony Yap. In the realm of video, he has undertaken projects encompassing mental health, drug rehabilitation, art activism, architecture, and multicultural arts. Notably, he has ventured into challenging environments, such as a Sahara Desert refugee camp, a multi-channel video installation exploring Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia cathedral, and a grassroots hip-hop video in a Johannesburg squatter settlement. Michael’s artistic presentations have been featured worldwide, including the Tokyo Biennale, Bangkok Design Week, and the Melbourne Festival. He has a rich history of creative contributions in Asia, participating in artist residencies across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand.

Expertise:
Interdisciplinary approaches in art, design, urbanism, and digital media; community development and creative practices; cross-cultural perspectives on globalisation; philosophical and practice-based approaches to ecology and sustainability.

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate:
GS105 Global Creative Practices
GS206 Visual Methods for Social Analysis
GS282 Digital Economy and Social Innovation
GS343 Social Innovation Project
GS490 Senior Project 1 Social Innovation Project
GS491 Senior Project 2 Social Innovation Project

Graduate:
GS603 Theoretical Approaches to Social Innovation
GS741 Research Methods

PUBLICATIONS

Publication :
Hornblow M, “Of Buffalos: Notes from the Field”, Techniques Journal, Centre for Philosophical Technologies, Arizona State University, forthcoming 2022
Wallis L, Hornblow M, Smit N, Gough DM, Wise K, Tanya B, “From little things big things grow: Building connections through Place-based Education in the Tasmanian Midlands Biodiversity Hotspot”, Ecological Management and Restoration, Volume 22, Issue S2, 2021, pp. 152-163
Hornblow M, “So Soon Too Late - affective shifts in a Ketl”, in E Manning and A Munster and BM Stavning Thomsen (eds), Immediation II, Open Humanities Press, 2019, pp. 456-476
Mason JE, Hornblow M, Vered A, “The Great Dividuation”, New Centennial Review 19, no. 1, March 2019
Hornblow M, “A Sahara in the Head: The Problem of Landing”, Inflexions No. 8, 2015, pp. 222-238
Hornblow M, Ednie-Brown P, Varcoe A, Yap T, “Society of Molecules: futuring bodies”, Inflexions No. 3, 2009, pp. 1-10
Hornblow M, “Bursting bodies of thought: Artaud and Hijikata”, Performance Paradigm No. 2, 2006, pp. 26-44
Conference Paper & Research articles :
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PROJECTS & AWARDS

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EDUCATION

Program
University
Year
Doctor of Philosophy, Architecture
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
2013
Master of Arts, Media Production
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
2005
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Film
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
1994
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