Research interests
Experimental Animation
The representation of trauma in moving images.
moving images
the production of
technical images
Teaching interests
Animation and Digital Culture
Animated Documentary
The History of Technique
Knowledge areas
Experimental Film
Experimental Animation
Trauma Studies
Australian Animation
Avant-Garde Cinema
Technical Image Studies
Expanded Cinema and Performance
Publications
Lost and found: an avant-garde trajectory into the audiovisual essay
Dirk De Bruyn
(2021), Vol. 22, pp. 73-86, Media practice and education, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Lynsey Martin: A Case study in 1970s Australian Experimental Animation
Dirk De Bruyn
(2021), Journal of Contemporary Animation, Shanghai, C1
THE BEAUTY OF THE FRAGMENT RECONSTITUTED IN THE GREAT WALL
D DE BRUYN
(2021), Vol. 6, pp. 42-62, International Journal of Film and Media Arts, Lisboa, Portugal, C1
A Resilient Ann Arbor Digs Deep
Dirk De Bruyn
(2020), pp. 1-1, Senses of Cinema, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Repetition, Flicker, and Sound in the Films of Paul Sharits
Dirk De Bruyn
(2020), pp. 1-1, Animation Studies 2.0, [Online], C1
Dirk De Bruyn
(2020), Vol. 15, pp. 1-9, Animation Studies, Valencia, Calif., C1
Cineinfinito #133 Dirk de Bruyn (III) Kipling Street Garage/Walk/Boerdery
Dirk De Bruyn
(2020), Madrazo, Spain, JC2
Lynsey Martin: a case study of 1970s Australian experimental animation
D De Bruyn
(2019), pp. 233-252, Global animation theory: international perspectives at Animafest Zagreb, New York, N.Y., B1
The Rhizomatic underground of contemporary animation curatorship
Dirk De Bruyn
(2019), Senses of cinema, Melbourne, Victoria, C1
Paul Winkler: Migrating from analogue to digital practice
D De Bruyn
(2019), Vol. 8, pp. 107-122, Animation Practice, Process & Production, Bristol, U.K., C1
Paul Winkler: Migrating from analog to digital practice
Dirk De Bruyn
(2019), pp. 1-1, Experimental Animation Symposium : Proceedings, Auckland, New Zealand, E1
Cineinfinito Dirk de Bruyn (1976-9 and 1982-90)
Dirk De Bruyn
(2019), Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo, JC2
Laying Bare the Anzac Legend: Interview with Köken Ergun
Dirk De Bruyn
(2019), pp. 1-1, Senses of Cinema, Melbourne, Vic., JO3
Performing the margins of the new
D De Bruyn
(2018), pp. 37-60, Experimental and expanded animation new perspectives and practices, Cham, Switzerland, B1
Performing the Margins of the New
Dirk De Bruyn
(2018), pp. 37-59, Experimental and Expanded Animation, Berlin, Germany, B1
Chasing rabbits out of the hat and into the SHEDding of childhood: Alice
Dirk De Bruyn
(2018), Senses of cinema, Melbourne, Vic., C1
D De Bruyn
(2018), Not another brick in the wall: teaching and researching the audio video essay, Melbourne, Vic., JR1
Lynsey Martin's formalism: the original, the copy and the clone
D De Bruyn
(2017), Vol. 42, pp. 1-1, Screening the past, Melbourne, Vic., C1
D De Bruyn
(2016), pp. 150-165, Imaging the City: art, creative practices and media speculations, Bristol, Eng., B1
Dancing Dandenong: the poetics of spatial politics
D De Bruyn, G D'Cruz, S Mcleod, S McIntyre
(2016), pp. 77-95, Contemporary publics: shifting boundaries in new media, technology and culture, Basingstoke, Eng., B1
Two films by Jean-Claude Bustros
D De Bruyn
(2016), pp. 26-33, Found footage magazine, [Madrid, Spain], C1
Neil Taylor's experimental animation: the technical habitus as aesthetic trace
D De Bruyn
(2016), Vol. September 2016, pp. 1-12, Senses of cinema, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Re-processing The Mystical Rose
D De Bruyn
