Dr Heather Contant
2018 听听听听听听听听听 Doctor of Philosophy in Art, Design and Media, University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney, NSW
2013听听听听听听听听听聽 Master of Arts in Media Studies, The New School for Public Engagement, New York, NY
2007听听听听听听听听听聽 Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts, Eugene Lang College, New School University, New York, NY聽
Heather Contant explores the collectivist tendencies in media arts聽through her research, teaching, and creative endeavours. Her award-winning research on the history of wireless media has gained recognition in multiple publications and leads to her current work, an investigation of generative collectivism throughout the history of media arts. She seeks to understand how collectives of producers explore the possibilities of media in a manner that leads to the development of new theories, practices, and technologies that make it easier for other collectives to form and explore the possibilities of media in their own unique circumstances as well.
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2018听听听听听听听听听聽 Dean鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research, University of New South Wales Art and Design, Sydney, NSW聽
2012听听听听听听听听听聽 Distinguished Thesis Award, The New School for Public Engagement, Department of Media Studies, New York, NY
2011聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Excellence in Aviary Mockumentary for multimedia installation, video work, and performative lecture entitled 鈥淩e/Discovery of the Passenger Pigeon,鈥� which presented archival and speculative research about the extinct passenger pigeon. This work was included in an exhibition curated by Christiane Paul at Soho Gallery for Digital Art
Contant, Heather, 鈥�Radio and Media History as a Methodology for Conviviality鈥� in Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 18, 1, forthcoming in 2020.
Contant, Heather, 鈥�Makrolab as an Apparatus for Global Observation鈥� in , edited by Golo F枚llmer and Alexander Badenoch, Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript-Verlag, 2018.
Contant, Heather, 鈥溾�� in Journal of Sonic Studies 16, 1, 2018.
Contant, Heather, 鈥�Review: The Tone of Our Times: Sound, Sense, Economy, and Ecology by Frances Dyson鈥� in聽 16, 2017, pp. 37-38.
Contant, Heather, Kusum Normoyle, and Peter Blamey, 鈥�Slow /Dark鈥� in exhibition catalogue for Kusum Normoyle solo show at (Sydney, Australia), May 2016.
Contant, Heather and Corinna Kirsch, 鈥�The Possibilities of Porosity: A Study in Sonic Skulls, the Hones, and Tape Translations鈥� in exhibition catalogue for , Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, New York, 2016, pp. 53-57.
Contant, Heather, 鈥溾�� Leonardo Music Journal 24, 2014, pp. 57-60.
Contant, Heather, 鈥�Packing My Library,鈥� in 33, 2014, pp. 28-29.
Contant, Heather, 鈥�Transduction: Cultural and Energy Flows of Radio鈥� in , no. 7, 2014, pp. 26-29.
Contant, Heather 鈥�Gremlins Attack Soundscape: Purposeful ISM Interferences on Pristine Sound,鈥� in proceedings of Global Composition Conference on Sound, Media and the Environment, Hochschule Darmstadt, Media Campus, Dieburg, Germany 2012, pp. 443-445.
Contant, Heather, 鈥�,鈥� in proceedings of Trans-X Transmission Art Symposium, Deep Wireless Festival, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Toronto, Canada, 2012.