University of Melbourne
Scott McQuire is an academic and writer with a strong record of inter-disciplinary
research crossing social theory, new media, contemporary art, and urbanism. He
has lectured in various disciplines including politics, sociology, art and architecture,
and cinema studies, and currently teaches in the Media and Communications Program
at the University of Melbourne. Scott is the Chief Investigator on two projects
funded by the Australian Research Council, one concerning the spatial impact of
digital technology on contemporary art institutions, and the second concerning
large screens in public space. His essays have been published in leading international
journals including Theory, Culture and Society, Space and Culture, and Architecture
+ Design. He is author of Crossing the Digital Threshold (1997), Visions of Modernity
(1998), and Maximum Vision; Large Format and Special Venue Cinema (1999), co-author
of the limited edition artists’ book The Look of Love (1998), and co-editor of
Empires, Ruins + Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art (2005). A new book,
The Media City, will be published by Sage in 2007.
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