(2016), Vol. 11, pp. 1-1, Animation studies online journal, Valencia, Calif., C1
Material damage: 4 projector film performance
D De Bruyn
(2016), Media Theatre ZKM Karlruhe, Germany, J1
A cavalcade of erasures: an educational audio-visual presentation
D De Bruyn
(2016), Karlsruhe, Germany, J1
Dirk de Bruyn: Australian master + Q&A
D De Bruyn
(2016), ACMI Cinemas: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, J2
The house that we live In: Dirk de Bruyn film retrospective
D De Bruyn
(2015), Academic Film Centre, Belgrade, Serbia., J2
Material damage: expanded cinema
D De Bruyn
(2015), Audio Foundation, 4 Poynton Terrace, Auckland CBD, J2
Thresholds of technological remembering
D De Bruyn
(2014), pp. 1-294, Nodem 2014: Engaging Spaces – Interpretation, Design and Digital Strategies, Warsaw, Poland, E1
D De Bruyn
(2014), Vol. 6, pp. 1-1, NECSUS : European Journal of Media Studies, Amsterdam , Netherlands, J2
Found found found : Films and Videos by Dirk de Bruyn
D De Bruyn
(2014), CineCycle, 129 Spadina Avenue, J2-1
A Sampled OZ Hystery: Australian Alternative Film from the 60s to the Present
D De Bruyn
(2014), VideoFag 187 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, Canada, J2-1
Recovering the hidden through found-footage films
D de Bruyn
(2013), pp. 89-104, Carnal knowledge : towards a new materialism through the arts, London, England, B1
Performing the 1950s New Australian
D de Bruyn
(2013), Vol. 10, pp. 1-11, Scan : journal of media culture, Sydney, N. S. W, C1
Materialist performance in the digital age
D de Bruyn
(2013), pp. 1-1, Screening the past, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Occupy this: a dialogic derive
G D'Cruz, D de Bruyn
(2013), pp. 1-3, ISEA 2013 : Resistance is futile : Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Sydney, NSW, E1
Blind alleys, blinding and blinded aliens : mapping the outer limits of the technical image
D de Bruyn
(2012), pp. 44-50, Expanded architecture : avant-garde film + expanded cinema + architecture, Berlin , Germany, B1
Click if you like this, or OCCUPY as spectacle : a technological derive
G D'Cruz, D de Bruyn
(2012), pp. 106-118, 2012 Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference Proceedings, Melbourne, Vic., E1-1
Glass : re-materializing the digital screen
D de Bruyn
(2012), Glassimations : Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood, Vic., J2
Click if you like this or occupy as spectacle : situationism and a technological derive
G D'Cruz, D de Bruyn
(2012), Federation Hall, Melbourne, Vic., J1
L Torre, I Tazzyman, D de Bruyn, D Torre, D Feeney, M Eliott, J McGrath, T Moore, A Boell, L Whitmore
(2012), Deakin University Art Gallery, J2
Film and lecture Dirk de Bruyn special screening : Conversations with my Mother
D de Bruyn
(2011), The Hague, Netherlands, J2
P Carter, D de Bruyn, E Carter, C Williams
(2011), Old Mildura Station - Cottage and Woolshed, J2
Dancing out of trauma : from Charcot's hysteria to Haitian voudoun
D de Bruyn
(2010), pp. 96-108, Trauma, media, art : new perspectives, Newcastle, England, B1
T Ang, D Bade, D De Bruyn, S van Kerkoff, R Ridgway, R Struik
(2010), The Hague, Netherlands, J2
Performing a traumatic effect : The films of Robert Breer
D De Bruyn
(2009), pp. 20-28, Animation studies, Valencia, Calif., C1
An animated dialogue : moving into the local
A Third, D De Bruyn
(2009), Vol. 3, pp. 1-7, Animation studies, Valencia, Calif., C1
D De Bruyn
(2009), pp. 959-962, Crossing cultures : conflict, migration and convergence : the proceedings of the 32nd International Congress of the History of Art, Melbourne, Vic., E1
Folding history back onto itself
D De Bruyn
