Biography
Lienors Torre has a history of practice-based research specialising in animation and material design, including glass art. Much of her creative practice explores how objects might be manifest through animation in their various forms of existence and the identity/persona they might convey. She curated the innovative Glassimations exhibition, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, Australia 2013 and Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2012. This travelling exhibition highlighted the similarities and intersections between glass and animation. The material and philosophical qualities suggested by this work has generated research into the nexus between the screen and the object – between the ephemeral and the material, between time-based and stationary aspects, between light, optics and image. Lienors Torre’s research also explores how objects exist and are experienced in new forms of media and how they can inform and impel the language of these media. These ideas extend into larger questions investigating the human condition and how it exists within the digital realm and in artefacts.
Lienors has also collaboratively pioneered research into the history of Australian Animation, interviewing key figures and animators, as well as conducting archival research. She has co-written two monographs on this subject: Australian Animation: An International History (London: Palgrave, 2018), the first comprehensive history on this subject, and Grendel Grendel Grendel – Animating Beowulf (Bloomsbury 2020).
Research interests
Australian Animation History
Animation Theory
Animation Practice
Material Design, Craft, Glass making and 3D Printing
Ephemeral and Material Objects
Optics, Light, Screens
New Technologies
Object Theory
Affiliations
Society for Animation Studies
AUSGlass
Craft Victoria
Teaching interests
Animation, Screen media, Design
Units taught
ADA102 Building 3D Worlds
ADA201 Creating 3D Characters
ADD103 Design Technologies 2 (3D Printing)
Knowledge areas
Animation Technique
Australian Animation History
Animation Theory
Material Design/Glass Art
Publications
Watership Down Under: When rabbits came to Australia
Lienors Torre, Dan Torre
(2023), pp. 118-132, Watership Down: Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence, New York, N.Y., B1
AmblyopiaVR: immersive game-based virtual reality system for the treatment of amblyopia
S Greuter, A Douglass, R Woodcock, G Sampson, L Torre, L Chong, J Armitage, S Backhouse
(2020), pp. 1-5, ACSW '20 : Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, Melbourne, Vic., E1
Lienors Torre, Simon Grennan, Rosemary Woodcock
(2020), pp. 1-1, ANZAHPE 2020 : Proceedings of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators Conference : Ways of Seeing in Healthcare, Monash University, Melbourne, E1
Materiality, experimental process and animated identity
Dan Torre, Lienors Torre
(2019), pp. 85-101, Experimental animation : from analogue to digital, London, Eng., B1
Off-screen: reimagining animation
Rosemary Woodcock, Lienors Torre, Eiichi Tosaki
(2019), pp. 100-110, The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production, Berlin, Germany, B1
Venetian Blind: Optical Allusions
Simon Grennan, Sarah Neville, Lienors Torre, Anne Wilson
(2019), Palazzo Bembo, J2
Kali Vou (indigenous techknowledges)
Torika Bolatagici, Sean Bangay, Lienors Torre, Simeon Taylor, Alex Baldwin, Emele Ugavule, Ayeesha Ash
(2018), Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, JO1
Persona, celebrity, and the animated object
L Torre
(2017), pp. 1-1, Animation studies, Valencia, Calif., C1
The pioneering years of Australian animation (1900-1930): from animated sketches to animation empire
D Torre, L Torre
(2015), pp. 1-1, Senses of cinema, Melbourne, Vic., C1
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
A day in the rain
L Torre
(2012), Canberra, A. C. T., J2
Glassimations : 100 days of glass
L Torre
(2012), Canberra, A.C.T., J2
Recording Australian animation history
D Torre, L Torre
(2009), Vol. 3, pp. 115-124, Animation studies, Valencia, Calif., C1-1
Making your mark : an engraver's approach to glass cutting
L Torre
(2005), pp. 140-141, Glass Art Society : Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, E1-1
Peripheral Vision: Surface Tension
Lienors Torre
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Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
LightTime (Light Pool; Lost Room)
Dr Rosemary Woodcock, Dr Lienors Torre
Museum Victoria
- 2017: $14,555
Tabu: Fijian Kali and Hair Ritual
Dr Torika Bolatagici, Dr Lienors Torre, Dr Shaun Bangay, Dr Alexander Baldwin, Mr Simeon Taylor
Australia Council for the Arts Grant - Research
- 2018: $31,911
Supervisions
John James Parry
Thesis entitled: The Object of Life
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Maria Jones (nee Vella)
Thesis entitled: Representations of Liminality in Videopoetry and Graphic Memoir
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Soudhamini Soudhamini
Thesis entitled: Maya and the Virtual
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
Robyn Fuerst
Thesis entitled: Trauma, Memory and Secrets of Holocaust Survivors and the Second Generation. The Australian Context.
Master of Arts, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Sally Jeannette Morgan
Thesis entitled: The Poetics of Labour: The Processual Artworks of Sally J Morgan, 1993-2017
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts