Research Associates participate in the intellectual and creative life of Sensorium, submit and administer grants through the Centre, and/or are active in a research cluster, and in organizing workshops and conferences.
We accept applications both from faculty within the Schools of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design and those situated in faculties outside of AMPD.
If you are interested in becoming a Sensorium Research Associate please complete and submit the following online application form.
Michael Longford
Associate Professor; Graduate Program Director, Digital Media
Michael Longford’s creative work and research activities reside at the intersection of photography, graphic design and digital media. He has exhibited and presented his work at national and international exhibitions and conferences.
Janine Marchessault
Professor, Cinema & Media Studies; Inaugural Sensorium Director
Janine Marchessault is a professor in Cinema and Media Arts and holds a York Research Chair in Media Art and Social Engagement. Her research has engaged with four areas: the history of large screen media (from multiscreen to Imax to media as architecture and VR); diverse models of public art, festivals, and site specific curation; 21st century moving-image archives and notions of collective memory/history.
Allyson Mitchell
Associate Professor in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies, LA&PS
Associate Professor in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies, LA&PS Allyson Mitchell’s individual and collaborative art practice uses sculpture, performance, installation, and film to explore feminist and queer ideas for research creation. These art …
Fabio Montanari
Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Arts
Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Arts Fabio Montanari is a Filmmaker and Professor, who has written series for top networks including Netflix, HBO, National Geographic and is the creator of an original TV series for Amazon Prime Vide …
Gabrielle Moser
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education Gabrielle Moser is an art historian, writer, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire (Penn State University Press, 2019) and, with …
Taien Ng-Chan
Assistant Professor, Cinema and Media Arts
Taien Ng-Chan is a writer and media artist whose research explores locative media sound art, “object-oriented storytelling,” place-based narratives and futurist imaginings of everyday life through immersive cinema.
Freya Björg Olafson
Assistant Professor, Dance
Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, painting and performance. Her praxis engages with identity and the body, as informed by technology and the Internet.
Joel Ong
Director, Sensorium; Assistant Professor, Computational Arts
Professor Joel Ong is a media artist whose works connect scientific and artistic approaches to the environment, particularly with respect to sound and physical space.