(2009), FHAANZ 2008 : Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand : Remapping cinema, remaking history, Dunedin, New Zealand, E1-1
Communicating the 'unspeakability' of violent acts in cinema
D De Bruyn
(2009), pp. 1-14, Session 10: Violence in Film conference proceedings, Budapest, Hungary, E1
D De Bruyn
(2009), Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions New Dimension in Visual Experience, Tokyo, Japan, J1
D De Bruyn
(2008), pp. 191-201, Frameworks, artworks, place: the space of perception in the modern world, Amsterdam, Netherlands, B1
D De Bruyn
(2007), pp. 45-51, CADE 2007 : Proceedings of computers in art and design education conference: stillness, Perth, Australia, E1
D De Bruyn
(2005), pp. 1-5, Online proceedings of the vital signs: creative practice and new media now Conference, Melbourne, Victoria, E1
D De Bruyn
(2005), pp. 1-13, Imaginary worlds: image and space symposium, Sydney, E1
Films by Dirk de Bruyn (1985-2005)
D De Bruyn
(2005), Melbourne independent filmmakers / compiled by Bill Mousoulis, Melbourne, Vic., J1
Reconstituting the invisible out of structure and repetition: a walk through diary V3.2.
D De Bruyn
(2004), pp. 1-4, Image, Text & Sound 2004 : the yet unseen : rendering stories., Carlton, Victoria, E1
D De Bruyn
(2004), pp. 1-6, Double Dialogues #6: Anatomy and Poetics (Art & Pain II Conference), University of Melbourne, Victoria, E1
The Impact of Information Overload (2017-19)
Dirk De Bruyn
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The performance of Traumatic Experience (2017-19)
Dirk De Bruyn
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Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Landscape and Memory: the West Coast of Victoria
Prof Sanjay Srivastava, Prof Louise Johnson, Prof Michael Meehan, A/Prof Frances Devlin-Glass, A/Prof Dirk De Bruyn
ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2 APAI
- 2007: $12,813
- 2006: $25,113
Other Public Sector Funding
Landscaping to Manufacturing: The Wool Industry in Geelong
Prof Clare Bradford, Prof Hisham Elkadi, A/Prof Dirk De Bruyn, Prof Andrea Witcomb, Prof Emily Potter
City of Greater Geelong - Creative Communities Grants
- 2013: $5,000
Synthetic Scene Creation for Visible Signature Analysis
A/Prof Dirk De Bruyn
DSTO Grant - Research - Defence Science & Technology Organisation
- 2021: $36,476
- 2020: $126,735
- 2019: $190,102
- 2018: $126,735
Industry and Other Funding
Landscape and Memory: the West Coast of Victoria
Prof Sanjay Srivastava, Prof Louise Johnson, Prof Michael Meehan, A/Prof Frances Devlin-Glass, A/Prof Dirk De Bruyn
Experimenta
- 2007: $2,500
- 2006: $5,000
Supervisions
Todd Reece Johnson
Thesis entitled: Duration of Decay: Materialist Photography Practice in the Digital Age
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Dennis Tupicoff
Thesis entitled: Matters of Life and Death: my animated films (1976-2019)
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Wendy Jennifer Beatty
Thesis entitled: Contemporary Photographic Landscape Practices and the Affective Gaze
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Kristina Kraskov
Thesis entitled: Ethics in the Suburbs: An Exegesis of the film The King of Frankston
Master of Arts, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Louise Heidi Morris
Thesis entitled: OUT OF THE RUINS- Australian Sites, Inspirited Landscapes and the Social Sacred
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Chao-Wang Wang
Thesis entitled: Inter-Generational Transmission of Taiwanese Traditional Arts through Digital Media
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences