Dr Cormac Deane
At IADT, I deliver BA and MA modules in all aspects of media, such as digital media, critical theory, media archaeology and film theory. I supervise undergraduate and graduate research in these fields also.
Publications
My translation of the last major work by the seminal French film theorist Christian Metz was published early in 2016. I regularly publish articles in media archaeology, digital media, film studies, Science and Technology Studies, and related fields. I am also the author of a 2007 monograph on the Field Day Theatre and Publishing Company.
| Year | |
|---|---|
| ‘The Control Room Imaginary and the Production of Sovereignty’ in Aesthetics, Digital Studies and Bernard Stiegler, Noel Fitzpatrick et al. (eds.), Bloomsbury | 2021 |
| ‘Nomic Sound’, New Formations 98 | 2020 |
| ‘Two Chronotopes of the Terrorist Genre’ in Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema, Ciara Barrett and Silvia Dibeltulo (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan | 2018 |
| ‘Bacteria and the Market’, Marketing Theory. | 2018 |
| ‘The Sounds of Nanotechnology’, Nature Nanotechnology, July 2017, co-authored with Norah Campbell and Padraig Murphy | 2017 |
| Christian Metz, Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film. Translation and critical introduction by Cormac Deane. Columbia University Press | 2016 |
| ‘The Control Room: A Media Archaeology’, Culture Machine | 2015 |
| ‘Redundancy and Information in Explanatory Voice-Ins and Voice-Offs’ in The Integrated Soundtrack: Sound Design and Music in Contemporary Film, Liz Greene and Danijela Kulezic-Wilson (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan | 2015 |
| ‘Nanotechnology: Imagining the Invisible’, Science, Technology and Human Values, March, co-authored with Norah Campbell and Padraig Murphy | 2015 |
| ‘What FUIs Can Do: The Promises of Computing in Contemporary TV Series’ in Global Television: Aesthetics and Style, Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock (eds.), Bloomsbury | 2013 |
| ‘The Hiss of Data’, Journal of Sonic Studies, 3 (1), Oct | 2012 |
Research projects
- My main current research activity is the preparation of a book-length media archaeology of the control room. It examines the history of control engineering alongside its appearance in screen narratives of the last 50 years, all in the context of a legal-theoretical reading of the changing nature of political sovereignty. A 10-minute video essay on this theme is available here: https://youtu.be/hswm-1wkODw
- Fidelity’s Rainbow: A Media History of Blank VHS Tape Boxes (book project)
Lectures/Conferences
I regularly deliver lectures and papers at conferences and other venues in Ireland and abroad.
| Year | |
|---|---|
| ‘Towards a Media Theory of Political Affordance’, NECS Conference, Polytechnic University of Bucharest |
2022 |
| Fidelity’s Rainbow: The Artwork of Blank VHS Cassettes, History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception (Homer) Conference, Maynooth University |
2021 |
| Skeumorph Politics, 14th Organisation Studies Workshop: Technology and Organisation, Mykonos | 2019 |
| The Political Fantasy of Landscape as Data Visualization, International Conference on Landscape and Cinema, University of Lisbon | 2018 |
| ‘Digital Aesthetics in Christian Metz’s Final Work, Impersonal Enunciation’, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Toronto | 2018 |
| ‘The Sounds of the War Machine,’ Automation and (In)Security Workshop, Automation Anxiety AHRC Network, University of the West of England, Bristol | 2017 |
| ‘A Media Archaeology of the Periscope,’ Perspective Rules: Architecture, Games, and the Materiality of Computer Simulations, MECS Institute for Advanced Study, Leuphana: University of Lüneburg | 2017 |
| Christian Metz, Enunciation and Cybernetics, Film-Philosophy Conference, University of Oxford, July | 2015 |
| The Saville Inquiry: Digital Technology and Bloody Sunday, Digital Studies Seminar, Gradcam/Dublin Institute of Technology, March | 2015 |
| Groping the Nano: the Visual Economy of Nanotechnology (co-authors: Norah Campbell and Padraig Murphy), Future of the Body Conference, Trinity College Dublin, June | 2014 |
| Extraterritoriality and Legal Exception in the Submarine Film, Screen Conference, University of Glasgow, June | 2014 |
Awards + Achievements
I have received several awards for academic and other achievements.
| Year | |
|---|---|
| Screen Ireland, Script Development Fund | 2019 |
| Irish Film Board, Script Development Fund | 2015 |
| Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Studies, Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2013-14 |
| National Library of Ireland, Archival Costs for Field Day Archive | 2007 |
| Heritage Council Publication Grant for monograph ‘The Field Day Archive’ | 2006 |
Other
- I am the founder of the Irish Screen Studies proceedings and online archive. A seminar of current research in screen studies is held every year by ISS. More details at http://irishscreenstudies.ie
- Commissioning Editor, Dublin Review of Books
- Producer, The Field Day Podcast
- Film and Television Columnist, Village Magazine
- Participant in Digital Studies Seminar Group, Gradcam
- Screenwriter for film and television, represented by Curtis Brown agency